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The Factors of Awakening
A Process of Liberation
(OR, Jeanne’s secret title: The Factors of Awakening: Otter Teachings)
An in-person non residential/residential retreat (online option available)
with Jeanne Corrigal
April 21 – 25, 2023
Queen’s House Retreat & Renewal Centre, Saskatoon
This retreat will begin with an exploration of how we can understand awakening, in the Buddhist teachings, and then an understanding of how the seven factors supports this freedom. We will cultivate each factor within our meditation, practicing with them with the intention of cultivating the conditions for this highest happiness. This map is one that can guide us both on and off retreat, to support this peace in the mind and heart.
This retreat will offer dharma talks, practice talks, instructions in the factors, and to close, gentle relational community practice.
There are many ways to participate – in person with full residential; commuter; or online.
With the in person and commuter residential options, we request that you fully commit to participating in the whole retreat, from 7 pm April 21 to 11 am April 25.
If you are a commuter, this means arriving at the center for the first sit and instruction after breakfast, at 9 am, and practicing with the community until 9 pm. A rest area and place for you to eat your meals, if you are bringing your own, will be offered.
If you choose the online option, you can choose whether to participate fully, or if you wish to make the retreat your own, with your own schedule. If you participate fully, we will connect with you about practice talks.
To support our return to the in person residential form, we are subsidizing the cost of the full residential offering by $100 off the cost for the first 25 people registering for this option.
As of February 27, we have 12 of these subsidized seats still available.
This retreat is offered by mutual generosity. When you register, there will be a registration fee to help SIMC cover our costs. During the retreat, we will provide information for those who are able to offer financial support to Jeanne. If cost is a barrier, scholarship support is available.
Registration
To register for the in-person offering, please use this link:
https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=60217
To register for the online offering, please use this link:
https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=62056
Guidelines for caring around COVID
We will review the situation in Saskatoon closer to the event and will publish guidelines at that time.
Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community, and a graduate of the 2017-2021 IMS teacher training program. She deeply appreciates metta and nature based practices. She has been practicing since 1999, and is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner and Community Dharma Leader Programs. Jeanne is certified with Indigenous Focusing Oriented Trauma Therapy (IFOT), is a certified MBSR teacher, and she has trained with Mindful Schools and Somatic Experiencing. She is Metis, and one of her first teachers in loving presence was Cree Elder Jim Settee.