Do you ever feel guilty about not finding time to meditate’ when demands of daily life crowd in? Regular meditation practice is one strand of the Buddhist path of awakening, but without an embodied ethics of non-harm and compassion, the ship of mindfulness and wisdom doesn’t sail far.This course aims to create a supportive community where we explore how intention, attention, and action can combine in a whole-life journey that leaves nothing out – choppy waters, fair weather, doldrums of forgetfulness, or turbulent currents. Through dharma reflections, meditations, and enquiry, we will cultivate skills for meeting the storms, collective and personal, and finding our way home.
The 3 Thursday online evening sessions (7.00 pm – 8.30 pm) will take place via Zoom
on the following dates:
Thursday 5th March 7.00-8.30pm
Thursday 12th March 7.00-8.30pm
Thursday 19th March 7.00-8.30pm
To support the container of community please attend all the sessions.
All levels of experience are welcome.
A Zoom link will be shared with you closer to the time.
Please get in touch using the email address below if you are newer to meditation and want to find out if this course will be a good fit for you: sghsg2009@googlemail.com
You will need access to a digital device (ideally desktop, laptop or tablet) and Zoom in order to take part in these sessions.
Information about how to access Zoom will be included in the joining instructions.
About the Teacher
River Wolton began attending Insight Meditation retreats in 2000, and subsequently
helped to establish Sheffield Insight Meditation. She completed Dharma Teacher Training with Bodhi College, and is a Bodhi College faculty member. River teaches meditation retreats, groups and courses, and offers one-to-one mentoring for meditators, mindfulness and Buddhist practitioners. She has led creative writing and arts projects for many years, and is an activist in the LGBTQIA+ community. Her latest non-fiction book is The Subtle Art of Caring: A Guide to Sustaining Compassion (Windhorse Publications 2023).
Visit River’s website by following this link.
Tickets & Booking
You can only attend this course online.
There are several different prices – a supported ticket is for those who can contribute something towards the cost of the event, the standard rate is for those who can contribute the cost of the event and the sponsor rate is for those able to make an additional contribution. In addition, freely given tickets are available for anyone who needs one.
£15 sponsor ticket
£10 standard ticket
£5 supported ticket
Freely Given ticket
Your ticket pays for the costs of the retreat but does not cover a payment for the teachings. You will be invited to offer a donation (dana) to support the livelihood of the teacher.
Please book in advance. Participants are asked to commit to all sessions if possible.
Click on the button below to access our Eventbrite Booking Page.
Dana
Dana can be translated as cultivating generosity or giving. The teachers who lead our courses and retreats receive their travel costs and ‘out-of-pocket’ expenses but do not receive any payment for their teaching. However they are happy to receive voluntary contributions from participants in the events they lead. These offerings are traditionally called dana. Most of our teachers depend on dana for most or all of their livelihood.
Our teachers are following an ancient tradition, offering teachings freely just as they received them freely from a previous generation of teachers. In this way the dharma (the teachings of the Buddhist tradition) is not made an object of commerce, and the relationship between teacher and student is based upon trust, freedom, and mutual generosity.
If you attend one of our events and appreciate what the teacher has offered, we warmly invite you to make whatever contribution you feel appropriate. If you do so, you will be making a vital contribution to their livelihood and helping them to continue teaching on this generous basis, particularly in situations where people cannot afford to pay anything.
Dana can be offered to the teacher, River, during and after the course.