Awakening Together: Building Beautiful and Beloved Communities – A Daylong Retreat with Larry Yang
Join ICD Founding Teacher, Larry Yang for this daylong retreat on October 21, 2017. Building community can seem like a worthy purpose, a high aspiration, even a wholesome ideal. But the practices of Mindfulness and Lovingkindness invite us into experiencing more than...
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August 18, 2017: Charlottesville Meditation Sitting at Insight Community of the Desert
This has been an intense and unsettling weekend because of the violence and racism in Charlottesville. The impact of these events is, of course, cumulative and as individuals and as a spiritual community we feel this. As a responsive community we have the opportunity...
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Connecting to our Heart’s Refuge
Join us for a day of practice and exploration of refuge as it relates to our lives and our world. Is it possible to bring a sense of home and refuge wherever we may find ourselves? We will spend the day exploring mindfulness practices designed to strengthen and...
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Waking Up in Relationship August 19, 2017
Join ICD Teacher Cheryl Slean for this half day workshop and retreat that will focus on improving our relationships by including them in our daily life practice. Information and registration for this event can be found by clicking on the following link: More...
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Mindfulness in a CrAzy World
Please join us for our July 22nd Daylong Retreat, Mindfulness in a CrAzy World, with Beth Mulligan and Larry Yang. At this retreat explore mindfulness and lovingkindness practices in demanding and challenging times. Create the stillness and peacefulness internally,...
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Congratulations to Ian Challis
We are delighted to announce that Ian Challis just completed the two year Community Dharma Leaders Teacher Training Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County California. Ian graduated on Saturday April 29, 2017 with 90 of his classmates. Over the past...
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Fierce Compassion: A Daylong Workshop for Women
In this 6 hour retreat-style workshop we’ll explore what it means to have a “Strong back and a soft front” in other words what might it look like to go through the world with an open heart and strong clear boundaries? Vulnerability researcher, Social Worker and best...
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Insight Community of the Desert Anniversary Open House and Celebration
On Sunday May 7, 2017 Insight Community of the Desert celebrated its Fifth Anniversary with a glorious celebration and open house. Deep bows of gratitude to Anita Rehker, Louise Lambert, Margie Norris, Nadine Navarro, Christine Madsen, and Frank Riela who organized...
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Larry at Wisdom 2.0
Larry Yang was selected to speak at this year’s Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco. We are so proud of our Founding Teacher and his inspiring message of True Integrity, and that this timely message could be shared with the world! Click below to see the video of this inspiring teaching!
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Meditation as Refuge
Meditation As Refuge We are happy to welcome Meditation As Refuge (formerly Meditation in Recovery at Michael’s House) to Insight Community of the Desert. Greg Varra and Jokai Blackwell extend a weekly invitation (Tuesdays, at 6:30pm) to everyone who would like to...
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