Upcoming Meditation Retreats

This page contains information about upcoming meditation retreats that I will be teaching - or attending. There are also links to other pages with meditation retreat information.

If you want to learn about - and even learn - meditation on-line, visit Wildmind Buddhist Meditation. The information there is quite good and will be useful for any of the types of meditation taught in the retreats below.

If you are planning on attending a retreat that I will be teaching, you should contact the the registrar for the retreat (listed below); they will handle getting you registered, etc. You should also read the Guidelines for Retreats with Leigh Brasington.

Retreat Information

• Teacher: Ven. Ayya Khema via video taped dhamma talks
  Assistant: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: States of Consciousness (Potthapada Sutta) Digha Nikyya #9
  Dates: 19 Feb - 18 Mar '10
  Place: Cloud Mountain Retreat Center (1 hour North of Portland, OR)   Photos
  Contact: Cloud Mountain at (360) 274-4859 or 1-888-465-9118 or e-mail Friends of Cloud Mountain
  More info can be found here.
  Cost: $1750?
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: The Fruits of the Spiritual Life
  Date: 19 March '10 - 7:15p-9:00p
  Topic: Deepening Concentration
  Date: 20 March '10 - 9:00a-5:00p
  Topic: Dependent Origination
  Date: 21 March '10 - 9:00a-5:00p
  Place: UBC Asian Centre, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
  Sponsor: Westcoast Dharma Society
  
  
• Teachers: Santikaro & Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Anapanasati, Jhanas and Dependent Origination
  Dates: 2 - 11 April '10
  Place: La Salle Manor, 1 hour southwest of Chicago, IL
  Contact: Ann 847-644-8593 or Jen 708-386-3472
  Cost: $655 ($620 before Nov.15). A four day option is available for 2-5 April for $410 ($390 before Nov. 15).
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington and Lloyd Burton
  Topic: Jhanas and Satipatthana
  Dates: 1 - 11 July '10   Photos
  Place: Chupadero, N.M. (near Santa Fe)
  Sponsor: Insight Meditation Community of Colorado
  Registration Details and Cost to be announced.
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Jhanas and Satipatthana
  Dates: 16 - 25 July '10
  Place: Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Barre, Mass.   Photos
  Cost: $625?
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Introduction to the Jhanas
  Dates: 7 & 8 Aug, '10
  Place: Portland Insight Meditation Center, Portland Oregon
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Jhanas and Satipatthana
  Dates: 13 Aug - 22 Aug '10
  Place: Cloud Mountain Retreat Center (1 hour North of Portland, OR)   Photos
  Contact: Cloud Mountain at (360) 274-4859 or 1-888-465-9118 or e-mail Friends of Cloud Mountain
  More info can be found here.
  Cost: $600?
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: The Fruits of the Spiritual Life
  Date: 7:00pm, 22 Aug '10
  Place: Bodhi House, Lacey, WA
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Jhanas and Satipatthana
  Dates: 10 - 19 Sept '10
  Sponsor: Vipassanagruppen Sweden
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Jhanas and Dependent Origination
  Dates: 1 - 10 Oct '10
  Place: Gaia House West Ogwell, Devon, England
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Jhanas and Satipatthana
  Dates: 15 - 24 Oct '10
  Location: Buddha Haus near Kempten, Germany
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Jhanas and Satipatthana
  Dates: Nov '10
  Location: Portugal
  
  

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  (Dates for 2011 and after are tenative)
• Teacher: Ven. Ayya Khema via video taped dhamma talks
  Assistant: Leigh Brasington   (This is the only retreat Leigh plans to teach in 2011)
  Topic: States of Consciousness (Potthapada Sutta) Digha Nikyya #9
  Dates: 25 Feb - 24 Mar '11
  Place: Cloud Mountain Retreat Center (1 hour North of Portland, OR)   Photos
  Contact: Cloud Mountain at (360) 274-4859 or 1-888-465-9118 or e-mail Friends of Cloud Mountain
  More info can be found here.
  Cost: $1750?
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Dependent Origination and Jhanas
  Dates: 8 - 17 Apr '11
  Place: Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Barre, Mass.   Photos
  Cost: $625?
  
  
• Leigh Brasington will be on sabbatical from Apr 2011 until Feb 2012 - no additional retreats planned for 2011.
  
  

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• Teacher: Ven. Ayya Khema via video taped dhamma talks
  Assistant: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: States of Consciousness (Potthapada Sutta) Digha Nikyya #9
  Dates: 24 Feb - 23 Mar '12
  Place: Cloud Mountain Retreat Center (1 hour North of Portland, OR)   Photos
  Contact: Cloud Mountain at (360) 274-4859 or 1-888-465-9118 or e-mail Friends of Cloud Mountain
  More info can be found here.
  Cost: $1750?
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Jhanas and Satipatthana
  Dates: May '12
  Place: Southern Dharma Retreat Center, Hot Springs, North Carolina
  Contact: 828-622-7112 or e-mail [email protected]
  
  
• Teacher: Leigh Brasington
  Topic: Jhanas and Satipatthana
  Dates: Summer '12
  Place: Oakwood Farm, Selma, Indiana
  Sponsor: Tri-State Dharma
  
  
• Leigh Brasington will teach additional retreats in 2012.
  
  

• Insight Meditation Retreats in North America - North America
• Abhayagiri Forest Monastery calendar - Retreats and sittings with Ajhan Amaro
• Spirit Rock Meditation Center Events - Northern California
• Cloud Mountain Retreat Center - Washington/Oregon - Photos
• Insight Meditation Society Schedule - Massachusetts
• Bhavana Society - West Virginia
• The Buddhist Society of Western Australia Home Page - Western Australia
• Passaddhi Retreat Center - Ireland
• Schedule of Meditation Retreats At Gaia House - England and Worldwide
• Schedule for Ven. Tsoknyi, Rinpoche - Worldwide

• Geographical directories of Theravadan centers - A good place to look for retreats in yoour area

• Hazy Moon Zen Retreat Center - Zen in Los Angles

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