Spring Washam

04/27/2026

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Warm greetings Beautiful Community, We are living in a ti… Spring Washam needs your support for Support a Year of Devotion: My Bodhisattva & Metta Retreat

04/26/2026

The time has finally come. I am now entering into my one-year meditation retreat here at Tara Mandala in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. As I step into this sacred container, I feel a real mix of emotions. There is a deep heartbreak for the world for the suffering, the wars, the hatred, and the confusion. I continue to shed so many tears for the immigrant and trans communities. Alongside that heart break, there is a renewing of faith, glimmers of hope and a calling to rediscover my own Buddha nature, and the Buddha nature that lives within all beings.

This is not an easy moment and letting go can be so hard. I don’t plan on being online. I will miss my friends, my family, my beloved community, and all the beautiful students who have walked this path with me. I carry each of you in my heart. For the next 365 days, my intention is to cultivate bodhicitta the awakened heart and to deepen my commitment to the path of the Bodhisattva. This is a vast and humbling path, one that asks us to dedicate our lives to the liberation of all beings. It is a path that unfolds over lifetimes, yet it is also here, now, in this very breath.

I am entering retreat to remember who I truly am. And in that remembering, I trust I will return more grounded, more whole, and more able to serve. I believe deeply in the teachings of the Buddha, in the wisdom of the awakened ones, and in the skillful practices including Ta**ra that can meet this moment in time. As I go into retreat, I ask that you hold me in your hearts and just as importantly, hold yourselves. We are living through a great turning. The ground may feel like it is shaking beneath us, but within our hearts there is a deeper truth: we are already awake. We have simply forgotten.

Thank you to all who are practicing keeping your hearts open. Thank you to those on the front lines holding, helping, grieving, tending to the fires of this world. I take all of you with me into this mountain cabin. You are part of me. We are not separate. May this practice be for the benefit of all beings. May it serve the liberation of all beings. And when I return, I will meet this world again transformed, and ready to serve in a new way.

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02/16/2026

Beloved Community 💛

I want to speak to you from my heart. This April, we will gather for our Medicine of the Heart Retreat, and it will be our final retreat before I step away into an intensive year of Dharma practice in the mountains of Colorado. Whenever I enter a long period of silence and deep retreat, I feel how precious our time together truly is. This retreat feels especially tender.

We will come together on sacred land, held in ceremony, meditation, prayer, and community. This work is not about peak experiences it’s about healing what’s real. The grief we carry. The ancestral pain. The ways we close when the world feels too heavy. The Medicine of the Heart is about softening where we’ve armored ourselves and remembering the fierce, loving presence that lives underneath it all. Lotus Vine Journeys

In the Buddhist path, we speak of bodhicitta the awakened heart-mind that longs for liberation not just for ourselves, but for all beings. That is the spirit of this retreat. We gather to free our own hearts from confusion and fear so that we can show up more courageously for this world. When one heart heals, it ripples outward. When one person remembers their goodness, it benefits the whole.

If you feel called to step into this circle before I enter my year of deeper practice, I would be honored to sit with you. Let’s pray together. Let’s do the real work of compassion. Let’s remember who we are for the benefit of all beings. 🌿✨

For Info: www.lotusvinejourneys.com

02/09/2026

I’ve been so quiet these past months, moving through an unexpected pause a very deep journey sparked by a truck accident and the slow, sacred unfolding of healing that followed. While my body has been mending, what has truly emerged is a deeper well of compassion… the kind that only suffering can reveal. In this silence, I was reminded that healing is not only a personal path it is a collective one. We each carry the ache of a world in pain, and yet, we also carry the light that can transform it.

Over the past few months, I’ve been closely following the group of Buddhist monks on their Walk For Peace. These gentle beings have been walking for months across cities and towns, step by step, blessing the Earth with every footprint. They came so close just blocks from my home in Atlanta and the energy they brought was so beautiful. Each day I walk with them in spirit, I sit at my altar and pray with them, and I feel their presence as a radiant thread of peace weaving through this world.

