Events and Retreats - 2024
Please Note: meditation can be contraindicated and may 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. 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. MIM Scholarship Fund Our Scholarship 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. We offer 3 supported places for each Retreat. April
'Ocean Mind': Urban Retreat with Jess Huon Sunday 7th April 2024, Augustine Hall, Hawthorn, Victoria Insight practice offers us so much! Key insights mapped in the Dharma can assist us to unlock areas where we might get stuck in the same old loop (the old broken record). These particular insights, written like freedom tattoos in original teachings, help free up and loosen our experience. It takes support to carve out a deeper channel, a sense of spaciousness, to disidentify with repetitive states - to write fresh music. Through embodying these insights, we can learn to move through certain states that might have once tossed us around. There’s the possibility to stay mobilised and flexible in difficult times. Practice becomes our own. We become supported by these ancient maps and reference points. Let's look into this together on a day of practice. This is an intimate process of discovery. Venue Habitat Uniting Church, Augustine Hall, 2 Minona Street, Hawthorn Cost $60 + dana for Jess's teaching Bookings Click here to book Enquiries retreats@melbourneinsightmeditation.org 'Regeneration': 5-night Residential Retreat with Jess Huon Friday 19th April - Wednesday 24th April 2024, Baanya Biami, Victoria Drop an anchor to your depth. Enter regenerative territory. Bring fresh news for yourself. And for your community. Come gather and experience the power cultivated through sustained contemplative practice! Embodied, meditative techniques, both settling and rousing, will be utilised to collect, harness and brighten our attention. These practices also employ intimate and artful ways of seeing, and assist in freeing up our experience. Held in wild nature, generous silence and a supportive practising community, we’ll find courage to traverse beyond known and familiar loops in our minds. Unknown margins can be fertile. Insight and disarming love has the chance to arise. Extending our capacity to feel, we’ll offer fellowship to ourselves and others. Jess’s digestion of this timeless body of work and inquiry, the Buddha-dharma, placed within our current contemporary context, will support our inquiry. Guidance will be given to forge our own pathway and discovery within the range of practices offered. Read this important information about the retreat before booking Venue Baanya Biami, 220 Marshalls Lane, Staughton Vale, Victoria, 3340 Bookings *NEW* Camping (BYO tent): $695 + dana for Jess's teaching - Click here to book 4-Person Shared Room: $755 + dana for Jess's teaching - Click here to book 2-Person Shared Room: $894 + dana for Jess's teaching - Waiting list only (email Katrina on the address below) Single Room: $1100 + dana for Jess's teaching - Waiting list only (email Katrina on the address below) Supported Place (3 places available): $450 + dana for Jess's teaching - email Katrina on the address below Enquiries retreats@melbourneinsightmeditation.org More 2024 Retreats for your diary
Communicating Mindfully with Carol Perry & Angela McGee Saturday & Sunday, 6th & 7th July 2024, Ceres, East Brunswick, Victoria Bookings will open in April Urban Retreat with Jess Huon Sunday 21st July 2024, Abbotsford Convent, Victoria Bookings will open in April 14-Day Silent Retreat with Patrick Kearney & Robyn Gibson (3 & 9 day options available) 16th - 30th August 2024, Pallotti College, Yarra Valley Bookings will open in late March Urban Retreat with Jess Huon Sunday 22nd September 2024, Abbotsford Convent, Victoria Bookings will open in July 'Open Heart, Open Mind': 7-Day Silent Retreat with Carol Perry & Angela McGee 11th - 18th October 2024, Maitripa Centre, Yarra Valley Bookings will open in mid 2024 Urban Retreat with Jess Huon Sunday 24th November 2024, Augustine Hall, Hawthorn, Victoria Bookings will open in September THE MIM SCHOLARSHIP FUND Our Scholarship 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 substantial discount off the advertised shared room retreat cost. Three 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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