Retreats at PIMC
Developing a Deep Intimacy with Our Experience
with Mary Stancavage
Saturday, April 27, 2024
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
$75 Suggested Donation
No one turned away for lack of funds
HELD IN PERSON AND ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Portland Insight Meditation Center 6536 SE Duke Street Portland, OR 97206
A beautiful definition of equanimity is the ability to be present with our experience, without needing it to be different; it’s a wise response to our world.
This is a beautiful aspiration, but often a challenge to put into practice! This daylong retreat with guest teacher Mary Stancavage will provide an opportunity to step back from our daily routine and spend time being with our experiences and learning to befriend them. Equanimity is a heart practice that invites us to be fully present – with gentle and kind awareness.
In this daylong you will have the chance to see what gets in the way of your equanimity – what stories and habits of mind tell you that things must be different to move towards joy and tranquility? There will be talks, sitting and walking meditation, and a chance for conversation and community. Hopefully by the end of the day you will find some ease with even the most difficult of emotions. Bring yourself, your heart, and something to write with.
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Mary Stancavage has practiced meditation, yoga, and cultivated a spiritual practice for over 35 years. In 2009 she was empowered to teach Buddhadharma. She teaches classes, retreats, coaches and mentors individuals and has facilitated several Year-to-Live groups over the years. She has served as volunteer hospital chaplain and been involved with leadership in several non-profit organizations over the years both in meditation and in the social justice arena. She is currently a member of the Guiding Teachers Council for Insight Community of the Desert, serves on the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Interfaith Task Force and is a Board Member of both Meditation Coalition and CLUE: Clergy and Laity for Economic Justice. For the last several years, Mary has investigated what it means to live with an undefended heart. More information can be found at http://marystancavage.org.
For more info, please email mary@marystancavage.org
Registration
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COURAGE AND COMPASSION IN A TROUBLED TIME
A Daylong Workshop with Robert Beatty and Betsy Toll
Saturday, May 4, 2024
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
$85 Suggested Donation
No one turned away for lack of funds
HELD IN PERSON AT PIMC
Portland Insight Meditation Center 6536 SE Duke Street Portland, OR 97206
Life has always been difficult, fragile and unstable. Added to that, we are now faced with looming changes in our lives that come through climate change, political collapse, war, and terrorism.
With whom can we speak openly and share our fears and losses?
These monstrous realities are mostly taboo in conversations with friends and loved ones. We need places, community, and rituals where we can open to the fear, uncertainty, pain, danger, and injury that seems overwhelming. We must band together to cultivate our capacity to live with truth, joy, and compassion, no matter what.
Betsy Toll, Founder of Living Earth, and PIMC Founder and Guiding Teacher Robert Beatty invite you to join them to gather in meditation and a deep, honest conversation about what is really happening in our lives and hearts.
We will share, move, dance, and meditate as we express our ultimate connectedness.
Gathering in community and sharing our common experience is an antidote to helplessness and hopelessness and can provide doorways for revealing our natural resilience. Please bring a lunch.
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Betsy Toll is the founder of Living Earth, offering dharma circles, service programs, and community dialogues in Portland that bring practice into social action. As a non-denominational lay chaplain, Betsy provides support to ill and dying individuals and their loved ones in hospital and at home. The generosity, kindness, and wisdom of Ram Dass, Joanna Macy, and Roshi Joan Halifax illuminate her dharma path.
Registration
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Teacher Trainee Community Retreat
A Day of Practice and Connection
Saturday, June 8, 2024
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
$65 Suggested Donation
No one turned away for lack of funds
HELD IN PERSON AND ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Portland Insight Meditation Center 6536 SE Duke Street Portland, OR 97206
Join Guiding Teacher Robert Beatty and the teacher trainees for a whole day of practice. There will be opportunities for individual guidance and meetings with the teachers: Vik Anantha, Paula Baugher, Paul La Vigne, Dan Leif, Miche McCausey, and Erin Schneider. We will reflect, sit in noble silence, and connect in community with these remarkable students of the Dharma.
Please visit https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=QXqkfd to learn more and register, or click below. Also, bring your lunch!
Registration
Click the button below to register. Drop-in donation at the door is also accepted. Full scholarships are available: If you require a full scholarship, please use THIS FORM to register instead.
Classes at PIMC
Basics of Mindfulness/Spring Session
with Doug Pullin
Six Thursdays
April 4, April 11, April 25, May 2, May 9, May 23
6:00 pm – 7:20 pm
$150 Suggested Donation
No one turned away for lack of funds
HELD IN PERSON AND ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Zoom link provided upon registration
If you want support in establishing a daily mindfulness meditation practice or deepening your practice this is the class for you. During this six-session journey you will learn mindfulness of breathing, the body, of emotions, thoughts, of mind, and of the application of mindfulness in daily life and on retreat. This class is appropriate for beginners as well as for those more experienced meditators who want to refresh the fundamentals of practice.
The benefits of this practice include:
A healthier relationship with your thoughts.
More balance with your emotions.
Being more in touch with your body and mind.
Increased capacity to be loving and kind.
Being more peaceful.
This class will provide you with a relaxed and supportive environment for mindfulness practice to deepen. Doug will tailor his instruction to meet your specific needs. You will be provided an at home practice guide and instructions to expand mindfulness into everyday life. Practice outside of class is an important part of the learning process.
Books for the class may be downloaded free of charge:
Mindfulness in Plain English by Henapola Gunaratana
The Power of Mindfulness by Nyanaponika Thera
Registration
Full scholarships available. If you require a full scholarship, please use THIS FORM to register.
Women's Restoration & Rejuvenation
Summer Session with Candle Summers
3rd Fridays May–August
May 17, June 21, July 19, August 16
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
$60 Suggested Donation
No one turned away for lack of funds
HELD ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Zoom link to attend class will be sent upon registration
Women’s Restoration & Rejuvenation offers a monthly group to self-identified women, cis-gender, those gender fluid and non-binary, a place to come together in community to share our wisdom and strengthen our sense of belonging in our spiritual practice.
WRR comes together to reflect and inspire each other on the path to liberation. What has been inspiring you lately in your readings and your life? We will share our love for the Dharma through readings by women Buddhist teachers who have been influencing us. Each month there will be time for silent meditation and individual sharing about our practice. Candle will guide a 30 minute sitting practice of Mindfulness and Metta and guide the sharing of each person for about 5 minutes each.
This is a place to gather, speak truthfully, and listen deeply. The format will be a talking stick style circle, each sharing, others listening deeply. No obligation to speak.
Women’s Restoration & Rejuvenation is committed to making the exploration of practices and teachings of the Buddha relevant and accessible in today’s world. It is important to welcome all people of every age, ethnicity, cultural heritage and religious background, socio-economic group, ability, sexual orientation and gender identity. In this way we aspire to follow in the footsteps of the Buddha, who offered his teachings of awakening and freedom freely to everyone without exception. A donation link will be provided to encourage generosity and to continue the time-honored teachings.
Registration
This group fills up and will be limited to the first 20 people, so register early. Full scholarships available. If you require a full scholarship, please use THIS FORM to register. Drop-in donation at the door is also accepted.
Events at PIMC
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