ONLINE RETREAT: Awakening Factors
OnlineNourishing Seven Factors of Awakening A Weekend ONLINE AT-HOME Meditation Retreat with Shaila Catherine January 13 – 15, 2023 This at-home online weekend retreat will nourish seven qualities that prepare the mind for awakening: mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity. These Seven Awakening Factors mature into a bright, balanced, and peaceful mind that is [...]
Florida: Retreat. Path of Awakening
February 3 – 10, 2023 Orlando, Florida The Path Of Awakening: Cultivating Concentration and Insight This silent Insight Meditation retreat will provide instructions for developing mindfulness, concentration, and insight. The meditation practices will be directed toward nurturing mindfulness of body and mind, enjoying clarity of consciousness, understanding our habitual patterns, inclining toward peace, and recognizing [...]
Retreat in California: Body, Impermanence, and Death
Redwood Glen Retreat Center 100 Wright Drive, Loma Mar, CALiberating Meditations on the Body, Impermanence, and Death A 10-day meditation retreat with Shaila Catherine Tuesday, May 9 – Friday May 19, 2023 at Redwood Glen, 100 Wright Drive, Loma Mar, CA 94021 “Mindfulness of death, when developed and cultivated, is of great fruit and benefit, culminating in the deathless, having the deathless as its consummation.” [...]
Retreat in Michigan: Loving Kindness, Concentration, & Jhana Factors
Colombiere Conference and Retreat 9075 Big Lake Road, Clarkston, MICultivating Loving Kindness, Concentration, and the Jhana Factors with Shaila Catherine Tuesday, August 22, 2023 – Thursday, August 31, 2023 Partial attendance can be arranged for the first 3 nights. LOVING KINDNESS (mettā) is a profound quality of friendliness toward all of life. Mettā meditation cultivates a heartful wish that all beings be happy, beginning [...]
Retreat in Georgia: Concentration, Jhana, and the Breath
Calvin Center 13550 Woolsey Road, Hampton, GAConcentration, Jhana, and the Breath A 10-day meditation retreat with Shaila Catherine Monday, October 23 – Thursday November 2, 2023 at Calvin Center, 13550 Woolsey Road, Hampton, GA 30228 (near Atlanta, GA) The retreat begins with registration from 2:30 – 4:00 pm on Monday, October 23. The retreat ends with lunch on Thursday, November 2. Partial [...]
ONLINE RETREAT: Stages of Insight
OnlineStages of Insight A Weekend ONLINE AT-HOME Meditation Retreat with Shaila Catherine November 10 – 12, 2023 This at-home online weekend retreat will explore the traditional map of Buddhist insight meditation practice known as the Sixteen Insight Knowledges. We will see how contemplating experience as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self develops through a series of knowledges [...]