Insight Meditation
Brisbane, South East Queensland, Northern
NSW
DharmaCloud is an Insight Meditation
group which presents and supports Western Buddhist
teachings. It runs occasional Insight Meditation
courses, practice days and an annual retreat. It
has been running Buddhist programs since 1995. An overview of
past retreats and workshops is listed here.
DharmaCloud also provides a listing of other
Insight Meditation groups and retreats in
Australia through the www.dharma.org.au
website.
A related weekly
Insight Meditation group, the Heart
Insight group, meets on Sunday nights in
West End in Brisbane.
A six week Intermeditate Level Insight
Meditation Course led by Victor
von der Heyde will be offered on Wednesday
evenings from the 7th February to the 14th March
2018 at the Yoga Physio studio at 115 Haig Road,
Auchenflower.
Insight
Meditation: Finding your own Way
with Victor von der Heyde
and Lizzie Turnbull
Theosophical Society Retreat Centre,
Springbrook, Gold Coast Hinterland
Wednesday 23rd - Wednesday 30th May 2018
Victor von der Heyde has
been practising meditation for thirty five. He
studied with a wide range of dharma teachers,
has spent over two years in silent retreats
and has taken dharma teaching roles since the
mid 1990s. Victor has an interest helping
people understand the varieties of meditation
so that they're in a position to choose what
works for them. He has had a long term focus
on environmental ethics, he spent two decades
helping manage a small overseas aid
organisation and worked for many years as a
counsellor.
Lizzie Turnbull has been studying and
practising Buddhism since 1985 in the Vajrayana
tradition and then in Zen and Western Insight.
She began teaching Insight meditation retreats
in 2010. For many years she has been interested
in integrating the Buddha Dharma with the social
sciences and psychotherapy. Lizzie was a
director of Somatics Body Oriented Psychotherapy
Training in Sydney and teaches and supervises on
the Australian Association of Buddhist
Counsellors and Psychotherapists (AABCAP)
professional training programme. She has a
private practice in the ByronShire.
Triple
Gem retreat with Lulu Cook
Friday 9th to Sunday 11th September 2018
at Bodhi Chan Meditation Centre
This is a Heart Insight Meditation Group event.
2019
Autumn Springbrook retreat dates: 22nd - 29th May
2019
This annual weeklong retreat will be held
again at the Theosophical Society Retreat Centre
in Springbrook and led in 2019 by Victor von der
Heyde and Neli Martin.
The DharmaCloud Library is currently at
the Bodhi
Chan Meditation Centre. It's available on
their practice days and at other times by
arrangement.
There are audio recordings of the
2012 DharmaCloud retreat led by Stephen and
Martine Batchelor at the Sine Cera Retreat Centre
in Northern NSW. The retreat was called Self, Consciousness and
Namarupa: A Study Retreat
DharmaCloud
email list: We have an email list for people
who would like to receive occasional emails - very
occasional - of DharmaCloud events. This is a
separate from the list for the Australia-wide
quarterly Insight Meditation News. If you'd like
to be on the DharmaCloud list, please email us
(email address below).
DharmaCloud is an
unincorporated not-for-profit association,
registered with the Australian Charities and
Not-for-profits Commission. It is supported
by a small group of volunteers. All programs are
run on a dana basis.
There is a constitution
which outlines the operation of the group.
For
further information call (07) 3343-8243, (02)
9427-3605 or email
dharma.org.au home
