This weekend’s insight meditation retreat at St Francis Retreat Centre in Auckland was blessed by good weather, good food, good friends – and good singing and chanting, courtesy of a Pasifika dance group on Saturday and a Hindu meditation group on Sunday! Much gratitude to everyone who contributed to providing such powerful conditions for the deepening of wisdom and compassion.
(thanks also to Sia, retreat centre cook, for taking this photo of most of the retreatants)
I hope to be able to offer two more similar weekends in Auckland, 1-3 May and 1-3 August, but sadly, the St Francis Retreat Centre is already booked on those dates. I will keep looking for alternative venues, so please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Jill Shepherd: insight meditation 