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Coming Home to the Heart: A Brahmavihara Retreat - Jill Shepherd and Insight Meditation Society (IMS)


This online retreat offers an opportunity to strengthen our natural resilience and capacity to meet life's challenges with more steadiness, ease, and even appreciation. We will meet together throughout the weekend to explore the four brahmavihāra practices of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity, to directly experience the possibility of a balanced heart - no matter what our current life circumstances might be. Each day, there will be teaching sessions that everyone is asked to attend. Outside those required sessions, you are encouraged to follow the retreat schedule of formal meditation practice to whatever extent you’re able, within your current life context.

Jill will be teaching an online retreat for IMS in the US on the weekend of 30 June to July 2. Although the time zone difference makes it hard to attend the sessions live, the recordings will be uploaded shortly after each session so you can follow along at your own convenience.

The IMS manager for that retreat has offered to reduce the registration fees for anyone in the Auckland Insight community who's interested in attending. There is a scholarship rate of US150, or you can request a "no-fee waiver", no questions asked, by emailing imsonline@dharma.org 
Here is a two minute intro talk to the brahmavihara theme of that retreat.
We hope you can join us!

Date: 30 June to 2 July
To register: Click here