Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

Registration for this retreat is closed

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Registration is closed for this retreat.
August 30 - September 02, 2013 (Friday to Monday)


This retreat is full with a wait list. To be added to the list, submit a registration and deposit.

All scholarship funds have been awarded.


What does it mean to be present, connected and awake? How do we experience true freedom of body, heart and mind? This silent weekend retreat is an opportunity to explore these questions through Buddhist philosophy and practice. Guidance in vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) meditations will be offered, encouraging greater awareness, calm abiding and loving friendliness. Through these practices, compassion and wisdom deepen, and our innate freedom is revealed.

Both beginners and experienced meditators are welcome.

Optional daily yoga sessions led by Éowyn Ahlstrom will be included to support our openness and vitality.

A Message from IMS's Guiding Teachers

Inevitably, there'll be some noise as IMS's project to renovate the Catskills is underway. (Its completion is currently scheduled for late August 2013.) The work, however, will take place primarily indoors during regular construction hours, usually Monday - Friday, 7:00am-4:00pm.

In the Retreat Center meditation hall, the impact of any renovation noise is further reduced by an air circulation and conditioning system that allows fresh air to move around without opening the windows.

The teachers at IMS decided to continue offering retreats throughout this building period, knowing that conditions for practice are rarely perfect. We trust that these particular conditions can be met with the equanimity and grace with which we meet a range of conditions in our lives.

All of us at IMS look forward to supporting you on retreat.

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