Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Yenkuei Chuang, Anna-Brown Griswold, Mary Burns and Gregory Kramer

May 6 - 14, 2023

Date and Time Details: May 6-14, 2023

Location: Samish Island, WA (located between Seattle, WA, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Address: Samish Island Campground & Retreat Center, Scott Road, Bow, WA, USA

Scholarship: We offer four categories of scholarships. All scholarships are need-based and allocated on a first come-first served basis.
• General scholarships of up to $250
• Additional $350 scholarship beyond the $250 general scholarship may be requested by BIPOC practitioners.
• Canadian residents may request a discount of up to U.S. $100 to offset the present currency discrepancy.
• We welcome Buddhist monastics. Please email us for details.
Please contact cascadiaretreat@gmail.com for any scholarship requests.

Dana: Our teachers are offering this retreat in the tradition of dana (freewill giving). Retreatants have an opportunity at the end of the retreat to support the teachers and the teachings through freewill donations.

Transportation: Retreatants are responsible for arranging their own transportation to and from the retreat. There is no public transportation directly serving the retreat site. More information about getting to the retreat.

Language: English

$930.00 – USD. We strive to keep the fee as low as possible to make this retreat accessible to as many as possible. The fee represents our actual costs, primarily venue expenses (food and lodging), teachers’ transportation, and scholarships. All organizers and teachers volunteer their time and service.

How do we find refuge in the Dhamma while fully embracing the world and its pain? What sources of wisdom, joy, and inspiration do we need to manifest compassionate action, freedom, and resilience? How might we transform the whole of life into a living Path where any moment is sacred, including the difficult or even the devastating?

As in past retreats, we will ground our retreat in the reality of a world on fire fed by systemic ‘isms’ (racism, capitalism, patriarchy, homophobia, ableism, classism, ageism, heterosexism, and more) that persecute and destroy some, privilege and favor others, and separate all of us from each other.

Insight Dialogue is a practice of contact with the world. It brings us into relationship with ourselves and our bodies, other people, nature, and powerful teachings. True relatedness invites us to an intimacy with things as they are. This is our field of practice. Meditation, Dhamma and spiritual friendship source our growing capacity to engage in the world.

Through an attentive weaving of meditative dialogue, silent meditation, and time in nature, we will deepen the essential meditative qualities that support inquiry into this shared human experience.

There are no prerequisites for this retreat. No prior Insight Dialogue experience is necessary

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About the Leaders

Yenkuei Chuang

Yenkuei Chuang 莊琰珪 (she/her) lives near Boston, USA. As an immigrant woman of color, she is keenly interested in building a beloved inclusive community. Yenkuei began her daily life dharma practice with Zen Masters Thich Nhat Hanh and Sr. Annabelle in 1998. She has also been studying Vipassana and Early Buddhism with other teachers at the Insight […]

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Anna-Brown Griswold

Anna-Brown fell in love with Insight Dialogue practice in 2012 after nearly twenty years of practice and study in the Tibetan and Zen koan lineages of Buddhism, including monastic practice and extended solitary retreats. For most of her adult life she’s been experimenting with how to integrate the awakening power of dharma practice, the skills […]

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Mary Burns

Mary Burns teaches Insight Dialogue internationally and also offers the practice online. She engages actively in the Insight Dialogue Community by participating in the Teachers Council, Guiding Sangha, Awakening White Awareness cohort and by mentoring facilitators and teachers in development. For more than three decades she has been drawn to the intersection of eastern and […]

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Gregory Kramer

Gregory Kramer is the Founding Teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community and has been teaching insight meditation since 1980. He developed the practice of Insight Dialogue and has been teaching it since 1995, offering retreats in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. He has studied with esteemed teachers, including Anagarika Dhammadina, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya […]

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