(Hybrid) Daylong Retreat – Heather Sundberg – Taking the One Seat: Choiceless Awareness & Essence of Mind Practices

Daylong Retreat with Visiting Senior Teacher Heather Sundberg

About This Hybrid Retreat

• Hybrid events can be attended via Zoom or in-person at the Sacramento Dharma Center. The teacher will present via Zoom.
• Pre-registration is required and we recommend you pay the registration fee in advance. This helps us determine how many people will attend and how many people the meditation room should accommodate.
• To pay now, you’ll find at the bottom of this page registration ticket choices to attend via Zoom or attend onsite. If you attend onsite, you do have the option to pay the registration fee in-person on the day of the retreat or pay online after the retreat starts.
• If you buy a ticket for onsite attendance you may still attend the retreat via Zoom.
• The link to attend the retreat via Zoom appears in three places:
  • The Zoom link is at the bottom of this page – select the button “Join Retreat Online” to connect to the meeting.
  • The Zoom link is included in the automated email sent with your ticket purchase (email subject is “You have tickets!“).
  • The Zoom link is https://joinconferencing.zoom.us/join, with Meeting ID: 822 7755 0528 and Passcode: 203951
• To give a donation after attending this retreat, click here.

Retreat Theme – Taking the One Seat: Choiceless Awareness & Essence of Mind Practices

The teaching and practice of Taking the One Seat, out of the lineage of Ajahn Chah, is a practice of choiceless awareness with all experience at the 6 sense doors, which can grow into the recognition of the essence of mind itself.

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 we will explore the Taking the One Seat teaching/practice from the following perspectives:

• Somatic, heart and pure awareness practices which offer balance and perspective with the constant leaning in & pulling away in the mind.
• Learning to ‘hit rewind’ with reactive patterns growing from feeling tone into liking & disliking.
• Pure Awareness practice through the use of open questions and 5 aggregrates investigations, including working with subtle identification with awareness itself.

HEATHER SUNDBERG has taught insight meditation since 1999 and completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training program under Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.  She is currently a member of the Spirit Rock Teacher’s Council.  Beginning her own meditation practice in her late teens, for the last three decades, Heather has studied with senior teachers in the Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and Tibetan (Vajrayana) traditions. She has completed 3 accumulated years of retreat and has sat 1-3 months of retreat a year for the last 25 years. Between 2010- 2015 she spent a cumulative one-year in study, practice, and pilgrimage in Asia.  In addition, she has training in both Somatic Experiencing and Hakomi Mindfulness Somatic Therapy and offers ‘individual meditation support sessions’ to students world-wide.  She teaches retreats nationally & internationally, and her teaching emphasizes Awakening through the Body (1^st foundation mindfulness), the Heart Practices (Divine Abodes), and Wisdom Awareness Practices (MahaSati) out of the Thai forest tradition.  For more information about Heather visit www.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. If you prefer to make an online donation for this event using a credit card or PayPal account, click here to DONATE ONLINE.

Summary of Important Dates

• 04/11/2022 – Registration opens.
• 06/25/2022 – Attend and enjoy the wonderful retreat.
• 06/27/2022 – Registration closes the Monday after the retreat at 11:00 am PST.

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, specify if you plan to attend in-person or attend remotely via Zoom. In the “Tickets” section, 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 also accept personal checks. No one will be turned away for lack of funds; please contact the registrar for more information.

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Questions for the Registrar?

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