(In-person) Opening the Heart, Deepening Wisdom - InsightLA Meditation

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Location Big Bear Retreat Center
Experience Levels All
This class is a donation based class. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Date Starts Saturday, June 21, 2025
Ends Thursday, June 26, 2025

5 nights

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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: Opening the Heart, Deepening Wisdom

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This retreat is open to both beginners and experienced practitioners.
Registration for this program closes on June 7, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org.

Dharma practice can unfold as a journey of both opening the heart and deepening wisdom – these two movements are intertwined, each reinforcing the other.

Understanding this, we can sense that at every step of the path there is both heartfulness and freedom. In this retreat, we will explore classical insight practices, highlighting that these are also forms of opening the heart that evoke greater and greater freedom. This silent Insight retreat will include meditation instructions, sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talks and practice discussions with the teachers.

This dharma program is co-sponsored by Big Bear Retreat Center and Insight Retreat Center.

Kim Allen has been practicing Insight meditation since 2003, and has trained intensively in the U.S. and Asia with Western teachers, Theravādan monastics, and masters of other Buddhist traditions. Trained by Gil Fronsdal at the Insight Meditation Center and Insight Retreat Center, she offers Dharma programs, sutta study, and retreats in the U.S., internationally, and online,... Read more

Diana Clark, PhD, is a dedicated dharma teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area, teaching primarily at the Insight Meditation Center and Insight Retreat Center. Her extensive meditation experience includes years of silent retreats at Spirit Rock, IMS, and the Insight Retreat Center, where she received training from esteemed teachers Gil Fronsdal and Andrea... Read more

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