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Insight Meditation Retreat

Weekend meditation retreat

Deepening Insight

2 days
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Deepening Insight Meditation Retreat 
Burradoo, NSW | 7 - 9 March 2025
With: Libba Granger

Join us for Deepening Insight, a transformative weekend retreat where we will take a deeper dive into what are called the 3 characteristics of existence. These can be summarised as impermanence (everything changes), suffering (life sucks and sings), and non-self (don’t take things personally).

In this immersive experience, we will explore how these fundamental truths can illuminate our everyday lives, helping us develop greater equanimity and freedom.  The retreat will be largely in silence, but with opportunities for interviews with the teacher, talks and discussions about our practice in the group. Through meditation, discussion, and mindful practice, you'll deepen your understanding of how to embrace change with ease, navigate life's challenges with clarity, and cultivate a deeper sense of peace and liberation.

Whether you're new to these teachings or seeking to deepen your practice, this retreat will offer a rich opportunity to pause, reflect, and cultivate a more balanced, insightful way of being in the world. Single rooms, good food and time in nature offer a great space to rest, renew and explore. 

Please note that this retreat is suitable for people who have some experience of mindfulness meditation already - for example - for those who have completed the MBSR course or equivalent. It is not an introduction to mindfulness.  

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Who is this retreat for?

This retreat is for anyone wishing to deepen their practice and cultivate further understanding of the wisdom teachings underpinning mindfulness practices.

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Take a deep dive

into the three characteristics of existence

Mindful Actions

Pause and reflect

and cultivate a more balanced, insightful way of being in the world.

Course Locations

NSW

NSW

Weekend Silent Meditation Retreat - Burradoo, NSW

NSW - Bowral - Burradoo
07 March 2025 - 09 March 2025
Friday , 5pm Friday 7th March to 3pm Sunday 9th March
2 days
With Libba Granger
Standard Rate
$695

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Price

$695

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Dates and times

Dates 
7 - 9 March 2025
Times
Starts 5pm Friday 7th March - Concludes 3pm Sunday 9th March

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Venue and catering

Hartzer Park, 25 Eridge Park Rd, Burradoo NSW 2576 

Enjoy your own single room and gourmet vegetarian cuisine.

How to get there

Driving: Here is a link to Google Maps Hartzer Park.
Train:  the nearest station is Bowral Station and then it's a short cab ride to Hartzer Park. Here is a link to Sydney Trains.
Car Pooling: We will be helping to organise some car-pooling and will send an email out with details for those people looking for a lift. Do be in touch with if you can offer a lift or are looking for a lift.

Cancellation policy

Cancellations received up to or before 1 month before the event – the fee will be refunded less $110.
Cancellations received up to 10 working days before the event – 50% of the fee will be refunded.
Cancellations received 10 working days or less before the event – no refund will be made
Terms and Conditions

Libba Granger

BEc, LLB, Dip. Som. Psych. PACFA Reg.

Libba is an experienced trauma-informed psychotherapist and a Director of Openground and is one of the first people trained to teach MBSR in Australia. She has worked for Openground for the past 16 years as a teacher and the Director of Organisational Programs. In this capacity she has led many successful mindfulness and leadership programs to all levels of organisations such as Deaken University, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Anglicare. See the full list here.  She has also pioneered the Mindfulness for Veterans Program and led the first 8 week mindfulness course to Federal Parliamentarians and staffers. Libba brings a very down to earth manner to all her teaching, with much warmth and a sense of humour and has long practice experience in the Vipassana tradition.
Prior to that Libba worked as a litigation lawyer for 14 years, including at partnership level, and because of this background, has been passionate about bringing mindfulness into organisations and opening people to the best in themselves and their lives. She understands the realities and practicalities of practising mindfulness in daily life and work, and is passionate about sharing the possibilities for self discoveryand freedom that mindfulness can offer.

 

What happens on an insight meditation retreat

Retreats of this kind are generally held in silence; retreatants do not speak to one another and refrain from visual, verbal or written communications. Reading is also discouraged, so that you can better stay with your own present experience as it unfolds, moment to moment. Silence helps maintain awareness so this a powerful gift of generosity to yourself and others in the same retreat. It can be a good idea to do some regular formal meditation practice in the week before the retreat – to start this befriending process!

The whole retreat is a succession of mindfulness training, breathing practices, deep awareness of the body and environment, contemplating the nature of feelings, qualities of mind and the interplay. They are practiced throughout the day in various activities informally (showering, eating, tasks) and formally: sitting, walking, stretching. We’ll wake up at 6.30am for a 6.45am start and finish at about 9pm with several periods of free time during the day.

You will also have the opportunity to meet with Libba to explore your meditation practice, discuss obstacles, and get support for your process. 

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Don't meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps so many people's lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an act of love. How endlessly delightful and encouraging."