Online weekend retreat: Rest, Resilience, Renewal, Release – Exploring the four brahmavihāra heart qualities in daily life for London Insight Friday May 12 7:00 – 9:00 pm UKSaturday May 13 9:00 – 5:00 pm UKSunday May 14 9:00 – 5:00 pm UK The four brahmavihāra heart practices of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity areContinue reading “Coming soon …”
Category Archives: Insight meditation – vipassana
Latest ONLINE practice opportunities
I’m happy to announce a few new opportunities to practice with me online, starting soon: Online meditation and dharma talk for Insight Meditation Community of Western Mass Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns Wednesday April 19; 7:00 – 8:30pm ET Embodying Awareness: A day of online meditation with Jill Shepherd, Willa Reid and Elizabeth Day You are warmly invitedContinue reading “Latest ONLINE practice opportunities”
NEW online meditation opportunity – Start Your Year Well
Since June 2020, I have been offering an online meditation on Monday mornings, called “Start Your Week Well.” As an extension of that idea, you’re invited to join me and meditators from around the world for a full day of drop-in online meditation to help start your YEAR well. This will be an opportunity to strengthen your meditation practiceContinue reading “NEW online meditation opportunity – Start Your Year Well”
New online retreat opportunity!
Eight-day on-line retreat with US dharma teacher Gil Fronsdal12-20 February Due to Covid, this retreat is NOW FULLY ON-LINE and there are just a couple of places available This eight-day on-line retreat offers a rare opportunity to connect with one of the most highly-respected insight teachers in the US, Gil Fronsdal. Option 1: Online retreat Held in silenceContinue reading “New online retreat opportunity!”
Insight Meditation Society 2020 Registration Now Open
Just letting you know that the Insight Meditation SOciety in Barre, Massachusetts, has just announced its 2020 retreat schedule and registration is now open. Based on previous years, most retreats tend to get fully booked within a few days, so if you’re interested in practising at IMS, best to register as soon as you canContinue reading “Insight Meditation Society 2020 Registration Now Open”
Retreat as rebellion
Resisting the tyranny of productivity Over the last few months, I’ve been having conversations with students – and with myself! – about what feels to be the increasingly relentless busyness of our lives. People often say to me that they don’t have time to meditate every day, and they certainly don’t have time to goContinue reading “Retreat as rebellion”
April 2018 full moon – Retreat and post-retreat practice
Before and after A couple of years ago, I wrote a post titled “Retreat and pre-retreat practice“, which explored ways to navigate some of the anxiety and other challenges that often come up before we go on retreat. This month, I’m writing about another aspect of retreat practice that doesn’t always get a lot ofContinue reading “April 2018 full moon – Retreat and post-retreat practice”
January 2018 full moon – re-set
Sydney Insight Meditators 2018 New Year’s retreat Making positive changes The New Year is traditionally a time to try to make positive changes for the year ahead. And yet most of us have had the experience of starting out with a rush of good intentions, only to find ourselves collapsing back into old habits veryContinue reading “January 2018 full moon – re-set”
December 2017 super moon – impermanence, vastness, and intimacy
Impermanence This month’s full moon post is a little late, because just this morning, I finished co-teaching the last six weeks of the three-month retreat at IMS in Barre, Massachusetts. The ending of any period of intensive meditation practice is poignant, but even more so when it’s been a longer retreat. As this retreat wasContinue reading “December 2017 super moon – impermanence, vastness, and intimacy”
July 2017 full moon – Gratitude
Just last week, I finished a one-month retreat at the Insight Meditation Society’s Forest Refuge in Barre, Massachusetts, led by Sayadaw U Vivekananda. What a relief it was, to temporarily put down some of the burdens I didn’t even know I was carrying, and to have such a powerful opportunity to “disentangle the tangle” (asContinue reading “July 2017 full moon – Gratitude”
Jill Shepherd: insight meditation 