Improvising Life: A Five-Night Silent Meditation Retreat

With Jon Aaron

June 12 - 17, 2018

Location: Shoreline Campus

Address: 167 Neck Rd, Madison, CT 06443

  • $1,250.00 – Shared Room, Private Bath (includes tuition, meals and accommodations)
  • $1,800.00 – Private Room, Private Bath (includes tuition, meals and accommodations)

IDEAL FOR: Experienced

Our life unfolds like music from an orchestra. We respond or react depending on the tonality in any given moment. Over time, we gain a fixed interpretation of this music, and expect it to continue to unfold in a similar way according to our tastes and preferences. We are thrown off base when a discordant note arrives. Through practice, though, we learn to improvise and begin to realize that riffing off the discordant can create beauty.

The spaciousness of this five-day silent retreat will provide the opportunity to cultivate presence, equanimity and balance to face the uncertainties that life sends our way. This is an opportunity to renew and deepen your practice of compassion and mindfulness meditation, and live fully in a strong, supportive, and beautiful environment enhanced by silence with the support of experienced teachers.

Much of our time will be spent engaged in sitting and walking meditation with periods of mindful movement. The teachers will provide meditation instruction and guidance along with daily talks.

Tuition is $600 plus accommodations.

About the Leader

Jon Aaron

Jon Aaron is a teacher at New York Insight Meditation Center. His principal dharma teacher has been Matthew Flickstein of The Forest Way. He trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness , and is a certified teacher through the Center. He has taught over 65 cycles of […]

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