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said,
“Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”
For me and for so many others they are that stone.

Tomorrow, they arrive in Washington, D.C. a city now wrapped in the tensions of delusion and fear. These monks, many of whom are immigrants, will enter this militarized zone not with protest, but with prayer. Their walk is radical. It is brave. It is holy. And it calls us all to meet them in the field of compassion. So this Tuesday night, our weekly Metta Gathering will be devoted to them. We will align our hearts with theirs, and with all those who are walking for peace whether in D.C., Minneapolis, or anywhere on this sacred Earth.

🕊 Tuesday Night Metta Practice
🗓 Every Tuesday – 7 PM EST / 4 PM PST
🧘🏽‍♀️ Free and open to all
🪷 An hour and a half of Metta, prayer, silence, and community
🔗 https://www.springwasham.com/heart-medicine/

Come as you are. Bring your ache. Bring your love. Bring your presence. Let us remember: Peace can begin as a quiet walk and from that stillness, a thousand hearts may awaken to the boundless field of compassion.

09/08/2025

To all My Southern Peeps.

We still have a couple of spots open. This is a retreat for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, and a person of Color.

Register Here: https://southerndharma.org/.../the-dharma-of-harriet.../

In a world that feels increasingly heavy with fear, division, and uncertainty weighing on our hearts—it is more important than ever to remember the deeper truth: liberation is not just resistance, it is a frequency, a state of being, and a path we must walk together. Harriet Tubman was more than a historical figure; she was a spiritual master, a bodhisattva, and a being of higher consciousness. Her life was a profound embodiment of the Buddha’s teachings, a path of courage, wisdom, and compassionate action. She moved beyond the limits of fear, time, and space, guided by divine wisdom and an unshakable commitment to freedom.

The 5D Dharma of Harriet Tubman – How she embodied the awakened mind, moving between seen and unseen worlds it's time to Rise and Remember our truth

09/02/2025

This October, I invite our beautiful community to step into sacred space. Join a Sanctuary for Women’s Wisdom, Intuition & Liberation set against the backdrop of the serene Big Bear Retreat Center, this 7-day journey (Oct 5–12, 2025) is a call to all who identify as women, gender expansive, and nonbinary and who are nourished in women-centered spaces.

Through the sacred practices of Insight Meditation, embodied movement, and earth-based rituals, we’ll gather in community to remember who we are beneath the noise: wise, intuitive, powerful beings walking the path of liberation. This retreat is more than restit’s restoration, reclamation, and deep reconnection.

Together, we’ll call upon the energy of the sacred mother, awaken the heart, and rise into a new embodiment of dignity, power, and truth. Whether you're just beginning your spiritual path or have journeyed far, you are welcome here.

Let us create a sanctuary where intuition leads, ancestral wisdom is honored, and healing flows through every breath. We rise together. Open to beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

📍 Location: Big Bear Retreat Center, Big Bear California
📅 Dates: October 5–12, 2025
✨ Register in Bio via Link Tree

05/14/2025

You are your own refuge.
No one else can fill the space you’ve been trying to escape.
The peace you’re seeking is already within you.
Beneath the noise, the doubt, and the stories you’ve carried lies something unbreakable—something sacred that has never left.
It has held you through every loss, every beginning, every ending.
Trust that place.
Return to it.
Rest there.
This is your home—the sacred ground of your own beautiful heart.

05/07/2025

Something ancient is calling…

In just a few days, we gather in the heart of the redwoods for a sacred journey of healing, remembering, and awakening. Join us for a transformational plant medicine retreat—where Buddhist wisdom meets the ancestral spirit of the Earth.

This is your time to reconnect with your soul, nature, and the divine intelligence that flows through all things.

Scholarships are available. To apply, email: [email protected]

Spaces are still open.
Answer the call. Come home to yourself.

