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April 2025 retreat 🏠

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

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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

Location

Heritage Common, Hepburn SK

Registration

Registration is closed.

Retreat Information

Registration Fee

We are offering this retreat on a sliding scale. Please select the highest rate you can reasonably afford to help ensure retreats are available to all. This does not include compensation for the teachings. There will be an opportunity to offer donations to the teachers at the end of your retreat.

Benefactor: $11900 – provides support for others to attend retreats (single occupancy room)
Base (single): $950 – the actual cost of the retreat with single occupancy room
Base (double): $600 – the actual cost of the retreat with double occupancy room
Scholarship: $475 – approx. 80% of the cost of retreat with double occupancy room

Accomodations

Rooms are equipped with a single bed, dresser, desk with chair. Bathrooms (showers/toilets) are shared.
Bedding, towels and pillows are NOT provided.

Only 22 rooms are available. Shared rooms are available at a reduced cost.

Meals

The following meals will be provided:
Breakfast (April 6-12)
Lunch (April 6-11)
Supper (April 6-11)

You can opt to sign up for supper on April 5 for an extra $18, and/or lunch on April 12 for an extra $20.

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 seven weeks prior to opening day (February 15, 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 🏠

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

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

Registration is closed.

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 🏠

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

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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

Registration is closed.

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.

December Daylong 🏠

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

A Simple, Quiet Day

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An in-person daylong retreat
with Jeanne Corrigal

Saturday, December 7, 2024
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The Studio at Oshun House, Saskatoon

Join us for a day of simplicity, stillness, and also kindness, as a way of preparing for what can be a busy or complex season. Together we will practice cultivating the inner refuge of peace that we can carry in our hearts anywhere we go.

This day will include instruction, dharma reflections, deep practices of rest and nourishment, and community practice. Everyone is welcome.

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 now closed.

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.

Fall retreat 🏠

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

Joy: An Inner Wellspring

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An in-person residential retreat with Jeanne Corrigal

November 15-17, 2024
St Peter’s Abbey, Muenster SK

The Buddha invites us to ‘Live in Joy’, touching its source in our own hearts. Mindfulness allows us to clearly see subtle joys and how to cultivate them: joy sustains the heart and leads to liberation. This retreat will touch reliable kinds joy that are accessible in every moment, open our eyes to unexpected sources of joy, and explore the role joy plays in temporary awakening. Knowing the doorway to this nourishment can support us in daily life, and in the challenges of our times.

The weekend will include dharma talks, instruction, practice, reflection, and relational practice, so that we feel the support of the community as we reflect together.

This retreat is held at St. Peter’s Abbey, in Muenster, SK. There are 29 single occupancy rooms available, and lovely grounds to walk in.

We request that you fully commit to participating in the whole retreat, from 7:00 pm pm November 15 to 4 pm November 17.

This retreat is offered by mutual generosity. When you register, there will be a registration fee to help SIMC cover our costs. If cost is a barrier, scholarship support is available.

During the retreat, we will provide information for those who are able to offer financial support to Jeanne.

Registration

Registration is closed.

Health and Wellness Protocol

As an act of care for our community, especially since some of our retreatants have immune deficiency issues, we will try to be sensitive to everyone’s needs. While mask wearing is optional, we will suggest frequent hand washing and social distancing. In addition:

  • If you have any respiratory or flu symptoms (coughing, sneezing, shortness of breath, runny nose, fever, or sore throat), no matter what you think the cause for these symptoms might be, we are asking you to wear an N95 or KN95 mask and wash your hands or use hand sanitizer.
  • Physical distancing should be possible in the hall.
  • There will also be air filters in our meditation hall. The center itself does not have air purifiers, but we will keep them on in the hall throughout the week.

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.

Cancelled: Introduction to Mindfulness 🏠

Unfortunately we have cancelled this offering due to lack of enrolment.
Please watch our website for future offerings.

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This six-week introduction to mindfulness course will teach skills to develop a focused and embodied attention, self awareness, emotional intelligence, and greater sense of ease and well being. The course will include a variety of mindfulness meditations and practical ways to integrate mindfulness into daily activities at work, home and in relationships.

The course will include the following:

  • Training in meditation, developing awareness of breath, body, feelings and thoughts.
  • Managing stress and learning how to shift from reaction to response.
  • Recognizing and letting go of unhelpful habitual thoughts and mind states.
  • Exploring, understanding and working with a range of emotional experience.

