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Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing clarity and depth of practice. Traditional instructions will be combined with a spirit of lovingkindness, and our time together will include a schedule of silent sitting and walking periods, guided Yoga/movement sessions, as well as practice meetings with teachers and daily Dharma talks. This retreat is for experienced as well as new students.

This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings.

Teacher-in-Training: Eve Decker

2025-08-27 (6 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2025-08-28 Afternoon Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 28:50
Tuere Sala
2025-08-29 Intrusctions: Opening to the Breath, Body and Physical Realm of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:37
James Baraz
2025-08-29 Hindrances, Emotions and the Gift of Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:07
Tuere Sala
2025-08-30 Morning Instructions - Thoughts and Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:57
Tuere Sala
2025-08-30 Loving the Whole Package: Self-Compassion and Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 31:50
James Baraz
Practices to hold our suffering and to see our innate goodness
2025-08-31 Afternoon Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 31:45
Tuere Sala
2025-08-31 Your Practice is Not Just for You (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:18
James Baraz
Your practice affects everyone around you. When you see your practice in this wider context, it evokes a whole dimension of inspiration and “joyful responsibility“ to cultivate wisdom and compassion within us. In this world with so much suffering—including the climate crisis and injustice in the world—more than ever we need to keep this in mind and see ourselves as “bodhisattvas in training“.
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