What if You’re Already Enough? Taking Refuge as a New Year’s Resolution
Arti Mehta & Melina Bondy
Sunday, January 4 - Friday, January 9, 2026

Arti Mehta & Melina Bondy
As we enter a new year, the world calls us not toward reinvention, but toward remembrance. This online meditation retreat an invitation to set aside ideas of self-improvement and rather turn toward the Four Noble Truths as sacred commitments—living recognitions of suffering and its causes, and of the radical possibilities for freedom. Through meditation, reflection, chanting and a grief ritual, we will honour the First and Second Truths, recognizing how acknowledging loss, sorrow, and structural harm can crack open the heart and awaken us. From there, we will cultivate wisdom and compassion–the Third and Fourth Truths–as real forms of power that root us in presence and move us toward liberation, not just for ourselves, but for our communities and the earth.
This retreat is a call back to what we already know in our bones: that Buddha Nature is not a distant ideal we strive for, but a here-and-now remembering. Together, we will reimagine the turn of the year—not as a moment to fix ourselves, but to recommit to the path of truth, interconnection, and care. This is not a retreat to escape the world, but to return to it with greater courage and tenderness.
Schedule
Sunday, January 4 - Friday, January 9
Sunday, January 4
10am - 4pm ET
Monday to Thursday
Morning Session: 7:30 - 8:30 am ET
Evening Session: 7 - 8:30 pm ET
Friday - Closing session
7:30 - 8:30 am ET
Arti Mehta
Melina Bondy
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