The intro course is designed for beginners to mindfulness or those who would like a refresher in its basic principles and techniques.

Each two-hour class will have a mix of the following components:

  • Guided meditation
  • Talk on weekly themes
  • Practice check-ins
  • Question and Responses
  • Experiential practices or exercises
  • Small group practices (dyads, triads, mindful listening and speaking), or alternative journaling activities
  • Suggested home practices

Dates and times

Tuesdays, October 29-December 3, 2023
7-9 pm

Location

The Studio at Oshun House, Saskatoon

Course fee

Administration fee:
The administration fee paid at the time of registration helps cover the administrative costs for SIMC. This is offered on a sliding scale.

Teacher dana/donation:
The registration fee does not include teacher support – there will be an opportunity to offer dana to the teachers. See dana information below.

Registration

Cancelled.

Course Teacher

Andrea Grzesina is a certified mindfulness teacher with the Mindfulness Training Institute, having trained under Mark Coleman and Martin Aylward in 2021. Jeanne Corrigal has been her teacher and mentor for many years. She was invited into the 2024-25 Buddhist Geeks Teacher Training with Vince Fakhoury Horn and Emily West Horn. Andrea’s passion for the Dharma and continuous learning led her to complete the Intensive Practice Program at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, various Social Meditation Facilitation courses, along with many dharma study programs. She is also a dedicated practitioner since 2014, and contributes to SIMC as a local dharma leader, planning committee member, volunteer, retreat manager, and occasional cookie baker.

Guest Teacher

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.

This course outline has been adapted from the Six-week Introductory Training in Mindfulness, developed by the Mindfulness Training Institute.

Some words about the practice of dana

We often have queries about what might be an appropriate range for any financial dana offering to the teachers, that you might wish to make. Before we consider this, it is really important to know that the teaching of dana is a liberation teaching, because it is an intentional opportunity to practice generosity, which can directly erode the habit in the mind of grasping. The Buddha invites us to tune into the joy of dana, the joy of giving, before, during and after… so please, see this as a joy and liberation practice!

One of the gifts of dana is that it is optional, and if people decide to give in this way, they can give according to their means. And at the same time, asking about a range is a reasonable question… in Asia, folks often have an idea of how much is needed to support a teacher’s “requisites”, but in the west, we don’t have the same kind of guidelines, and folks in the west can be left a little bit out at sea in this area.

Offering guidance can be sensitive, as everyone’s circumstances are different. That said, in order to support the teachings, we offer these guidelines as a place to start, and those who wish to give in this way can move up or down on the scale, according to their means.

One guideline is to give the amount that brings you joy, knowing that your dana is supporting the teachings to carry on (while being aware of not breaking the bank 🙂). One may also seek guidance by looking at the fees that are charged for similar events of workshops in our culture. Movies now cost $15 or more; yoga classes often $15/hour; in addition, workshop leaders are often compensated in recognition of the time it takes to prepare materials, the presentation, as well as their expertise.

Perhaps a helpful starting point for our sessions would be $30 – $40 per class. (This would be a range of something like $180 – $240 for the course).

Please feel free to offer less than this in order to ensure your participation, knowing that your presence and any financial contribution are valued. Please feel free to offer more, if you are able, and it brings you joy to support others and the program in this precious way. And, please know that we are very grateful for both the dana of your presence in the course, and your financial dana; both contribute to our capacity to continue teaching. You can feel that your support is supporting the Dharma. Thank you.

We aspire always to nurture community and connection. Committed to being truly inclusive, we welcome people of all social identities, including all ethnicities, classes, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, abilities and cultures.

September Daylong 🏠

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

Tending our Inner Garden

“I believe in our resilience. What is best in us is eager to grow.”
– Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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An in-person daylong retreat
with Jeanne Corrigal

Saturday, September 28, 2024
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The Studio at Oshun House, Saskatoon

In the season of harvest, we will water and grow wholesome states which nourish our hearts and minds. This quiet community tending is a sacred activity, which blossoms in the midst of all the ongoing challenges we face now. It is an essential work, supporting and sustaining the heart for our work in the world.

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=78361

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.

Living the Dharma in Community 🏠💻

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

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Friends, we are delighted to announce that our next 7-month deep dive dharma program is open for registration. Living the Dharma in Community (LDC) supports participants to deepen their formal practice and to integrate the dharma into their daily life through study, reflection, and community practice.

