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Upcoming Retreats 2024-2025

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Dec 14-18, 2024

Howard Cohn

& Genevieve Tregor

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Jan 15-19, 2025

Howard Cohn,

Carla Brennan &

Genevieve Tregor

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Januay 2025

Freeing the Heart, Awakening Insight
with Howard Cohn, Carla Brennan & Genevieve Tregor

When our situation and experience feels threatening or chaotic , the heart naturally contracts. During times we feel safe the heart opens.  However, when we rely on external circumstances to dictate whether our heart is open or closed, we do not experience true freedom.

With the cultivation of mindfulness and loving kindness practices we can develop a truly free heart. Mindfulness practice allows us to recognize, tend and find refuge in our ever-present direct experience of body and mind, regardless of circumstances. The cultivation of loving kindness supports our capacity for an open and balanced heart, regardless of circumstances. Both practices function as protection and resource, together they support our freedom.

It is not necessary to be perfect to be free; it is only necessary to embrace our own humanity with compassion and wisdom. 

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January 15 - 19, 2025

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Howard Cohn

Howard Cohn, MA, is one of the founding teachers of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and has led the Mission Dharma sitting group in San Francisco for over 30 years. He has practiced meditation since 1972, and has led Vipassana retreats since 1985. He is known by his students for his kindheartedness and warm sense of humor.  Howard has a MA in Counseling Psychology and has a private counseling/mentoring practice. He is the author of, Invitation to Meditation: How to Find Peace Wherever You Are

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Genevieve Tregor

Genevieve Tregor, MS, is the founding teacher of Insight Meditation Scottsdale, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Solution Mindfulness. She serves on the faculty of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach's Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. She is trained in Peter Levine's three year  Trauma- Informed   Somatic Experiencing method of healing trauma, and serves as adjunct faculty the Maricopa Community Colleges. 

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Carla Brennan

Carla Brennan, M.Ed., has trained in the Zen, Insight Meditation and Tibetan Buddhist traditions since 1975 and is an authorized Spirit Rock Teacher. She founded Bloom of the Present Insight Meditation (bloomofthepresent.org) in 2014. Carla also taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and is a former transpersonal psychotherapist. She teaches with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach in the Mindfulness Meditation Teachers Certification Program (MMTCP) and with Cloud Sangha. 

December 2024

Opening to Wisdom and Love 
with Howard Cohn & Genevieve Tregor

Wisdom and love do not exist outside of us.

However, through the vicissitudes of our lives we often find ourselves closed down and confused, and seeking solace outside of ourselves in ways that only provide temporary and unreliable relief, and ultimately, that can cause us even greater suffering.  Looking for relief in temporary distractions is a subtle form of addiction.  When we don't recognize this, we can become our own worst enemy in pursuit of happiness!

The Buddha understood how this kind of confusion leads us astray.  But, white the Buddha understood this cause of suffering, he also discovered a path to freedom from suffering: the path of Wisdom and Love that is not reliant on changing circumstances, but on our own, ever-available capacity, on the resources available to us inherently.

Developing the practices of Wisdom and Love through systematic development of Mindfulness and Loving Kindness leads us to true relief; greater confidence, stability and ease. 

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December 14 - 18, 2024

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Howard Cohn

Howard Cohn, MA, is one of the founding teachers of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and has led the Mission Dharma sitting group in San Francisco for over 30 years. He has practiced meditation since 1972, and has led Vipassana retreats since 1985. He is known by his students for his kindheartedness and warm sense of humor.  Howard has a MA in Counseling Psychology and has a private counseling/mentoring practice. He is the author of, Invitation to Meditation: How to Find Peace Wherever You Are

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Genevieve Tregor

Genevieve Tregor, MS, is the founding teacher of Insight Meditation Scottsdale, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Solution Mindfulness. She serves on the faculty of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach's Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. She is trained in Peter Levine's three year  Trauma- Informed   Somatic Experiencing method of healing trauma, and serves as adjunct faculty the Maricopa Community Colleges. 

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