We tend to find our way in life by focusing on where we need to go, causing

everything else to blur. When was the last time you spent 5 minutes observing a beautiful shadow falling across the footpath or space inside your tea cup?

There are many techniques to assist in developing meditative awareness. We explored several methods during the retreat, including somatic awareness techniques, meditation, and contemplative photography. Rather than submitting to the habitual call of distraction from our smartphones, we will embrace their redeeming camera feature and use them as instruments to discover a world unseen. Invite your senses to come alive.

Here are some images capturing texture, a moment in time, and phenomena flirting with course participants engaged in the Contemplative Photography retreat. Our intention was to take the camera for a walk, be spontaneous, and not aim for a perfectly constructed image. Sometimes we explored a theme … texture, shadows, added text and even changed the photo into a 3D object as you see in Josh’s artwork above.

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