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Retreats and Other Residential Programs 2012

Description	Dates	Nights	Place	Teacher(s)	Cost ($)*
Recollective Awareness	20 - 26 May	6	Hartzer Park, Bowral, Southern Highlands, Sydney area	Jason Siff	590
Recollective Awareness	8- 13 June	1, 3 or 5	Alice Springs	Jason Siff and Jenny Taylor	80 - 490 depending on attendance
Satipatthana Registration form	8 - 17 June	9	Rocklyn, near Daylesford, Victoria	Patrick Kearney	660 - 730
Insight/Vipassana Registration form	23 - 29 June	6	Sangsurya, Byron Bay, Northern NSW	Subhana Barzaghi and Carol Perry	365 - 500
Stillness in Action	11 - 15 July	4	Sydney - Northern Beaches	Bobbi Allan with Claire Dunne, Olivia Bernadini and Emma Pittaway	475 - 625
Dharma Facilitators' Program Registration form	17 - 24 July	7	Sangsurya, Byron Bay, Northern NSW	Radha Nicholson and Will James	525 (approx)
Heart of Creativity retreat Registration form	24 - 30 Aug	6	Sangsurya, Byron Bay, Northern NSW	Subhana Barzaghi and Joyce Kornblatt	500 (some concessions available)
Long weekend retreat	29 September - 1 October	2	Medlow Bath, Blue Mountains, NSW	Michal Dash	235
Vipassana	12 - 21 October	9	Medlow Bath, Blue Mountains, NSW	Steven Smith	815
Satipatthana	26 October - 4 November	9	Medlow Bath, Blue Mountains, NSW	Patrick Kearney	540

*This cost does not include any payment to the teacher(s). Teachers rely on dana (literally "generosity") for these programs and there is usually a box at the retreat for this purpose.

Bookings are open for all the progams listed. There are other retreats and programs planned, they're shown in the Insight Meditation News and they'll appear on these tables when bookings open.

Workshops and Other Non-residential Programs 2012

Description Dates Days Place Teacher Cost ($)*

Day-long yatra 26 May
1 Lawson, Blue Mountains Diana Levy 20

Elders Yatra 3 June
1 Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains Diana Levy 20

Insight Meditation Groups and Centres

Adelaide	Ashtree Sangha	Goolwa (SA)	Goolwa Dharma Group
Alice Springs	Desert Buddha Sangha	Lismore	Kuan Yin Meditation Centre
Bellingen	Tallowwood Sangha	Melbourne - East Brunswick	Melbourne Insight Meditation Group - CERES
Bellingen	Circle of Women	Melbourne - East Brunswick	Melbourne Insight Meditation Group - CERES
Blackheath	Cloud Refuge	Melbourne - East Malvern	Melbourne Insight Meditation Group - BSV
Brisbane - Morningside	DharmaCloud	Perth	Perth Insight Meditation Group
Brisbane - West End	Heart Insight	Sydney - Lower North Shore	Bluegum Sangha
Byron Bay	Bay Insight Meditation	Sydney - North Sydney	Tortoise Mountain Sangha
Byron Shire - Possum Creek	Women's group	Sydney - Eastern Suburbs	Golden Wattle Sangha
Dandenong Ranges	Heartwood Insight	Sydney	SIM (Sydney Insight Meditators)
Daylesford (Vic)	Whitegum Sangha	Sydney - Northern Beaches	Beaches Sangha

Overseas Insight teachers who lead retreats in Australia

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Past Events

Dharma Yatras (more info)

2010 Mimosa Rocks - Gulaga

2010 Lamington - Springbrook

2011 Mimosa Rocks - Gulaga

2011 Nightcap Circuit

2012 Mimosa Rocks - Gulaga

Dharma Yatra film 2010 (9 mins)
Earlier yatras, 2006 - 09 Dharma Gatherings, 2006 - 08

Dharma Audio

Stephen and Martine Batchelor study retreat, Northern NSW, 2012

Site last updated 16th May 2012. Site Information. Photos: by Ken Golding from the 2008 Dharma Gathering (1) and 2008 yatra (2,3) and by Kay Burns (4) from the 2011 Far South Coast yatra.