Chris Murray will lead an Insight Meditation retreat on Saturday, August 23, 2025, from 9:00 am until 4:30 pm. Registration is now open for the retreat. To register for the retreat, please send an email to Tim Barbour.
The retreat will be conducted at All Saints Episcopal Church, 1322 Kimball Avenue, Richland, in the Parish Hall. Chris is the Guiding Teacher of Insight Meditation of the Mid-Columbia.
The topic for the retreat is “Offering Compassion to Ourselves and to the World“. This in-person retreat will explore the practice of compassion in several aspects. We’ll include compassion for ourselves because compassion for ourselves provides a support for experiencing compassion for others, and self-compassion can help us respond wisely to the anxiety and stress that many people are experiencing. We’ll explore a few ways of offering compassion to others, and to the world that supports all of us. We’ll also look at the ways that kindness, joy, and equanimity support our practice of compassion.
The retreat will consist of a mix of stationary meditation and movement meditation with instruction and a Dharma talk and will be suitable for beginners and experienced meditators.
Fee for the retreat will be $10. Please use our online donation form at Donorbox to pay the retreat fee and leave a comment indicating that the donation is for the retreat on August 23. The fee will be waived for those who can’t afford it, please send an email to Tim Barbour if you’d like to request a scholarship. Those who are registered for the retreat will receive an email the week of the retreat with additional information.