“When I was hearing over and over again to meditate, what I heard was, ‘This situation is not wrong, you are wrong,’ ” she said. Instead, Hall said she was told by the mountain center’s leadership that she should take it “to the cushion” - the abuse was “good material” to work with. When Hall sought help extricating herself from a relationship with a fellow Shambhala member who had become abusive, she said her requests fell on deaf ears. She said her efforts to get help from leadership in extracting herself from an abusive relationship at the center fell on deaf ears.īut after Hall in 2008 moved to the Shambhala Mountain Center - the international Buddhist organization’s sweeping 600-acre meditation grounds in the foothills west of Fort Collins - she faced a challenge that going to her cushion couldn’t solve. Ariel Hall formerly lived at the Shambhala Mountain Center. She began meditating as a curious New York University undergraduate, her intrigue eventually drawing her to Colorado, the birthplace and a present-day hub of her chosen strain of Buddhism. Ariel Hall loved her Tibetan meditation cushion, a maroon-and-saffron pillow that helped melt away the strains of daily life during visits to her local Shambhala center.
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