Mobile Monastery Chautauqua
A spiritual community on wheels
Here's what you'll find at our events:
Chanting
Connect with the rhythms of sacred songs while singing in harmony together
Intimacy
Drop into communication, touch, deep listening, and the joy of reciprocity
Dharma Talks
Learn tools for how to walk the spiritual path in the modern world
MASSAGE
Deepen your connection with your body through the healing power of touch
EMBODIMENT
(contact improvisation, movement meditation, Ecstatic Dance)
Discover the joy and spontaneity of improv movement
Leadership Training
Integrate the qualities of Wisdom, Love, and Power to become a trustworthy leader
HOW TO BECOME A TRUSTWORTHY LEADER
with Autumn Turley
Everything we do, say, feel, and even think has an impact. At the Monastic Academy, we train under the ethos that the integration of wisdom, love, and power cultivates trustworthiness. This workshop explores how to integrate these qualities into every aspect of our lives in order to become trustworthy leaders.
Intimacy: Gateway to Wholeness
with Autumn Turley
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A true “yes” comes from the practiced ability to say “no”. A true “yes” lets people come closer in all intimate contexts; friends, family, romance, business, and so much more. A true “yes” to intimacy allows us to come closer to ourselves. Concepts like beauty, love, and divinity transition into visceral, physical, fulfilling experiences. The subject of this course is active trust.
In this workshop we will be exploring communication, touch, positive space, and the joy of reciprocity.
Coming home to our Bodies
with Autumn Turley
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How can we experience our bodies as integrated systems? What can our physical bodies teach us about our emotions and our minds? This talk and meditation will guide us through a journey of how to inhabit our bodies with awareness.
Contacting the Etheric Body
with Autumn Turley
This Contact Improvisation workshop leads us through an exploration of dancing in contact with each other while connecting with the aura before connecting with the physical body. How can we dance through our physical bodies and into this energetic space, weaving this energy back into our bodies? How can we use this new sensitivity to deepen our physical connection?
This class will offer tools for feeling our chi and using this internal energy to inspire our movement. We will also learn tools for recognizing when we have taken on other people’s energies and clearing those energies out of our field.
Circling
with Autumn Turley
and Xuramitra (Peter) Park
Circling is a practice of present-moment meditation and authentic communication with other humans. It develops our ability to notice what is true for us in the moment, express it, and be with others as they do the same. The format is massively open-ended but is rooted in sharing the personal and embodied experience of being here and now. What’s it like to be here, right now? What are you seeing, hearing, or feeling? What stories are you making? Circling makes the claim that by responsibly and sincerely embodying and expressing what is true for us in relationship with others, more clarity, love, and power will come of it.
MAPLE and the Mind that is Making AI
with Gigen (Omar) Obregon
Moment by moment, we let screens and ads control us. What are the results? More food and shelter, yet less wisdom and love. More computers and faster shipping, yet less reverence. How is it possible that we live in a time when we can cross the oceans in a day, but are more segregated than ever? If we don't act right now then we may destroy all life on the planet.
How do we respond to artificial intelligence? How do we respond to a tool that is now teaching our children? Simple: wisdom and compassion. At the monastic academy we learn to cultivate wisdom and compassion through daily efforts. We believe that through these efforts we can tackle this AI crisis. We do not assume that AI is innately evil, but that those who make it and use it are currently stuck in an evil mind, and are therefore making it in evil ways.
In these talks we will discuss how we choose who to hand our future to, and how we can choose a future where the mind that is making AI is reverent, honorable, loving, and wise.
Mindful Compassionate Flirting
with Xuramitra (Peter) Park
Increasingly, people are isolating from each other and using algorithms and screens to replace intimacy. No one is happy about this. Women want to be invited into connection. Men want to express their attraction. This workshop is to practice flirting as a mindful relational practice of play rather than being stuck in performative ego. We’ll practice being embodied in our own experience, expressing attraction as forms of appreciation and authentic expression, and breaking out of our usual ways of being.
Increasingly, people are isolating from one another, using screens and algorithms to replace real intimacy with digital, artificial intimacy. Few people feel good about this.
This workshop offers a space to practice flirting as a mindful relational art—rooted in presence, play, and genuine human contact rather than performance or self-protection.
Participants will explore how to stay embodied in their own experience, express attraction as appreciation and authentic curiosity, and gently step outside fixed patterns. There will be many rounds of practicing flirting with our eyes, our body, and our words. Ultimately, we are learning to stay in our authentic desire and aliveness without attachment to outcome or goal.
Transforming our Patterns and Ourselves
with Trinley (Matt) Goldenburg
Most of us struggle with habitual emotional patterns - we get angry or defensive, we people please or shutdown, we care too much what others think or unthinkingly hurt others. In this workshop, we’ll explore the deep structures of these emotional patterns, and work to transform them right at the root. As we let them go, a space of possibility opens up - a new opportunity to decide who we want to be.
You’ll leave the workshop both with a seed of this transformation around your specific pattern, AND the tools to let go of other patterns in the future.