This is for a past event – please visit our Upcoming Events page for current offerings.
Marjorie Beaucage is a Two-Spirit visionary, activist, art-ivist, Metis educator, Water Protector, author and filmmaker. She is an advocate for 2SLGBTQ+ and gender-based rights. And, she has honoured us by accepting our invitation to visit our community.
Marjorie will lead us in an interactive exploration about the stories we tell ourselves about who we are; how we can change our stories; and the importance of stories for our relationships.
This special evening is offered on a dana basis. All of the dana received will be in support of the next Water Walk.
A change in circumstances necessitates that this session will be held in-person only. Our apologies to our online friends.
Thursday, March 28, 7:00-8:30 pm The Studio at Oshun House
This is for a past event – please visit our Upcoming Events page for current offerings.
The Refuge of Intention
An in-person daylong retreat with Jeanne Corrigal
Saturday, March 23, 2024 10:00 am – 4:00 pm The Salon at Oshun House
Intention can be understood as an accessible refuge all year; an ever present wellspring of support and gentle guidance. It is an essential aspect of resilience and wise response in these times. In this retreat we will explore intention as a moment to moment opportunity for renewal and nourishment, and a way of offering meaning and purpose in our lives.
This day will include instruction, dharma reflections, practices of joy and celebration, and community practice.
Please bring a mat for lying down meditation.
This retreat is offered through mutual generosity. When you register, there will be an opportunity to pay a registration fee to help SIMC cover our administration costs. During the retreat, we will provide information for those who are able to offer financial support to Jeanne.
Registration
Registration is closed.
For in-person: 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.
In February, we will be having Wednesday evening practice online-only, as Jeanne will be teaching at the Forest Refuge in Barre, Massachusetts, but she will zoom in to teach our Wednesday evenings. We have taken the online opportunity to invite some very special guests to join Jeanne each week: Lev White, Bob Stahl, Marienala Medrano, and DaRa Williams. Learn more about them below!
Register for the Zoom link here:
February 7 – Lev White: Readings from Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices
Fresh “Lev” White is a lover of life and all beings, who lives to reflect and offer the possibilities of unconditional love and self-compassion to his diverse global community through his writing, mindfulness offerings, and Diversity Trainings. A graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership Program, Lev offers Dharma at centers around the SF Bay Area, including his sangha home at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC).
February 14 – Bob Stahl: Making Peace with Ourselves and Life
Bob Stahl, Ph.D., a long-time insight meditator, lived in a Burmese Buddhist monastery in the Forest tradition of Ven. Taungpulu Sayadaw for over eight years. He founded and directs mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programs in three medical centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bob is a professor of the practice in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the School of Public Health at Brown University, and is a senior teacher at the Brown Mindfulness Center. He formerly served as a senior teacher at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Bob is the co-guiding teacher at Insight Santa Cruz.
February 21 – Marianela Medrano: Healing Historical Grief: A Path to Awakening in Connection. In her offering, Marianela Medrano will address historical grief, which emerges from historical trauma. She’ll speak about her journey tracing and reclaiming Taíno spirituality and how mindfulness practices resonate with the traditions of her people, creating a new sense of home away from home. This offering also looks at indigenous practices that carry the seed of interdependence and interconnecting embodied in Thich Nath Hanh’s interbeing.
Marianela Medrano, Ph.D., was born and raised in the Dominican Republic and has lived in Connecticut since 1990. She is a Mindful Eating instructor/facilitator and a certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield through The Sounds True Foundation, a program for teaching awareness and compassion-based practices. Additionally, she is a mentor/supervisor for the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, IFBPT. A poet and writer of nonfiction and fiction, she holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and is now researching interspecies care with a grant from the Bess Family Foundation. Her TEDTALK at Ursuline College speaks about her work and research on the Taino people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pQeBYd2oJk.
February 28 – TBA: DaRa Williams isn’t able to join us on February 28. She will join us another time!
Due to the extreme cold, this event has been cancelled. Please consider attending our March 23 daylong instead.
The Refuge of Intention
An in-person daylong retreat with Jeanne Corrigal
Saturday, January 13, 2024 10:00 am – 4:00 pm location t.b.d.
Intention can be understood as a accessible refuge, rather than a goal that is easy to lose track of. On this day, we will explore intention as a gentle guide, an ever present support, and a way of offering meaning and purpose in our lives.
This day will include instruction, dharma reflections, practices of joy and celebration, and community practice.
Please bring a mat for lying down meditation.
This retreat is offered through mutual generosity. When you register, there will be an opportunity to pay a registration fee to help SIMC cover our administration costs. During the retreat, we will provide information for those who are able to offer financial support to Jeanne.
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.
