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2008 & 2009 RETREATS

This is a precious time for mindfulness practice and a rare opportunity to cultivate and deepen wisdom and compassion.

Retreats emphasize continuity of mindfulness and the refinement of precise open awareness.

More Info on retreat schedules and Vipassana

Day Retreats with Sky Dawson

In 2009, Sky Dawson is offering half-day and full-day retreats to help meditators to deepen their practice.

2009 Dates: TBA details coming soon...
Venue: Beaconsfield Yoga Centre, 151 South Street, Beaconsfield.
Contact: Please email to register raysky@optusnet.com.au

2009 Retreats

Fri Mar 20 to Sat Mar 28 2009

Venue: Redemptorist Monastery North Perth

Insight Meditation Retreat



Guy Armstrong

Has practiced insight meditation for over 20 years.

His training includes practice as a Buddhist monk in Thailand with Ajahn Buddhadasa.
He began teaching in 1984 and has led retreats in the US, Europe and Australia.Guy is a guiding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Centre, California.

Sally Clough

Began practicing vipassana meditation in India in 1981.

She spent five years in England, where she managed a retreat center and was a founding member of the Sharpham meditation community.

When she moved to California in 1988, she continued her dharma service at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in a number of roles, including executive director.

Sally began teaching in 1996, and is one of the guiding teachers of Spirit Rock's Dedicated Practitioner Program.

Flyer

Further information: Wendy Francis email 9371 2961; Geetha Mendis 0416153417 email
Booking: The booking form available now.

 

September 25 to October 3 2009

Insight Meditation Retreat

Patrick Kearney

Venue: Jhana Grove Retreat Centre, Serpentine, Western Australia

Register your interest. Details of retreat costs will be posted in early 2009.

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Patrick has nearly 30 years experience in Buddhist meditation, in both the Zen and Theravada traditions. Since 1984 he has trained in Vipassana (insight) meditation in the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma.

His teachers have included Robert Aitken Roshi, Sayadaw U Pandita, Sayadaw U Lakkhana, Sayadaw U Janaka, John Hale and Christopher Titmuss. Patrick is based in the Blue Mountains, and teaches retreats, workshops and classes around Australia.

He teaches both the techniques of meditation and the theory that underlies them and is noted for his ability to make the teachings clear and relevant, as well as for his academic understanding and sense of humour.

Patrick's popular posture and flexibility stretches to help with retreat practice can be Downloaded here.

Patrick has put the whole set of talks - thirty - he gave at the January 2008 retreat in the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre in NSW on his website.

The talks can be heard at: http://dharmasalon.net/page7/page7.php
and they give a fair sense of his style.

2010 Insight Meditation Retreats

May

Sayadaw U Tejaniya began his Buddhist training as a young teenager in Burma under the late Shwe Oo Min Sayadaw (1913–2002). Twelve years ago, following life as a householder with a business career, he ordained as a monk. He teaches meditation at Shwe Oo Min Dhammasukha Tawya in Rangoon, Burma.

Details for this retreat will be posted in 2009.


September Insight Metta (Loving Kindness)Retreat
Kamala Masters began practicing in 1975. Trained by Anagarika Munindra and Sayadaw U Pandita, she offers the dharma in the US and abroad. She is a co-founder and guiding teacher of the Vipassana Metta Foundation on Maui and is currently developing Ho'omalamalama, a sanctuary-hermitage for long-term practice.
Steve Armstrong, a co-founding teacher at the Vipassana Metta Foundation's dhamma sanctuary-hermitage on Maui, encourages development of all good human qualities. He offers a variety of Buddhist mindfulness practices designed to strengthen an unshakeable sense of well-being.

 

 
 

 

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