Event Details
Cost: $45
Dates: Saturday, December 5, 2026
Time: 9am–12am PT
Where: Online
Online Event
Rest and Renew
An Online Mini-Retreat with Henry Shukman and Kelly Boys
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Saturday, December 5, 2026
9am - 12pm PT | 10am - 1pm MT | 5pm - 8pm GMT | 6pm - 9pm CETOnline event
Join Henry and Kelly
By December, many of us are running on fumes. What would it be like to set aside some time to pause, reset, and renew?
Henry Shukman and Kelly Boys are coming together for three hours of live online practice devoted to deep rest. Henry will guide you into wide, unhurried awareness where the cares of the year can be set down. Kelly will lead you through non sleep deep rest, a lying down practice that lets the body and nervous system restore.
This is a rare opportunity to practice with these two teachers. Together, they offer rest that goes beyond sleep, and a practice you can return to long after the session ends.
What to expect on a half-day online retreat?
Henry will offer a longer-form meditation that invites opening up to a deeper level of awareness, where we can witness and welcome all our cares and stresses, gently lay them down, and discover a timeless spaciousness.
Kelly will lead an extended session of non sleep deep rest, guiding you into a restoration practice which includes a reset of your nervous system as well as space for inquiry and reflection. She will also offer explorations for how this restful awareness can lead us into glimpses of non-dual experience.
A space just for you
The end of the year offers us a natural invitation to pause. Let’s take a collective moment to put down our to-do list, exhale, and settle into rest.
That's what this session is about: dropping into meditation and open awareness practice in the company of two teachers who will guide you into a quality of spaciousness that is always already here.
We’ll touch the stillness beneath the busyness, and an openness that needs nothing added to it.
Retreat Schedule
Rest & Renew
| 9:00am – 9:10am | Welcome |
| 9:10am – 10:00am | Session with Henry Shukman |
| 10:00am – 10:10am | Break |
| 10:10am – 11:00am | Session with Kelly Boys |
| 11:00am – 11:10am | Break |
| 11:10am – 12:00pm | Conversation and Q&A |
Schedule subject to changes. These times are in PT.
Rest & Renew: Online Mini Retreat
$45
- 3 hours of deeply restful and restorative practice with Henry and Kelly
- Subscribers of The Way enjoy a 20% discount on all live events. Check your email for your special discount code. For any questions, email info@thewayapp.com
Here’s what students have said about Henry and Kelly's teaching
“Kelly is a skillful teacher who delivers wisdom teachings of meditation and self-inquiry in a manner that makes them easily accessible to all. Her innate curiosity enables participants to deeply rest and relax while learning to intimately explore the nature of their own experience.”
“Kelly is a masterful teacher who brings her warm and loving heart, intellectual fortitude, her longtime interest in self-inquiry, her deep ease of being, as well as her grounded presence to her teachings.”
“The way Henry Shukman ‘landed’ us into deeper levels of consciousness — often using poetry as a vehicle for getting us there. And allowing us collectively to notice and sit with that shift without saying a word.”
Questions?
If you have any questions about this event, please contact our team at info@thewayapp.com. We’re happy to assist and look forward to having you join us!
Recordings
This session will be recorded. If you can’t attend live, or simply want to reference it again, we’ll share the recording a few days after the session.
Scholarships
We warmly welcome you to contact us if a scholarship would allow you to attend this retreat.
Please contact our team at info@thewayapp.com for details about how to apply.
Henry Shukman
Henry teaches mindfulness and awakening practices to a wide range of students from all traditions and walks of life. Henry is an authenticated Zen master in the Sanbo Zen lineage, and is the Spiritual Director Emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center. Previous to this, Henry had a career as an award-winning author and poet. His struggles and traumatic experiences as a youth, combined with a spontaneous awakening experience at 19, paved the way for Henry to develop a well-rounded approach to spirituality and meditation – one that includes love for self and the world as its foundation.
Kelly Boys
Kelly Boys is a mindfulness trainer and coach, and specializes in the NSDR (non sleep deep rest) practice of yoga nidra. Kelly has co-designed and delivered mindfulness and resilience programs at the UN, Google, and in San Quentin State Prison. She specializes in mindfulness-based yoga nidra meditation. Kelly is an advisor to The Way, and her voice can be found on the Oura Ring, Mindfulness.com, the Simple Habit app, and the Waking Up app. Kelly is passionate about the intersection of spiritual awakening and applied mindfulness, and enjoys coaching people on their blind spots. She is currently writing a book, Deep Rest, out in 2027.
