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Retreats and Other Residential Programs, Online retreats, 2024-25

Description Dates
Nights
Place Teacher(s) Cost ($) excluding dana*
Mindfulness, Breathing and the Heart
30 November - 5 December
5
Sangsurya Retreat Centre, Byron Bay Mal Huxtrer and Lisa Brown
1590 single room*
1095 shared room*
745 van camping*
* early bird discrounts available (before 30 June)
Insight Meditation
13 - 19 December 6 Sangsurya Retreat Centre, Byron Bay Radha Nicholson and Will James 1405 single
975 shared room
718 van camping

Insight Meditation
10 - 16 January 2025
6
Sangsurya Retreat Centre, Byron Bay Radha Nicholson
1479 single
700 van camping
28 Day Retreat
17 January - 14 February 2025
28
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre, Medlow Bath Patrick Kearney
1955
waiting list only
Freedom through Insight and Understanding
25 - 31 January
6
Sangsurya Retreat Centre, Byron Bay Subhana Barzaghi and Will Janes
1456 single
1046 shared
790 concession
687 van camping
High Country Walking Retreat
24 February - 3 March 2025
7
Charlotte Pass, Kosciouszko NP
Victor von der Heyde and Suzie Brown
1170 single
1900 total for two people who wish to share a room
Mindfulness of Breathing and the Four Boundless Divine Abodes
28 February - 6 March 2025 6
online
Mal Huxter and Lisa Brown
standrard: 250
benefactor: 350
scholarship: 150
*This cost does not include any payment to the teacher(s). Teachers rely on dana (literally "generosity") for these programs and there is usually a box at the retreat for this purpose.
Bookings are open for all the progams listed. There are other retreats and programs planned, they're shown in the Insight Meditation News and they'll appear on this table when bookings open.


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Insight Meditation Groups and Centres

Adelaide See Coast and City Sangha
Melbourne Melbourne Insight Meditation Group
Bellingen Tallowwood Sangha Newcastle The Sit In
Blackheath Cloud Refuge Rockhampton Rockhampton Insight Meditation
Bundanoon (NSW) Southern Highlands Sangha Sunshine Coast (Qld)
Sunshine Heart Insight Meditation
Brisbane - West End Heart Insight Meditation Group Sydney SIM (Sydney Insight Meditators)
Brisbane
DharmaCloud
Sydney - Eastern Suburbs Golden Wattle Sangha
Brunswick Heads
Flowing Mountain Meditation Group
Sydney - Inner West Kookaburra Sangha
Byron Shire - Possum Creek Women's Group Sydney - North Sydney Bluegum Sangha
Goolwa (SA) Goolwa Dharma Group Sydney - Narrabeen Still Water Sangha
Lismore Kuan Yin Meditation Centre Sydney - Northern Beaches Beaches Sangha
Medlow Bath Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Woolongong / Illawarra Ocean View Sangha



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Photos: by Ken Golding from the 2008 Dharma Gathering (1) and 2008 yatra (2, 3) and by Kay Burns (4) from the 2011 Far South Coast yatra.
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