Retreat

Start Your Week Well - Monday Morning Online Sitting

Open Dates
Start your week well by joining BMIMC online for a regular Monday morning Zoom sitting hosted by Jill Shepherd and others from the BMIMC community.

Friends on the Path: The seven factors of awakening

with Jill Shepherd

August 1 - 15, 2026
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre
This two-week residential retreat for experienced meditators will focus on cultivating the Seven Factors of Awakening, those seven highly skilful qualities of mind that when balanced, support the development of transformative insight.

The Middle Way - Two week retreat

with Patrick Kearney and Louise Taylor

September 12 - 26, 2026
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation centre

In his first formal discourse the Buddha introduced the middle way as the central theme of his teaching. How is this to be understood? The middle way is not mere moderation, but the dynamic recognition that there is no fixed position in our experience, no where we can land and cling to. This teaching points […]

Long Weekend Retreat

with Michael Dash

October 3 - 5, 2026
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.

Metta for Vipassana

with Venerable Virañani

October 10 - 24, 2026
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

The practice of loving-kindness (mettā bhāvana) aims at the cultivation of a loving, benevolent attitude towards all living beings. Since the time of the Buddha, this form of meditation has been used as a practice in itself, and as a support for the development and deepening of insight (vipassanā bhāvana) This retreat is ideal for […]

Remembering Awareness - Nine-day retreat

with Patrick Kearney and Emma Pittaway

November 6 - 15, 2026
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation centre

Our practice is based on mindfulness, which emerges from the continuity of awareness. How can we maintain continuous awareness? By remembering that we are already aware. We do not need to generate awareness. When we “try” to be aware, our effort is based on our desire to be someone different, to have something different. But if […]

Deep Practice Retreat

with Patrick Kearney and Malcolm McClintock

November 19 - December 3, 2026
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre
This retreat is jointly taught by Malcolm McClintock and Patrick Kearney. It is designed for experienced practitioners who are independent in their practice. We will form a community of practice where shared practice will replace the normal structure of workshops, dharma talks and scheduled interviews. Practising together, we will meet each evening to share our daily experiences, just as the students of the Buddha did in the earliest days of the dharma.

Seeing clearly, finding freedom - Nine-day retreat

with Jill Shepherd

January 8 - 17, 2027
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre
This nine-day retreat will focus on deepening insight into the three universal characteristics of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self, because directly experiencing the truth of these three characteristics is the key to living our lives with more ease, peace, and freedom.

Deepening Practice 28-Day Retreat

with Patrick Kearney, Emma Pittaway and Robyn Gibson

January 29 - February 26, 2027
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre
This retreat is for experienced practitioners who want to deepen their practice and understanding. The first two weeks will be co-taught with Robyn Gibson and the second two weeks with Emma Pittaway.

Easter Retreat

with Tara Frances

March 26 - 29, 2027
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

This retreat is an opportunity the to develop an experiential understanding of Insight (Vipassana) and Loving Kindness (Metta) meditation in a supportive environment, and explore how these practices can support you in daily life.

Foundations of Buddhism & Meditation

with Danny Taylor

April 22 - 25, 2027
Blue Mountains Insight Mediation Centre
This integrated process is for people interested in the foundations of Buddhism and its relationship to meditation & life. It consists of three events, starting with a three-day weekend, and two subsequent sessions of one day each. Meditation will be central, but explored in its Buddhist context as a foundation for living. The format will allow us to experiment with integrating meditation into our everyday lives, while appreciating the Buddha’s core messages. This process is open to complete beginners and more experienced meditators.

Mindfulness of Breathing Retreat

with Malcolm Huxter

May 22 - 30, 2027
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre
This silent retreat will focus on exploration, guidance and the opportunity to practice meditation as described in the Buddha’s mindfulness of breathing discourse, and will include guidance in the development of the four divine abodes: warm benevolence, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity.

Two-Month Vipassana Retreat

with Ariya Baumann and Venerable Virañani

June 18 - August 14, 2027
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre
This two-month retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained, dedicated vipassanā practice with Ayya Vīrāñāṇī and Ariya Baumann. A daily session of mettā meditation, including some mettā chants, will help support the development of insight. 

The Way of Direct Experience - Two week retreat

with Patrick Kearney and Louise Taylor

September 11 - 25, 2027
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation centre

We are sentient beings, intimately interwoven with the suchness of life, and yet, all too often, we find ourselves living in a world of thought, ideas, and concepts, mistaking them for reality. When the Buddha taught, he did not ask us to believe, but to practice — to cultivate awareness and to know for ourselves. […]

Long Weekend Retreat

with Michael Dash

October 2 - 4, 2027
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.