Deepening Practice 28-Day Retreat
with Patrick Kearney, Emma Pittaway and Robyn Gibson
January 16 - February 13, 2026
This retreat is open to people who have done at least three insight meditation retreats in the Mahasi tradition of nine days longer.
Satipaṭṭhāna, the applications of mindfulness, is based on the continuity of awareness cultivated in every circumstance of life. We practise to become intimate with ourselves, our circumstances and the world around us. As we do so, we discover what the Buddha calls the three universal characteristics of experience – that all we undergo is changing, fundamentally unsatisfactory, and neither ours nor us.
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.
About the Teachers

Patrick Kearney
Patrick Kearney is an independent dharma teacher in the lineage of Mahāsī Sayādaw of Burma, his principal teachers being Paṇḍitarama Sayādaw and John Hale. He has also trained in the Diamond Sangha lineage of Zen Buddhism. His original teacher was Robert Aitken Roshi, and he is now studying with Paul Maloney Roshi. Patrick has a particular […]
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Emma Pittaway
Emma Pittaway teaches an open “natural awareness” approach that emphasises meditation as a way of being in the world, based on her training in the Burmese lineage of Mahāsī Sayādaw via Shwe Oo Min Sayādaw and his dharma successor, Sayādaw U Tejaniya. Inspired by the Buddha and his followers, who lived and meditated in the […]
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Robyn Gibson has been practising and studying meditation for 30 years, predominantly in the Mahāsi lineage of Theravāda Buddhism. Her principal teachers have been Patrick Kearney and Carol Perry. Teaching since 2016, Robyn’s approach brings together the Buddha’s radical teachings of freedom through embodied presence, deep ecology and other nature-based practices, and creative expression. All […]
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