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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.

December Daylong 🏠

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

Please register here:
https://saskatooninsight.com/forms/view.php?id=77930

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

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.

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.

May Daylong 🏠

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

Sitting in the City

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An in-person daylong retreat
with Jeanne Corrigal

Saturday, May 4, 2024
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Starting at The Salon at Oshun House

Join us for a day of contemplative meditation practises in the parks and elm lined streets of Saskatoon. This urban retreat will explore sitting, walking, and four elements practice as ways of opening to our own nature of spacious awareness. As we strengthen our connection to this innate refuge, we can engage with the ongoing challenges of our world with more steadiness.

This retreat is anchored in Early Buddhist teachings, combined with teachings from Jeanne’s Metis background. Everyone is welcome.

This retreat will begin indoors, and if weather permits, will continue outdoors as much as possible. If weather is not conducive, all of our practices can be done indoors also.

What to bring:
rain gear (just in case!)
warm enough clothing to be outside all day
something to lie on, on the ground
lawn chair or other easily carried sitting gear
water bottle
lunch to eat outdoors

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 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.

March Daylong 🏠

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

The Refuge of Intention

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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.