Gentle and Clear: Training for Our Unbinding

With Michele McDonald and Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

July 17, 2021

Date and Time Details: Saturday, July 17th, 1-5:30 Mountain Time

Location: On-Line

Registration Fee: We offer a sliding scale structure. Prices for this retreat range from $35-$500 (not including Dana for the teachers).

Dana: This is a Dana based offering. The teachers rely on your support to make this offering possible. There will be an opportunity to offer Dana to the teachers at the end of the program. (Learn more)

Prices
  • $280.00 to $500.00 – Pay-it-forward: Support another practitioner to participate.
  • $130.00 to $279.00 – Sustaining
  • $80.00 to $129.00 – Base
  • $35.00 to $79.00 – Pay what you can

Limited scholarships available.

The mind has learned to defend itself from the fragility of life through craving, anger, fear, and fantasy. How do we come to trust the deeper security provided by love and wisdom without demonizing the challenging patterns we encounter so often in our hearts? Join Michele and Jesse for a meditation retreat where we will explore these dynamics and attempt to instill a sense of confidence in our path going forward – in the many fruitful ways that are possible. We will be online together for half the day and recorded instructions will be provided for those wanting to make it a full day of practice. All are welcome!

 

1-5:30 Mountain (listed below) / 12-4:30 Pacific / 3-7:30 Eastern

1:00 – 2:00 – Opening and Sit w/ instructions

2:00 – 2:30 – Walk

2:30 – 3:15 – Sit

3:15 – 4:00 – Dhamma Talk

4:00 – 4:30 – Walk

4:30 – 5:00 – Q&A

5:00 – 5:30 – Sit and close

***We will provide recorded morning instructions for those wishing to sit a full day. This offering will be recorded and shared with participants as well.***

About the Teachers

Michele McDonald

Michele McDonald has taught Insight meditation since 1982 and teaches extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Burma, and various locations around the world. Michele has been a quiet pioneer having being the first woman to teach a formal retreat in Burma, side-by-side with a senior monastic figure, Sayadaw U Lakkhana, Abbot of Kyaswa Monastery. Having […]

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Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey's teaching aims to inspire the skills, determination, and faith necessary to realize the deepest human freedom. He is a student of Michele McDonald and his approach is rooted in the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. As a teacher of Vipassana (insight) meditation within the broader context of Theravada Buddhism his teaching encourages […]

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