by staff2080 | Oct 25, 2024
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...
by staff2080 | Oct 25, 2024
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...
by staff2080 | Oct 25, 2024
“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...
by staff2080 | Oct 25, 2024
Awareness is the natural capacity of the mind, it simply recognizes the present moment. During this retreat we will cultivate a wise and relaxed interest in awareness as it recognizes that experience is being known. It is awareness that illuminates the underlying...
by staff2080 | Oct 25, 2024
This retreat is an invitation to let go of the many distractions of the world and fully arrive into our body and breath, with presence and kindfulness. Allowing the turbulence of the mind to settle, we can access the natural wisdom and warm heartedness that are part...