This group is designed to deepen your meditation practice, build supportive relationships with other dedicated meditators, and maintain contact with Shaila Catherine between retreats. This series of eight 90-minute meetings via Zoom gatherings will be somewhat like small group meetings at a […]
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RETREAT: October 8 – 18, 2025
This ten-day residential retreat will provide instructions in loving-kindness (metta) to cultivate concentration. The instructions will emphasize developing five factors that intensify focused attention and characterize the blissful states of meditative absorption known as jhana.
The five factors are applied attention, sustained attention, joy, happiness, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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. […]
