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November Solitary Retreat
Retreat Dates Tuesday 2nd November 2010 - Tuesday 30th November 2010
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Course Code 10164
Course Fee 1week:£224(£190)£269, 2wks:£448(£381)£538, 3wks:£609(£518)£731, 4wks:£770(£654)£924
This retreat is a rare and precious opportunity to engage in an extended period of individual meditation with the support of a group. Regular teacher interviews and Dharma are offered and guidance is available in Insight Meditation (Vipassana), tranquillity (Samatha) meditation, LovingKindness (Metta) and the other Brahma Viharas.
Each participant has a single room, and is offered the possibility to be in solitude or to sit with a small community retreating at Gaia House during this time. Priority is given to those who stay for the month, however, there are two additional starting and finishing dates: these are Tuesday 9th and Tuesday 16th November. To preserve the silence and stillness of the retreat house at this time and to support the deepending of practice, we do not permit arrivals or departures from the 16th November to the end of the retreat.
Previous experience of at least one week silent meditation retreat, and a personal retreat application is required. Those with less than three weeks previous experience are strongly encouraged to begin their retreat on the first week.
Led by Christina Feldman
Yanai Postelnik
Catherine McGee
Robert Burbea
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CHRISTINA FELDMAN is a co-founder of Gaia House and a member of the Teacher Council. She has been leading Insight Meditation retreats worldwide since 1976 and is committed to the personal retreat programme at Gaia House. She is a Guiding Teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She is the author of a number of books including Woman Awake, The Way of Meditation, and co-author of Soul Food. Recent books are Silence and Buddhist Path to Simplicity.
YANAI POSTELNIK has practised and studied Insight Meditation and Buddha-dharma in Asia and the West for over 20 years and has been teaching internationally since 1992. He is much inspired by the Thai forest tradition and regularly leads courses in the natural world. He lives in Devon, England, is a member of the Gaia House Teacher Council, and also serves Gaia House as the Guiding Teacher.
CATHERINE McGEE has practised and studied Buddhist meditation with senior teachers from Asia and the West since 1991. She has been teaching Insight Meditation at Gaia House and internationally since 1997. Her teaching emphasises embodied practice and the integration and translation of our deepest understandings into our life. She is also a student and teacher in training of The Diamond Approach of AH Almaas.
ROB BURBEA has been practising and studying Buddhist meditation and Dharma since 1985 with a variety of teachers in England and in the USA. He has been teaching since 2004 and is currently Resident Teacher of Gaia House and a member of the Teacher Council. He is a co-founder of Sanghaseva, an organisation dedicated to exploring the Dharma through service work internationally.
