Online Retreat: Steve Armstrong, Kamala Masters, and Vance Pryor [jan4shol]

All times are pacific time, Vancouver, Canada.

Saturday January 4: 7pm-8:30pm

Sunday January 5: 10am-4pm

Coming soon!

To join the retreat, click on the button in the confirmation email received from Eventbrite after you registered. You will be asked to sign in to Eventbrite with the same email address you registered with to get access to the Zoom links to join the retreat. The link will go live a day before the event.

You will also be receiving the Zoom links via Eventbrite emails ahead of the retreat. Please ensure you type in your correct email address in the order form.

Fees: A sliding scale of fees is offered. Please choose the rate you can joyfully offer.

Financial Assistance: No one is turned away for lack of funds. If a reduced fee would support you to attend, please contact [email protected].

Contact: If you are unable to register online or have any questions about this retreat, please contact [email protected].

Attendance: With the online format you can choose when and how long you attend.

Cancellation Policy: Refunds are provided up to 24 hours before the start of the retreat.

Teacher Dana: Your registration fee contributes to BCIMS being able to continue to offer retreats such as this. None of your fee goes to the teachers.

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.

Voluntary donations (dana) for the teaching may be given to Steve, Kamala, and Vance. Information on how to donate to the teachers will be provided at the retreat.

Recordings: The retreat will be recorded and the recordings will be shared with registrants about 24 hours after the recorded session has taken place. Please note we do not record any Q/A sessions or break out sessions to honour the privacy of those attending.

Kamala Masters is one of the founders and teachers of the Vipassana Metta Foundation on Maui. She teaches retreats in the Theravada tradition at venues worldwide, including being a Guiding Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts. Practicing since 1975, her teachers have been the late Anagarika Munindra of India and Sayadaw U Pandita of Burma. Kamala has a commitment to carrying and offering the purity of the teachings of the Buddha in a way that touches our common sense and compassion as human beings, and allows the natural inner growth of wisdom. She lives on Maui with Steve where she raised four children, and is now blessed with seven grandchildren. Kamala has practiced both insight and loving kindness meditations intensively under the guidance and preceptorship of Sayadaw U Pandita, in the USA, Australia, and in Burma as a lay woman, and temporary ordination as a nun.

Steve Armstrong has studied the dhamma and practiced insight meditation since 1975. He served for many years at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts as Executive Director, Board member and senior teacher of the annual three-month retreat. As a monk in Burma for 5 years, under the guidance of Sayadaw U Pandita, he undertook intensive, silent practice of insight and lovingkindness meditations, as well as studying the abhidhamma with Sayadaw U Zagara of Australia. He has been leading meditation retreats internationally since 1990 and is a co-founding director and teacher of the Vipassana Metta Foundation dhamma sanctuary on Maui. Out of compassion for future generations, he has planted more than 2500 trees on the dhamma sanctuary/hermitage land where in lives with Kamala on Maui, and continues to nurture their maturation into a forest. He was the Managing Editor of the Vipassana Metta Foundation’s translation committee that in 2016 brought to publication by Wisdom Publications, the Manual of Insight, by Mahasi Sayadaw.

Vance Pryor, PsyD, began practicing insight meditation in 1998. He has been deeply influenced by the teachings of Sayadaw U Pandita and Sayadaw U Tejaniya. His training to become a teacher has been supported by the mentorship of Steve Armstrong and Kamala Masters. He is graduate of IMS’s 2017-2021 Teacher Training Program.

Event Venue

Online