Insights with Breathing

Attending to breathing in and out using the Buddha’s original instructions fosters a wide range of insights into the realities of mind-body. With care and curiosity, we explore with these important mind-body processes that are all associated with breathing. While some...

Compassionate Embodied Presence

This 6-day retreat is based on the practices from the Satipatthana – The Four Foundations of Mindfulness. With embodiment as the basis, we will explore our relationship with feeling tone (vedana) and its impact on the heart-mind (citta). The invitation is to slow down...

Meditations on the Elements – The Stuff We Are Made Of

The exploration of the elements through meditation and contemplation, internally (one’s own body) and externally, leads to understanding the body as non-self and impermanent. This practice also leads to seeing inter-dependence of all beings and supports balancing the...

Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

“And what is the path that leads to the unconditioned? The seven awakening factors. …” (SN 43.10) Once when the Buddha was very ill, he asked his attendant to talk to him about the seven factors of awakening (mindfulness, investigation of Dhamma, energy, spiritual...