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Events and Retreats - 2021
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Update Friday 29th May 2021: MIM will offer its events online until the current Victorian restrictions are lifted. MIM has implemented a Covid-Safe Plan that is updated regularly to follow the most up-to-date government guidelines and we want to reiterate their guidance around physical distancing, mask wearing, and hygiene practices. We will be offering both online and face-to-face retreats in 2021 in line with our Covid-Safe Plan and government guidelines and where there are further lockdowns we will revert to online only. We are excited to be hosting the following events.* * We publicise the details of our retreats, and take bookings, approximately 3 - 4 months prior to each retreat. Stay in touch with details as they are publicised via our regular e-newsletters (subscribe via this website, top right of each page), this website, and our Facebook page. Please Note: retreats may not be suitable for those who have experienced psychosis or who are currently experiencing PTSD, acute depression or anxiety. If in doubt, please seek advice from a psychologist or psychiatrist and speak to our Retreats Manager before booking your place. JUNE
"Remembering the Present": Online Retreat with Patrick Kearney (3 & 9 day option) Friday 11th June - Sunday 20th June 2021, Online via Zoom This online retreat exploring mindfulness (sati) and its practice (satipaṭṭhāna) will be conducted through Zoom. Guided bodywork will help develop mindfulness immersed in body (kāyagatā sati). Morning practice workshops and evening dharma talks will integrate practical and theoretical understanding of the practice. The online format will allow us to directly apply our practice to our ordinary, everyday lives. Patrick has been practising Buddhist meditation since 1976 and teaching full-time since 2000. He teaches in the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma, having been trained primarily by Paṇḍitārama Sayadaw and John Hale. He has also practised Zen in the Diamond Sangha lineage, where his main teachers have been Robert Aitken Rōshi and Paul Maloney. Patrick’s approach to meditation is enlivened by his focus on the original teachings of the Buddha – Buddhism before the divisions between Theravāda and Mahāyāna were ever thought of. He applies these teachings directly to life in our contemporary world in an accessible, clear and joyful way. For more information about Patrick, visit www.patrickkearney.net Download the flyer How to prepare and set-up for an online retreat Cost 9 Day: $280 + dana for Patrick's teaching 3 Day (11-14 June): $100 + dana for Patrick's teaching Bookings To book for the 9 days click here To book for the 3 days click here Enquiries insightretreats@hotmail.com "Open Sky Dharma" - Women's Dharma Circle with Angela McGee & Robyn Gibson 1.30pm - 4.30pm, Sunday 20th June, 1st August 2021, In-Person in Armadale, Melbourne Angela McGee and Robyn Gibson will lead and support the monthly Open Sky Dharma Circle in an afternoon beginning with a guided meditation, followed by group sharing and investigation into the practice of meditation and how to live an open, unrestricted life in deeper connection with self, others and our natural environment. This regular Circle will foster a community of fellow beginning and experienced meditators to share practice together and investigate our common experience on the path of practice and enquiry. This Circle is for you if you are new to meditation practice and would like guidance on how to practice and ask questions about meditation; or if you are experienced and looking for a safe space to feel more supported in a meditation community, practice meditation together and to enquire more deeply into the Dharma. Venue 24 Beatty Ave Armadale - enter at rear via Kestle Lane. Cost $10 in-person + dana for Angela's & Robyn's teaching Bookings To book click here - June is now fully booked. To go on the waitlist please email Emma on the address below. Enquiries Emma - insightretreats@hotmail.com JULY
"Grounding in the Heart: Overcoming Anxiety through Mindfulness", Half-day workshop with Suzie Brown (In-person and Online options) 1.30pm - 5.00pm, Saturday 10th July, Ceres Environment Park and Online via zoom Anxiety can arise from many sources, both physical and emotional. How we work with this skillfully is the key to feeling safer and happier. Mindfulness is a powerful tool to cultivate the awareness of the thoughts and emotions that fuel our anxiety. Through mindfulness of the body, mind and heart we can form a healthier relationship with the progression of thoughts and emotions that drive the cycle of anxiety. This practical workshop will teach you meditation and mindfulness practices to help calm and defuse generalised anxiety. Suitable for beginners and experienced meditators. Download Flyer Venue The Learning Centre, CERES Environment Park, Lee St & Roberts St, Brunswick East Cost In-Person: $40 + dana for Suzie's teaching Online: $30 + dana for Suzie's teaching Bookings To book for an in-person place click here To book an online place click here Enquiries insightretreats@hotmail.com AUGUST "Meeting the Flow of Life: the power of working with feeling tone". Half-day workshop with Robyn Gibson (In-person and Online options) 1.30pm - 5.00pm, Saturday 14th August 2021, Ceres Environment Park “Wisdom knows what feelings are present without being lost in them.” – Jack Kornfield Every sight, sound, taste, smell, touch and thought has a corresponding pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant (we might say confused) quality – these three primary feeling tones are integral to all human experience. Rather than embracing this though, we spend much of life trying to push painful experience away, pull pleasant experience towards us, and ignore neutral experience