The courses and retreats listed here are led by the teachers on the Teachers page. The page is current - listings appear in date order and are taken down one day after the start date. Buttons take you to the relevant websites with all information and application processes. To view past retreats and courses in order to get a sense of the range of offerings over time, please click the button below.
Past Retreats and Courses
Many people have said that they would like a chance to re-do the autumn Foundations course with more space and time for exploring the richness of each module. If you have previously completed the long online autumn BCBS Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharmacourse with Catherine and Yahel, in any of the years from 2019 to now, this is an opportunity to do the course again at leisure.
Barre Centre for Buddhist Studies will be contacting previous graduates of the course about this - keep an eye out for their email.
In this retreat we will step into the profound beauty and transformative power of samadhi and jhana as taught by Rob Burbea. We invite those of you who already have some familiarity with these practices and want to explore their subtle beauty further to join us for a dedicated week of practice. During the week, we'll explore the beauty and benefits of Jhana practice and its connection to wisdom practices, such as understanding dependent arising and emptiness.
The shape will be held by a shared practice hall, daily teachings and one-to-one meetings with the teachers, and by the individual and shared commitment.
This year, we are offering an additional line of optional teachings for those who have been practising with jhanas with us for some time.In this retreat we will step into the profound beauty and transformative power of samadhi and jhana as taught by Rob Burbea. We invite those of you who already have some familiarity with these practices and want to explore their subtle beauty further to join us for a dedicated week of practice. During the week, we'll explore the beauty and benefits of Jhana practice and its connection to wisdom practices, such as understanding dependent arising and emptiness.
This five week insight/emptiness meditation course will explore strategies for softening the mind’s habitual activities of comparison and distinction making. These activities of mind shape and fixate the ways we habitually perceive experience, and therefore learning to lessen them can open the door to a range of beautiful meditative perceptions. As well, comparison and distinction making are necessary components of clinging and attachment - paying attention to and working with these activities of mind allows insight into the way experience is fabricated.
