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Beginners Meditation Courses Artarmon 2018

These six-week courses are held several times each year.
The first course for 2018 is now open for registrations.


The Course Program

Week 1: Introduction to Meditation
Why meditate? What can be expected? What are the benefits?
Types of meditation.
Two short guided meditations to begin with.

Week 2: Meditation and the body
Returning home

Week 3: Mindfulness meditation
The wonder of the present moment

Week 4: Meditation and gentleness
The concept of Loving Kindness (the First Immeasurable)

Week 5: Meditation and Awakening
Recollective Awareness and developing Insight

Week 6: Meditation and connection
A longer meditation together

Then dinner at an excellent local Thai restaurant to celebrate the end of the course (and the beginning of the rest of our lives).
When: 15 April - 20 May
Times: Sunday nights, 7pm - 8:30pm
Where: Yoga Pavilion, 15 Elizabeth St, Artarmon
​Cost: 
Standard - $100.
Concession - $70. For full time students, pensioners and unemployed

Some handouts are included
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Additional cost: 'Dana' (act of generosity to support the teachers and the teaching). The workshop fee covers accommodation and some handouts only. In keeping with a 2,500 year old tradition no fee has been charged for the teachings. You are invited to give a donation to support the teachers to continue their work.
​Registration
Book and pay click here
For inquiries, contact Jonathan Page, jpage1[at]tpg.com.au, 0416 185 629
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Sydney Insight Meditators acknowledges the Gadigal, Dharug and Dharawal peoples, the traditional custodians of the lands on which SIM is located. We acknowledge their ongoing connection to the land, water, sky, and animals. We pay our respects to the Elders, past, present, and emerging.
  • Home
  • Events Calendar
  • About us
    • About us, AGM & Constitution
    • Membership
    • Committee
    • Our History
    • Newsletter
  • Groups
    • Bondi Junction
    • Illawarra
    • Inner West
    • Newcastle
    • North Sydney
    • Northern Beaches
    • Northern Beaches (Avalon)
    • Southern Highlands
    • Southern Highlands Inquiring Minds
  • Teachers
  • Resources
    • Martine Batchelor Workshop Recording
    • Secular Dharma Recording
    • Guided Meditations
    • Reading list
    • Deepening Into Stillness Recording
    • Audio files >
      • Stephen Batchelor, Sydney 2014
      • Winton Higgins, Four frontiers for Secular Buddhists 2014
      • Other audio links
    • Retreat Reflections >
      • High Country Retreat Reflections 25
      • High Country Retreat Reflections 23
      • High Country Retreat Reflections 22
      • NY Reflections 21/22
      • NY Reflections 19/20
      • DIS Reflections 2017
      • NY Retreat 2016
    • Teachers Reflections >
      • Winton Higgins. January 2018
      • Jonathan Page. May 2018
      • Gawaine Powell Davies. November 2017
      • Jill Shepherd. October 2017
  • Contact Us
  • List of Events
    • DIS 2025
    • Inner Rhythm of Being 2025
    • Mornings of Practice 2025
    • New Year 2025