A Seven-day Insight Meditation Retreat
Taught by Brian Lesage & Robin Craig
Co-sponsored by Prescott Insight Meditation
and Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community
April 12 - 18, 2025 | Paulden, Arizona
And what is the accomplishment of generosity?
Here, a noble disciple dwells at home with a mind free from stinginess,
freely generous, open-handed, delighting in relinquishment,
one devoted to charity, delighting in giving and sharing.
– The Buddha
Please Join Our Fundraising Campaign to Support the 2025 Generosity Retreat
Prescott Insight Meditation and Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community invite you to join in a rare opportunity:
A week-long silent retreat supported entirely by dana, the Pali word for generosity.
Our annual Generosity Retreat relies on the gifts of our community. From organizers and teachers to contributors like you, generosity sustains this retreat and promotes kindness and connection.
In giving we learn to let go and foster loving-kindness.
A week-long silent retreat supported entirely by dana, the Pali word for generosity.
Our annual Generosity Retreat relies on the gifts of our community. From organizers and teachers to contributors like you, generosity sustains this retreat and promotes kindness and connection.
In giving we learn to let go and foster loving-kindness.
Imagine how those with limited resources could experience what it is like to let go of everyday suffering, deepen their practice in silence, and widen their understanding of the dharma. In the ancient tradition of generosity (dana) we are able to continue offering this retreat to make the dharma available to all, regardless of financial means.
Donations support food, expenses, and our retreat center hosts. Funds are not used for Teacher dana and do not affect your chances of admittance to the retreat.
Please join our fundraising campaign to support this retreat:
Donations support food, expenses, and our retreat center hosts. Funds are not used for Teacher dana and do not affect your chances of admittance to the retreat.
Please join our fundraising campaign to support this retreat:
We are deeply grateful for your support!
Your contribution continues a 2,500-year tradition of generosity, allowing the dharma to be shared widely.
When donating by check please designate in the memo field that you wish to designate your funds to the Generosity Retreat. Please make your check payable to:
"PIM Retreat Planning"
1209 Eagle Drive
Prescott, AZ 86305
A week-long retreat fully supported through generosity
This eighth-annual Generosity Retreat will focus on cultivating an embodied quality of presence as a way of bringing a deeper sense of freedom and contentment into our lives. Join us for this opportunity to explore the power of mindfulness through silent sitting and walking meditation, fully immersed in a silent retreat setting for seven days. In silence we have the space to delve deeply inward and learn to skillfully place the intention to be present with the flow of experience, in a way that allows compassion and wisdom to arise.
Insight Meditation
Insight Meditation (vipassana) is the practice of moment-to-moment mindfulness. Through careful and sustained attention to the present moment we experience for ourselves the ever-changing flow of the mind-body process. Having this awareness we gain insight, compassion and true happiness.
Insight Meditation
Insight Meditation (vipassana) is the practice of moment-to-moment mindfulness. Through careful and sustained attention to the present moment we experience for ourselves the ever-changing flow of the mind-body process. Having this awareness we gain insight, compassion and true happiness.
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Our Teachers
Brian Lesage has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1988 and has taught meditation since 2000. He has studied in the Zen, Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism. He was ordained in the Rinzai Zen tradition in 1996. His training in Vipassana Meditation includes doing extended meditation retreats in Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, and India as well as numerous retreats in the U.S. He leads retreats and teaches meditation courses nationwide. Brian also has a private practice in Somatic Experiencing, which is a naturalistic approach to healing trauma. Robin Craig brings her understanding of the physiology of resilience to her meditation teaching, and supports a joyful exploration of the deep spirituality and interconnection that is ours by nature. Robin is a Certified Meditation Teacher from a lineage rooted in Theravadin and Tibetan Karma Kagyu traditions traced back to the Venerable Ananda Bodhi. She is also a Licensed Professional Counselor and Organic Intelligence® Faculty. |
Location
The retreat will be held at Triveni Ashram in Paulden, Arizona, approximately 30 miles north of Prescott.
Dormitory-style lodging is available, as well as space for tent camping and small camping vehicles.
Vegetarian meals are provided each day of the retreat.
More details about the location and how to prepare will be provided to all participants who are invited to attend.
The retreat will be held at Triveni Ashram in Paulden, Arizona, approximately 30 miles north of Prescott.
Dormitory-style lodging is available, as well as space for tent camping and small camping vehicles.
Vegetarian meals are provided each day of the retreat.
More details about the location and how to prepare will be provided to all participants who are invited to attend.
Registration is open through Feb. 14, 2025
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If you have further questions, or to find out how to plug in as a volunteer, please contact us.
Venue Photos Courtesy Triveni Ashram