Introduction to Insight Meditation
Interested in finding out what insight (vipassana) practice is, or in refreshing your understanding of insight practice instruction?
This two and a half hour workshop covers beginning instructions for concentration and vipassana practice, and time to ask questions and share your experience.
Great for those interested in learning meditation as well as a review of instructions for continuing students.
DATE: Saturday, November 22nd
TIME: 9:00 am - 1...
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Author: Susan Weir
In Person
NEW! S3 A shorter sitting for newer meditators (or anyone)
There’s a need for a shorter, more casual sitting and sharing for anyone working to make a meditation practice a part of their life. Come for sitting, sharing, and support (S3)! We will do a 20 minute meditation, followed by a chance to ask questions about practice.
Sit: for 20 minutes
Share: what's on your mind
Support: ask a teacher about your practice
Date: Sunday mornings Beginning September 28th
Time: 9:0...
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Non-dual fall practice
Non-Dual (direct approach) Practice: fall practice series
Second and Fourth Mondays of the month. This is an ongoing opportunity to share guided non-dual practice and how to live the realization of it in daily life.
TIME: 7:00 - 8:15 pm
DATES: Monday evenings: Sept 8, 22. Oct, 13, 27. Nov. 10, 24. Dec. 8.
LED BY: Susan Weir
LOCATION: On Zoom
This is a continuing group. If you are interested in joining,\:
Please contact Susan by clicking here.
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Men’s Support Group
Men's Support Group Forming
We are looking to form a men’s kalyana mitta (spiritual friends) group. This group would explore what engaged practice looks like - how do we apply the teachings and wisdom of Insight Meditation to the joys, challenges, and practicalities of daily life? This group is intended for men with a regular (daily or near daily) meditation practice who would like support, company, and encouragement on the path. We can learn from, be inspired by, and grow with each other.
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October 10-12, 2025 Fall Residential Retreat
Embodied Awareness
A retreat is a time to both “take a break” from your normal daily activities and also be able to take a closer look at your life and practice. Please join us for the Fall retreat at Columbiere Retreat Center in Clarkston.
The freedom and peace offered in meditation is not realized by the mind. It is an embodied experience when we move beyond the mind’s belief about the body.
The body is an important locus of our experience. Sometimes we lose our contact with it,
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Continuing Meditation Class Fall 2025
Finding the Qualities of the Heart / Teacher Training support
In our super-connected, informational overload world, it’s easy to disconnect with in our hearts and in our humanity.
The first three meetings this fall, we will be exploring the qualities of staying heart centered and finding connection and peace regardless of what is happening in our lives.
The following four classes we will be supporting our teachers in training as they are learning to teach the six week Fundamentals of Insight...
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Half Day of Practice August 2nd, 1:00-4:00 pm
Coming back home to the heart of stillness: An Afternoon of Practice
Summer is such a lovely time of year, life bursting all around us. Let the abundance of it inspire us to come together to spend a few hours dropping into practice, clearing the heart and mind to feel fully alive. Come sit in a relaxed fashion, for the joy of it.
DATE: Saturday, August 2nd
TIME: 1:00-4:00 pm
FOR: Anyone with a meditation practice
LOCATION: Insight Meditation Ann Arbor
TEACHER: Susan Weir
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Fundamentals of Insight Practice – Fall 2025
Fundamentals of Insight Practice
A 6-week long class that will cover concentration meditation and insight meditation instructions, mindfulness, working with difficult emotions and mental processes, and how to establish and continue with an on-going practice. For those new to meditation or looking for a refresher on the fundamentals of insight practice; suitable for all levels of experience with meditation.
DATE: Wednesdays, September 10 through Oct 15 (Note: Oct. 8 class will be on Zoom)
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Metta Practice Instructions
Here is a guideline for a traditional metta practice:
Take a very comfortable posture. Make your posture relaxed and comfortable. Begin to focus around the solar plexus, your chest area, your “heart center”. Breathe in and out from that area, as if you are breathing from the heart center and as if all experience is happening from there. Anchor your mindfulness only on the sensations at your heart center.
Begin by generating kind feeling toward yourself. Feel any areas of mental blockage or num...
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Fundamentals of Insight Practice spring 2025
Fundamentals of Insight Practice
A 6-week long class that will cover concentration meditation and insight meditation instructions, mindfulness, working with difficult emotions and mental processes, and how to establish and continue with an on-going practice. For those new to meditation or looking for a refresher on the fundamentals of insight practice; suitable for all levels of experience with meditation.
DATE: Wednesdays, April 30 through June 4
TIME: 6:30-8:45 PM
TEACHER: Lou ...
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