Hollyhock - Island Getaway Health Retreat

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Develop compassionate awareness and a loving heart with a unique combination of Metta and Vipassana practice. Experience eleven days on beautiful Cortes Island cultivating loving kindness, followed by ten days of insight practice. Revel in the happiness and freedom of all beings. Take a journey of transformation of consciousness and liberation of the mind. Develop sensitive awareness of the breath, and open the body and mind to the present moment. There will be formal instruction and practice, dharma talks, mindful movement practice, and group and individual meetings with the teachers. There is no instructor fee for this silent retreat. Donations may be made to the teachers. Attend all twenty-one days, or choose eleven days of Metta or ten days of Vipassana.

 

Michele McDonald is a founder of Vipassana Hawaii. She has twenty-six years of experience teaching Metta and Vipassana meditation worldwide www.vipassanahawaii.org.

 

Steven Smith is a founder of Vipassana Hawaii and the Kyaswa Retreat Center in Myanmar (Burma). He has twenty-five years of teaching experience. www.vipassanahawaii.org.

 

On a somatic mind body path for over ten years, Joy Kerfoot teaches and is a lifelong student of yoga, dance & moving meditation, bodywork and energetic healing.