Mariposa offers limited indoor sleeping options in dorm-style rooms and ample space for camping in tents. There is limited space for car camping for participants who rely on this option. 

As part of our commitment to community care, all meals will be collectively prepared, served and cleaned up by participants under the loving guidance of our Kitchen Top, Willow. Meals will be Kosher style, though uur kitchen is not Kosher. All efforts will be made to attend to the diversity of our food needs and preferences to ensure a nourishing, sustaining, delightful digestive experience for all. 

ACCESS INFORMATION:
The Mariposa Institute is located on 115 acres of unceded Northern Pomo land, colonially known as Ukiah, CA. Our grounds are rugged. We are currently in the process of working towards increased accessibility. 

MOBILITY ACCESS:
All main retreat spaces are accessible by car, with a short walk on unpaved roads door to door. Some paths are grassy, some are dusty/ rocky. Rides can be provided to/ from spaces within the retreat center. 

The insides of our main retreat spaces/ bathrooms are currently accessible to community members who use walkers, canes & some wheelchairs/ scooters, as well as community members who walk without assistance. If you are a wheelchair/ scooter user & are curious if this space could work for you, please reach out. We are eager to be in conversation with you.

ASL: ASL may be available for programming upon request. If you would benefit from ASL, please reach out! We are currently crowd-sourcing/ seeking grants for ASL and are eager to be in conversation with you.

COVID: Our COVID protocol is detailed in the form below. In short, after in-depth consideration & consultation, we are offering the following strategy for navigating the interlocking difficulties presented by COVID-19, in the hopes of increasing access for the widest range of our community members: 

• Please limit exposure to COVID-19 in the week leading up to the retreat by wearing a mask in public & avoiding crowded spaces whenever possible. 
• All participants are required to take a molecular test (such as the ones provided by PlusLife/ Altruran) on the day the retreat begins BEFORE arrival. If you are unable to access a test and/or a reader, please take a rapid test on the day of the retreat BEFORE arriving & we will test you again as soon as you arrive. 
• Molecular tests will be provided (and required) each day of the retreat and administered by trained community members. Plans will be in place in the event that someone tests positive.
• The majority of programming and meals will be outside, with indoor programming occurring in well-ventilated spaces with huge windows/doors. 
• Masking will be optional outdoors & encouraged indoors (more on this in the form below) 

We ask that all participants arrive to the retreat scent-free and do not use scented products for the duration of the retreat. If you have questions about this, you can read this fabulous Resource on being Fragrance Free from EBMC (East Bay Meditation Center)

MEITAL YANIV (b. 1984, Tel-Aviv, israel) is learning how to be in a human form. they do things with words, with moving and still images, with threads, with bodies in front of bodies, with the Earth. they are a death laborer tending to a prayer for the liberation of the land of Palestine and the lands of our bodies. they keep Fires and submerge themselves in Ocean and Sea Water often. yaniv is learning to listen to the Waters, birdsongs, caretakers, and ancestors as they walk as a guest on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla-ʔívil̃uwenetem Meytémak, Tongva-Kizh Nation, Luiseño-Payómkawichum, and Serrano-Yuhaaviatam/Maarenga'yam. yaniv is the author of bloodlines. they make offerings through true name collective. ig: @bloodlines_book

This gathering is led by and centered around queer/trans anti-Zionist Jews. Anyone who wishes to practice, pray and play with us is welcome, regardless of your sexual orientation, gender or religious affiliation. Folks who are in an early stage of unlearning/ recovering from Zionism are welcome, as are folks who never Zionist and those who identify as non-Zionist or anti-Zionist. We acknowledge that being anti-Zionist is a practice (rather than a fixed location); it is a life-long commitment to dismantling Zionism wherever we find it (including in ourselves) every day for the rest of our lives.  If you are still wondering if you belong here, you may be comforted by knowing that we belong to each even (and perhaps especially) in our fear that we do not belong. If you are still wondering if you belong here, feel free to email Elana-June. XO