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June 2019
Daylong Retreat with ERIN TREAT, June 8
During this daylong retreat, we will explore how practicing with a receptive form of metta (loving-kindness) allows us to cultivate a heart of goodwill and non-hatred. With this quality of receptive non-hatred, we open more easily to embodied experience and become able to investigate directly the nature of our experience rather than push it away. This in turn allows us to respond to the challenges we face both internally and externally in a way that brings forth natural resilience and…
Find out more »Awakening Metta through Meditative Practice: A Daylong Retreat with DaeJa Napier
The Buddha taught metta; lovingkindness as a complimentary practice to Insight Meditation (Vipassana). Working together, they serve to awaken powerful healing energies that brighten and lift the mind to increasing levels of well-being - from which compassion, appreciative-joy and equanimity flow like a gentle river into our everyday lives.The practice of metta is a journey to the center of the heart. Whether cultivating metta in daily life or in retreat, it offers protection from being caught in an adversarial view…
Find out more »Looking More Deeply into our Individual Experience of Metta: Discussion and Inquiry with DaeJa Napier
DaeJa Napier is the founding and guiding teacher of the Brahma-Vihara Foundation. She teaches Vipassana meditation with an emphasis on the cultivation of the four Brahma Viharas: loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity. She has been practicing and studying in various Buddhist traditions since 1974. Her root teacher is the late Zen Master Seung Sahn. Her practice continues to be enriched through intensive practice under the guidance of Asian and Western teachers including Sayadaw U Pandita, Pa Auk Sayadaw and…
Find out more »Finding Balance: A Daylong Retreat with Kathryn Turnipseed
Join Kathryn for a day of practice to bring awareness to the potential for clarity and inner freedom in the midst of the ‘worldly winds.’ Whether you find your balance challenged by the demands and stresses of family, work, or the injustices besetting our world, find your way back to center and into balance.This silent day of practice will focus on cultivating awareness in the midst of challenge. As we deepen into inner freedom we invite the feelings of calm,…
Find out more »July 2019
Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation: A Non-Residential Retreat with Brian Lesage
This retreat offers the unique opportunity to practice Insight Meditation—a simple and direct practice based on moment-to-moment awareness, a technique that opens the heart and clears the mind. We will practice continuous mindfulness in silence through sitting and walking meditation. Freed from much of the daily barrage of stimulus that draws our attention outward, we delve deeply inward. Learning to be aware of our experience from a place of stillness and equanimity allows us to see more clearly; and as…
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