Retreats | Insight Meditation and Relational Mindfulness
Make retreats often! No two retreats are the same. Every retreat enriches the mind and deepens understanding of heart/mind. Retreats offer opportunity to broaden and deepen an established practice.

This retreat is a primary element of the comprehensive Insight and Mindfulness Course and incorporates a highly condensed version of a basic course. We recommend combining retreats with an ongoing instructional series when available or a peer sitting group as an excellent and supportive beginning and deepening experience in meditation.

Date Time Level Credits Method Instructor Cost Registration Alternatives

2010 Non-Residential Retreats: Jan 22-23, May 14-15, Aug 20-21 2010 Residential Retreats: November 19-21, 2010 Non-Residential Retreats: Friday 7-9pm and Saturday 9:30am-3:30pm Residential Weekends: Friday 6 pm - Sunday noon Introductory to Advanced Non-Residential Retreat: 6 hours credit (six hour retreat and two hour introduction) Residential Weekend Retreat: 12 hours credit Course/Retreat by Group Sessions Insight Meditation Teacher, Mary Rees, MS Non-Residential Retreat - $100 (and free will donation for the teaching) Residential - see registration form, fee varies based on facility Register here for Non-Residential Retreats Register for Residential Retreats: November and March. Retreats can be taken independently or as part of the eight week Insight and Mindfulness course or other weekly courses.

The focus of this retreat is on increased awareness of the mind body connection and includes an introduction to direct and conscious contact with fundamentals of human experience, awareness of the universality of these and other experiences, and means for bringing these understandings into human interactions.

You will deepen intimate experience of your own mind and body processes. Through this awareness enrich previous experience, training, and professional skills by developing strength in observing processes, in disidentifying with content, and in awareness of unfolding processes at increasingly subtle levels.

Come also to a more subtle observation and ongoing awareness of others as they experience themselves and, also, to an awareness of others as less separate from you.

Through these capacities, intentionally foster qualities of mind conducive to healing, wholeness, happiness and ease. Develop qualities of mind essential for using mindfulness in clinical applications and sharing skills with clients.



This is an ongoing ever deepening process. The quality of your presence and the value of the teaching is in direct correlation to the depth of your personal investigation.

Ongoing support and development is available through repeated retreats, in private sessions, our group for Mental Health Professionals, but also through other public groups and courses, some offered for donations only.

At the conclusion of this retreat, participants will be able to: Name and recognize four fundamental ways of experiencing life in the body Model and explain skillful posture Attend to experiences both in one's own experience and in that of others. Experience both arising and passing away of experiences Recognize universality of subtle personal experience Experience the spaciousness of stillness (open) Recognize and soften contractions in the body (relax) Experientially investigate the unique instructional theme of each retreat Carry the practices learned into daily life