Resident teacher Susan Weir
Susan has been leading sittings and teaching insight meditation classes and retreats since 1999.
Her background includes Gurdjieff, Zen and Insight Meditation (vipasssana).
Susan has offered classes, retreats, and teacher training courses and founded Insight Meditation Ann Arbor in 2012.
She lives in Ann Arbor with her husband Lou, has two grown sons, is retired and loves riding her horse.
Susan focuses on realization, the actual insight of true identity in practice as the uncovering of ease and joy in life. Please look though past class talks for more detailed understanding.
To meet with Susan privately, please email susan@insightmeditationannarbor.org
Fall 2025 Continuing class: Engaging the qualities of the Heart
- Sept. 16: Self inquiry – What does the heart want?
- Sept. 30: Staying with pain in the Spiral of Insight
- Sept. 30: Guided Heart Meditation (audio)
- Oct. 14: Exploring unconscious beliefs
Winter 2025 Continuing class: Developing Practice
- Feb. 4; The path of practice – Insight
- Feb. 4: Chart of practice progression
- Feb 18: Balancing wisdom and the open heart – Metta
- Feb. 18: Metta practice instructions
- Feb. 18 ; Circle map of practice
- March 4: What closes the heart
- March 18: Avoidance and Presence
- April 1: Looking at the Metta Sutta
- April 1: The Metta Sutta
- April 15: The Metta Sutta Part 2.
Fall 2024 Continuing class: Samadhi: moving from reactivity to equanimity
- Sept. 17 The important questions we are asking
- Sept. 17 Concentration: coming back to the present moment
- Oct. 1 Samadhi and Jhannic practice
- Oct. 15: Difficult Emotions
- Oct 29: Embodying Samadhi in the heart
- Oct. 29: Spiritual heart meditation
- Nov. 12: Active energy drains and closing the heart
- Nov. 26: Right Effort
Winter 2024 Continuing class: Sila: cultivating ethics
- Jan. 17 Deep Listening is the basis for Skillful Speech
- Jan. 31 Five guidelines for Skillful Speech
- Feb. 14 Tools for cultivation; practicing with pain
- Feb. 28 Working with Wise Action
- Feb 28 Wise Action Worksheet
- March 13 Bringing our humanity in: the afflictions
- April 10 Wise Livelihood
- April 10 Wise Livelihood Worksheet
Fall 2023 Continuing class: Precepts and the Noble Eightfold Path
- Sept. 6 Starting with the Precepts
- Sept. 20 A good path is happiness and joy
- Oct. 4 The Four Noble Truths
- Nov. 1 Wholesome and unwholesome intention
- Wholesome and unwholesome intentions worksheet
- Nov. 15 Falling Short
- Nov. 29 Skillful (right) Thinking
- Right Thinking Worksheet
May-June 2023: Moving out of the Small Mind
- May 17 Getting to know the Small Mind
- May 31 What fuels the small mind
- Small mind suffering worksheet
- Byron Katie’s Universal Beliefs
- June 15 Moving out of Small Mind / Big Mind
Feb- March 2023: Life as Practice
- Feb 1 class review
- Basic Five precepts
- Thich Nat Hanh’s version of the Precepts
- Feb 15 class review
- March 1 class review
- March 1 contentment practice guide
Oct- Nov 2022: Understanding the Distracted Mind