Mindfulness as Spiritual Abolition: Healing Our Confusion About the Truth of Freedom

Werk Series Spring '26 Offering with Lama Rod Owens Recording

Date: Saturday, June 6th, 2026 from 11am-3pm ET

Please note: There are no refunds available if you purchase past recordings.

The Spring 2026 Werk offering will be devoted to deep and embodied exploration of mindfulness* as a radical force for spiritual abolition and joy. 

Drawing inspiration from our beloved Free Radicals community, practitioners of all backgrounds from around the world are invited to deepen their direct relationship with the werk of mindfulness as a timeless capacity for freedom and healing. Through shared practice, reflection, and community care, Lama Rod will guide us in experiencing how the foundational practice of mindfulness, in all its deeply rooted and diverse expressions, is a powerful ally for spiritual abolition and the liberation of all beings. 

The werk of this half-day retreat will be devoted to mindfulness as medicine for:

• tending and mending the wounds of conditional love
• owning the radical implications of our own freedom
• attuning to emergent strategies, the Land, and joy!
• living as an expression of clarity and care moment by moment
• deepening our connection with lineages of free radicals and abolition  

*What does Lama Rod mean by “mindfulness”?
The concept of mindfulness has come to mean many things to many people throughout space, time, and culture. Some of these meanings help us move closer to understanding the nature of our own minds and experiencing the inalienable freedom of all beings. Other, more colonial meanings, draw us deeper into the mire of confusion and conditional love which can feel impossible to escape. 

Drawing from his work in Radical Dharma, Love and Rage, and The New Saints, Lama Rod unfolds a view of spiritual abolition in which mindfulness is understood as our inherent capacity to experience the truth of freedom and the vastness of phenomenal reality directly through our own embodied minds. As we strengthen this capacity over time, our mindfulness empowers us in the werk of abolishing the carceral state and healing the world for future generations.