Category: 2025 Events

April 2025 retreat 🏠

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Liberative Dependent Origination
Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

The teaching on Liberative Dependent Origination describes a way that freedom happens in the mind and heart. This insight sequence can happen quickly in a moment, or gradually over time. As we understand how to support this natural and innate process, we can taste freedom and understand how to nurture the conditions for the sure heart’s release. This teaching is accessible to us on retreat, in daily life, and in the midst of the crises of our world, in support of wise action.

On this retreat we will practice with this process to become more familiar with recognizing and supporting it. We will include instruction, dharma talks, and practice talks with the teachers.

Date

April 5-12, 2025

Beginning on the first day with optional supper and then 7 pm start
Ending at 11 am on the last day with clean up and then optional lunch after

Registration

Registration is currently on hold as we work on some further details.

Retreat Information

Cancellation Policy

50% of the registration fee is due upon confirmation of registration. Your spot will not be reserved until payment is received.
Full payment is due by March 5, 2025.

If you find it necessary to cancel, your administration fee will be refunded according to the following schedule:

  1. $50 fee for cancellations at least eight weeks prior to opening day (February 8, 2025)
  2. $200 fee for cancellations eight to four weeks before opening day (February 9-March 8, 2025)+
  3. Cancellations received four weeks or less before opening day (March 9 and onward) will not be refunded+*

+ Exception: if we are able to fill your spot with someone from the waitlist, you will be refunded less a $50 fee.
* Exception: For registrations at the Benefactor rate, we will refund the difference between the Benefactor and Sustaining rates.

Our teachers

Jeanne Corrigal - The image shows a smiling individual standing outdoors in front of a lush evergreen tree. The person has curly, shoulder-length brown hair with prominent gray streaks at the front. They are wearing a vibrant blue top and a textured, multicolored blue scarf. A backdrop of green pine needles fills most of the background, providing a natural and fresh setting.

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.

Kristina Baré - A photograph of a woman facing the camera and smiling. She has long brown hair that drapes over her right shoulder. She is wearing a colorful patterned scarf with shades of red, green, and gold. The background is a plain, light-colored wall.

Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP, is an insight meditation teacher, therapist, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner. She has trained primarily in the Burmese lineages of Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw and Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw. She enjoys supporting students deepening samadhi, loving-kindness and insight. Opening the door to an expansion of the heart and to liberating wisdom. In support of the Buddha’s teachings, Kristina also draws on knowledge from western psychology and Somatic Experiencing. She invites a kind, patient, and embodied approach as a base for samadhi, loving-kindness and insight meditation practices.
http://www.kristinabare.com/

March Daylong 🏠

Calm and Peace in the Breath
A Day with the Anapanasati Sutta

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An in-person daylong retreat
with Jeanne Corrigal

Saturday, March 22, 2025
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The Studio at Oshun House, Saskatoon

The Anapanasati Sutta is our most detailed description of the Buddha’s practice of mindfulness of breathing, which cultivates tranquility, meditative joy, and liberating understanding. This daylong will introduce this process to beginners and offer practitioners familiar with this teaching the opportunity to anchor and deepen this nourishing and freeing practice.

This day will include instruction, dharma reflections, sitting, walking, and relational practices. Everyone is welcome.

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

Please register here:
https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=82118
There are a limit of 20 spots available.

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.

Weekend non-residential retreat 🏠

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Gratitude and Generosity
Realizing the Abundant Heart

A weekend non-residential retreat with Jeanne Corrigal

January 31-February 2, 2025
Oshun House, Saskatoon

Friday, 7-9 pm
Saturday, 9 AM to 5 PM
Sunday, 9 AM to 4 PM

The inner qualities of gratitude and generosity carry us into relationships of reciprocity and the net of belonging. This retreat explores this process and how it can nurture our well being, strengthen our sense of connection, and support our capacity for engagement with the world, even in the midst of the current crises.

This weekend will include instruction, dharma reflections, sitting, walking, and relational practices. Everyone is welcome.

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

Please register here:
https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=81700

We have a limit of 20 spots for this event. Please register early to avoid disappointment.

Jeanne Corrigal

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.

Mindfully Unwinding Whiteness

8 Guided Conversations About Whiteness, Racism & Antiracism

This community learning opportunity uses mindfulness to explore whiteness, racism, and antiracism in eight guided conversations.

Mindfulness, which will be taught and practiced at each gathering, encourages a gentle but intentional focusing on the present moment while with steadiness observing our thoughts and feelings. Mindfulness can thus help us deal with difficult emotions and situations. Because racism is such an emotionally charged topic, framing the unwinding of whiteness within mindfulness practice invites a kind, non-shaming approach to conversations while engaged in an honest pursuit of difficult truths about “race” and racism.

Mindfully Unwinding Whiteness is intended for “white”/Euro-Canadian participants because, as Ajay Parasram and Alex Khasnabish explain in Frequently Asked White Questions, it would be “unfair to non[-]white participants in public or educational settings to have to offer both training and emotional support to the white people around them” but also “unfair to expect white people to understand the politics of race when the very operation of racial politics in Canada has encouraged them to not think or talk about race lest they appear to be racist.”

In Mindfully Unwinding Whiteness’s guided conversations, we will pay particular attention to the invention and sustaining of whiteness, and to anti-Indigenous racism, but will also more briefly consider racisms faced by others. Learning resources include Tovi Scruggs-Hussein’s series of articles Mindfulness for Racial Healing – Mindful, Parasram and Khasnabish’s Frequently Asked White Questions, and Michelle Good’s Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada; individual online readings and videos; and guest speakers/session co-leaders.

When/where

6:45 – 8:45 pm Mondays
Jan 6, Jan 20, Feb 3, Feb 24, Mar 3, Mar 17, Mar 31, Apr 14

Free of charge at the Round Prairie Library.

Registration

Details and registration on the SPL website
https://saskatoonlibrary.ca/events-guide/event/12417287

Facilitators

Jeanne Corrigal is Metis from the Prince Albert area. She has worked as a public educator in reconciliation for 40 years through film, storytelling, and teaching. She originated and has twice taught an Unwinding Whiteness course. She is a certified teacher in Insight Meditation and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and has taught mindfulness for 15 years. One of her first teachers in kind, loving presence was Cree Elder Jim Settee.

Susan Gingell is a Euro-Canadian immigrant to Turtle Island grateful to live on Treaty 6 territory and the homeland of the Métis/Metis. At the University of Saskatchewan, she taught decolonizing & transnational literatures in English and Women’s & Gender Studies. A 10-year member of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik/Women Walking Together, she helped resource the first Unwinding Whiteness course; completed the Saskatoon Antiracism Network’s trauma-infused antiracism training; and participates in the peer-led Post-Unwinding Whiteness Project.