Our theme this year will be The Path to Awakening: Exploring the Seven Factors of Enlightenment. The Seven Factors of Awakening are important qualities both on retreat and in daily life. Cultivating and balancing these factors support insight and freedom, understood as the highest happiness. We will also explore liberation teachings themselves, including Liberative Dependent Origination, emptiness, awareness, and not-self. This course will be situated in the context of our lives: how can these teachings support us in wisdom in the midst of all that is happening in the world.

Living the Dharma in Community combines the wisdom of study, reflection, and practice together. The course includes:

  • 7 two-hour monthly-ish sessions (in-person or online) combining dharma talks, small group reflections, and relational practice. Participants have shared that one of the highlights of this course is the relational practice, which truly supports dharma friendship.
  • Monthly home reflections, including sutta study, reading, audio resources, practice suggestions and reflection questions following each session.
  • Connecting with dharma buddies.
  • Optional daily support for integration during the month of January with Andrea Grzesina.
  • Optional practice talks with Jeanne Corrigal.

Hear Jeanne and Andrea talk more about this program:
https://youtu.be/Xkv9BUa2uA0

Dates and times

For online folks, click links for conversion into other time zones.

In person (Thursdays)
7-9 pm		Online (Thursdays)
7-9 pm Sask time
(links other time zones)
Sep 26Oct 3 (6-8 PDT/9-11 EDT)
Oct 24Nov 7 (5-7 PST/8-10 EST)
Nov 28Dec 5 (5-7 PST/8-10 EST)
Jan 30Feb 6 (5-7 PST/8-10 EST)
Feb 27Mar 6 (5-7 PST/8-10 EST)
Mar 27Apr 3 (6-8 PDT/9-11 EDT)
Apr 24May 8 (6-8 PDT/9-11 EDT)

Course fees

Administration fee:
The administration fee paid at the time of registration helps cover the administrative costs for SIMC.

Teacher dana/donation:
The registration fee does not include teacher support – there will be an opportunity to offer dana to our teacher Jeanne Corrigal. Jeanne will also share your generosity with our supporting dharma leader, Andrea Grzesina. See dana information below.

Registration

Registration is closed for this offering.

Course Teacher

Jeanne Corrigal with shoulder length curly hair, wearing a blue top with lighter blue scarf - standing in front of an evergreen tree.

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.

Some words about the practice of dana

We often have queries about what might be an appropriate range for any financial dana offering to the teachers, that you might wish to make. Before we consider this, it is really important to know that the teaching of dana is a liberation teaching, because it is an intentional opportunity to practice generosity, which can directly erode the habit in the mind of grasping. The Buddha invites us to tune into the joy of dana, the joy of giving, before, during and after… so please, see this as a joy and liberation practice!

One of the gifts of dana is that it is optional, and if people decide to give in this way, they can give according to their means. And at the same time, asking about a range is a reasonable question… in Asia, folks often have an idea of how much is needed to support a teacher’s “requisites”, but in the west, we don’t have the same kind of guidelines, and folks in the west can be left a little bit out at sea in this area.

Offering guidance can be sensitive, as everyone’s circumstances are different. That said, in order to support the teachings, we offer these guidelines as a place to start, and those who wish to give in this way can move up or down on the scale, according to their means.

One guideline is to give the amount that brings you joy, knowing that your dana is supporting the Dharma to carry on (while being aware of not breaking the bank 🙂). One may also seek guidance by looking at the fees that are charged for similar events of workshops in our culture. Movies now cost $15 or more; yoga classes often $15/hour; in addition, workshop leaders are often compensated in recognition of the time it takes to prepare materials, the presentation, as well as their expertise.

Perhaps a helpful starting point for our sessions would be $30 – $40 per class. (This would be a range of something like $210 – $280 for the program). For one-on-one practice talks with Jeanne, a range of $35 – $50 per meeting could be a good range to consider.

Please feel free to offer less than this in order to ensure your participation, knowing that your presence and any financial contribution are valued. Please feel free to offer more, if you are able, and it brings you joy to support others and the program in this precious way. Feel free to offer monthly or once or twice during the course – whatever works for you. And, please know that we are very grateful for both the dana of your presence in the program, and your financial dana; both danas contribute to our capacity to continue teaching. You can feel that your support is supporting the Dharma. Thank you.

