Indigenous Insight
The Four Elements: Indigenous and Buddhist Wisdom Connection
Offered in collaboration with True North Insight – Voie boréale
Saturday, February 27, 2027
11 AM-5 PM CST/SK/AB
noon-6 PM EST
10 AM-4 PM BC
9 AM-3 PM PST
other time zones)
In-person in Saskatoon and online with Zoom
Awaken to the foundational teachings of Indigenous and Theravadan Buddhist wisdom through embodied contemplation of the four elements.
This silent meditation day explores earth, water, fire, and air within the body, internally and externally, in inner and outer nature. We will weave Indigenous and Buddhist teachings that combine conceptual understanding with the direct experience of these natural qualities as they unfold in our own nature, moment to moment.
This practice is a powerful tool to develop embodied insight into impermanence, not-self, and freedom in heart and mind.
This retreat is open to Indigenous and non-Indigenous people from around the world.
Portions of this retreat may be offered as a recording. In order to support a sacred, live opportunity for all present, we will make the decision of what is appropriate to share after the retreat is complete.
This retreat is offered through mutual generosity. When you register, there will be an opportunity to pay a registration fee to help SIMC and TNI cover our administration costs. During the retreat, we will provide information for those who are able to offer financial support to our teachers.
Registration
Please register here
https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=94171
Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community, and a graduate of the 2017-2021 IMS teacher training program. She has trained primarily in the Burmese lineage of Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw, with a great affinity for the Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Buddhadasa and for the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh. She is a certified MBSR teacher, is certified with Indigenous Focusing Oriented Trauma Therapy (IFOT), and she has trained with Mindful Schools and Somatic Experiencing. She has taught with Mindfulness Magazine, Lion’s Roar and Tricycle’s online programs, and teaches across North America. She is Metis, and one of her first teachers in loving presence was Cree Elder Jim Settee.
Karen Waconda-Lewis is a native from Isleta/Laguna Pueblo. After initiation into the Native Medicine, she brought the native medicine into an urban American Indian health clinic in Albuquerque, NM and continues to expand the program to local hospitals, Indian Health Service, VA Hospital and surrounding organizations. She joins Western Medicine with Native healing in preventive health, mental health and overall well-being. She is the founder and director of Center for Native American Integrative Healing, LLC located in Albuquerque, where other indigenous healers practice their traditional medicine and extends out to the community. She also is the founder of Wa’Kanda Retreat & Spa which brings in holistic, chemical free, healing for those in chronic need.