Retreat is Ceremony: Mindfulness and Indigenous Presence for Wellness and Healing (290R21)
Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, Jeff Haozous, Jeanne Corrigal and Elvina Charley
September 9 - 12, 2021
Registration open until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on September 8, 2021. A waiting list will be created if the program fills early.
OPEN TO ALL: Indigenous people from around the world and allies.
Description:
This online retreat will provide a conceptual framework and practice guidelines for Mindful “Indigenous Presence” meditation—a way of coming into harmony with the present moment and our world—and provides space for acceptance, and the cultivation of clarity, confidence, resilience and strength. This practice maps the fundamental wellness-optimizing characteristics of Indigenous Ceremony onto the methods and outcomes of another ancient traditional expression of sacred presence, that of mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation.
This retreat will be instructional, experiential, and interactive. Together we will explore the techniques of mindfulness/insight meditation and come to understand the strength-based and resilience optimizing characteristics of retreat as Ceremony.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
About the Teachers
Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH
Bonnie Duran met the Dharma in 1982 when she sat a month at Kopan Monastery in Nepal and learned Vipassana in Bodh Gaya India. Since then, she has taken teachings from many western teachers including Marcia Rose, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield, as well as Thai, Burmese, and Tibetan Monastic teachers. Bonnie is a graduate […]
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Jeff Haozous
Jeff began practicing insight meditation in 1996 at Spirit Rock. He later moved from San Francisco to Oklahoma and in 2003 started a meditation group there, where he continues to teach. He has taught at meditation groups, daylongs, and residential meditation retreats in California, Massachusetts, Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Jeff is a Chiricahua/Warm Springs […]
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Jeanne Corrigal
Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community. She has been practicing since 1999, and is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner and Community Dharma Leader Programs. Jeanne has trained with Mindful Schools and with Somatic Experiencing, and is certified in Indigenous Focusing Oriented Trauma Therapy, and as an MBSR […]
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Elvina Charley
Elvina Charley, Ed.S. is Diné (Navajo) school psychologist practitioner and integrates mindfulness as a part of serving children and youth. Charley has been practicing mindfulness since 2013, introduced to her by Bonnie Duran, Ph.D. as a way to heal from historical trauma. She found parallels between her Diné philosophy of life – Sa’ah naaghái bik’eh […]
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