Start 2022 with a Five-Day Mindfulness Meditation Retreat.
Stay in the comfort and safety of your own home and still experience the benefits of an extended practice opportunity. 

We will create an online community that rests in mindfulness and the willingness to look into our pain and suffering in order to kindle compassion for ourselves and others.  We will also use several practices of forgiveness to help ourselves let go of the past and move toward living vibrantly in the present moment.

This retreat will be suitable for newcomers to mindfulness and for those who have practiced for a long time.

In addition to the meditation guidance, it will be possible to have personal meetings with the teachers during the course of the retreat.

Participants are encouraged to take care of as many details of life as possible before the retreat begins. (Preparing food, setting up phone and email, having necessary discussion with partners and housemates, and perhaps even going to an isolated location.)

Attendance limited to 25.

For Questions, please reach out to Trina Truong HERE

Stay at Home Virtual Retreat
Details
DATES: Starts at 7 PM Friday January 7th, and ends at noon Wednesday Jan 12th.

LOCATION: Online Via Zoom

COST:  $225 to Portland Insight Meditation Center (No one turned away for lack of funds)

DANA: The teachers will not receive payment from PIMC. In keeping with ancient Buddhist practice, dana may be offered to a virtual dana bowl.  

RETREAT SCHEDULE: Click HERE
ABOUT ROBERT BEATTY
Robert Beatty is a member of the first wave of Theravada Buddhist teachers who brought Mindfulness from Asia in the 1970’s. His life is devoted to helping others discover the profound ways Buddhist practices can transform one’s life, reduce suffering and create happiness. Robert founded the Portland Insight Meditation Community where he is the guiding teacher.

​His meditation training began with Goenka in India in 1972. He has studied with many teachers in Burma, India and the US. Robert was empowered to teach the Dharma by Ruth Denison in 1983. He has worked with thousands of students and created a unique synthesis of Buddhist methods of awakening and healing and those of western psychotherapy. He works with individuals and leads retreats in British Columbia, Canada, Oregon, and Washington.
 
Robert has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University in Toronto, and a Masters in Social Work from Portland State University. 
 
Robert uses humor, movement, music, poetry and drumming to teach meditation for everyday life, including intimate relationships, parenting, work and our relationship to the greater community. You can get a sense of his teachings with a recent podcast interview HERE.
 
Robert is a husband, father, grandfather, poet, musician, skier, lover of mountains and is fully engaged with life. 
ABOUT JIM DALTON
Jim Dalton has been a student of the Dharma for more than 30 years, most of that time in the Ruth Denison / Robert Beatty lineage. Following a deep spiritual crisis in 2006, his mindfulness practice moved from mostly spiritual bypassing (localized in his head) to a more embodied practice grounded in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Tai Chi and QiGong. Mindful movement represents for him the real “Miracle of Mindfulness.”