Can the qualities of friendliness, care, courage, joy and balance create the right conditions for the deepening of wisdom? Or are they simply beautiful expressions of it? Or both? While silently sitting and walking with meditative presence, and with guidance from the teachers, we can open more fully to the life both around us and inside of us. Through the quality of this connection, we can discover for ourselves how living with a sense of fullness and engagement might be possible. This retreat is open to all.

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.

Assisted by:

Roxanne Dault

A dedicated student and practitioner of Insight Meditation for the last 10 years, Roxanne has completed nearly 350 days of silent residential retreats in Asia and in the USA, including a 3-month retreat at the Insight Meditation Society. She recently completed a 2-year meditation teacher mentorship program with Daryl Lynn Ross and Pascal Auclair of True North Insight in Montreal. She has also completed a 2-year intensive Buddhist study and practice program with TNI, and MBSR training with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn.

La méditation Vipassana permet à la conscience de se fortifier pour savoir accueillir, en vérité et avec amour, les différentes expériences de la vie. Comment pouvons-nous rester présents et ouverts même lorsque nous nous sentons menaçés ou irrités ? Lorsque la Pleine Conscience nous accompagne dans nos actes quotidiens, nos habitudes réactives n’ont plus l’espace d’exprimer ce qui est non bénéfique. Le silence intérieur s’installe tout naturellement, ainsi que l’accueil généreux à l’autre et à la vie.

Pour plus d’informations, consulter le site de l’organisateur. Merci!

“Les 7 facteurs de l’éveil ou la douce puissance de la Pleine Conscience”

Au cours de cette retraite silencieuse, de cet atelier intensif de méditation, ensemble, nous verrons comment la présence attentive peut mener graduellement vers la sagesse en faisant naître, tour à tour, les qualités intérieures essentielles à une compréhension profonde de la nature humaine: l’investigation, l’énergie, la joie, la tranquillité, la concentration et l’équanimité. Nous porterons un regard calme et curieux sur notre coeur et ses contractions, sur notre esprit et sa confusion, et nous serons menés, pas à pas, vers une clarté apaisante où compassion et joie cohabiteront. En cultivant ces attitudes, une grande tendresse pour notre humanité belle et imparfaite, troublante et précieuse, apparaitra; elle sera ressentie comme libératrice. 

Chacun·e est la·le bienvenu·e dans cet espace silencieux et amical, que la pratique de la méditation nous soit familière ou non, que la solitude en communauté soit une expérience connue ou non. 

Pour plus d’informations, consulter le site de l’organisateur. Merci!

Co-Teacher: Heather Martin

Heather Martin has been meditating for 40 years, in various traditions. Theravada has been her main practice since 1981, when she trained in the style of SN Goenka, for 8 years.  She has practiced Tibetan Dzogchen with Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Vipassana with Burmese Sayadaw U Tejaniya, and more recently the early Foundations of Mindfulness with scholar-monk Bikkhu Analayo.

She has been teaching retreats in North America since 2001, in Canada and the West Coast of the United States.  She guides the Salt Spring Island Vipassana Community, where she has lived for 37 years.

She is a retired midwife and childbirth educator.

Heather emphasizes the practical application of these perennially brilliant teachings, with warm-heartedness, clarity and accessibility.

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

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-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.

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

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.