Led by: Spring Washam
Founder of Lotus Vine Journeys | Shamanic Healer | Dharma Teacher

04/25/2025

Scholarships are now available! 🌿💗

With deep devotion to healing and collective liberation, we are thrilled to share that we’ve just received a generous donation to support scholarships for those who feel called to join us but may need financial help to make it possible.

Who This Scholarship is For
We lovingly invite applications from those who:
Are deeply committed to their healing and spiritual path
Are engaged in work that serves others, through healing, creativity, activism, or community care
Come from historically marginalized or underrepresented backgrounds
Are ready to enter this work with humility, reverence, and courage
These scholarships are a gift from our larger community, created so that those who need this most can receive it. If this speaks to your soul, please reach out.

How to Apply for a Scholarship
Email: [email protected]
Include a short note sharing:
Your intention and what draws you to this retreat
Any personal or financial considerations you wish to share
A little about your healing path or community work

We believe healing is a birthright not a privilege. This work is for all of us. If you hear the call in your heart, trust it. We would be honored to welcome you.

🎉 Good news! Scholarships are now available for our upcoming Medicine of the Heart retreat!

With deep devotion to healing and collective liberation, we are thrilled to share that we’ve just received a generous donation to support scholarships for those who feel called to join us but may need financial help to make it possible. 💗

This offering touches our hearts, as it reflects the spirit of generosity and community care that this path is all about. Because of this support, we’re now able to offer a limited number of partial scholarships.

Medicine of the Heart is more than a retreat; it is a sacred, immersive journey into the depths of your being. It is an invitation to rest, reconnect, remember who you are, and realign with the loving truth of your heart. Held in the arms of nature at River’s Bend, this retreat is a sanctuary for transformation. 🌿🌳

We lovingly invite applications from those who:
• Are deeply committed to their healing and spiritual path
• Are engaged in work that serves others, through healing, creativity, activism, or community care
• Come from historically marginalized or underrepresented backgrounds
• Are ready to enter this work with humility, reverence, and courage

These scholarships are a gift from our larger community, created so that those who need this most can receive it. If this speaks to your soul, please reach out.

✨How to Apply for a Scholarship✨

Email: [email protected]
Include a short note sharing:
• Your intention and what draws you to this retreat
• Any personal or financial considerations you wish to share
• A little about your healing path or community work

If you feel truly called to join us, we also invite you to complete our Online Application Form so we can get to know you more and begin holding space for your arrival

We believe healing is a birthright not a privilege. This work is for all of us. If you hear the call in your heart, trust it. We would be honored to welcome you. 🪷

Learn more about the retreat here:
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/cu/aEavXdE/medicineoftheheart

04/22/2025

join Me😊
Unfolding the Great Heart
Bhakti, Buddhism, and the Practice of Connection
This retreat is a sacred invitation to return to the source of your inner strength the boundless capacity of your heart to love, heal, and transform. Together, we will explore the ‘Great Heart,’ a sanctuary of devotion and wisdom that holds the power to illuminate even the darkest moments of our lives.
This retreat is for those yearning to rekindle their faith in love, rediscover hope, or find strength amidst life’s challenges. It is a refuge for anyone seeking solace, clarity, or a deeper connection to themselves and the world. Bhakti’s path of devotion and Buddhist mindfulness will weave together, offering profound tools to help release old burdens, soften the heart, and awaken to life’s inherent beauty.
Registration here: https://bigbearretreatcenter.org/retreats/1484/unfolding-the-great-heart-bhakti-buddhism-and-the-practice-of-connection/

Through the intertwined paths of Bhakti and Buddhism, we will dive into heart-centered practices that open us to the healing power of love and connection. Each day will include Metta meditation to cultivate compassion, devotional rituals to deepen our sense of reverence, and sitting and walking meditation on the land to ground us in presence and stillness. In the evenings, we’ll gather for chanting a practice of surrender and devotion that invites us to rest in the sacred pulse of life.