Margaret Austin Retreat Center
Weekend Retreat in Texas
Margaret Austin Retreat Center 6650 County Road 117, Chappell Hill, TX, United StatesPath of Wisdom and Awakening An Insight Meditation Retreat with Shaila Catherine November 13-17, 2019 Led by 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 [...]
Annual New Year’s Retreat in Texas with Shaila Catherine
Margaret Austin Retreat Center 6650 County Road 117, Chappell Hill, TX, United StatesEnergy, Effort, and Ease An Insight Meditation retreat led by Shaila Catherine December 27, 2018 to January 1, 2019 This insight retreat will emphasize skills for developing Right Effort to support mindfulness, concentration, and insight. By learning to use our energies wisely, we can set down the burden of competitive striving, infuse our activities with [...]
Annual New Year’s Retreat in Texas with Shaila Catherine Dec 27 – Jan 1
Margaret Austin Retreat Center 6650 County Road 117, Chappell Hill, TX, United StatesDecember 27, 2017 - January 1, 2018 Retreat Theme: Strategies for Overcoming Distracting Thoughts Mental restlessness is an insidious and pervasive hindrance that all practitioners struggle to overcome. We can refine our skills for working with the modes of thinking that distract us from being mindful: critical thoughts, planning, worrying, lustful thoughts, judging, memories, internal [...]
Annual New Year’s Retreat in Texas with Shaila Catherine
Margaret Austin Retreat Center 6650 County Road 117, Chappell Hill, TX, United StatesDec. 27, 2016 - Jan. 1, 2017. Shaila Catherine will be leading an insight meditation residential retreat at the Margaret Austin Center in Texas. It is mid-way between Austin and Houston. Registration will open Nov. 7, 2016. For details visit the Mariposa Sangha website at: https://mariposasangha.org/residential-retreats/
Retreat: New Year’s in Texas
Margaret Austin Retreat Center 6650 County Road 117, Chappell Hill, TX, United StatesA 6 night retreat with Shaila Catherine Mindful Investigation Although meditation is renowned for promoting tranquility and mental calmness, meditation is not passive. Investigative methods play a vital role in the skillful development of liberating insight. Specific instructions for examining the mind feature prominently in the core teachings of Satipatthana, and many early Buddhist discourses. [...]
New Year’s Retreat–Texas
Margaret Austin Retreat Center 6650 County Road 117, Chappell Hill, TX, United StatesTwo options for attendance: Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014 - Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015. or Partial attendance December 27, 2014 - January 1, 2015. The theme of this silent New Year's holiday retreat is the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). Many practitioners consider the Satipatthana Sutta to be among the most important and practical teachings [...]