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February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, combined with training in loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers.

2018-01-27 (29 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2018-01-28 Day 1: Sitting Meditation with Instructions - Developing an Anchor(Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:36
Erin Treat
2018-01-28 5 Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:44
James Baraz
The Five Spiritual Faculties explain the unfolding of practice as well as highlight major issues in practice: Faith leads to making the effort to be mindful leading deepening concentration and wisdom.
2018-01-29 Day 2: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:11
James Baraz
2018-01-29 Mindfulness and Right View (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:04
Carol Wilson
2018-01-30 Day 3: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:47
Carol Wilson
2018-01-30 Day 3: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 17:50
DaRa Williams
self and benefactor
2018-01-30 Embodied Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:38
Adrianne Ross
First foundation of mindfulness
2018-01-31 Day 4: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:26
Adrianne Ross
2018-01-31 Day 4: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:39
Greg Scharf
2018-02-01 Day 5: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:50
DaRa Williams
2018-02-01 The Wisdom of Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:14
Erin Treat
2018-02-02 Day 6: Sitting Meditation with Instructions - Working with Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:19
Erin Treat
2018-02-02 Field Notes from a Medium-Sized Being (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:45
Greg Scharf
2018-02-03 Day 7: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:09
Greg Scharf
2018-02-03 Day 7: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:11
Carol Wilson
2018-02-04 Day 8: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:13
Carol Wilson
2018-02-04 Day 8: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:42
Rachel Lewis
2018-02-04 Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:53
James Baraz
Every moment has flavor tone of experience: pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Typically, we react without thinking and act from attachment, aversion or delusion-the seeds of suffering. When we bring mindfulness to the moment we have the choice to respond with non-greed, non-hatred and non-delusion. Those are the seed of true happiness.
2018-02-05 Day 9: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:45
James Baraz
2018-02-05 Day 9: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 35:03
Erin Treat
2018-02-05 Compassion: Everything is Connected (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:36
DaRa Williams
2018-02-06 Day 10: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:45
DaRa Williams
2018-02-06 Day 10: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 36:52
James Baraz
2018-02-06 Investigating Craving and its Ending in our Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:23
Carol Wilson
2018-02-07 Day 11: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:42
Carol Wilson
2018-02-07 Day 11: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:56
Devin Berry
2018-02-07 Walking the Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:50
Greg Scharf
2018-02-08 Day 12: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:59
Greg Scharf
2018-02-08 Day 12: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:47
Greg Scharf
2018-02-08 The 8 Factors of Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:34
Adrianne Ross
7 factors of awakening - how to support their arising, development and maturation. (the 8th factor is chocolate)
2018-02-09 Day 13: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:59
Adrianne Ross
2018-02-09 Day 13: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:16
James Baraz
2018-02-09 Vedana: From Gratification to the Peace of Mindful Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:15
Erin Treat
2018-02-10 Day 14: Sitting Meditation with Instructions for Choiceless Attention(Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:40
Erin Treat
2018-02-10 Day 14: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:55
DaRa Williams
2018-02-10 The Journey of Awakening- From Personal to the Universal (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:33
James Baraz
The journey of awakening often begins with learning to open up to all the hidden places inside. Facing our demons, learning to accept and eventually embrace the whole package of who we are. That's when the process gets truly interesting-when we move to the bigger perspective tuning into the awareness that can hold it all.
2018-02-11 Day 15: Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:10
James Baraz
2018-02-11 Day 15: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:13
Adrianne Ross
2018-02-12 Day 16: Sitting meditation with Brahma Viharas Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:07
Greg Scharf
2018-02-12 Five Aggregates of Clinging (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:33
Adrianne Ross
Five focuses of the grasping mind-exploring attachment and identification to these leads to liberation, peace.
2018-02-14 Day 18: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions - Introduction to Mudita (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 30:01
Erin Treat
2018-02-15 Day 19: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:22
James Baraz
2018-02-15 Liberative Dependent Arising (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:17
Erin Treat
2018-02-16 Day 20: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:50
DaRa Williams
2018-02-17 Day 21: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:55
Devon Hase
2018-02-17 Emptiness and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:00
Adrianne Ross
2018-02-18 Day 22: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:28
Greg Scharf
2018-02-18 Liberation through Non-Clinging: Undaunted Courage (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:43
Carol Wilson
2018-02-19 Day 23: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 37:36
James Baraz
2018-02-21 Day 25: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions - Upekkha for Groups of Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 37:16
Erin Treat
2018-02-21 An Independent Abiding (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:58
Greg Scharf
2018-02-22 The 5 Daily Recollections (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:39
Erin Treat
This is a talk for yogis on long retreat, inviting practice of recollection of aging, sickness, death, separation and karma. The talk mostly covers the first 3 of the 5 recollections.
2018-02-23 Seeing Our Practice in a Wider Context (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:22
James Baraz
We’re not practicing for ourselves alone. The world needs more consciousness and our practice allows us to become an agent of consciousness that in a very profound way affects everyone around us and the planet itself.
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