Week Long Meditation Retreat in the City
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Kootenay Shambhala Meditation Centre
- 812 Stanley Street
- Nov 19 - 25, 2017 (7 days)
- CAD $400.00 – Patron Price CAD $350.00 – Regular Price Pay what you can afford
About us
“True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.”
~Sakyong Mipham
Join us for an opportunity to explore our ordinary lives in the context of deep practice.
The retreat will include meditation, yoga and Tibetan movement exercise. There will be a vegetarian breakfast and lunch, along with talks and guided meditation, and study of a meditation texts. Each session will begin with Shambhala Meditation, a practice that re-connects us with deep levels of who we are.
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Suitable for beginning and advanced meditators alike, the evenings will have study and contemplative components in the environment of your own home. The retreat will be led by Shastri Russell Rodgers, a senior teacher who has over 42 years of meditation experience.
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The cost will be $350, or $45 per day. There will be an early bird price reduction to $300 if you register before November 1 st . To ensure your place, please pay the full price or a deposit at the time you register.
“As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.”
~ Chogyam Trungpa
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About the Venue and Teacher
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Kootenay Shambhala Meditation Centre
Spark your heart and mind through the practice of meditation.The Kootenay Shambhala Meditation Centre is part of an international community of meditation centres founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and now led by his son and lineage holder Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.Our Centre, located in Nelson, British Columbia, offers free meditation instruction, an integrated Shambhala Buddhist curriculum called The Way of Shambhala, a range of community activities and more—all meant to help people of all kinds awaken their innate wisdom, compassion and sense of delight.We invite you to join us in celebrating this journey of discovery.Sean Manoukian September 30, 2014
Hoda Ghamrawy October 01, 2014
Read all reviewsAnie Boudreau October 01, 2014
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Shastri Russell Rodgers
Shastri Russell Rodgers became a student of Chögyam Trungpa in 1975. Shortly after that, he moved to the Kootenay region of British Columbia, where he has resided since. During that time he has occupied many administrative and teaching positions. He helped to create the Shambhala Centre’s retreat land, and had a large part in buying and renovating the new building for the Nelson Shambhala Centre. Before he retired, he managed a drop-in centre for people with mental illnesses. He has a wife and three grown children, two of whom live with their families in Asia. He was appointed Shastri (senior teacher) for the Nelson Shambhala Center in 2015.
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- Nov 19 - 25, 2017 (7 days)
- CAD $400.00 – Patron Price CAD $350.00 – Regular Price Pay what you can afford
