GAIA MANDALA
GLOBAL HEALING COMMUNITY
PRACTICE WITH US
Welcome! Are you new to the Gaia Mandala? Please go HERE to let us know which of our new offerings, practices, pilgrimages or groups you are interested in! To learn more about our ongoing practices and offerings—read on!
Like the Earth Treasure Vases, we too are holy vessels filled with prayers and offerings. The Gaia Mandala Global Healing Community is here to support and encourage us to participate in the renewal of life on Earth.
From our deepest heart of hearts arise the ways that we are each called to turn our prayers for the Earth into action. Our group meditations, courses, retreats and pilgrimages are all opportunities to access your personal calling, go more deeply into practices of sacred activism and follow the path of collective awakening.
Here are our current offerings:
We are excited to announce that ~
The new book by Cynthia Jurs, SUMMONED BY THE EARTH; Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing Our World has been published!
Please visit the book website, summonedbyttheearth.org HERE to learn more and order the book or audiobook!
European In-Person Retreats 2025:
Sacred Action for Healing the Earth; The Energy of Prayer, The Power of Intention
May 15-18 at Transalquimia, outside of Barcelona, Spain
This 4-day retreat with Cynthia Jurs will be hosted by Diana Bacanu and Xavier Compte at their retreat center, Transalquimia from May 15-18th. Through medicine walks, solo time in the wilderness, meditation and more, this retreat is a time of being together in ceremony on the land, listening to the wisdom of the Earth, sharing from the heart and exploring ways of bringing spirituality into action for the healing of the Earth. Cynthia will offer dharma talks and an Earth Treasure Vase Ceremony dedicated to the “holy vessel” for Spain, being stewarded by Gaia Mandala member, Andrea Herrera.
The retreat takes place at Transalquimia in the wilderness outside of Barcelona. Co-founded by Diana Bacanu and Xavier Compte, Transalquimia is a non-profit organization in service of collective awakening and healing. Diana & Xavier lead retreats and courses supporting people to reconnect to themselves, to others and to Nature as a way of remembering their true nature and their deeper belonging. As members of the Order of Interbeing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Diana & Xavi offer mindfulness retreats, and as guides in the tradition of the School of Lost Borders, they offer wilderness Rites of Passage & Vision Quest retreats in Spanish, French and English, and lead Deep Ecology retreats inspired by Joanna Macy’s “Work that Reconnects”.
We are very pleased that Gaia Mandala teacher and facilitator, Rick Jansen will also be joining us to offer his guidance & gifts at this retreat.
Healing for Mother Gaia; Deepening Our Experience of the Earth Treasure Vase Practice
May 23-26th at Les Marions Retreat Center, Burgundy, France
This retreat will be a special opportunity to directly experience the Earth Treasure Vase practice as we work with several Earth Treasure Vases that have been dedicated and are currently in the process of being accomplished. Participants will have the chance to contribute their offerings & prayers, and form their sacred intentions for the healing of our world.
Happily, Gaia Mandala teacher and facilitator, Rick Jansen will also be joining us to offer his guidance & gifts at this retreat and Charlotte Dufour will be offering daily yoga sessions.
Sacred Activism: Healing Ourselves as we Heal the World
May 29th-June 1st at Les Marions, Burgundy, France
In this retreat we will explore the important interface between healing ourselves while we give our often overwhelming care and attention to healing the Earth. With the world situation calling on us to increase our responsiveness, the need for personal resilience has increased dramatically. Many of us feel afraid, demoralized, exhausted or filled with despair. Together we will support each other to find a deep well of timeless nourishment within where new possibilities can arise and be seen. Practicing together we will experience ourselves as an intimate part of the web of life; Mother Earth. Join us for a time of deep restoration that our next steps may be ones of peace for the benefit of all.
EARTH TREASURE VASE FULL MOON GLOBAL HEALING MEDITATION
Every full moon our global family gathers via Zoom for a guided meditation to direct our prayers and intentions towards the healing of the Earth. The Earth Treasure Vases being planted by our global community in 70 locations around the planet, filled with the prayers and offerings of thousands, have now formed a living mandala of powerful healing intentions.
When we concentrate on sending our love and prayers out wherever it is needed in whatever form is needed, we are taking the first step in participating in the restoration of our world. This is medicine for our times. The meditation includes an invocation of all the Earth Treasure Vase locations around the planet as a way to keep our prayers alive, energize the global mandala of 70 locations and embrace Gaia with our loving care and attention. At the end of the meditation we open an Earth Treasure Vase that serves as a receptacle for all of our prayers and intentions for the Earth. This vase will eventually be buried in a location as yet to be determined. This monthly meditation ceremony will renew your sense of purpose as we face global challenges together.
SUBLIME MOTHER GAIA TRANSMISSION & TEACHINGS
A Vajrayana-style deity practice inspired by Tara with a visualization of Gaia and a recitation of her mantra that our founder, Cynthia Jurs, received during intensive practice in retreat and has worked with privately for many years and is bringing forward now at this time of planetary unraveling and evolutionary change.
SUBLIME MOTHER GAIA RETREAT
The retreat includes a transmission ceremony, teachings, group practice, and Q&A. Once one has received the teachings, an ongoing monthly practice group can be joined to deepen one’s understanding and keep the practice alive.
MONDAY MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
During this bi-monthly 2 hour practice group, we enter into the quiet space within, stopping to catch our breath, center ourselves and let go of anxiety to reconnect with our true source of Being. At the end of our practice there will be an opportunity for mindful sharing around the circle, and Metta Healing Circle, to heighten personal and collective healing. Our Practice Group continues with shared leadership.
THE GAIA MANDALA
The Gaia Mandala is the gathering place for our online community to connect with others around the world, get to know each other, share intentions and prayers, dreams and stories, insights, visions…and deepen participation in all of our group practices and offerings.
IN-PERSON RETREATS
Information about all our in-person retreats will always be posted here as well as announced in our monthly newsletter as details become available.
GLOBAL PILGRIMAGES
Each year, pilgrimages are offered to various Earth Treasure Vase locations around the globe. Dates for upcoming pilgrimages are announced in our monthly newsletter as details become available. One of our next pilgrimages will be to Nepal with Rick Jansen in August 2025! If you are interested in learning more and receiving updates as plans come together please let us know you are interested.
