Weekend Single Day Retreats

Exploring the Heart of Compassion - ONLINE (Combo Option - Fri. & Sat.) - With Rebecca Bradshaw

Fri 09/11/20 - 7:00pm to 8:45pm

During this program we will continue our program on developing and supporting the heart, specifically focusing on cultivating the heart of compassion that can care about suffering with sweetness and strength. Compassion is an easily misunderstood quality, sometimes mistaken for despair or pity. What is true compassion? How do we open to suffering  and care about it without getting overwhelmed and grief stricken? We will look at and develop compassion from the angles of tenderness, strength, fierceness, and spaciousness.

The Friday evening program (7-8:45pm) will feature a sitting, dharma talk,

and Q & A.

The Saturday morning program (9:30am-1pm) will include sitting and walking meditation, a short dharma talk and time for group inquiry.

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This is the combo option which includes both Friday and Saturday's offerings.  On Friday evening Rebecca offers, "Exploring the Heart of Compassion" from 7-8:45pm.  Rebecca will lead a sitting followed by a talk and discussion regarding this topic.

The half day retreat begins on Saturday morning from 9:30am-12:30pm

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Exploring the Heart of Compassion - Part 2 (Online Retreat Only Option) - With Rebecca Bradshaw

Sat 09/12/20 - 9:30am to 1:00pm

The Saturday morning program (9:30am-1pm) will continue with the same theme as Friday's talk, Compassion, and include sitting and walking meditation, a short dharma talk and time for group inquiry. At the end of the morning we will get an introduction to the chant of the Great Compassion mantra.

During this program we will continue our program on developing and supporting the heart, specifically focusing on cultivating the heart of compassion that can care about suffering with sweetness and strength.

Compassion is an easily misunderstood quality, sometimes mistaken for despair or pity. What is true compassion? How do we open to suffering  and care about it without getting overwhelmed and grief stricken? We will look at and develop compassion from the angles of tenderness, strength, fierceness, and spaciousness.

Sign up

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

To sign up for Exploring the Heart of Compassion-Part 2 (retreat only), please sign up below.

To sign up exclusively for the Friday evening talk, go to "Online/Special Offerings" and choose "Exploring the Heart of Compassion-Part 1 (talk only)". 

To sign up for both the Friday Evening Talk and Saturday Half Day Retreat, go to "Weekend Single Day Retreats" and choose "Exploring the Heart of Compassion (Combo Option)".

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

Practicing the Anapanasati Sutta Online Half Day Retreat - With Jim Austin

Sat 10/10/20 - 9:30am to 1:00pm

Ānāpānasati Sutta: The Buddha's road map for using the

breath as the foundation for practice. 

As practitioners we are introduced to using the breath early on and many of us have been working with the breath for years.  Instructions on working with the breath have been passed down for thousands of years and been greatly influenced by commentaries on the sutta. In this workshop we will look at this sutta with fresh eyes, looking closely at how we might use the actual words of the sutta itself to inform and support our practice as lay practitioners. We will be sitting together and practicing the sixteen basic steps of the instructions outlined in the sutta.

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Delighting in Appreciative Joy (Combo option) - With Rebecca Bradshaw

Fri 12/11/20 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

As we continue our exploration of a strong and gentle heart, we turn our attention to a quality that is to the source of great strength and happiness, the heart that takes delight in the happiness and success of others and in the beauty and joy in this world. While we live in a world of immense suffering, happiness beauty and joy are also part of this reality. Consciously developing this kind of appreciation helps us know how to refresh the heart and not drown in all the suffering.  We will explore what impedes appreciative joy and what supports its development and flourishing.

Sign up

This is the combo option which includes both Friday and Saturday's offerings.  On Friday evening Rebecca offers, "Delighting in Appreciative Joy" from 7-8:30pm.  Rebecca will lead a sitting followed by a talk and discussion regarding this topic.

The half day retreat begins on Saturday morning from 9am-12:30pm

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

Delighting in Appreciative Joy (Online retreat only) - With Rebecca Bradshaw

Sat 12/12/20 - 9:00am to 12:30pm

As we continue our exploration of a strong and gentle heart, we turn our attention to a quality that is to the source of great strength and happiness, the heart that takes delight in the happiness and success of others and in the beauty and joy in this world. While we live in a world of immense suffering, happiness beauty and joy are also part of this reality. Consciously developing this kind of appreciation helps us know how to refresh the heart and not drown in all the suffering.  We will explore what impedes appreciative joy and what supports its development and flourishing.

Sign up

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

To sign up for "Delighting in Appreciative Joy (retreat only)", please sign up below.

To sign up exclusively for the Friday evening talk, go to "Online/Special Offerings" and choose "Delighting in Appreciative Joy (talk only)". 

To sign up for both the Friday Evening Talk and Saturday Half Day Retreat, go to "Weekend Single Day Retreats" and choose "Delighting in Appreciative Joy (Combo Option)".

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