All practitioners welcome! Beth and Celeste have expanded their annual summer Insight retreat to a week in the service of deepening our practice together. This retreat also meets the requirements for participants in Jack Kornfield + Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification program through Sounds True.
Mindfulness is a powerful tool when applied thoughtfully in meditation and in daily life. In the wider scope of the Buddha’s teachings, however, it is just one support for the cultivation of liberation and freedom from suffering, which is found within a larger path known as the noble eightfold path.
In this retreat we’ll dig a little deeper and explore the path factors of wise understanding, wise view, wise speech, wise action, wise livelihood, wise effort, wise mindfulness and wise concentration and what it looks like to cultivate the path of freedom and liberation as a modern-day householder, both in meditation, and off the cushion in daily life.
During this six day online retreat, we will learn to slow down and attune to the fresh simplicity of our present moment experience, rest in stillness, and connect with the heart’s inner capacity for healing and freedom.
Together we will explore some of the supports for presence: letting go of distraction, the deliberate cultivation of simplicity and contentment, and a renewed sense of connection with our own bodies, hearts, and minds in community. By bringing mindful attention to our moment to moment experience, we can learn to cultivate resilience amidst change and grow in awareness, love, and wisdom.
The structure of this online Insight meditation retreat includes two guided meditations with Q&A each day, time for sitting and walking meditation periods in the communal virtual meditation hall, rest, mindful eating instruction, Dharma talks, and small group practice discussion meetings with the teachers. This format offers the dedicated practice time of a residential retreat while encouraging integrating the Dharma into our daily lives.
Schedule (All times are in PT)
The retreat includes 6 full days and 6 nights of practice together. It will start at 9:00am PT on Friday, July 9th and end at 11am PT on Thursday, July 15th.
7 – 7:45 AM | Silent Sitting or Stationary Meditation |
7:45 – 9 AM | Meal Break |
9 – 10:15 AM | Stationary Meditation (Sitting, Reclined) with Instructions, Q&A, Announcements |
10:15 – 10:45 AM | Walking or Movement Meditation or Group Meeting 10:30-11:30am (when assigned) |
10:45 – 11:30 AM | Silent Sitting or Stationary Meditation |
11:30 – 12 PM | Walking or Movement Meditation |
12:00 – 12:30 PM | Silent Sitting Meditation or Group Meeting 12-1pm (when assigned) |
12:30 – 2:30 PM | Meal Break |
2:30 – 3:15 PM | Dharma Talk |
3:15 – 3:45 PM | Walking or Movement Meditation |
3:45 – 4:30 PM | Silent Sitting Meditation or Group Meeting 3:45-4:45pm (when assigned) |
4:30 – 5:15 PM | Walking or Movement Meditation |
5:15 – 6 PM | Brahmavihara Practice |
For MMTCP Students: The MMTCP student attendance and practice participation (with camera on) requirement is at least 5 bolded sessions per day including at least 2 Silent Sitting or Stationary Meditations. Each retreatant will be assigned two Group Meetings for the duration of the retreat – both Group Meetings are required and count towards the 5 sessions per day.