Diamond Approach Meditation Retreat

This meditation retreat is an opportunity to immerse oneself in an extended period of silent meditation informed by the Diamond Approach®. This stretch of time, unencumbered by our usual concerns, allows us to devote ourselves to practice and to invite direct contact with Being and Presence. A central principle of the Diamond Approach is that when we contact ourselves in a felt-sensed way, we open the door to direct experience of our reality as essential. The fundamental practices of the Diamond Approach are designed to facilitate the radical shift to an intimacy with the totality of our experience spanning personality and Essence. This retreat will support your connection to yourself and to these practices, integrating and deepening of the sensing, looking and listening practice and your meditation practice––developing concentration, awareness and presence in an on-going way . The daily schedule includes sitting, walking, and eating meditation as well as the practice of presence in all activities. There will be meditation instruction, yoga practice, meeting with teachers and nightly talks. All students in the Ridhwan School are welcome to attend.

Teachers:

Sandra Maitri is a longtime teacher of the Diamond Approach. She leads Ridhwan groups in the Bay Area and the United Kingdom. Her background includes extensive meditation in the Theravadin and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Eugene Cash is a Ridhwan teacher and co-leads CA Diamond Heart 8. He is also a Buddhist teacher, the founder of San Francisco Insight, and a member of the Spirit Rock Teacher Council.

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