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Cultivating Concentration, Jhana Factors & States: 10-night Retreat in California

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RETREAT: May 6 – 16, 2025

This retreat will follow the approach to deepening concentration and attaining the absorption states of jhāna as described in Shaila Catherine’s first book, Focused and Fearless, recently republished under the new title, The Jhanas. Instructions will use the breath as the primary meditation object […]

Cultivating Concentration, Jhana Factors & States: 10-night Retreat in California2024-06-11T12:14:23-07:00

Spiritual Experience & Aspiration: Bold Talk on Awakening

REGISTER: Now – April 9
RETREAT: April 11 – 13, 2025

A Weekend ONLINE AT-HOME Retreat
with Shaila Catherine

Do you aspire for awakening? Do you ponder spiritual experiences that have occurred in your practice?

This program will provide an opportunity for meditation practice along with frank and bold discussions on themes of awakening, and […]

Spiritual Experience & Aspiration: Bold Talk on Awakening2024-06-11T12:06:09-07:00

Insights into Emptiness: 8-night Retreat in California

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RETREAT: January 8 – 16, 2025

This retreat will develop insight meditation practices using the structure of the six sense bases.

We will cultivate mindfulness of sensory experience, and contemplate the impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self characteristics in contact with seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and mental activities. By clearly seeing the […]

Insights into Emptiness: 8-night Retreat in California2024-06-11T12:16:17-07:00

Insights into Emptiness: 10-night Retreat in Georgia

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RETREAT: November 7 – 17, 2024

This retreat will develop insight meditation practices using the structure of the six sense bases.

We will cultivate mindfulness of sensory experience, and contemplate the impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self characteristics in contact with seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and mental activities. By clearly seeing the […]

Insights into Emptiness: 10-night Retreat in Georgia2024-11-03T11:42:00-08:00

Mindfulness of the Body, Impermanence, and Death: 10-night Retreat in Michigan

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RETREAT: August 26 – September 5, 2024

“Mindfulness of death, when developed and cultivated, is of great fruit and benefit, culminating in the deathless, having the deathless as its consummation.”
– Anguttara Nikaya 8.7

This retreat is designed to enhance your spiritual insights through a closer examination of the changing conditions of […]

Mindfulness of the Body, Impermanence, and Death: 10-night Retreat in Michigan2024-03-09T13:03:48-08:00

Jhāna Study Group

A 9-month discussion group led by Shaila Catherine

This mentorship group is intended to encourage concentration practice and provide support for practitioners while they are emphasizing concentration or jhāna in their at-home and retreat practice. This group is intended to provide continued support specifically for meditators who have already studied and […]

Jhāna Study Group2023-11-16T13:53:58-08:00

Liberating Meditations on the Body, Impermanence, and Death: 10-night Retreat in California

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RETREAT: May 9 – 19, 2023

“Mindfulness of death, when developed and cultivated, is of great fruit and benefit, culminating in the deathless, having the deathless as its consummation.”
– Anguttara Nikaya 8.7

Western societies seem adept at hiding death behind closed doors or in “sanitized” locations like hospitals and nursing homes. […]

Liberating Meditations on the Body, Impermanence, and Death: 10-night Retreat in California2023-05-18T13:28:31-07:00
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