Weekend Single Day Retreats

Awakening to the Present Moment: A Retreat for Beginning and Newer Students - With Ted Jones

Sat 02/29/20 - 10:00am to 12:30pm

Insight meditation is a time-tested method of mind training that enables us to change our relationship to each moment’s experience, and thus our lives. In this retreat, specially designed for beginners and those with limited meditation experience, we will systematically explore (through sitting and walking meditation periods, teachings, and discussion) how to calm and steady the mind and see more clearly.  As we strengthen this capacity we begin to move from suffering and reactivity to responsiveness, freshness and ease. We learn how to touch and live in the mindful moment.

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Dukkha (Suffering) As Our Teacher (afternoon half day retreat only) - With Rebecca Bradshaw

Sun 03/15/20 - 1:30pm to 5:00pm

Most of us have someplace that we struggle in life, whether it’s chronic pain or challenging emotions or difficult relationships. The Buddha said that these places of struggle are exactly where we can learn the most about freeing the mind and heart. The Tibetans have a prayer asking for appropriate challenges to open the heart of compassion. We will look at how we can hold suffering with mindfulness and tenderness, freeing the mind and opening the heart.

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To sign up exclusively for the afternoon half day retreat, you can register below. 

To sign up for Sunday's evening talk only, please go to "Other Offerings" and choose "Stories & Enlightenment Poems from The Early Nuns".

To sign up for both the Sunday afternoon half day retreat along with the evening talk go to "Weekend Single Day Retreats" and choose "Dukkha (Suffering) As Our Teacher - Combo Option".  A light dinner of soup and salad will be offered to those staying for both the half day retreat and evening talk (included with your registration fee).

You can sign up for one or both of Rebecca's weekend offerings. 

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Dukkha (Suffering) As Our Teacher (combo option) - With Rebecca Bradshaw

Sun 03/15/20 - 1:30pm to 8:00pm

Description for half day retreat:

Most of us have someplace that we struggle in life, whether it’s chronic pain or challenging emotions or difficult relationships. The Buddha said that these places of struggle are exactly where we can learn the most about freeing the mind and heart. The Tibetans have a prayer asking for appropriate challenges to open the heart of compassion. We will look at how we can hold suffering with mindfulness and tenderness, freeing the mind and opening the heart.

Description for evening talk:

Most of the early Buddhist nuns entered the spiritual path because of intense suffering in their lives. Following the tradition of the day, when their minds and hearts became fully free they wrote enlightenment poems. This evening talk will highlight some of the lives of the best known early nuns, providing us inspiration from how they met suffering.

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To sign up only for the afternoon half day retreat, go to "Weekend Single Day Retreats" and choose "Dukkha (Suffering) As Our Teacher (afternoon half day retreat only)".

To sign up for Sunday's evening talk only, please go to "Other Offerings" and choose "Stories & Enlightenment Poems from The Early Nuns".

To sign up for both the Sunday afternoon half day retreat and evening talk, you can register below.

For those staying for the afternoon retreat and evening talk, a light dinner of soup and salad will be offered (included with your registration fee).

You can sign up for one or both of Rebecca's weekend offerings. 

To pay by check or read our refund policy, click here

Insight Meditation for Beginners: A Retreat for Beginning and Newer Students - With Matthew Daniell

Sat 03/21/20 - 10:00am to 12:30pm

Insight meditation is a time-tested method of mind training that enables us to change our relationship to each moment’s experience, and thus our lives. In this retreat, specially designed for beginners and those with limited meditation experience, we will systematically explore (through sitting and walking meditation periods, teachings, and discussion) how to calm and steady the mind and see more clearly.  As we strengthen this capacity we begin to move from suffering and reactivity to responsiveness, freshness and ease. We learn how to touch and live in the mindful moment.

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Aligning Ourselves With Change - With Matthew Daniell

Sat 04/04/20 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

Impermanence or change isn’t something that happens to experience. It is experience itself. As such, impermanence is an important gateway to understanding the teachings of the Buddha. In this 1/2 day long retreat, we will use mindfulness of our moment to moment experience as a vehicle for becoming intimate with change. Both sitting and walking instructions will be geared towards helping the retreat participants recognize that as we look at our experience, we are looking at change. Depending on the quality of the seeing, change can set us free.

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There is also an optional morning half day retreat from 9am-12:30pm.  ($30/$40)

Lunch: For those staying for the entire retreat, a volunteer will provide vegetarian soup, salad and bread at lunchtime. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunch or a supplement for the soup, if they prefer. A microwave and refrigerator are available.

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Mindful Presence: A Retreat for Beginning and Newer Students - With Ted Jones

Sat 04/18/20 - 10:00am to 12:30pm

Insight meditation is a time-tested method of mind training that enables us to change our relationship to each moment’s experience, and thus our lives. In this retreat, specially designed for beginners and those with limited meditation experience, we will systematically explore (through sitting and walking meditation periods, teachings, and discussion) how to calm and steady the mind and see more clearly.  As we strengthen this capacity we begin to move from suffering and reactivity to responsiveness, freshness and ease. We learn how to touch and live in the mindful moment.

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