altogether. As a result, we often think we need to somehow ‘fix’ this flow of feelings. However, the Buddha taught that there is nothing personal or unnatural about this flow of feelings, and that if we can attend to, and allow this ever-changing flow, we will learn to respond to it with wisdom, not reactivity. On this half-day retreat, we will explore feeling tone and how, in our resistance, it leads to the habit of ‘push and pull’ – clinging through desire and aversion – and how, in our opening to it, we break the chain that binds us to further suffering. We will utilise sitting and walking meditation, experiential exercises and a talk to bring mindfulness to assist in meeting the flow of experience with ease and greater insight. Venue The Learning Centre, CERES Environment Park, Lee St & Roberts St, Brunswick East Cost In-Person: $40 + dana for Robyn's teaching Online: $30 + dana for Robyn's teaching Bookings To book for an in-person place click here To book an online place click here Enquiries insightretreats@hotmail.com Nourishment in the City: Weekend Retreat with Jess Huon (non-residential) Saturday 28th - Sunday 29th August, Abbotsford Convent & Online via zoom Through meditation, and practicing amongst others, it’s possible to find the inner soup kitchen where all are welcome to the table. Sometimes we think we need to head out of the city to re-fresh, or be nourished. Let’s practice doing it together, right where we are, in the city, (or in your home if you join us online). Settling into our bodies and refining our quality of attention, we’ll allow for a pause in patterns of stress and the ways we might be holding it ‘tightly together'. Together we will look at methods to relate with, and plumb under, the sometimes worked up mind. We will return to foundational teachings, looking at the key ingredients, that help us cook up a good soup of regenerative practice. In-person participants will be provided with dinner on Saturday night and an afternoon tea on Sunday evening. You will need to bring or buy your own lunch on both days. There are cafes very close to the venue. This two-day urban retreat is open to one and all, beginners and experienced practitioners alike. All are welcome. Download Flyer Venue Rosina Auditorium, Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford. Cost In-Person: $165 + dana for Jess's teaching Online: $115 + dana for Jess's teaching Bookings To book for an in-person place click here To book an online place click here Enquiries insightretreats@hotmail.com SEPTEMBER "Open Sky Dharma" - Women's Dharma Circle with Angela McGee & Robyn Gibson 1.30pm - 4.30pm, Sunday 5th September, 3rd October 2021, In-Person in Armadale, Melbourne Angela McGee and Robyn Gibson will lead and support the monthly Open Sky Dharma Circle in an afternoon beginning with a guided meditation, followed by group sharing and investigation into the practice of meditation and how to live an open, unrestricted life in deeper connection with self, others and our natural environment. This regular Circle will foster a community of fellow beginning and experienced meditators to share practice together and investigate our common experience on the path of practice and enquiry. This Circle is for you if you are new to meditation practice and would like guidance on how to practice and ask questions about meditation; or if you are experienced and looking for a safe space to feel more supported in a meditation community, practice meditation together and to enquire more deeply into the Dharma. Venue 24 Beatty Ave Armadale - enter at rear via Kestle Lane. Cost $20 in-person + dana for Angela's & Robyn's teaching Bookings To book click here Enquiries Emma - insightretreats@hotmail.com "Sit, Walk, Move, Breathe, Rest, Listen, Open" - Half-day workshop with Angela McGee 1.30pm - 4.30pm, Saturday 11th September 2021, Ceres Environment Park (in-person only) This experiential afternoon of practice will explore the layers of contraction that restrict our natural capacity for connecting with ourselves, others and the world around us. We will use the tools of insight practice, mindfulness of body, breath, movement, sound, mind states, enquiry and leaning into the wholesome, to connect with our natural aliveness and heartfulness. Download Flyer Venue The Learning Centre, CERES Environment Park, Lee St & Roberts St, Brunswick East Cost $40 + dana for Angela's teaching Bookings To book click here Enquiries Emma - insightretreats@hotmail.com DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - BOOKINGS OPENING SOON Sunday 17th October - Wednesday 20th October, Carol Perry & Angela McGee Annual Retreat at Abbotsford Convent (non-residential) Sunday 21st November, Half Day retreat with Christine Thompson at Ceres Environment Park Saturday 11th December, Urban retreat with Jess Huon at Abbotsford Convent THE MIM SUPPORTED PLACE FUND
Our Supported Place fund assists people living with financial difficulty, and who are unable to meet the full costs of a retreat. The fund is financed by donations from other retreat participants, cancellation fees and any MIM surpluses. A Supported Place is granted via an application process. Currently, a Supported Place attracts a 30% discount off the advertised retreat cost (shared room). One or two supported places are available per retreat. If you are keen to attend an MIM retreat but are unable to financially cover the retreat cost, please email Emma on insightretreats@hotmail.com COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS)
MIM has a Covid Safe Plan for all our face-to-face events in line with guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact us on melbourneinsightmeditation@gmail.com to discuss them. Our dharma practice is very important during this time to acknowledge our feelings, see clearly and take practical steps, whilst also remaining calm. |
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