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May 2020
Concentration, Jhana, and Breath: a 9-night Meditation Retreat in Northern California led by Shaila Catherine Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – Thursday, May 21, 2020. The retreat begins with registration from 2:00 - 3:30 pm on Tuesday, May 12. The retreat ends at 11:30 am on Thursday, May 21. Early arrivals can be arranged for Monday, May 11. [...]
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An Insight Meditation Retreat with Shaila Catherine July 3-12, 2020 This is a 9-night retreat. This silent retreat offers practical instruction in mindfulness, concentration, and insight meditation practice (vipassana). Through developing mindfulness of breath, body, feelings, and mind, meditators will find that habitual judgments, fear, and craving will fall away, and the natural spaciousness of [...]
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An Insight Meditation Retreat with Shaila Catherine and Philip Jones August 7-14, 2020 A week-long retreat near Leavenworth, Kansas This silent retreat offers practical instruction in mindfulness, concentration, and insight meditation practice (vipassana). Through developing mindfulness of breath, body, feelings, and mind, meditators will find that habitual judgments, fear, and craving will fall away, and [...]
Find out moreAn Insight Meditation Retreat with Shaila Catherine August 15-23, 2020 An eight night retreat with Shaila Catherine. This silent retreat offers practical instruction in mindfulness, concentration, and insight meditation practice (vipassana). Through developing mindfulness of breath, body, feelings, and mind, meditators will find that habitual judgments, fear, and craving will fall away, and the natural [...]
Find out moreled by Shaila Catherine Monday, August 31, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020. The retreat begins with registration from 2:00 - 3:30 pm on Monday, August 31. The retreat ends after lunch at 1:00 pm on Thursday, September 10. Partial attendance is possible in some cases, but it must begin on the first day of [...]
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Distraction: Strategies for Overcoming Distracting Thoughts September 29 - October 4, 2020 Mental restlessness is an insidious and pervasive hindrance that most practitioners struggle to overcome. We can refine our skills for working with the modes of thinking that distract us from being mindful and disrupt concentration: critical thoughts, planning, worrying, lustful thoughts, judging, memories, [...]
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Awakening with Insight A week-long Insight Meditation retreat in Tampa, Florida with Shaila Catherine Saturday, December 5 to Saturday, December 12, 2020 The retreat begins with registration at 3:00 pm on Saturday, December 5, and ends with a noon lunch on Saturday, December 12. This silent retreat offers practical instruction in mindfulness, concentration, and insight [...]
Find out moreAn Insight Meditation Retreat with Shaila Catherine Sunday, December 27, 2020 to Saturday, January 2, 2021 This 6-night silent retreat offers practical instruction in mindfulness, concentration, and insight meditation practice (vipassana). Through developing mindfulness of breath, body, feelings, and mind, meditators will find that habitual judgments, fear, and craving will fall away, and the natural [...]
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