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SUMMARY:International Women’s Day Retreat
DESCRIPTION:“Envision a Buddhist world where women not only have equal opportunities and freedoms as men but also receive the support necessary to develop their spiritual capabilities to their fullest potential. Such a vision requires us to confront and challenge the status quo, to expose and correct the sexist bias that pervades many Buddhist texts, and to work toward more inclusive and equitable Buddhist communities.”\n– Nhi Yến Đỗ Trần, Author of Budding Lotus in the West\nInternational Women’s Day has been around for over a hundred years, as have many of the issues still impacting women’s advancement. A retreat dedicated to honoring women helps us imagine a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Buddhism has not been exempt from this bias. Issues that impact women in Buddhism have been around for over 2000 years, limiting women’s advancement.\nWe invited Nhi Yến Đỗ Trần, a meditator, teacher, and author, who brings her research of the Buddhist suttas to life, showing patriarchal translations were a later development. Reflective Meditation alternatively embeds feministic values in our practice and in our code of ethics. Gentleness, receptivity, a relational approach, inclusivity, responsible and transparent use of power, accountable collaboration, and respectful feedback — to name a few.\nThis retreat can error-correct some of the patriarchal views and assumptions that underlie Buddhism.\n \n\n \nWith Nelly Kaufer and Linda Modaro\nWith Guest Author, Nhi Yến Đỗ Trần\n2025 March 6, Thursday at 5pm PST – March 9, Sunday at 3pm PST\nOnline via Zoom — Link will be sent after registration\nFor more information contact our manager: molinewhitson@gmail.com ( mailto:molinewhitson@gmail.com )\nThis event is now closed.\n\n \nDuring this online retreat, we will teach an open meditation practice that is followed by reflection and journaling. We welcome continuing students, as well as meditators who are new to our orientation towards meditation practice and retreats. The roots of this practice are to be found in the Buddha’s early teachings and are based on learning to trust the ways of knowing that develop in meditation, enabling you to be more responsive and present in your life.\n \n\n \nSCHEDULE\nThursday night, March 6, 2025\n5:00-6:30pm          Introductions and Orientation\n7:30-8:30pm          Meditation and reflection\n \nMarch 7 & 8, 2025\n9:00-10:00am          Daily online group – short talk, meditation, reflection, short sharing\n10:30-11:30am        Reflection Group – longer time to explore your experience in meditation\n3:30-4:30pm          Meditation and reflection\n5:00-6:30pm          Dharma conversations and small group conversations\n7:30-8:30pm          Meditation and reflection\n \nSunday, March 9, 2025\n9:00-10:00am          Daily online group – short talk, meditation, reflection, short sharing\n10:30-11:30am        Reflection Group – longer time to explore your experience in meditation\n1:00-2:00pm          Meditation and reflection\n2:00-3:30pm          Closing\n \n*All times are in PST\n \n\n \nDANA & SUPPORT RANGE\nWe have a desire to lead a generous, respectful life and to share it with others. Your giving and generosity for the teachings will be received with gratitude.\nFor retreats and larger workshops we have established our registration fees and dana as a range, rather than setting one amount to cover expenses with a request for an additional donation for the teachings. The low end of the range covers expenses for the online retreat. Payment at the higher ranges supports the teaching for Linda, Nelly and Nhi and helps students experiencing financial challenges. We do not want to turn anyone away for lack of financial resources. Your support will benefit the teachers and Sati Sangha and Pine Street Sangha.\nDeposit: $50 non-refundable deposit\nSuggested Support and Dana Range: $150-700\nIf you aren’t able to pay at the low end of the range, please contact us, and we’ll try to work it out.\nSati Sangha will be taking care of the dana for this retreat and splitting it with the teachers. Deposits and support/dana can be given via paypal or check. When you make a donation, please note that it is for the online retreat. https://satisangha.org/donate/ ( https://satisangha.org/donate/ )\n \n\n \nWHY MEDITATE AND REFLECT?\nWe believe that you can learn beneficial ways of meditating by seeing how your mind operates within meditation. This kind of “seeing” can be naturally developed through recollection and reflection, whether done in a journal or expressed verbally to an experienced teacher or peers.\nMost likely you will have a goal in mind when you come to meditation practice. What is in your mind and heart matters deeply and does not need to be separated out from your meditation practice. Much of the learning comes from your own recognition and insight, rather than from an authority, a tradition, or any dogmatic and rigid way of thinking about meditation.\nThis retreat will be beneficial for you if:\n• You want to have a retreat in your own home.\n• You want to participate in an online group practice with a live teacher and sangha.\n• Want to choose your own getaway destination while participating in an online meditation retreat.\n• Your work schedule does not allow you to get away for a longer retreat.\nDuring this retreat we will have a lighter schedule. Our experience with online retreats shows that having more open space in the schedule helps prevent the fatigue of being online.\nPeriods of meditation and free time will be on your own. The Dharma talks will be given online, but recorded, so you can log online to listen “live” or listen later to the recordings. Small group sharing will be scheduled online and is optional.\nReflective meditation encourages and supports an independent practice that fits with the conditions of your life. For most of us, our practice at home is usually quite different from when we go on retreat. An online retreat helps establish or deepen your independent practices, and integrate them into your everyday life. You will inevitably bring your life right into your meditation and your retreat, because the retreat resides wherever you are.\n \n\n \nRETREAT TEACHERS & FACILITATORS\nLINDA MODARO\nLinda started “seeking” in her early twenties. Unsure what she was looking for, she experimented with many eastern practices and landed in traditional Chinese medicine studying and teaching Qi Gong, Tai Ji and Acupuncture for over fifteen years. After a near death experience in 1998, her Taoist philosophy led to Buddhist philosophy and psychology and changed the course of her spiritual practice, teaching, and work with others. She trained and worked closely with the teachers in the Skillful Meditation Project and Recollective Awareness Meditation, put together by Jason Siff. Eventually, she had to leave the SMP home, and founded Sati Sangha ( https://satisangha.org/ ) so that she could continue teaching Buddhadharma and Reflective Meditation. Thirty years of listening, observing, teaching and being taught by patients and students; traveling to China, Nepal, Iran, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada integrating aspects of their cultures. She tries to hold this all lightly, yet cannot deny the sense of having ‘a calling’ rather than a job.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nNELLY KAUFER\nNelly Kaufer is the founder and lead teacher at Pine Street Sangha ( http://pinestreetsangha.org/ ), a Meditation center in Portland, Oregon. Witnessing an intimate understanding of dharma along with a kind regard for the variety of meditative experiences, she teaches Reflective Meditation. Nelly was introduced to Vipassana (Mindfulness) meditation in 1978 on retreats taught by Ruth Denison and began teaching women meditation soon thereafter, as there were no female teachers in her community at that time. She co-authored A Woman’s Guide to Spiritual Renewal (HarperOne,1994), a book for which she interviewed women about their spiritual experiences. In the 1990s she completed a 3-year mindfulness teacher training with Jacqueline Mandell. Nelly met Jason Siff at a Buddhism and Psychotherapy conference in 2004, entered the Skillful Meditation Project teacher training several months later and completed this in-depth training in 2008. Nelly is a psychotherapist in private practice, integrating Buddhist psychology into her clinical orientation and in continuing education workshops for mental health professionals. “I think what really attracts me about this approach is the spirit of exploration and the quality of kindness to myself and others that seems to arise from the practice.”\n\n\n\n
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