Open and Relaxed Awareness: A Daylong Retreat (Hybrid: in CA and on Zoom)

Teachers: Marjolein Janssen and Dawn Neal
Location: In-person and on Zoom, @ Insight Santa Cruz, CA
Hours: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Information and Registration: Insight Santa Cruz

Please join us for a silent daylong retreat focusing on the cultivation of relaxed open awareness. During this day we will learn how open and relaxed awareness can help us to cultivate a broad and skillful understanding of our moment-to-moment experience. This retreat’s teachings will emphasize approaching meditation with relaxed interest. Participants will be encouraged to allow experience to be known in a simple way as it naturally unfolds. This integrated approach to practice is inspired by the teaching style of the Burmese monk Sayadaw U Tejaniya. It has proven to be a useful lens on meditation for beginning and experienced practitioners alike.

There will be Dharma instructions, periods of sitting and walking meditation, and time for questions and sharing.