So things have been busy here on the West Coast. I few weeks ago we had the college retreat at Deer Park with 200 college students. It was the best college retreat I have been to. Over 90% of the students were new to Deer Park and by the last day the students were calling each other brother and sister when they were referring to each other. I have never seen that happen in a retreat before!

The most exciting thing for me was to see the students touch the essence of walking meditation and eating meditation in one weekend. I know this retreat changed peoples lives. That is the wonderful thing about working with young people.

Also I started a Wake Up group at my school for Oriental Medicine. Our first meeting was today and we had 10 people show up for deep relaxation and sharing afterwards. The response was great and some people were inspired to invite their friends to next weeks meditation.

A friend of mine enjoys meditation so much that they have agreed to sit with me for 45 minutes every morning and evening for 3 months.

 We also have our wake up retreat coming up in May.  may 20-24: Deer Park monastery, California, USA: Wake UP - Another Way of Being retreat for young people aged 21-35: http://www.deerparkmonastery.org/events/retreats/copy_of_wake-up-young-buddhist-retreat.ics

With love,

Marc