Deepening into Stillness, Opening to Peace
with Jill Shepherd and Graham Wheeler
January 14 - 19, 2022
This five-day retreat for experienced students offers an opportunity to strengthen our inner resilience, so that we can meet life’s ever-changing challenges and rewards with more balance and ease.
The retreat instructions will be grounded in the practice of mindfulness with particular emphasis on cultivating samādhi, the serene steadiness of heart and mind that supports the deepening of both insight and equanimity.
It is best suited to people who have attended at least one nine-day insight meditation retreat and are familiar with core Buddhist teachings such as the four establishments of mindfulness, the four brahmavihāra, the four noble truths and the noble eightfold path.
Teachers
Jill Shepherd
Jill Shepherd began practicing insight meditation in Thailand in 1999, and since that time has lived and worked at several meditation centres and monasteries in the US, Australia, England, and Thailand. She spent seven years on staff at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, where she participated in several long retreats and Buddhist study programmes, as well as offering weekly meditation classes at a nearby prison. She is a graduate of the IMS / Spirit Rock teacher training program in the US, under the guidance of Joseph Goldstein and Gil Fronsdal. She lives in Aotearoa / New Zealand…
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Jill Shepherd began practicing insight meditation in Thailand in 1999, and since that time has lived and worked at several meditation centres and monasteries in the US, Australia, England, and Thailand. She spent seven years on staff at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, where she participated in several long retreats and Buddhist study programmes, as well as offering weekly meditation classes at a nearby prison. She is a graduate of the IMS / Spirit Rock teacher training program in the US, under the guidance of Joseph Goldstein and Gil Fronsdal. She lives in Aotearoa / New Zealand…
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Graham Wheeler
Graham Wheeler has been practising vipassanā meditation for over thirty years, studying in Australia, Burma, Thailand and Sri Lanka. He also has been leading the Centre’s group meditation sessions in Sydney since 1999. He has his own legal practice in Sydney and much of his work is with community-based organisations.
Learn more about Graham Wheeler
Graham Wheeler has been practising vipassanā meditation for over thirty years, studying in Australia, Burma, Thailand and Sri Lanka. He also has been leading the Centre’s group meditation sessions in Sydney since 1999. He has his own legal practice in Sydney and much of his work is with community-based organisations.
Learn more about Graham Wheeler