Residential Retreat

Five-day Retreat

with Lesley Lebkowicz

May 10 - 15, 2024
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

Lesley has been practicing vipassana meditation for 40 years and has spent several years in silent retreat in Australia, the USA and Burma. She has worked as a teacher, counsellor and writer and currently divides her time between formal spiritual practice and writing. Lesley founded and led the Canberra Insight Meditation Group for 13 years. Her […]

Two-week Retreat

with Sayalay Bhadda Manika

August 2 - 18, 2024
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre
This is a residential retreat, with Sayalay connecting in via Zoom from Nepal.  It is an 8 precept retreat (no meals after midday). Suitable for both beginners and more experienced meditators.

The Way of Insight

with Patrick Kearney

September 13 - 22, 2024
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation centre

Nine Day Retreat In this retreat we will practise mindfulness and explore its application to the discovery of insight. For the Buddha, “insight” means seeing into the three universal characteristics of impermanence or change (anicca), pain or dis-ease (dukkha) and not-self (anattā). These characteristics reveal a world entirely different from the one we have taken […]

Long Weekend Retreat

with Michael Dash

October 5 - 7, 2024
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

The focus of this retreat is on realistic and practical understanding of Buddhism and Buddhist meditation with an emphasis on personalising the practice and using it in everyday life.