Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community, and a graduate of the 2017-2021 IMS teacher training program. She deeply appreciates metta and nature based practices. She has been practicing since 1999, and is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner and Community Dharma Leader Programs. Jeanne is certified with Indigenous Focusing Oriented Trauma Therapy (IFOT), is a certified MBSR teacher, and she has trained with Mindful Schools and Somatic Experiencing. She is Métis, and one of her first teachers in loving presence was Cree Elder Jim Settee.
Exploring the second tetrad of mindfulness of breathing, with its movement from quiet joy and contentment toward experiencing and calming mental activity. The talk considers how recognizing and cultivating subtle sources of nourishment can support steadiness, reduce reactivity, and help us meet difficult experiences with greater ease.
Beginning with the preliminary practices that establish a foundation for meditation, these instructions explore mindfulness of the body in sitting, walking, and everyday movement, with an emphasis on curiosity, kindness, ease, and continuity of awareness.
An introduction to the Ānāpānasati Sutta and its sixteen-step path of mindfulness of breathing, exploring how calming and insight practices support one another in cultivating steadiness, clarity, and freedom from clinging.
This guided meditation in renunciation of expectations, grudges, and judgement toward the benefactor/friend, toward the past, future and present, towards ourselves and the larger society is inspired by Pascal Auclair, who was inspired in this by Ajahn Succito.
This guided meditation explores renunciation through simple, everyday acts of letting go within meditation practice. By gently returning to the body, releasing judgment and striving, and tuning into quiet ease and pleasantness, the practice reveals renunciation as a compassionate movement toward simplicity, steadiness, and peace.
This talk explores wise intention and the ways that kindness and renunciation support each other in freeing the heart and mind in our every day actions. It offers examples from retreat practice, daily life, and collective social justice actions.
Dharma Talk: Stillness helps us to see patterns of the mind and heart so that we can work wisely with them. This talk explores how to meet unpleasant, pleasant, and neither strongly unpleasant or pleasant experiences with wisdom with the intention to support peace.
Morning Instruction and meditation: Seclusion, meditation and stillness are not about stopping thinking. These three help us to develop a wise relationship with thinking, which leads to peace. Please note, this instruction and guided meditation begins at 27:34, after an intro, refuges, and precepts.
The image of a bird flying is offered as a way of bringing together the big picture of the Satipatthana Sutta teachings, with the three characteristics as the environment the bird is flying in. The three characteristics are then situated in the refrain of the Satipatthana Sutta, which is seen as a practice from nature, to reveal our inner nature. This teaching is applied to our lives through exploring how to work with self judgement. The talk ends exploring this practice in the world, for the benefit of all beings.
