Classes & Retreats
KNOWING AWAKENING THROUGH THE BODY
An Eight-Week Class With Jim Dalton & The Daltones
Class Dates: Mondays, 2/2 – 3/23
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
HELD IN PERSON at PIMC
Suggested Donation:
Benefactor $155
Sustaining $125
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Join us in discovering awakening through the wisdom of the body. Over eight weeks, we’ll explore the Seven Factors of Awakening through mindful movement and meditation, cultivating insight, balance, and ease with a gentle, embodied approach to practice.
FINDING OUR WAY HOME:
Nothing to fix, everything to love
A Half Day Retreat with Enrique Collazo
Saturday, March 28
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
HELD IN PERSON & ONLINE via ZOOM
Suggested Donation:
Benefactor $80
Sustaining $65
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Drawing from the Buddha’s teaching on dependent origination (the 12 links), we’ll explore how suffering is not a personal failure, but a conditioned process. And how perception leads to emotion, emotion to reaction, and reaction to deeply wired patterns. Rather than using this insight to judge ourselves, we’ll practice meeting these patterns with care through the Brahmavihāras: loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. In this way, insight becomes not a weapon against ourselves, but a doorway to care, forgiveness, and connection.
CULTIVATING AWARENESS IN DAILY LIFE
A 5-Day Home Retreat With Alexis Santos
Sunday, March 29 – Friday, April 3
HELD IN PERSON & ONLINE via ZOOM*
*In-person Participation Required
Suggested Donation:
Benefactor $135
Sustaining $105
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Cultivate mindfulness and bring awareness into your everyday life during this unique five-day retreat in Portland. Participants will integrate practice into their daily routines and relationships through guided meditations, Dharma talks, and group sessions both online and in person.
Watch a Welcome Video from Alexis
In this short video, Alexis explains the notion of a home retreat in which participants gather together each morning and evening for guidance and support, and then spend the rest of the day practicing mindfulness amid their typical routines and relationships.
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Save the Date...
April 4, 2026: Qigong & Mindful Movement: A Daylong Retreat with Jim Dalton
April 16, 2026: The Eightfold Path: A 6-week Class Series with Alexa Redner
May 1-2, 2026: Grief and Possibility in a Time of Chaos: Friday Evening and Saturday Daylong Retreat with Dale Borglum
May 30, 2026: Tender and Steady Heart: Embodied Practices for Ease and Insight: A Daylong Retreat with Douglas Pullin
June 13, 2026: Daylong Retreat with Alexa Redner
September 19, 2026: The Brahmaviharas and Anatta: Contradiction or Complement?: A Daylong Retreat with Kate Davies