About Insight Meditation/Mindfulness Meditation

Most of the retreats at Sunyata Retreat Centre employ a form of Insight Meditation called Mindfulness Meditation.  This is an ancient practice that began over 2500 years ago and is deeply relevant to our lives today.  It connects us with our capacity to be present in each moment with an open-hearted awareness of everything that is happening, whether inner or outer.

From this awareness we can become directly aware of what it's like to be a human being and come to understand in direct experience our feelings, emotions, pains, joys, and pleasures. 

When we practice this in-the-moment awareness, our hearts and our awareness awakens to a depth of peace and clarify which liberates us from the suffering created by fear, worry, stress, anxiety, self-criticism, negativity and confusion.

This practice becomes the gateway to joy, inner peace, wisdom, the acceptance of ourselves and others, and compassion.