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Retreats and Other Residential Programs, Online retreats, 2026
All programes listed here are dana based and open for bookings - although occasionally booked out

Description Dates
Nights
Place Teacher(s) Cost ($) excluding dana*
Waking Up with Serenity, Insight and the Heart
17 - 23 April
6
Sangsurya, Byron Bay
Mal Huxter and Lisa Brown
Earlybird rates:
1692 single
1148 share
769 van
Standard rates:
1794 single
1251 share
872 van
Ocean of Breath, Ocean of Love
24 - 30 April
6
Sangsurya, Byron Bay Lizzie Turnbull and Carol Perry
1476 single
1046 shared
769 small van
Deepening into Stillness
24 - 30 April
6
Brahma Kumaris Centre, Wilton, Sydney area Alan Bassal and
Kate Amy
1345 single
995 twin share
850 concession
Meditation, Inquiry and Liberating Wisdom
1 - 7 May
6
Sangsurya, Byron Bay Radha Nicholson and Suchitra Shenoy
1538 single
1077 shared
718 van camping
Mindfulness at Home
8 - 17 May
9
online
Patrick Kearney
350 benefactor
250 general
150 concession
weekend rates and other rates possible
Mindfulness of Breathing
The Buddha’s 16 steps of mindfulness of breathing supported by the four divine abodes
22-29 May
7
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre, Medlow Bath Mal Huxter
765 single
Awakening the Heart and Mind
5 - 12 June
7
Sangsurya, Byron Bay Subhana Barzaghi and Carol Perry 1725 single
1235 shared
920 van site
Friends on the Path: Seven Factors of Awakening
1 - 15 August
14
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre, Medlow Bath Jill Shepherd
1255 single, wait list only
Insight and Soul-Work: Opening to the Imaginal
7 - 14 August
7
Funkey Forest, Upper Main Arm, Northern NSW
Victor von der Heyde and Kate Amy
1150 single
889 shared (4)
784 shared (5)
523 campervan or tent
471 day attendance
The Middle Way - Two Week Retreat
12 - 26 September
14
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre, Medlow Bath Patrick Kearney and Louise Taylor
1255 single, wait list only
Seeing that Frees: A Path of Insight
25 September - 2 October
7
The Gathering Place, Dickson, Canberra
Victor von der Heyde and Megan Layton
1160 single
630 non-residential
Remembering the Present
9 - 18 October
9
online
Patrick Kearney
350 benefactor
250 general
150 concession
weekend rates and other rates possible
Remembering Awareness
6 - 15 November
9
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre, Medlow Bath Patrick Kearney and Emma Pittaway
955 single, wait list only
*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 this table when bookings open.


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Insight Meditation Groups and Centres

Adelaide See Coast and City Sangha Medlow Bath Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre
Australia-wide (online) Sky Sangha Melbourne Melbourne Insight Meditation Group
Bellingen
Tallowwood Sangha
Newcastle The Sit In
Berrima (NSW)
Southern Highlands Inquiring Minds Perth
Perth Insight Meditation
Blackheath Cloud Refuge Rockhampton Rockhampton Insight Meditation
Bundanoon (NSW) Southern Highlands Sangha Sunshine Coast (Qld)
Sunshine Heart Insight Meditation
Brisbane Heart Insight Meditation Group Sydney SIM (Sydney Insight Meditators)
Brisbane DharmaCloud

Brunswick Heads Flowing Mountain Meditation Group Sydney - Inner West Kookaburra Sangha
Byron Shire - Possum Creek Women's Group Sydney - North Sydney Bluegum Sangha
Gleniffer Mid North Coast NSW Flooded Gum Sangha Sydney - Narrabeen Still Water Sangha
Goolwa (SA)
Goolwa Dharma Group Sydney - Northern Beaches Beaches Sangha
Lismore Kuan Yin Meditation Centre Woolongong / Illawarra Ocean View Sangha



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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.
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