Breath Focus: Advanced Perspectives on a Basic Practice
A Daylong Retreat with Shinzen Young
Breath focus is often thought of as an elementary starter practice. But with a proper understanding, it can lead all the way to Enlightenment. On the other hand, it can sometimes become a dead end; it calms but fails to bring deep insight and purification even after many years of practice. The purpose of this workshop is to...
No doubt you have heard of mindfulness. Visit any bookstore and you'll see books with that word in the title — mindful parenting, mindful gardening, mindful living, mindful management, mindful eating, and even mindful sex. There are mindfulness programs in hospitals, schools, and businesses. But what exactly is mindfulness?
Sky Mind Retreats (SMR) is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving wilderness meditation retreats. Our nature-based retreats are taught in the Buddhist tradition of Vipassana (“Insight”) Meditation. We balance solitude and silence with the supportive companionship of others who are seeking the joy and stillness of a sojourn in the wild. Wilderness meditation has long been understood to deeply support...
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Sharon Salzberg, a meditation teacher and the founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, focuses on a kind of Buddhist practice that emphasizes feelings of love, happiness, and compassion.
Symposium Description
Clinicians are enthusiastically discovering that mindfulness can enlighten and enliven their lives, both inside and outside the therapy hour. Mindfulness holds great promise for personal development and as a powerful methodology to enhance many forms of psychotherapy.
In one sense the goal of spiritual work is to become increasingly intimate with and expressive of our true nature. Dwelling increasingly in a state of simple and precise awareness is both the tool and the fruit of increasing intimacy with our true nature. This classic, five-day silent retreat is designed to serve the nurturing of this intimacy by providing the space and time for steeping in that awareness. Each day...
