Metta Retreats
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$2060
Apr 24 - May 8, 2019 (15 days)Due to high demand, this program is fully booked. Please join our waitlist to be notified if any space opens up. Join Waitlist Experience practicing Metta (unconditional love and kindness) and Vipassana (insight) meditation on beautiful Cortes Island. Discover the four immeasurables (unconditional love, wise compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity) through meditations that fuse these… -
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May 10 - 12, 2019 (3 days)Vipassana (Insight or Mindfulness) meditation practice unites the stillness of concentration with the immediacy of moment to moment silent 6 sense door awareness. By calming body and mind, intuitive wise knowing arises — opening to the truth of each moment’s experience within and around us. In this way, we increase our ability to meet life’s ups and downs with graceful ease and… -
Metta Centers
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Come stay at Casa Metta, House of Loving Kindness, to Metta-Morphasize your life!Included in a weeklong stay:Two Vibrational Healing Treatments…
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Spirit Rock Meditation Centeris dedicated to the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana tradition. The practice of mindful awareness,…
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Metta Programs is a non-profit organization that offers specific relational meditation practices and teachings to support a wise and compassionate…
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Mar 30 - Apr 7, 2019 (9 days)A professional training designed to prepare instructors to teach Interpersonal Mindfulness Teaching Presence in Relationship is a training designed to prepare MBSR & MBCT instructors to teach Interpersonal Mindfulness to graduates of mindfulness-based programs. Awareness, mental stability, and calmness associated with silent meditation are developed in practice with others. Based on the… -
1.250 €
Ongoing package (16 days / 15 nights)Thai Massage Training in a family-like setting:Υou will learn the basic routine of this wonderful healing art from Thailand. At the end of the program, for which you need no prior knowledge, you will be able to safely conduct a whole body Traditional Thai Massage. You will also be taught a special Qigong form, a special Yoga routine, and a Self-massage program, all tailored to the needs of a Thai… -
Mar 25 - 29, 2019 (5 days)From Hungry Ghost to Being Human …Without Going Through HellIn short, the retreat is about creating and maintaining (Bhāvanā and Sati) an embodied intentionality (Karma) of harmlessness (Sila) through self-love (Metta), self-forgiveness (Khama) and self-direction (Sajja).‘Being Human’ is an intensive 5-day residential retreat exploring ‘Buddhist’ principles and practices that cultivate… -
Mar 23 - 31, 2019 (9 days)Experienced Insight Dialogue practitioners and teachers are invited to spend a week exploring what it really means to live the practice in community, to experience the practice unrestrained by the structure of formal retreats, and to explore ways of bringing continuity of practice into our daily lives as we meditate together while sharing our daily tasks. Our vision is to provide the freedom to…-
Apr 27 - May 5, 2019 (9 days)
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OngoingLast Monday of each month at 9 – 10:30am in the UK, 8-9:30pm in Australia 2019 Dates: Feb 25, Mar 25, Apr 29, May 27, Jun 24, Jul 29, Aug 26, Sept, 30, Oct 28, Nov 25, Dec 30. Facilitated by ID Practitioners Jane Cutler, Jane Whitehead and Susan Burgoyne Drop-in sessions are open to anyone with Insight Dialogue experience. You may join a drop-in session once or monthly; it’s up to… -
Apr 10 - 16, 2019 (7 days)The triad of gratification, danger and escape is one of the Buddha’s most incisive teachings for investigating the roots of every day experiences that lead to habituation, stress, and suffering and also, to their release. In this retreat we will examine closely the felt sense and the mechanics of gratification, the dangers of habitual gratification, and the path and practices of… -
$90
Mar 30, 2019 (1 day)Through Insight Dialogue (ID), Vipassana teacher Gregory Kramer has brought together essential teachings of Buddhadharma and a contemplative relational practice for their investigation. Sitting with another or others, held by meditative and ethical guidelines, ennobles and expands the practice and the practitioners. This day-long retreat will be an introduction to Insight Dialogue for new ID… -
$625
May 5 - 10, 2019 (6 days)A Retreat for Psychotherapists and Health Professionals* based on Insight Dialogue As clinicians and health professionals, skill with relational attunement and repair has been well documented as essential to our clients’ healing. Attunement is the ability to read one’s own and another’s signals, to interpret them accurately and to respond with flexibility and fluidity to the signals sent.… -
$216
May 31 - Jun 2, 2019 (3 days)What is loving kindness (metta) and how do we practice it? Find out when you join us for the first Open Practice Weekend of 2019! This silent weekend of deep practice, with the theme of metta, explores how to consciously cultivate loving kindness for oneself, others and the world. Open Practice Weekends provide an opportunity for beginning and experienced meditators to deepen in meditation… -
