Cultivating Balance, Finding Freedom
This seven-day retreat focuses on developing the protective qualities of equanimity and non-reactive awareness in our hearts and minds. By resting the mind so that it doesn’t fall into extremes, we experience the strength of inner balance and clarity. This supports us to maintain continuity of awareness through all activities, calming and steadying the heart-mind, thereby gaining compassion and insight into how we can live our lives with more ease, peace, and freedom.
Senior insight meditation teacher Kamala Masters will be joining us online from Maui, supported by local teacher Jill Shepherd onsite at Te Moata.
Over the course of the retreat, we will explore a variety of meditation practices, including the Four Establishments of Mindfulness that orient us to deep freedom, and the four Brahmavihāra practices of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity that open the heart and mind.
Each day will include a mix of guided and silent sitting meditation, walking meditation, optional mindful movement, individual meetings with the teachers and occasional small group discussion.
Experience level: This retreat is best suited to people who have done at least one previous residential insight meditation retreat of two days or longer. Please contact the organisers if you have any questions about this.
Teachers: Kamala Masters (online) and Jill Shepherd (onsite)