If you wish to offer your generosity to support Jeanne and our community, please visit our dana page to find details.

More information about the LDC

This program supports a shift from seeing the dharma as something we fit into our lives, to seeing our life through the lens of the dharma: the movement from having a spiritual practice to having a spiritual life. This is not about changing our lives, but rather changing our relationship with life. This program is offered in support of each of us living fully, with an open heart, expanding kindness, and wisdom and care for the world. Living the Dharma in Community combines the wisdom of study, reflection, and practice together.

This annual course is designed both for new participants and as a progressive deepening for those who join over multiple years. Currently we plan a rotation over 6 years, spiralling round to the first themes again in year 7. You can join in any year, and deepen through more than one 6 year cycle, coming to the first themes again with lived understanding. This can be a way of really seeing the deepening of our practice, over time. There are in-person and online options.

Cancelled: Zeden Lake Insight Meditation Retreat – September 2024 🌲

Unfortunately, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s retreat. Although we hoped that the date change to early September would work for the community, we just don’t have enough registration to go ahead. We have already tentatively scheduled back to the last week of August for 2025 (August 25-31 – dates to be confirmed), and we hope that you can join us again then. We will update our website when the dates and other details are figured out.

Our True Nature: Still, Easeful, Spacious

Silent Insight Meditation retreat at lovely Zeden Lake, with Jeanne Corrigal

September 2-8, 2024

some people in canoes and a paddleboard are floating on a lake with reeds, the sky is a hazy blue and there are tall evergreen trees in the background
Meditating on the lake in 2023
Photo by Andrea G.

Practicing in community with beloved nature as a teacher can cultivate deep settling, nurture the heart, and free the mind. This retreat will support these innate processes through pathways of concentration, kindness, awareness, and liberation. As we rest into these practices we can come to understand our own true nature more deeply, and this can be a nourishment and wisdom that we carry in all aspects of our lives. In this time of global crisis, the refuge of nature can support our embodied care, engagement in the world, and capacity to love the earth.

The retreat includes dharma talks, practice talks with Jeanne, reflective meditation practices, and gentle paddling each day. For more information, please email the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community at contact@saskatooninsight.com.

Two pine trees frame the view of a lake with the opposite shore in the distance. There is blue sky with some grey and white cumulus clouds.
Photo of Zeden Lake, from the St John Bosco Wilderness Camp website.

Retreat requirements

To support the safety and practical aspects of this nature retreat, we ask that participants have:

  • A minimum of one weekend silent insight meditation retreat, or a conversation with Jeanne to understand more about your experience.
  • Previous insight meditation practice.
  • Good swimming and basic canoe skills.
  • If tenting, basic camping experience.

Retreat Etiquette

We will share the happiness of the community work meditations of on-site food preparation and clean up.

This retreat will be held in silence, except for safety and logistical needs, and for practice talks with Jeanne. This supports the whole community.

Please come prepared to participate fully in the retreat schedule:
Day 1: 3:45 pm to 9 pm
Days 2-6: 6 am to 9 pm
Day 7: 6 am to noon

Logistics

  • We will set up our home at the St. John Bosco Wilderness Camp.
    • Please note there is no cell-phone coverage at this location. An emergency number will be provided for you to give to family or friends in case they need to contact you.
  • Base registration fee: $315, plus a food contribution equaling about $80-$100.
    • The base fee is for those who plan to camp (bring your own tent, etc.). There are some additional options for accommodation:
      1) A bed in a bunkhouse for an additional $63 (total
      2) A private bedroom in a cabin for an additional $315
      3) A private bedroom with a shared bathroom for an additional $378
    • Some scholarship support is available, if the registration fee is a barrier.
  • Registration fees cover the operational expenses of the retreat (site, equipment, fees, transportation, etc.). They do not cover the teachings, which are offered on a dana basis. Dana is a Pali word meaning generosity. In keeping with Buddhist tradition, teachers do not charge for their services but are sustained by the generosity of their students. Dana allows the teacher and retreat manager to continue their Dharma work. There will be an opportunity to offer dana to Jeanne for her teaching. (Ways to offer dana to Jeanne.)
  • Protocols to safely offer this retreat in light of Covid will be determined closer to the event.

Registration

Registration is closed.

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.