Remote: At Home Retreat - The Marriage of Meditation and Yoga
Jeff Collins and Gisela Konrad
May 12 - 17, 2020
In one sense the goal of spiritual work is to become increasingly intimate with and expressive of our true nature. Both the tool and the fruit of increasing intimacy with our true nature are to dwell increasingly in a state of simple and precise awareness. This classic, five-night silent retreat is designed to serve the nurturing of this intimacy by providing the space and time for steeping in that awareness.
Each day the retreat will flow from periods of sitting meditation to walking meditation to several periods of yoga practice. The style of yoga offered is known as viniyoga, which is grounded in awareness of breath and of the physical movement that flows out of that awareness. Anyone who can breathe can participate in this yoga. Yoga mats will be provided.
The retreat will include meditation and yoga instruction, Dharma talks, chanting, and group and private meetings with the teachers.
About the Teacher
Jeff Collins
Jeff Collins (he/him) has been leading meditation retreats for 30 years. He worked as a hospice social worker for 25 years until his retirement six years ago. He now works as a full-time psychotherapist. In addition to a number of years of Zen training, he has completed three, three-month month-long retreats at Insight Meditation Society, […]
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Gisela Konrad
Gisela Konrad (she/her) has been leading meditation retreats for 25 years. She has completed two, three-month-long retreats at the Insight Meditation Society. She is certified as a yoga teacher by the American Viniyoga Institute under Gary Kraftsow. Her yoga teaching includes classic asana practice and chanting from the Yoga Sutra and the Vedas, but through […]
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