In this day of practice, we’ll explore the faculty of wise attention that is fundamental to the awakening process. Through reflection, dharma talks, inquiry, and sitting and walking practice, we’ll come to directly understand not only the importance of what we attend to but how we attend to our moment-to-moment experience--the spirit that imbues our attention. Wise attention, yoniso manasikara in Pali, can also be understood as nurturing attention--what are we nurturing with our attention in this moment?

This event is suitable for people with some meditation practice experience.

The registration fees for this event go to support the teachers as well as to cover rent for the space and other administrative costs. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds: if you want to be part of our community, we want you to be able to practice with us. Email rachel@bcims.org for details.

We'll gather at St Mary Magdalene Anglican Church and start our day of practice promptly at 10 am, have a mix of discussions and sitting and walking practice during the day and a 45 minute break for lunch, and end promptly at 3 pm. Please for the sake of the group's experience plan to attend for the whole practice period.

Covid safety information will be distributed to registrants before the event.

Dawn Scott has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2008 and served as the Family Program Coordinator for eight years at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She completed the IMS/IRC 4-year teacher training in 2021, is a co-principal teacher of Marin Sangha, and is a core teacher of Spirit Rock’s Liberation, Emptiness, and Awareness Practices (LEAP) Program and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and Insight Meditation’s joint program, Exploring the Heart of Freedom. Dawn has a deep love of long retreat practice and the Buddha’s liberative teachings.

Rachel Lewis began practicing insight meditation in 2003, while completing her physics PhD at Yale. Since 2011, she has taught dharma and meditation classes and retreats in British Columbia and beyond. She completed the IMS/IRC 4-year teacher training in 2021, and is a guiding teacher of the British Columbia Insight Meditation Society. Her dharma teaching interests include the power of music, humour, and creativity to increase our capacity for learning, as well as the way that practice supports and is supported by social justice work. See her other events at http://rachelmeditates.ca/