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Events and Retreats - 2022
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 and speak to our Retreats Manager before booking your place. COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Update Monday 3 January 2022: 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 vaccination, physical distancing, mask wearing, and hygiene practices. We will be offering both online and face-to-face retreats in 2022 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. JUNE
14-Day Residential Retreat with Patrick Kearney (9 day option available) Friday 3rd June - Friday 17th June 2022, Kallara Conference Centre, Strathbogie Ranges In this retreat we will practice mindfulness and explore its application to the discovery of insight. For the Buddha, “insight” means seeing into the three universal characteristics of impermanence or change (anicca), pain or dis-ease (dukkha) and not-self (anattā). These characteristics reveal a world entirely different from the one we have taken for granted as “real” or “normal.” In this new world we discover what the Buddha calls Dharma, the way life actually flows, and learn to live flourishing lives that benefit both us and those around us. Patrick has been practising Buddhist meditation since 1976 and teaching full-time since 2000. He teaches in the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. His principal teachers have been Panditarama Sayadaw and John Hale. He has also practised Zen, in the Diamond Sangha lineage. His principal teachers have been Robert Aitken Roshi and Paul Maloney Roshi. Patrick’s approach to meditation is enlivened by his focus on the original teachings of the Buddha – Buddhism before the divisions between Theravada and Mahayana 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 https://patrickkearney.net Important Retreat Information to read before booking Venue Kallara Conference Centre, Boho South, Strathbogie Ranges, VIC Cost (all accommodation is in single rooms) 14 Days: $1575 + dana for Patrick's teaching 9 Days: $1012 + dana for Patrick's teaching Bookings 14 Days: waiting list only, please email Emma on the address below. 9 Days: waiting list only, please email Emma on the address below. Enquiries Emma - insightretreats@hotmail.com "Open Sky Dharma Circle" - A Half Day Women's Circle with Robyn Gibson & Angela McGee Sunday 19th June, 1:30pm - 4:30pm, In-Person, Armadale Insight teachers Angela McGee and Robyn Gibson lead and support these monthly, half day retreats, held in noble silence. The afternoons include: * Guided seated meditations * Walking meditation * Dharma inquiry - investigating how practice is supporting your life * Dharma talks by the teachers * Guided heart practices This regular Women's Circle aims to foster a community of fellow beginner and experienced meditators to share meditation practice together, strengthen your home practice, offer each other support and connection and welcome sharing and dharma wisdom in a safe practice space. Now, more than ever, we need somewhere to step into quietude, seek refuge together and find solace in dharma practice. Now, more than ever, the dharma can offer us liberating tools to navigate the unpredictable terrain of this human life. If you identify as a woman and you’re looking for an afternoon of support, practice and enquiry, join us. Venue 24 Beatty Ave Armadale, 3143 Cost $20 + dana for Angela & Robyn's teaching Bookings Book your place here Enquiries insightretreats@hotmail.com "The Body's Intelligence": Weekend Retreat with Jess Huon 10am - 4.30pm, Saturday 25th June - Sunday 26th June 2022, Abbotsford Convent "If we don’t know what the teachings say, it can be sometimes easy to fall back upon our preconceptions and patterns of habitual thought, which have gotten us into trouble in the first place." Reggie Ray During this day of practice together we’ll return to key teachings that aid us in forging a clearing - where fresh insight can arise - through the thickets of our inner lives. In the Insight tradition, within the 4 foundations of mindfulness, the body is placed at the centre of our practice. We’ll be exploring staying in the body in a way that helps us cut through the mind’s habitual stories and elaborations. These can wind us up, spin into over-thinking or hurl us down painful thought patterns. Sensation unchecked will throw us into the mind. The body is the anchor to what’s happening in the ‘here and now’. We will experientially explore settling ‘into the body,’ and meeting our experience, in a way that allows for movement rather than stagnation. Venue Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford, 3067 Cost $110 + dana for Jess's teaching Bookings Book your place here Enquiries insightretreats@hotmail.com AUGUST
One Day Retreat with Jess Huon 10.30am - 4.30pm, Sunday 28th August 2022, Abbotsford Convent Bookings opening in June OCTOBER One Day Retreat with Anton Eastick 10.30am - 4.30pm, Sunday 9th October 2022, Bargoonga Nganijin North Fitzroy Library & Online Bookings opening in August 7-Day Residential Retreat with Carol Perry and Angela McGee Friday 14th October - Friday 21st October 2022, Kallara Conference Centre, Strathbogie Ranges Bookings opening in July "Practice & Artistry": Urban Day Retreat with Jess Huon & Panel Talk in the Evening 10am - 4.30pm, Saturday 29th October 2022, Abbotsford Convent ‘Underneath it all, we are wild and we know it’ - Reggie Ray Meditative practice is a training that asks us to arrest habitual movement of mind, and abide in an internal space where we are not jammed up against our ‘self’. This leaves room for a different kind of ‘knowing’ to arise. Whilst falling into depth loosens an isolated sense of ‘self’, this open space also shoots up wild arrays of distinct feelings, images and phrases - particular to our own nature. We can be instructed to not give this attention, to allow it to move on through, yet sometimes this creative material wants to leap out. What do we allow to roll by like unclaimed baggage and what do we pick up and handle? What makes us know, as artist Harry Dodge describes, when we are on the ‘beam’? How can we trust in our own movement, an inner quickening of congruency, and follow, follow, follow it, even if it doesn’t fit appearances, or seems ‘out of the box’? Bookings opening in August NOVEMBER Eco-Dharma 5-Day Retreat with Robyn Gibson and Rupert Marques Friday 25th November - Wednesday 30th November2022, Kailash Ashram, The Grampians Bookings opening in July "Practice & Sexuality": Urban Day Retreat with Jess Huon & Panel Talk in the Evening 10am - 4.30pm, Saturday 26th November 2022, Abbotsford Convent Working with energies When the going gets tough, or stressful, sadly, the playfulness of eros can clamp down. At some point, in an embodied mediation practice, sexual energy arises. Its resurgence can be a result of dedicated practice and its energy cultivated within the seat of practice. Whilst this energy animates and activates life, it can also be overwhelming, frightening, weird, addictive, and as we know, used in harmful ways. Some spiritual traditions have decided to safeguard against it; to negate it, wipe their hands of it. Yet the French remind us; “what has been denied will come back with a gallop.” This day will be rooted in foundational practices to support us to abide with our own energy in liberating and healing ways - in resonant connection with self, other, and the world. In this, we re-affirm and celebrate eros. We will practice courting the whole gamut of our ever-changing human experience and exploring this particular energy. Bookings opening in August 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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