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Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

This retreat will emphasize continuity of awareness in all activities, stabilizing the mind, and cultivating insight. Combining relaxation with clarity, we will explore the liberating teachings of the Buddha, including the foundations of mindfulness, the radical nature of impermanence, and the cessation of craving.

Practitioners are encouraged to combine the Summer Insight Retreat with the Summer Lovingkindness (mettā) Retreat, although this is not required. For those attending both retreats, the teachers will guide and integrate the retreats as one offering. Those who attend the Mettā Retreat will have the option to continue with formal mettā as their primary practice through the second retreat. This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, and other practice meetings.

2025-07-18 (10 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
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2025-07-19 Mindfulness as Intimacy with All Things (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:50
Rebecca Bradshaw
Mindfulness teaches us that we can soften into this world, touching and being touched by life.
2025-07-20 The Four Elements (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:26
Francisco Morillo Gable
The elements for the growth of mindfulness and insight.
2025-07-20 Cultivating a Tone of Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:29
Anushka Fernandopulle
Bringing a quality of metta or goodwill to your Insight Meditation or mindfulness practice.
2025-07-20 Mindfulness of the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:04
John Martin
2025-07-21 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation – Emotions and Mind States (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:05
Rebecca Bradshaw
Connecting with the emotions and mind states with warm hearted mindfulness
2025-07-22 Morning Instructions: Feeling Tone (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:51
John Martin
2025-07-22 Metta and Vedana (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:14
Francisco Morillo Gable
The deep sensitivity of wholesome feelings in the service of loving kindness and insight.
2025-07-23 Appreciative Joy in Our Insight Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:46
Rebecca Bradshaw
Bringing the tone of joy to our insight practice.
2025-07-23 The process of self obsession and how we untangle this very deep habit. 66:12
Tempel Smith
For those new to directing there mindfulness practice towards the experience of self production, there are a few relatively simple practices to expose and let go of the over concoction of a thicker sense of self to life's present time experiences.
2025-07-24 Emptiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:45
Francisco Morillo Gable
Teachings of emptiness when insight begins with knowledge and vision of seeing things as they are.
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