Tag: hybrid

Custodians viewing 🏠💻

This is for a past event – please visit our Upcoming Events page for current offerings

Custodians, A Story of Ancient Echoes

Dear Friends,

SIMC is pleased to offer a screening of Custodians, A Story of Ancient Echoes in partnership with the Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre (AEIC) and the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Saskatchewan.

A trailer for the film can be found on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/64h7jTyoSms

This new film from award-winning Rebel Sky Productions (Reserve 107, 2016) explores the work of local landowners, volunteers and municipal government of Herschel, Saskatchewan, in protecting and conserving the many signs of historic Indigenous presence in the region. Tipi rings, sacred circles, even petroglyphs show the importance of this site, and many like it across the prairies. The documentary raises important questions of land-sharing, the conservation of ancient intellectual and spiritual heritage, and respectful Indigenous-settler collaboration.

Article from Canadian Mennonite: https://canadianmennonite.org/aeic

This will be a hybrid event offered free of charge. Please register for the event in advance, indicating your preference for in-person or virtual attendance, so we know how many people to expect.

A zoom link will be provided to registered participants before the screening for those who prefer to participate virtually.

If you are attending in person, please arrive 10 minutes in advance. Masks are optional.

Many thanks to David Neufeld (AEIC) and Randy Klassen (MCC Saskatchewan) for their generosity in supporting the screening.

Summary:

Date and time: Thursday June 8th, 7-9 pm Saskatoon/MDT (other timezones)
Location: MCC Centre, Avenue C and 45th

To register: https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=65615

Inquiries can be directed to Twyla at yobbt@sasktel.net

Retreat: The Factors of Awakening 🏠💻

This is for a past event – please visit our Upcoming Events page for current offerings.

The Factors of Awakening
A Process of Liberation

(OR, Jeanne’s secret title: The Factors of Awakening: Otter Teachings)

Picture of an otter on a green background https://pxhere.com/en/photo/960262

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.

December Daylong

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

The Gift of Softening Self Judgment
Deeply Befriending the Self

a close-up of snow flakes in the foreground with shimmering snow in the background source https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1048690

A hybrid daylong retreat
with Jeanne Corrigal

Sunday, December 11, 2022
9:00 am – 4:30 pm Sask/CST
(10:00 am-5:30 pm Eastern, 7:00 am-2:30 pm Pacific, or click for other time zones)
Saskatoon

Self Judgment can be one of the most painful states we face, and also a powerful source of energy for us, as we transform and ease the hold it can have on our hearts and minds. This daylong retreat will explore a path to freedom from self judgment, and wise relationship with it. We will also nurture a transformational care for our deepest selves. The day will include mindfulness, kindness, compassion, gentle relational practices, instruction and dharma reflections.

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 now 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.

Fostering Peace, Inside and Out

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

A hybrid in-person/online retreat with Jeanne Corrigal and James Lowe
October 28-30, 2022

How can we cultivate an inner refuge of peace in our own hearts and minds, that also supports the ripple of peace in the world?

This retreat will offer concrete skills and practices that nourish a wise relationship with the joys and sorrows of the world. Jeanne and James will offer dharma reflections, guided meditation, instruction, group practice talks, and gentle relational practice.

This is being offered with options to attend in-person in Saskatoon or online.

DateSask/MountainEasternPacific
Fri Oct 287 pm – 9 pm9 pm – 11 pm6 pm – 8 pm
Sat Oct 299 am – 5 pm11 am – 7 pm8 am – 4 pm
Sun Oct 309 am – 5 pm11 am – 7 pm8 am – 4 pm

This retreat is offered by donation/dana. 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 and James.

Registration

To register for the IN-PERSON retreat in Saskatoon:
https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=56096
The in-person retreat is being held in a church hall in the King George neighborhood in Saskatoon. The specific address will be provided upon registration.

To register for the ONLINE retreat on Zoom:
https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=56572

For in-person: guidelines for caring around COVID

Our committee has consulted widely and discerned as best we can, about our COVID protocol. We want you to know that we have a big hall which will definitely allow for physical distancing; within that know that we are leaning toward the cautious side with our first venture here.

We are asking our in person friends to:

  • Test just before coming, if possible.
  • Monitor symptoms, and if you have any, let us know. We will refund your administration fee if you need to cancel due to COVID or suspected COVID.
  • Please wear a mask when moving about indoors; we also encourage masking even while sitting.

James and Jeanne will take their masks off while teaching.

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 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.

James Lowe has practiced meditation for over 15 years, with Adrianne Ross, Michele McDonald and Steven Smith as his main teachers. James has over 20 years of teaching adults in community agencies and institutions, primarily teaching the Brahma-Viharas to volunteers and healthcare practitioners. As a psychotherapist, he sees life as learning, and thus helps clients learn to use the Dharma in a one on one setting. James is currently interested in exploring different ways to teach the dharma in nature, online, and in smaller groups. He especially likes smaller groups where people get to share their practice with one another. His greatest wish is to make the dharma accessible and personal to all people. To connect with James, visit www.jameslowe.com.