Meditation Retreats

Practitioners interested in meditation retreats longer than the weekend programs regularly offered at the Kootenay Shambhala Centre are encouraged to attend weekthün or dathün retreats, one-week or one-month group meditation retreats, commonly held at Shambhala residential practice and retreat centres. These intensives are important milestones for many participants, and they can help prepare participants for solitary retreats and more subtle practice and study.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecation, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

—Shambhala Buddhist nun and author Pema Chödrön

Upcoming retreats around the Shambhala mandala:

• Weekthün
• Dathün

For information about our Centre's retreat land, go to our Senge Ling page.

For guidance on preparing for a retreat, contact one of our meditation instructors.

Learn more about meditation and buddhism at shambhala.org

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Kootenay Shambhala Meditation Centre
3rd Floor - 444 Baker Street, PO Box 136, Nelson,  BC V1L 5P7
Tel. 250-352-5560    Email: info@nelsonbuddha.com