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Teacher: Dana DePalma
June
Retreat | On-Land
June 7 - June 14, 2024 | Friday - Friday | 7 nights
Insight, Awareness, and the Nine Bodies of Consciousness
This retreat offers a new style of Insight Meditation that employs the “Nine Bodies of Consciousness” map. The focus of this practice is on developing mindfulness of the felt sense of embodied experience, and directly experiencing the various capacities of consciousness, including intuitive awareness, which fosters the natural arising of insight. This distinct teaching style will be unfamiliar to first-time “Nine Bodies Insight” practitioners, and potential participants are strongly encouraged to listen to guided meditations beforehand.
Retreat | Online
June 28 - June 30, 2024 | 1 half day and 2 full days. Times variable - see details.
Restructuring Your Life: Making Inner and Outer Changes that Align with Who You Are Now
In life, restructuring becomes essential when your current framework no longer serves you. Are you spending too much time on things that aren’t a priority anymore or living your life according to an old story? This mindfulness-based workshop interweaves guided meditations with practical teachings. You’ll complete self-assessments that support you in catching up with yourself, and we will focus on mindfulness practices that can help you stay true to what’s most important and reorient you when you get off track.
August
Retreat | On-Land
August 11 - August 18, 2024 | Sunday - Sunday | 7 nights
The Elements: Cultivating an Embodied Experience of Emptiness and Fullness
A fundamental aspect of establishing embodied mindfulness involves contemplations of the elements—earth, water, fire, air, and space. These five elements are universal, and when we contemplate them in relation to the body, they may bring a cooling of the grasping mind and profound realizations of emptiness and fullness. In contemplating the elements and their interrelationship, we will allow them to support the non-conceptual knowing from which insights naturally arise. This retreat includes guided and silent meditations, movement, and teacher meetings.
October
Retreat | On-Land
October 1 - October 10, 2024 | Tuesday - Thursday | 9 nights
Naturally Arising Samādhi [Concentration]
This retreat develops concentration through specific meditative practices that utilize the mind’s natural capacity to become collected and unified. Our focus will be on developing concentration; exploring the experience of a concentrated and contented mind as a natural, mysterious, and beneficial phenomena; and utilizing concentration during Insight practice. The primary teaching method will be two daily guided 45-60 minute meditations, and participants are strongly encouraged to listen to guided meditations ahead of time to experience this style of practice.