nu Dunedin 2024
Tranquility and Insight
Meditation Immersion with Susan Allen
Dates: 3 – 4 August 2024 (see below for times)
Join us for this urban meditation immersion in the stunning nu studio, central Dunedin. A two day journey of discovery through meditation; this practice cultivates understanding of how your mind works and points the way to us flourishing in this world.
Come together for two days of inspiring learning and practice with one of NZ’s most experienced meditation teachers.
Led by Susan Allen, practitioner and meditation teacher for the last 22 years.
– The practice –
Set a new direction for yourself.
Learn a meditation practice that offers huge capacity for change and freedom.
This meditation immersion offers two days of meditation practice and discussion in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. This is an opportunity for you to begin a daily meditation practice for life or to advance an existing practice with fresh ideas and strategies. These meditation immersions are usually mixed level – from beginners to more experienced practitioners, all are welcome.
Suze has the capacity to present meditation so it is relevant and captivating for everybody. Suze has been teaching meditation for 22 years and has an authentic and infectious passion for sharing this transformative practice with others.
Meditation will change your life, it is a tool for developing not just a calmness of mind, but also a poise of character. Through the practice we gain insight into how our mind works; we find a path that facilitates the flourishing of all mental traits
What will we be practicing?
The meditation practices and discussion will have a particular emphasis on cultivating quietness and steadiness in the mind as well as cultivating insights that bring freedom and openness into our everyday life. Tibetan Buddhist meditations value an intelligent and structured approach to investigating ‘What is the mind?’ and consequently frame meditation in a practical and methodical way. You can read more detail about the meditation approach here. The meditation practices will be taken from the Mahamudra and Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhist tradition. These will be presented in a secular, practical fashion.
The mind is the ground for suffering or for liberation.
The mind absolutely and completely shapes our experience of life. In this retreat we will explore how the mind fabricates our experience. To explain this, imagine this scene –
Someone criticises you for not completing a task the way they would have done it. If you are in a buoyant and happy mood you shrug off their criticism and don’t let it bother you. If you are tired and grumpy then you might really react to their criticism, taking it to heart, and getting caught up in some story about how people don’t like you or value you, or whatever your version of the story is you often fall into. This is an example of how the mind constructs, or we say fabricates, our experience. Our happiness depends on how the mind reacts to our experience. Once we understand that every moment of our life is dependent on how the mind fabricates our experience, the path, the way out of this bondage becomes visible.
– Dates and Pricing –
Dates
3 – 4th August, 2024
Day 1: Saturday 3rd August, 10.30am – 5pm
Day 2: Sunday 4th August, 10.45am – 3.30pm
Location
nu yoga
Level 1, 286 Princes Street, The Exchange, Dunedin
Pricing
Tuition per person for the 2 day program – $320
Payment is required to register a spot. A payment plan is available on request.
What is included? This is a non-residential immersion. Participants need to find their own accommodation locally. Price includes all instruction as well as audio recordings of selected practices to take away. Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch and stay at the studio during the break. There are many local cafes within walking distance to enjoy in the lunch breaks.
This is a non-residential immersion where we will meet over the Saturday and Sunday for both meditation practice and well as consiferable discussion around how to bring the learnings of the practice off the cushion into your daily life. It will be a full immersion in learning so you feel confident about the context of the practice, how to practice and how it is relevant for you in your life. The days will consist of 2 meditation practice and discussion sessions with a lunch break in between.
Booking process terms and conditions
1. The full tuition fee is required to make a booking. If you would like to do staggered payments with a payment plan just contact us.
2. Register by clicking the ‘Register Now’ button to pay with a credit card. If you would prefer to pay by bank transfer you can contact us to do so.
3. If you cancel your booking before 15th July, 2024 your payment minus a non-refundable $50 admin deposit will be refunded.
4. If you cancel your booking, for whatever reason including sickness, after 15th July, 2024 no refund will be given but you are able to transfer it to someone else of your finding, or someone on the waitlist if there is one.
Meditation will change your life forever. Learning this practice is one of life's greatest gifts to yourself
Susan Allen who is leading the retreat is the founder of Yoga Ground, studios in Auckland and Wanaka, New Zealand. She also owns Entering the Stream, a world class online yoga and meditation platform and The Yoga Transition, a yoga teacher mentorship business. Read more about Susan here.
Retreats NZ | susan@theyogatransition.com | +64-21-222-6550
Retreats NZ susan@theyogatransition.com
+64-21-222-6550