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Retreat Dharma Talks

Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

This retreat – the first of its kind in North America - is specifically for clinicians, researchers and educators engaged in MBSR, MBCT or other mindfulness-based interventions in the fields of health care, education, the law, and similar disciplines. It is an invitation to extend and deepen one's personal experience of mindfulness meditation, via intensive practice, together with peers and colleagues, within a supportive and harmonious environment conducive to the unfolding of greater wisdom and compassion.

The course is offered as a benefit to support the missions of both IMS and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA. Both organizations seek to bring greater peace and happiness into the world.

The retreat will emphasize the roots of mindfulness and the four foundations of mindfulness - as taught by the Buddha - through sustained practice, daily talks, meditation instructions, and interviews with the teachers. The course will be conducted primarily in silence, with a full daily schedule of sitting and walking practice, as well as periods of lying down meditation, and mindful hatha yoga. In the latter days of the retreat there will be opportunities for group dialogue on the ways those practicing, teaching and researching mindfulness-based approaches (primarily MBSR and MBCT) can further integrate the practice into their personal and professional lives.

2008-02-01 (9 days) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

  
2008-02-02 Gladdening The Heart 52:16
Christina Feldman
Loving kindness, generosity, appreciative joy and spaciousness are the cornerstones of a gladdened heart upon which our practice deepens.
2008-02-03 Morning Instructions 49:16
Christina Feldman
Morning Instructions
2008-02-04 Morning Instructions 56:40
Christina Feldman
Morning Instructions
2008-02-05 The Taste Of Freedom 47:58
Christina Feldman
The Four foundations of mindfulness are the doorway in which we can discover a taste of freedom
2008-02-05 Morning Instructions 48:12
Christina Feldman
Morning Instructions
2008-02-07 Heart Of Kindness 47:46
Christina Feldman
Compassion is the deepest motivation of spiritual practice. Resting upon our understanding of interconnectioness.
2008-02-07 Morning Instructions 53:37
Christina Feldman
Morning Instructions
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