Co-Teacher:

Alexis Santos

Alexis has practiced insight meditation since 2001, including training as a Buddhist monk in Burma with Sayadaw U Tejaniya. He brings a practical, intuitive and compassionate approach to the development of wisdom. Teaching retreats in the US and internationally, he offers daily life practice support online at his website livingdharma.io.

For more information, please check the organizer website. Thank you!

Co-Teacher:

Bonnie Duran

Bonnie Duran, DrPH, began Buddhist meditation practice 35 years ago. She enjoys teaching Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioners Program, short and long retreats, and holds a People of Color and Allies Sangha in Seattle, WA. She also directs the University of Washington’s Center for Indigenous Health Research.

Registrations open during Fall 2019. Contact the organizer about registering.

Il est essentiel pour notre santé physique, mentale, sociale et spirituelle de prendre parfois un moment pour nous retirer et ralentir un peu. Marquer un temps d’arrêt dans notre vie peut être agréable et sert à nous revitaliser à tous les niveaux; c’est donc un cadeau que nous nous offrons, et que nous offrons aussi à ceux qui nous entourent.

Nous profiterons de cette « pause-santé » pour pacifier et unifier l’esprit afin de prendre conscience de la fugacité et de la fragilité de cette vie précieuse qui nous est donnée. Calmer le mental, ouvrir le cœur, et inviter en nous la sagesse : voilà ce qui est au menu de ce week-end de méditation silencieuse en nature!

Cette retraite est enseignée en français.

**** Cette retraite est réservée aux participants inscrits au programme ****

Nouveau programme de 2^e cycle sur la présence attentive, offert par l’UQAM et s’adressant aux professionnels de l’éducation et de la relation d’aide.

Co-Teachers: Joseph Goldstein, Kamala Masters, Rachel Lewis, Tuere Sala.

The emphasis during this retreat will be on the continuity of awareness in all activities, which stabilizes and balances the mind. Relaxed acceptance of our moment-to-moment experience becomes the platform for investigation and wisdom. Particular attention will be paid to the attitudes in the mind that condition our understanding. This retreat is suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators. We welcome people from all life experiences, backgrounds and diverse communities.

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Co-Teacher: Tempel Smith

Tempel Smith teaches Mindfulness, Insight and Metta meditation with an emphasis on Buddhist psychology and mind-body awareness. He spent a year as a monk in Myanmar with Ven. Sayadaw U Pandita and Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw, and now organizes the Dedicate Practitioner Program (DPP) for Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

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What does it mean to be present, connected and awake? How do we experience true freedom of body, heart and mind? This silent weekend retreat, open to all, is an opportunity to unplug and explore these questions through Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practices. Guidance in vipassana (insight) and metta(lovingkindness) meditation will be offered, encouraging greater awareness, calm abiding and openheartedness. We will practice mindfulness in sitting meditation, walking meditation, and even while eating. Through these ancient practices, still relevant for modern times, compassion and wisdom deepen, and our innate freedom is revealed.

Co-Teacher: Anushka Fernandopulle

We’ll create a space of ease and support for LGBTQAI+ people to cultivate mindfulness, kindness and wisdom through insight meditation. Sharing silence and meditative space with community allows us to make greater peace with ourselves and our lives, one moment at a time. While listening to the teachings of wisdom and compassion and mindfully sitting, walking, eating and resting, liberating insights arise, and clarity and freedom are gained. We can learn to find an ever-deepening sense of well-being, touching joy and fostering the heart’s release. We practice in this way both for our own benefit and for the benefit of others.

This retreat is open to both experienced and beginner meditators who self-identify as queer, questioning, trans, bisexual, lesbian, gay, agender, intersex or two-spirit.

Co-Teachers:

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This retreat will include periods of silence and discussion, in which we will explore the links and differences between the Dharma (Buddhist teachings and meditation techniques) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

Co-teacher:  Patricia Rockman, MD CCFP FCFP

Patricia  is a physician with a focused practice in mental health. She is the co-founder and director of education and clinical services at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies (CMS) in Toronto. She is also an associate professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Family and Community Medicine cross appointed to Psychiatry. Patricia Rockman developed the MBCT Facilitation Certificate Program at CMS as well as numerous other workshops. She teaches locally, nationally and internationally in the area of mindfulness based programs (MBSR, MBCT, Inquiry). She is a mentor for both MBCT and MBSR trainees. Inquiry as it relates to practice is a passion. She is a co-author with Susan Woods and Evan Collins of a book to be released in 2019 by New Harbinger on teaching MBCT that emphasizes teaching as a practice in which inquiry is essential. She is also a trained Yoga teacher and has been teaching on stress, mindfulness, change management and other mental health issues for over thirty-five years.