An Online, Daylong Retreat with visiting Senior Teacher Heather Sundberg
The Support of Compassion & Equanimity, Resilience & Patience
Developing the qualities of Compassion, Equanimity, Resilience & Patience are an important basic toolkit to nurture ourselves & others in today’s world. As we connect with our experience from a place of spacious stillness and steadiness, we learn to meet the changing and challenging conditions we encounter with greater caring, patience and balance of mind.
Enjoy a day of quiet sitting and walking meditation, which allow our body & mind to settle down and our hearts to open to an inner wisdom. In addition to insight meditation practice, Heather will offer teachings & guided meditations on the theme, as well as optional Qi Gong practice & discussion about how to live these teachings in our daily lives.
In this daylong retreat, we will:
- Open the mind & heart to our natural capacity for caring in a balanced way through Compassion practice.
- Find balance within reactivity through Equanimity practice.
- Deepen inner Resiliency through somatic practices.
- Rediscover the gifts within the quality of Patience.
Note there will be a lunch break from Noon to 1:00 pm.
HEATHER SUNDBERG Heather Sundberg has taught insight meditation since 1999 and has completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training. Beginning her own meditation practice in her late teens, for the last 25 years Heather has studied with senior teachers in the Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and Tibetan (Vajrayana) traditions and has sat 1-3 months of retreat a year for the last 25 years. She was the Spirit Rock Family & Teen Program Teacher & Manager for a decade. Between 2010 and 2015 she spent a cumulative one-year in study, practice, and pilgrimage in Asia. Since 2011, she has been a Teacher at Mountain Stream Meditation Center and sister communities in the Sierra Foothills, and teaches retreats nationally & internationally. Her teaching emphasizes embodiment, compassion, awareness, and practical wisdom. For more information about Heather visit heathersundberg.com.
The Teacher offers the teachings freely in the tradition of the Buddha, and her livelihood is completely sustained by the generosity of the communities she serves. Dana (donation) for these priceless teachings will be gratefully accepted by the teacher, giving participants the opportunity to freely engage in the practice of generosity, the first step toward freedom. You may donate for this event online using a credit card or PayPal account.
Summary of Important Dates
- 02/15/2020 – Registration opens.
- 05/29/2020 – Registration via this website has closed. Before 9:00 pm, the registrar will send you an email with details on how to join the online retreat.
- 05/30/2020 – Attend and enjoy the wonderful retreat. (There will be a lunch break from Noon to 1:00 pm.)
Registration Details
Registration is $15.00 per person due before the start of the event. If you are able and interested in further supporting SIM financially, you have the option of a registration fee of either $25 or $35 dollars. To pay the registration fee online, use the “Tickets” section at the bottom of this page. Specify the number of people you are registering to this retreat and click the button “Get Tickets”. You’ll be automatically directed to a secure web-page where your registration payment can be made by credit card as a guest (no PayPal account required) or payment can be made by PayPal after you sign-in to your PayPal account if you have one.
For the registration fee, we accept checks and cash. No one will be turned away for lack of funds; please contact the registrar for more information.
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How to attend this online retreat
Once you’ve registered, you’ll receive an email the evening before the retreat.
Join online meeting: see email sent by retreat registrar for the hyperlink. Join by phone: 1-669-900-6833 ( see email sent by retreat registrar for the Meeting ID ) For tips and instructions on how to use the access methods listed above, click here. To give a donation after attending the retreat, click here.