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March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

An extended retreat period offers the rare opportunity for sustained, dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of Insight practice. Instructions will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, influenced by the teachings of Mahasi Sayadaw and other Theravada (Insight Meditation) traditions, and will be supported by a variety of skillful means. The teachings will encompass training in the heart qualities of lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, with a daily schedule structured around periods of silent meditation, guided instructions, Dharma talks, practice meetings with teachers, and optional mindful movement.

This retreat is also suitable for practitioners who wish to exclusively develop concentration (samādhi) through mindfulness of breathing or lovingkindness (metta) practice, with individual guidance by the teachers.

These extended retreats (as with all retreats at Spirit Rock) are NOT open for self-retreats.

2025-03-01 (29 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
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2025-03-02 Finding Your Anchor in Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:38
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided practice of tuning into mindfulness of the body with breath as a possible anchor.
2025-03-03 Metta: Cultivating Kindness and Goodwill (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:52
Anushka Fernandopulle
Introduction to Brahma Vihara practices and Guided Metta practice.
2025-03-03 Faith and Settling Into a Long Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:02
Tuere Sala
2025-03-05 Morning Instructions - Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:01
Tuere Sala
2025-03-05 No Mud No Lotus: How the Five Hindrances are a Nutriment for Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:11
Marjolein Janssen
2025-03-06 Metta - Neutral Being (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:05
Tuere Sala
2025-03-07 Instructions and Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Thought 59:08
Tempel Smith
5 mins for chanting refuges and precepts, then a careful guided meditation on mindfulness of thought. We create a base of being mindful with the breath and body to allow us some perspective on thought as a direct stream of phenomena.
2025-03-07 Mindfulness and Inquiry into the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:39
Kristina Bare
Seeing deeper into the true nature of body while cultivating the first two awakening factors of mindfulness (sati) and inquiry (dhamma vicaya)
2025-03-08 Feeling Tone: Cracking the Code on Patterns of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:19
Anushka Fernandopulle
Developing awareness of Vedana or Feeling Tone, that each moment has a valence of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Guided meditation on this theme and the habitual reactivity that accompanies each.
2025-03-08 Vedana: The 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness 54:44
Tempel Smith
An incredibly important aspect of mindfulness is to direct attention to "vedana" which is the tone of every moment which is either pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. This one tone of conscious experience is at the very root of all suffering and therefore all liberation from suffering.
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