We are a non-profit organization made up of directors, teachers, volunteers, and founding members dedicated to guiding meditation practitioners from suffering to awareness. We offer online classes and meditation retreats in various locations around beautiful Muskoka.
We are a non-profit organization made up of directors, teachers, volunteers, and founding members dedicated to guiding meditation practitioners from suffering to awareness. We offer online classes and meditation retreats in various locations around beautiful Muskoka.
Releasing Ourselves from Samsara; Uncovering Our Inherent Freedom
During this retreat we’ll examine the conditioned mind and habitual patterns so that they become a means for releasing ourselves from Samsara and uncovering our inherent freedom.
Time & Location
Feb 03, 2022, 6:30 p.m. EST – Feb 06, 2022, 4:00 p.m. EST
Virtual Meditation Hall (Zoom)
About the event
This online retreat will include guided and silent sitting meditation, walking meditation, and dharma talks and personal interviews with teachers Nancy Atkinson-Tiessen and Sarah Carlin-Ball. Both Nancy and Sarah are Sangha Leaders with Bill Knight in the Muskoka Mindfulness Community and work with spiritual teacher Matt Flickstein. They have each had a committed practice for over a decade and are dedicated to helping others explore the Dharma.
Cost for this retreat is $90. Dana for the teachers is welcome and supports the teachers’ practices.
Registration is limited and closes January 20, 2022. EXTENDED to Jan. 23rd!
Nancy Atkinson-Tiessen is a member of The Muskoka Mindfulness Community and has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2011, and teaching since 2013. She has been studying the dharma with her teacher, Matthew Flickstein since 2013 and completed the teacher training program offered by him. Nancy has sat numerous retreats in Canada, the U.S.A. and the U.K. with various teachers and is committed to continued study, meditation and dharma practice and to deepening her understanding and embodiment of the Buddha’s teachings.
She is particularly interested in supporting those who, also, want to deepen their practice and understanding of meditation and the Dharma.
Sarah Carlin-Ball began meditating in 2010 starting with MBSR and has attended retreats every year since. At first she began meditating to help manage MS symptoms and then her spiritual practice took on a momentum of its own as she worked with several different teachers in the Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist traditions. Sarah is one of several sangha leaders with the Muskoka Mindfulness Community founded by Bill Knight. She also works with the resident teachers at The Dharma Centre of Canada, and non-dual teacher, Matt Flickstein.
Meditation has been a great gift in Sarah's life and she would like to share that gift with others.