Salt Spring Island Vipassana Society

Residential Retreats

Location: Stowel Lake Farm

December 27, 2015-January 1, 2016

Annual New Year’s Retreat

With Heather Martin

Our longest running annual retreat falls at a fitting time of year for rest and recuperation following the stimulating Christmas season.  As we prepare to enter a new year, it is also the perfect time to reconnect with our wise hearts and calm minds, to release the old and resolve for the new.

March 10 – March 19, 2016

Experienced Students Vipassana Retreat

With Heather Martin and Kate Dresher

This retreat is offered for experienced meditators. Your practice should be established, and relatively self-supporting.  The prerequisite is a minimum of four week-long residential retreats in this tradition.  The schedule allows for self-direction over lengths of practice periods of sitting and walking. There will be an exploration of more nuanced and in-depth aspects of these profoundly liberating teachings. Due to the maturity of the practitioners, this retreat is usually very settled, intimate and a great opportunity for developing collectedness (Samadhi), as well as insight (Vipassana).

May 12- May 15, 2015

METTA (Loving-Kindness Retreat)

With Heather Martin

Details to come.

July 29- August 6, 2016

Summer Vipassana Retreat

With Pascal Auclair and Tempel Smith

Details to come.

Go to www.ssivipassana.ca for rates, info & registration details, as well as scholarship applications for financial assistance.