Category: 2021 Events

Weekend with Pascal Auclair

This is for a past event. For current events, please visit our Upcoming Events page.

A Vast, Vibrant & Stable Heart

Meditation Evening for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community

Friday, March 19, 7:00 – 9:00 pm (Saskatchewan time)
Led by Pascal Auclair

This evening is for those who self-identify as part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

A Vast, Vibrant & Stable Heart

March 20 and 21: Saturday (9:30 am – 8 pm and Sunday (9:30 am – 4:15 pm) (Saskatchewan time)
with Pascal Auclair

All traditions and people welcome!

Together, we will cultivate the courage to meet reality as it is : changing and unpredictable. We will allow this intimate encounter to become the gateway leading us to tenderness and joy. A presence, altogether sensitive, engaged, vibrant and calm –wise!– will take us to the silent and caring heart of Mindfulness.

This retreat is offered in the Insight Meditation tradition of dana/donation – there will be an opportunity to contribute financially to the teacher, if you wish, and according to your means.

Both events will be held online via Zoom. A link will be emailed to you closer to the event.

Please register here:
https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=39433

Image of Pascal Auclair

Pascal Auclair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997, sitting retreats in Asia and America with revered monastics and lay teachers. He has been mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, where he is now enjoying teaching retreats. Pascal teaches in North America and in Europe. He is a co-founder of True North Insight and one of TNI’s Guiding Teachers.

Recordings from the weekend are available here.

Dhamma Friends – March 3, 2021

This is for a past event. For current events, please visit our Upcoming Events page.

Dear sangha friends,

Jeanne and our friend Elvina Charley will share the practice on the Wednesday sit on March 3. We look forward to welcoming Elvina to our sangha again!

Diné (Navajo) bi-lingual school psychologist Elvina Charley, Ed.S., M.A. Charley has been practicing mindfulness since 2013 as a way to heal from historical trauma.  She found parallels between her Diné philosophy of life and mindfulness, which she incorporates in teaching her students.

Please join us for this very special night, part of a series of collaborations with teachers near and far, which we are calling “Dhamma Friends.”

March 3, 2021, 7:00-8:00 PM CST
(Click for other time zones)

To get Zoom meeting details for this evening (also valid for all Wednesday evenings), please register with this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctduqqrz0tH9IoOMyH-xvUYO2Gt4TfoR64
The registration process will email you a link to join by computer or device, or you can phone in.

Please add a note “Dhamma Friends” with any dana you offer on this evening. It will be shared with appreciation among all the teachers.

Jeanne

Community Circles

This is for a past event. For current events, please visit our Upcoming Events page.

We will enjoy the refuge of the community, combining meditating with small group practises, reflecting on and deepening qualities which support our resilience and inner nourishment.

We will begin these circles by cultivating three of the Spiritual Faculties, or inner treasures, of Faith/Confidence; Nourishing Energy; and Concentration.  You can register for any or all of these 1.5 hour sessions:

  • February 2 – Saddha: Cultivating Confidence
    7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Saskatchewan time (click for other time zones)
    8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific
  • March 2 – Viriya: Nourishing Energy
    7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Saskatchewan time (click for other time zones)
    8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific
  • March 30 – Samadhi: Settling and Gathering our Hearts and Minds
    7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Saskatchewan time (click for other time zones)
    9 pm Eastern, 6 pm Pacific ** note time change
  • April 27 – Panna: Wise Discernment
    7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Saskatchewan time (click for other time zones)
    9 pm Eastern, 6 pm Pacific

This time of practice in community is suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners.

This is offered on a dana basis.

A Zoom link will be emailed to you when your registration is complete, plus we’ll send a reminder closer to the events for which you have registered.

Please register here:
http://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=38084

Closer Than We Think

This is for a past event. For current events, please visit our Upcoming Events page.

A community exploration of how we prepare for the transition of dying & the moment of death

Led by Matty Weingast and Jeanne Corrigal.

Matty brings a lightness to these reflections which is refreshing and inspiring. Matty and Jeanne have the intention that this sense of light touch comes through in the session, and we hope that you join us.

With a selection of poems from The First Free Women as reflections, we will inquire together into these important questions and also into how they can help us to live life more fully now.

Matty Weingast is the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. He is also a former editor of the Insight Journal at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and the author of The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns, which is much loved in our community. 

Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community.

SIMC invites you to join us online January 23 for this special time together
Saturday, January 23, 10:00 am – noon CST (click to see other time zones).

This event is offered on a dana basis. Please add a note “Matty” to any donation you are able to make, and it will be shared between the teachers.

Please register here to get the Zoom link for the event:
http://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=37353

Dhamma Friends – Jan 20, 2021

This is for a past event. For current events, please visit our Upcoming Events page.

Dear sangha friends,

Jeanne and friend Tara Mulay will explore their mutual delight at the mystery of our practice – how this concise and precise set of instructions opens up into an intuitive way of knowing that surprises and nourishes our hearts and minds.

Tara Mulay’s teachings stem from the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw, as well as teachers Howard Cohn, Kamala Masters, Gil Fronsdal, Joseph Goldstein, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, and Ayya Anandabodhi. Tara practiced criminal defense law in California for over 20 years.  She was a leader of Mission Dharma in San Francisco, and in 2016 she co-founded the San Francisco People of Color Insight Sangha. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Insight World Aid.  Tara is of South Asian (Indian) descent. She felt initially drawn to dharma practice upon encountering the Buddha’s teachings rejecting social caste as a measure of worth and of capacity for awakening. She believes classical Buddhist practices, designed to cultivate compassion, non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion, are uniquely potent vehicles for empowering people in marginalized communities and effecting social change.

Please join us for this very special night, part of a series of collaborations with teachers near and far, which we are calling “Dhamma Friends.”

January 20, 2020, 7:00-8:00 PM CST
(Click for other time zones)

To get Zoom meeting details for this evening (also valid for all Wednesday evenings), please register with this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctduqqrz0tH9IoOMyH-xvUYO2Gt4TfoR64
The registration process will email you a link to join by computer or device, or you can phone in.

Please add a note “Dhamma Friends” with any dana you offer on this evening. It will be shared with appreciation among all the teachers.

Jeanne