$450
Apr 26 - 28, 2019 (3 days)Experience exotic stretches and Thai Yoga bodywork —a synthesis of acupressure, rhythmic compressions, ancient breathing arts, and meditation. Utilized therapeutically in Thailand, Thai Yoga produces balance and harmony within the body, mind, and spirit. You will: Study a 3,000-year-old traditional Asian folk art that creates radiant whole health Enjoy strengthened vitality through bandhas (body… -
Metta Teachers
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Steve Armstrong began his dhamma practice in 1975 with senior Western teachers Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield. After 10 years of…
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AcroYoga International AY Level 2 (AcroYoga)Body Mind Institute (Raw Food)Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 (Sattva Yoga)Maria Kiekari She is the co-founder of…
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Linda Karl is a mind-body educator inspired by the tradition of Sri Krishnmacharya. Traveling to India 7 times to study at the Krishnamacharya Yoga…
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May 5 - 10, 2019 (6 days)Please note date change. Registration is not yet open; please check back in late 2018. Much of the time as humans we live, not so much in present life as in our mental patterns, our conditioned views about life. When an internal or external experience arises, we meet it with a mind state, a thought, an emotion or a whole story that colors the actual experience and leads to distorted views of… -
$325
Apr 26 - 28, 2019 (3 days)IDEAL FOR: All levels including beginners We are all born with the capacity to act with compassion, but we often lack the insight and will to do so. In this inspiring and practical exploration of the art of loving–kindness Rabbi Rami shares the tools we need to realize the divinity of self and other, and to manifest godliness in our own lives. Drawing on the Thirteen Attributes of… -
Apr 6, 2019 (1 day)Insight Dialogue is interactive meditation practice that brings together meditative awareness, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, and the power of relationship. It has the same traditional roots as silent meditation – developing mindfulness, compassion, and insight, while investigating present moment experience. Six meditation guidelines form the core of Insight Dialogue practice. These… -
$788
May 31 - Jun 2, 2019 (3 days)Awaken to your innate capacity for boundless love and compassion through metta/loving kindness practices that foster wise equanimity, deep inner peace, and a profound connection to yourself and others. Our two-night retreat includes daily vinyasa yoga classes and deep stretching sessions, walks in the woods, meditation, mindfulness, loving kindness practices, live music, wonderful vegan… -
$600
May 18 - 25, 2019 (8 days)Refuge in the Fire The fires of the world have been very hot. There is injustice, anger, and degradation of dignity and truth. Yet this is the world in which we live. How do we find refuge in meditation and Dhamma without shutting out the pain of the world? How often do we create more suffering trying to save ourselves from suffering? Such are the questions that intertwine in the context of a… -
$550
May 28 - Jun 2, 2019 (6 days)This Insight Dialogue retreat will be an experiential inquiry into the seven factors of awakening, with a particular focus on the importance of joy, both as a fruit of practice but also as the path itself. The Buddha’s teachings often emphasize suffering, hunger, clinging and relinquishment, which can seem rather austere. What is the true place of joy on this path of awakening? In this Insight…-
May 28 - Jun 2, 2019 (6 days)
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$1105
May 15 - 28, 2019 (14 days)The 10 paramis are the heart qualities of a bodhisattva, a Buddha. They are noble and ethical imperatives associated with the highest aspiration to be free from suffering. Practical in their nature, they can be cultivated and applied directly in our daily lives. As well, they are profound supports for awakening in our formal practice. As each parami is cultivated, we discover the possibility of… -
May 28 - Jun 2, 2019 (6 days)This Insight Dialogue retreat will be an experiential inquiry into the seven factors of awakening, with a particular focus on the importance of joy, both as a fruit of practice but also as the path itself. The Buddha’s teachings often emphasize suffering, hunger, clinging and relinquishment, which can seem rather austere. What is the true place of joy on this path of awakening? In this Insight… -
OngoingOur practice group meets for 8-10 week terms, on Wednesday evenings from 7-9pm. We also have Insight Dialogue days 3 or 4 times a year. We collect donations to cover costs of renting a room and to contribute to Metta Programs. The group is facilitated by Jane Cutler and Jane Whitehead. They have both attended retreats and facilitation workshops with Gregory Kramer since 2005 and are in ongoing…-
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Jun 21 - 30, 2019 (10 days)Insight Dialogue practitioners and teachers are invited to spend a week exploring what it really means to live the practice in community, to experience the practice outside of the structure of formal retreats, and to explore ways of bringing continuity of practice into our daily lives as we meditate together while sharing our daily tasks. Our vision is to explore the lived experience of…
