This retreat is hosted by Big Bear Retreat Center, not InsightLA.
For any questions or support for registering or preparing for this retreat, contact guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org.
For more details and to register for this retreat, visit the Big Bear Retreat Center’s website: Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
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This in-person retreat is open to all genders. Basic experience in meditation is required.
Registration for this retreat closes on June 16, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org.
Working with the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, we will explore how we create entanglements and therefore can free ourselves from these recurring patterns. Turning towards these tangles with kindness and understanding allows the metabolizing and releasing of old habits.
As we practice in this way, based on the Buddha’s wisdom, we develop increased clarity and confidence in meeting the challenges of daily life, thereby finding greater spaciousness and well-being.
The retreat is offered in keeping with the 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastic tradition. Providing the experience of “five days in the monastic life” this retreat has some qualities not usually found on other retreats such as chanting and simple ritual, as well as an option to keep the Eight Precepts (which includes not taking solid food between midday and the following dawn).
The retreat includes Dharma reflections, guided meditations, silent sitting and walking meditation, group practice discussions with the teachers, and Q&A and is held in Noble Silence except for teacher-led group practice discussions and Q&A.
