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Recognizing & Embodying Natural WisdomWith Adrianne Ross, Carol Wilson and Greg Scharf
September 22 - October 6, 2024
Hosted by: BC Insight Meditation Society
This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. An extended period of silent retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice, supporting our ability to observe our experience from a place of stillness and balance. As wise view develops, reality is accurately seen and liberating insight arises as a natural result.
Teachings will draw on the Theravada Buddhist tradition, with an emphasis on relaxation & continuity of present moment awareness as the foundation for clear seeing and the arising of wisdom. The format will include instruction in both Insight and Loving-kindness meditation, an optional daily period of mindful movement based on QiGong, and meetings with the teachers. This retreat is intended for experienced meditators. Applicants must have a minimum of 5 years of meditation practice, and have completed at least 2 silent retreats of 7-nights or longer.
We welcome people from all backgrounds, communities, and life experiences.
About Your Teachers
Adrianne Ross is a retired family physician who has been involved in meditation and healing since 1976. She has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1984 and began teaching in 1995. She is influenced by both Thai and Burmese streams of the Theravadan tradition, as well as Tibetan (Mahamudra and Dzogchen) practices. She teaches classes, weekend and residential retreats in Canada and the US. She has been involved in teaching and mentoring students in the Dedicated Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner Programs through Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. She co-founded BCIMS with the late Joanne Broatch over 20 years ago.
Carol Wilson first began practicing Vipassana or Insight meditation in 1971, with S.N. Goenka, in Bodh Gaya, India. Since then she has studied and practiced with a number of Theravada teachers, both Asian and Western. She has been particularly influenced by the teachings and practice styles of Sayadaw U Pandita, and in the past ten years, of Ashin U Tejaniya. In the 1980’s she spent a year in Thailand as a Buddhist nun, which she continues to appreciate as an immensely valuable and inspiring experience. Carol has been sharing vipassana and metta retreat teachings since 1986.
Greg Scharf
Greg has practiced with both Asian and Western teachers in the Theravada tradition since 1992, including training as a monk in Burma at Panditarama and Chanmyay Yeiktha Meditation Centers. Greg has been teaching residential retreats in the USA and abroad since 2007, including the annual 3-month retreat at the Insight Meditation Society where he serves as a guiding teacher. His teaching emphasizes the natural unfolding of love and wisdom through the cultivation of mindful awareness.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bethlehem Centre, Nanaimo, Canada
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