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We reserve the right to cancel a class or special event due to low enrollment or other circumstances which would make the event non-viable. If InsightLA cancels an event you’ve registered for, you will be offered a full refund. If an event has to be postponed for any reason, you will have the option to either receive a full refund or transfer your registration to the same event at the new, future date. If you cancel, we apply a 5% credit processing fee and the refunded amounts are listed below:

MBSR, MSC, & MBHC, Mindfulness for Beginners & Special Events

7 days – 95% Refund
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>7 days – 95% Refund
<7 days – No Refunds – Credit given if requested or donation to InsightLA

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> 8 weeks – amount paid less $100
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $175
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $300
< 2 weeks – No refund

Residential Retreats with Financial Support:

> 8 weeks – amount paid less $75
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $100
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $200
< 2 weeks – No refund

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  • Experience Levels All
  • Date/Time Saturday, January 16, 2021
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM PT

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“When we are undistracted and completely resting, this is our true nature. That’s both simple and profound.”
— Dza Kilung Rinpoche

Relaxation can restore us from the depleting shocks of this challenging historic moment. The intention of this retreat is to allow the body and mind more time to come into balance naturally, so that we can continue to engage in the meaningful work of transforming our communities.

Let’s come together, then, and support one another to take one day for restoring our deeper connection with being.  Instructions will be drawn from teachings of Dza Kilung Rinpoche, a Tibetan meditation master, encouraging us to open the heart of awareness while remaining as relaxed, inclusive, and natural as possible.

The day will open with an intention – that we practice for the sake of all beings.  Within this frame, we will invite our bodies to relax, and simply breathe.  Later, we will encourage our hearts and minds to include all experiences.  Hardships and joys can be embraced from openness and love. A deep recognition of the genuine goodness of our own hearts, the hearts of other beings, and the goodness that exists in life itself can become the basis for simply allowing life to unfurl in our experience.  

As our bodies let go with awareness, long standing habits of tension can release.  Heart and mind may discover that obsessive thoughts and afflictive emotions can loosen more effectively within a spacious, accepting attitude  than when we rush in to focus, fix, or stabilize.   

A spacious schedule will be offered.  There will be a sequence of short guided practices on Zoom, alternating with times for movement or walking.  During the ‘breaks’ there will be instructions and encouragement to carry the relaxation into daily activities.   Short Dharma talks, a lunch break, and a chance to share questions and comments will round out the retreat.  

Beth Sternlieb Teacher

Beth is a Spirit Rock and Insight Mediation Society retreat teacher. She teaches the Dedicated to Dharma program at InsightLA and The Morning Community Sit. You can drop in through InsightLA.org and meet her there Monday – Friday mornings. Beth’s Teachers are Dza Kilung Rinpoche and Joseph Goldstein. Beth has been a co-investigator on several... Read more

Kate Lila Wheeler Dharma Council

Kate Lila Wheeler, who lives in Boston, has been meditating since 1977 and brings an amazing life journey to her teaching. She grew up in South America, was ordained as a nun in Burma by her teacher U Pandita, became U Pandita’s editor and an award winning writer herself, and has received Dzogchen transmission as... Read more

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Financial Support

Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support members of marginalized groups (people of color, queer people, people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible).

These spots are offered on a first come, first served basis. Please pay at the highest level you can afford. In order for this support to be available, we rely on those who can afford to pay the full price to do so.

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