Online City Retreat with Christina Feldman and Rachel Lewis [2024mar2lgol]

This City Retreat has different participation expectations than a residential or online retreat. We invite you to simplify your schedule during the week so that you can participate in all of our live sessions. These sessions are scheduled so that people with day jobs can work as normal during the week, even while setting the intention to bring more mindfulness into their daily life.

All times are Pacific Standard Time, Vancouver, Canada

Sunday March 2:

• 9 am - 12 pm: live session with Christina - meditation, dharma talks, and Q&A.

Monday March 3 - Friday March 7:

• 7-8 am: live session with Christina - meditation instructions and dharma talk
• 7-8 pm: live session with Rachel - guided meditation with a brief discussion period

Saturday March 8:

• 9 am - 12 pm PT: live session with Christina - meditation, dharma talks, and Q&A

In the Ennobling Eight Fold Path the Buddha offers a clear navigational guide for living a life of integrity, dignity and freedom. It is a path to peace and the end of conflict and confusion. It is a path of lived and embodied insight. During this week long city retreat we will have the opportunity to reflect upon this core teaching and to bring the path into our lives and our lives into the path.
We will begin the retreat with a more extended time to reflect upon the teaching as well as some formal practice. Over the following week day we will have an hour each morning where guidance will be offered on how to integrate this teaching into our live. There will be investigations and practices offered that can be cultivated in the midst of our lives. Each evening, Rachel will offer an hour long period of practice. The retreat will end with another more extended period of teaching and practice. During our sessions together there will be times for questions and answers, but there will be no breakout groups.

This retreat offers the opportunity to soften the boundary between formal practice and daily life. Our life is the classroom in which we cultivate the transforming insight offered in this teaching.

Fees: A sliding scale is offered. Please choose the fee that best aligns with you.

Financial assistance is available, no one will be turned away. If financial assistance is needed, email [email protected].

Cancellations: Refunds are offered up to 24 hours before the start of the retreat.

Teacher Dana: Your fee contributes towards BCIMS being able to continue to offer its programs such as this retreat. Donations (dana) for the teaching may be given at the retreat.

In the Buddhist tradition, teachings are given freely because they are considered priceless; in the Buddhist tradition we also practice dana, or generosity, by making monetary offerings for the teachings. Dana is not payment for goods or services rendered; it is given from the heart. Your generosity is a gift that supports not just the teachers, but also the Sangha, the larger Dharma community, and your own practice.

Information on how to offer Dana to the teachers will be provided to attendees before and during the retreat.

Recordings: The retreat will be recorded and the recordings will be shared with registrants a couple days after the end of retreat. Please note we do not record the Q/A to honour the privacy of those attending.

Need Help? Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.

We will be using Zoom for this online retreat. The Zoom Link will be sent to participants via Eventbrite emails ahead of the retreat. Please ensure you type in your correct email address in the Registration Form.

The Zoom Link and all other retreat information is posted on the Eventbrite Online Event Page, which you can access through the Eventbrite Confirmation email sent after you've registered. Click the "View Event" button in this email, sign into your personal Eventbrite account using the same email address you registered with. Here you will find the detailed schedule, links to resources, Break Out Group lists, etc. Information will also be shared via email.

Christina Feldman is a co-founder of Gaia House and a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachussetts. The author of a number of books, she has been teaching insight meditation retreats internationally since 1976. She is one of the teaching faculty of the CPP programme, dedicated to the study and application of the early teachings of the Buddha and is engaged in teaching the Buddhist psychological foundations of mindfulness to those training to teach mindfulness-based applications in England, Belgium and the Netherlands. She is a co-founder and teacher of Bodhi College.

She is passionate about being awake in all areas of life, facing the challenges of diversity, equality and climate change though dharma eyes, and living the dharma as fully as possible.

Rachel Lewis began practicing insight meditation in 2003, while completing her physics PhD at Yale. Since 2011, she has taught dharma and meditation classes and retreats in British Columbia and beyond. She completed the IMS/IRC 4-year teacher training in 2021, and is a guiding teacher of the British Columbia Insight Meditation Society. Her dharma teaching interests include the power of music, humour, and creativity to increase our capacity for learning, as well as the way that practice supports and is supported by social justice work. See her other events at http://rachelmeditates.ca/

Event Venue

Online