Mindfulness Meditation and Practice in Daily Life (July 9-12, 2020)
At Home in Your Heart (Aug 5-9, 2020)
MARC programs numerous multi day retreats throughout the year. Some retreat are designed for beginners, and some are designed to help deepen an already existing mindfulness practice with exercises such as eating, walking, and sitting meditations.
In addition to daylong retreats, MARC also offers classes, workshops, professional trainings.
New!
This online retreat will include guided meditation instructions as well as guidance about integrating mindfulness into daily life while sheltering at home.
This online retreat will include periods of:
You should let your family and friends know what you are doing, but this retreat will NOT require complete isolation from them as on normal silent meditation retreats. We encourage as much separation as possible from the use of technology other than for the purposes of the retreat, but we will devote a small amount of time each day, as a group, to practice mindfully checking the news and our personal messages (for those who wish to do so).
This retreat is open to anyone of ages 16+
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Thursday (PST) |
Friday + Saturday (PST) |
Sunday - Final Morning (PST) |
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Teachers for the retreat are Matthew Brensilver, Cara Lai, and Marvin G. Belzer, together with other staff with extensive experience in teaching with this retreat model, including the March spring break retreats for Harvard and UCLA students.
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I am finding that doing this style of retreat, in my own home, is extremely rich and informative, in a way I never imagined. As much as I love the rarified space of residential retreat — beautiful halls, dorms, wilderness, a strong container disallowing the intrusion of the outside world — it is rather profound to have the opposite. To sit in the middle of the life I have and am creating. - Retreat Participant, 3-day retreat, April 2020 |
Date: Thursday July 9, 7-9.30pm PST - Sun July 12, 7am-12pm PST
There are three categories of costs:
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Date: Thur July 9-12, 2020 |
Generosity Rate: $350 CLOSED *
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Standard Rate: $225 CLOSED * |
**MARC is committed to equity and accessibility and with this in mind have multiple payment tiers. If you cannot afford the minimum fee and want to participate, please contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu). We are asking for a registration payment for this retreat for two reasons. The first is to create a solid container of commitment and community from participants. In this way we can have consistent small groups, structured workshops and a sense of practice community in our virtual meditation hall. The second is so that we can financially support staff mentors who are committing a significant amount of time and energy to hold the container of the retreat.
Join us for a 5-day training of mindful loving awareness (metta) using your own house as the base of practice.
With metta we cultivate calm embodiment, a steady capacity to appreciate all living beings and dissolve the habits that dull our ability to see each other respect. The greatest impact of metta is often to quiet our harsh inner critic and learn to befriend our actual selves.
These online practice periods at home are powerful ways to develop and integrate our deepest wisdom and strength in the place we wake up every day. These retreats meet the need we all have to learn how to bring the benefit of our loving awareness directly into our ordinary lives.
The daily retreat format will combine shared sitting and walking meditations with instruction, as well as an evening meditation with a discussion about the theory behind the practices. Afternoons during the training will have suggested practices to further strengthen and integrate loving awareness throughout our home life.
This retreat will draw from and reference Buddhist meditation practices but is open to anyone of any background.
There are three categories of costs:
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Date: Wed Aug 5- Sun Aug 9, 2020 |
Generosity Rate: $475 REGISTER *
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Standard Rate: $275 REGISTER * |
*Registration closes at 12noon PST on Wednesday, Aug 5
**MARC is committed to equity and accessibility and with this in mind have multiple payment tiers. If you cannot afford the minimum fee and want to participate, please contact us (marcinfo@ucla.edu). We are asking for a registration payment for this retreat for two reasons. The first is to create a solid container of commitment and community from participants. In this way we can have consistent small groups, structured workshops and a sense of practice community in our virtual meditation hall. The second is so that we can financially support staff mentors who are committing a significant amount of time and energy to hold the container of the retreat.
Bonnie Duran, PhD, Teacher
An Opelousas/Coushatta descendant, Bonnie began mindful awareness meditation practice over 35 years ago. She is a core faculty of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner Program (DPP), teaches short and long silent retreats, and holds a BIPOC and Allies Sangha in Seattle, WA. She also directs the University of Washington’s Center for Indigenous Health Research.
Tempel Smith, Teacher
Tempel teaches mindfulness, insight and metta awareness with an emphasis on Buddhist psychology and mind-body connection. He spent a year training in Myanmar with two great Burmese teachers. Tempel serves on Spirit Rock’s Guiding Teachers Committee, is a core faculty of DPP, and teaches meditation classes in Berkeley/Oakland.
Jeff Haozous (Assistant)
Jeff has been practicing insight meditation since 1996. He is currently in the Spirit Rock Teacher Training Program and is a graduate of both DPP and CDL. He is a Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache and a former longtime Chairman of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe. Jeff teaches meditation to groups in Oklahoma and New Mexico and has taught and assisted on retreats in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
