Real Tools for Real Love

Saturday, September 27, 2025 | 10:00am - 4:00pm 
With devon + nico hase

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Partnership may be the most challenging spiritual practice we’ll ever undertake. We find ourselves stuck in familiar patterns—conflicts that circle endlessly, distance that feels impossible to bridge, or the exhausting swing between losing ourselves and pushing our partner away.

There’s a middle way: showing up with presence instead of reactivity, curiosity instead of judgment, and skillful engagement instead of avoidance or attack.

This daylong retreat explores four essential areas:
• Deep Listening – To yourself, your partner, and what’s needed between you
• Finding Balance – The dance between autonomy and connection
• Skillful Conflict – Moving beyond the “trance of nice” to engage difficulty with presence
• Cultivating Joy – Creating sustainable happiness that can weather life’s storms

Drawing from their upcoming book This Messy, Gorgeous Love and years of teaching together, devon and nico offer meditation-based practices for conscious relationship. Expect a balance of silence, guided meditation, teaching, reflective exercises, and partner practices—all designed to help you show up differently in love.

Whether you attend solo or with a partner, you’ll learn concrete skills you can bring to any relationship—romantic, family, or friendship.

Perfect for: Anyone wanting to move beyond reactive patterns into more conscious loving. No meditation experience required.

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devon + nico hase are meditation teachers and authors of This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide for Lasting Partnership. They’ve been exploring the middle way of partnership—personally and in their teaching—for nearly 20 years.