UPCOMING RETREATS
Madison Vipassana, Inc., offers residential and non-residential meditation retreats for Madison Insight Meditation Group. We are a 401-C3, non-profit, volunteer organization to support the Dhamma in the USA.
Dana for Pine Lake Camp
Back in April, when we were just getting used to staying home, we sent you an invitation to offer dana to Holy Wisdom Monastery and St. Anthony Spirituality Center, where we had been scheduled to hold retreats earlier this year. Your generosity in response to that call was inspiring. We were able to make gifts to those two centers that we are confident made a difference to them during this period of fiscal challenge.
We now would like to offer you a similar opportunity to give dana to another of our longtime retreat centers, Pine Lake United Methodist Camp in Westfield, WI. We had been scheduled to hold our October retreat with Jan Cittasubha Sheppard there. Fortunately, we were able to hold this retreat very successfully in an online format.
In past years, we have appreciated Pine Lake’s reliable spiritual friendship and their empathic support of our unusual, silent-retreat ways. We missed Pine Lake’s hospitality and its exceptionally beautiful peacefulness this fall.
Pine Lake operates on a very lean budget. In the midst of multiplying and deepening financial need for all kinds of individuals and organizations, we want to offer you this opportunity to contribute toward a group donation to help Pine Lake. If giving dana to Pine Lake feels like it would be a skillful component of your practice, please use this link to the Madison Vipassana PayPal account to contribute by credit or debit card or via PayPal transfer. Please make your donation by Sunday, December 6, 2020. We will make the group donation shortly thereafter.
In appreciation of your presence and practice,
The Madison Vipassana Board
Scheduled Retreats for 2021
The following retreats are scheduled, but depending upon the pandemic may need to be held online, or canceled. We will update this site as we have a clearer sense of what may be possible.
March 5-7, 2021, This in-person, non-residential retreat with Noliwe Alexander, at Holy Wisdom Monastery, Madison, WI had to be canceled due to the pandemic. She wants to teach for us and we are working to reschedule her for 2022. We also are planning an online retreat for this same time in 2021. Watch for details by the end of November.
July 6-16, 2021, residential retreat with Luang Por Sucitto, at St. Anthony Spirituality Center, Marathon, WI
October 7-10, 2021, residential retreat with Santikaro, at Pine Lake Camp, Westfield, WI
Other Retreats in the region:
Minnesota communities that regularly offer retreats:
Common Ground Meditation Center, 2700 E 26th St, Minneapolis, MN 55406, (612) 722-8260
Twin Cities Vipassana Cooperative also offers retreats in eastern MN and/or western WI. For details visit http://www.tcvc.info or write retreats@tcvc.info