Melbourne Insight Meditation
About
Melbourne Insight Meditation (MIM) is a community of meditators practicing in the tradition of Insight (Vipassana) Meditation. We aim to support each other and develop our practice. We offer weekly guided meditation sits on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and meditation retreats and workshops throughout the year. We welcome beginners or experienced meditators to join us. Acknowledgement of Country Melbourne Insight Meditation acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia. We recognise sovereignty was never ceded and the continuing connection of indigenous peoples to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to Indigenous people, their cultures, and to elders past, present and emerging. |
MONDAY NIGHTSIn-person at The Learning Centre, Ceres Environment Park, Roberts Street, East Brunswick. Please note we are no longer able to offer Monday night online
Our sits run from 7.30pm-9.00pm You can book your face-to-face spot here VISITING TEACHERS 1st August 2022 - MIM Facilitators 8th August 2022 - Robyn Gibson 15th August 2022 - MIM Facilitators Teachers offer guidance and dharma talks on the principle of dana. They are not paid by MIM. Dana is an ancient Pali word meaning "generosity", "giving" or "gift." You are free to give any amount dependent on your financial situation. See our Visiting Teachers page for more information. Mindful Yoga on Monday with MIM facilitator Amanda Hawkey will be offered by dana at 6pm before the Monday night sit. Contact Amanda for the details via amandahawkey@mac.com More information melbourneinsightmeditation@gmail.com Please note: meditation is contraindicated and can be harmful for people with Complex Trauma, PTSD. Substance Dependence or Psychosis. If in doubt, please seek advice from a psychologist or psychiatrist |
TUESDAY NIGHTSOnline and in-person at Stanley Ave Studio - 61 Stanley Ave, Mt Waverley Vic 3149.
Our sits run from 7.30pm-8.45pm You can book your face-to-face spot here (no f2f available until 23 August) You can book your online spot here LEAD FACILITATOR Co-founder and president of MIM, HARTMUT VEIT is also the owner of the studio and host/lead facilitator for the sits on Tuesdays. A regular Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class on Tuesday evening at Stanley Ave Studio will be offered at 6:15- 7:15pm before the Tuesday night sit. Contact Hart for details: hart@stanleyavestudio.com.au WEDNESDAY NIGHTS We will be back in-person at the Buddhist Society of Victoria, Darling Street, East Malvern, from 22nd June. Unfortunately we can no longer offer the Wednesday sit online. Our sits run from 7.30pm-9pm You can book your face-to-face spot here. VISITING TEACHERS Wednesday, 3rd August - Christine Thompson Wednesday, 10th August - MIM Facilitators Wednesday, 17th August - MIM Facilitators Teachers offer guidance and dharma talks on the principle of dana. They are not paid by MIM. Dana is an ancient Pali word meaning "generosity", "giving" or "gift." You are free to give any amount dependent on your financial situation. See our Visiting Teachers page for more information. More information melbourneinsightmeditation@gmail.com Retreat Scholarship Fund
Interested in donating to the Retreat Scholarship Fund? Please email us. While we run our retreats on a tight budget (costs cover accommodation, food, teachers' travel costs and administration only), we do offer a supported place for each retreat. Please contact us if you are in genuine financial hardship, and wish to discuss this option. Email: insightretreats@hotmail.com Donate to MIM MIM is a not for profit organisation and welcomes donations to support the continuation of the organisation. Donate via paypal or bank transfer Melbourne Insight Meditation Group BSB: 313-140 Account no: 12207815 |
AUGUST Two Streams: Urban Day Retreat with Jess Huon & Panel Talk at Night 10.30am - 4.30pm & 6.30pm - 8.00pm, Sunday 28th August 2022, Abbotsford Convent & Online ‘Integral practice is a patient, all-encompassing, vital and sinewy affair. . .' - Auribindo Buddhist practice offers us a generous view – that ultimately we need not be defined by our personal suffering. This gives us a ‘seat in freedom’, no matter how brilliant or messed up we believe ourselves to be. However an embodied meditation practice that fosters ‘flashes of freedom’ also begins to shine light on stunted areas of development in our psyche. Some meditators can bypass or downplay this uncomfortable material – yet many are knocking on therapists’ doors to engage in this personal work. On this day of practice and inquiry, Jess will draw on her twenty years of meditation practice and her own psychotherapeutic process. She will put forward her insight into how these two tracks to growth can work hand in hand, as we walk and sometimes stumble towards a ‘cohesive whole’. She will explore what it is to work across these domains –and where we might fall short if we don’t. About the Evening Panel Talk An evening panel conversation framed within shared silence to look at the rich, edgier and sometimes less spoken of aspects of our meditation practice. This communal inquiry between Jess, students and guest speakers will draw on our collective richness and wisdom. In this session we will explore psychological terrain and how this relates to our meditation practice. You are invited to bring the rawness and edges of your practice into the light of communal conversation. Let’s gather insight together. Come along, alone or with friends and partners - all welcome. Download Flyer Venue Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford, 3067 Bookings In-person Retreat & Panel Talk: $75 + dana for Jess's teaching In-person Retreat Only: $60 + dana for Jess's teaching Evening Panel Talk Only: $30 + dana for Jess's teaching Online Retreat & Panel Talk: $35 + dana for Jess's teaching Supported Place Our Supported Place Fund is able to give people experiencing financial hardship a 30% discount. Please contact Emma on the email below to apply Enquiries insightretreats@hotmail.com 4-Day Residential Retreat with Anton Eastick Wednesday 31st August - Sunday 4th Sept 2022, Kallara Conference Centre, Strathbogie Ranges During the Covid lockdowns, we all gorged on online teachings and as we know, at some point this mass of information all becomes very dissatisfying. Listening to someone else’s truth will never set us free and the peril lies in believing too much of what you hear and developing untested opinions. When you listen to a teaching, you may like or dislike what you hear but still don’t know the truth. Another person’s words will never set us free. True wisdom is not a matter of faith in a doctrine, but rather come from testing that teaching out to see the truth for ourselves. This is what practice is all about and this is what refreshes our deepest being. The true dharma is not something that can be communicated with words. You take the teachings, reflect on them, feel into them and digest them until it’s a sure thing and really seen for yourself. “The Dhamma that comes from the heart, flows like water from a spring that never runs dry. But the knowledge that comes from memory is like rainwater in a jar. Once the rainy season is over, it soon comes to an end.” Ajahn Chah This Insight Meditation retreat will have daily instructions, talks, guided meditations, a yoga period and 1-1 time with the teacher as needed. All are welcome. Venue Kallara Conference Centre, Boho South, Strathbogie Ranges, VIC Cost (all accommodation is in single rooms) $590 + dana for Anton's teaching Bookings & Enquiries www.antoneastick.com.au Click here to check out the rest of our 2022 events and retreats |
