(Hybrid: In-person) Compassion In The Canyon - InsightLA Meditation

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Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD Teacher

Wendy Schmelzer, LCSW Teacher

Location Benedict Canyon Retreat House
Experience Levels All
This class is a donation based class. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Date/Time Sunday, February 23, 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM PT
Next Available Date

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This event is the in-person version of a hybrid retreat which will take place both in-person and online. To register for the online version of this event, click here.

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A half-day retreat to re-connect with your heart

So many things may feel overwhelming right now — the fires here in LA, contending with heartache or illness — or simply worrying about someone else in pain.
If you feel a bit numb and disconnected because it’s all seems just too much, and you long for some softness in a safe environment, then this half-day of practice is for you.

Discover how mindfulness and compassion practices can help you meet your crowd of sorrows with more kindness, more equanimity.

Join with friends amidst the wild and rustic beauty of InsightLA’s Benedict Canyon Retreat House for three soul-soothing hours.

Reparative. Restorative. Healing.

Sunday, February 23rd, 2025. 10am to 1pm at InsightLA’s Benedict Canyon Retreat House. And bring a brown bag lunch for a communal meal following the program.

Love,
Christiane and Wendy

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD Teacher

Berlin to Los Angeles to InsightLA I started my professional life as a Gynecologist at the University Hospital in Berlin, Germany. I had fallen in love with the universality of the Buddhist teachings as a searching teenager and it surely helped me stay sane through medical school and residency. In 2003 my husband, baby daughter... Read more

Wendy Schmelzer, LCSW Teacher

Wendy Schmelzer has been teaching meditation in health and healing environments since 2006 — most recently as an instructor at the Greater Los Angeles VA where for five years she taught mindfulness and compassion practices to staff, veterans, and family caregivers as part of InsightLA’s VA CALM team. A longtime meditator, she is a graduate... Read more

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