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  • Female Single Room – AUD $835.00
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Date & Time Details: Starting time: Friday after 4pm for a 7pm start Finishing time: Sunday with lunch

Location: Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

Address: 25 Rutland Rd, Mellow Bath 2780

Contact: office@bmimc.org.au
(02) 4788 1024

Course code: JS2-19

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Nine Day Retreat with Jill Shepherd: Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

with Jill Shepherd

August 2 - 11, 2019

Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion
This nine-day retreat will provide an opportunity to strengthen both the wisdom and the compassion wings of awakening.  We will explore a variety of different practices taken from the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, alongside the four brahmavihara heart practices of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
Each day, there will be sessions of guided and silent sitting meditation, walking meditation, group discussion, individual meetings with the teacher and a period of optional, gentle mindful movement.
There will be a period of relational meditation on the first two and last two days, while the middle days will be in full silence.  Relational or interpersonal meditation involves working in dyads (pairs) to practice mindful speaking and listening.
This retreat is best suited to people who have done at least one previous insight meditation weekend retreat.

Teacher

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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