[updated 5/27/94; expires 8/20/94] NEWBURY INSIGHT MEDITATION CENTER One Rolfes Lane, Newbury, MA 01951 (508)463-0131 COURSE SCHEDULE Spring/Summer 1994 INFORMATION ~~~~~~~~~~~ NIMC is a non-profit, non-residential center for the practice of Insight Mediation, in existence since October 1990. NIMC offers classes, retreats, talks, sittings, special programs and social activities to members and non-members. It is concerned with the development of community, based in a practice of mindfulness. DIRECTIONS: From I-95, take Exit 57. Proceed on Route 113 (High St.) toward Newbury for four miles until you see the Common on the right. At the light, turn left onto Rolfe's Lane. Turn into the first driveway on the left. Welcome! CLASSES ~~~~~~~ Insight Meditation is concerned with the development of calm and insight. Classes, running in ten-week cycles, include instruction, practice and dialogue, and emphasize the moment to moment mindfulness of breath and general awareness of body and mind. Cycle 1: April 13 - June 15 Cycle 2: June 29 - August 31 Price per cycle: Members $100.00/Nonmembers $150.00 WEDNESDAYS, 5:30 - 7:00 PM Introduction to Insight Meditation - Daeja Napier For people interested in beginning the practice. TUESDAYS, 10:00 - 11:30am / 12:00 - 1:30pm Daytime Sitting Mothers are welcome WEDNESDAYS, 8:00 - 9:30pm The Way of Awareness- Daeja Napier For people with some meditation experience. WORKSHOPS ~~~~~~~~~ Workshops provide an opportunity to bring the practice of mindfulness to our multi-faceted lives. Each workshop will include meditation and discussion. Workshop fees: Members - $25.00/Nonmembers $35.00 DEVELOPING PHYSICAL EASE- Allen Bourque Sunday, July 24, 1:00 - 5:00 pm Posture is not inherently fixed. The Alexander Technique helps free the body's basic fluidity. This workshop will use sitting and walking meditation to demonstrate how to transform physical tension allowing greater ease of well being and enhanced presence of mind. YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORKSHOP - Daeja Napier Friday, June 3, 7:00 - 10:00 pm A workshop for people between the ages of 13 - 18. MOTHERING IN AWARENESS - Daeja Napier & Jan Surrey Sunday, June 5, 1:00 - 5:00 pm Friday, July 15, 7:00 - 9:30 pm We will look at the practice of mindfulness as a way to cultivate the sustaining power to mother with full presence of mind and heart. COMPASSION & THE PRACTICE OF DYING - Nancy & Art Ledoux Saturday, June 11, 10:00am - 5:00 pm How can we be with one who is dying even as it breaks our hearts? Meditation and discussion in the spirit of Stephen & Odetta Levine. RETREATS ~~~~~~~~ Retreats include the practice of sitting and walking meditation, dialogue, and individual or group meetings with the teacher. Those new to the practice as well as long-time students are welcome. Residential retreats: Members $75.00 / Nonmembers $95.00 One-day retreats: Members $40.00 / Nonmembers $50.00 DAY OF METTA - Daeja Napier Sundays, 10:00 - 5:00pm May 1, May 29, June 12- (held at Interface in Cambridge, Ma), July 17, & August 14. Metta is a concentration practice that softens the experience of life, enhancing a loving, compassionate, joyful and balanced relationship with self and others. These days support the practice's momentum. MEN'S RETREAT - Joseph Kappell Saturday, May 28, 10:00 - 5:00pm Exploring the practice of mindfulness in the context of male experience. FRIENDS & FAMILY RETREAT - Daeja Napier Saturday, July 9 9:00 am - Sunday July 10, 12:00pm $50.00 adults/$25.00 children This retreat offers a core of sitting and walking meditation, including generous amounts of time with friends and family. Activities will be provided for children. WOMEN'S RETREAT (Residential) - Daeja Napier Saturday, August 27, 10:00 am - Sunday August 28, 4:00 pm Exploring mindfulness practice in the context of the feminine experience. COMMUNITY ~~~~~~~~~ MONDAY EVENING DROP-IN MEDITATION Mondays, 8:00 - 8:45pm Meditation followed by tea, open to all. Suggested Donation: $5.00 CHILDREN'S GATHERING Saturday, August 20, 9:00 - 11:00 am Adults are welcome OUTREACH ~~~~~~~~ PARTNERSHIP IN PEACE: Making Newburyport A Safe and Peaceful Harbor Second Thursday of each month, 7:00 - 8:30 pm March 1994 was proclaimed as Nonviolence Month in Newburyport. These monthly meetings keep this theme alive through ongoing exploration of the question of peace. Evenings include meditation and discussion. All are welcome, donations accepted. DANA ~~~~ In the practice of Insight Meditation, DANA -- generosity -- is the feeling that arises out of gratitude when one directly experiences the sacredness of the teachings. Dana has been maintained as a tradition over the 2,500 years of Buddha Dhamma. Honoring this tradition -- which regards the teaching as priceless -- those who transmit them do so freely, and are dependent upon Dana from others for their livelihood. NIMC membership and course fees reflect the concern within the Insight Meditation community to keep fees to the minimum necessary to cover the operating needs of the centers. Teachers' financial support comes solely through Dana. BIOGRAPHIES ~~~~~~~~~~~ Allen Bourque is and Alexander Teacher and a long-term student of Insight Meditation. Joseph Kappell was a Buddhist monk in Thailand and Great Britain with Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho for twenty years. He has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1970. Since leaving monastic life in 1991, he has been exploring ways to integrate his experience in to secular life. He presently teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction in prisons here in Massachusetts. Arthur Ledoux, Ph.D. teaches meditation and Asian philosophy at Merrimack College. Nancy Ledoux, M. Div. is a former campus minister at Merrimack College. She is a hospice volunteer and has offered workshops on meditation and bereavement. Daeja Napier, the founding teacher of NIMC and of the Insight Meditation Program at Phillips Exeter Academy, has been studying and practicing Buddhist meditation for over 20 years and is the mother of five children. Janet Surrey, Ph.D., the mother of an adopted two-year old, Katie, is a research associate of the Stone Center, Wellesley College, instructor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and attending psychologist and consultant to the Women's Treatment Network at McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA. She is also author of the book, "Women's Growth in Connection: Writing from the Stone Center." She has practiced Insight Meditation for fourteen years. [end]