LOCAL ONGOING EVENTS IN SANTA BARBARA 

SBI STUDY GROUP

May18 and 19, 2012

May 18: Evening with Tsoknyi Rinpoche at the Unity Church, Santa Barbara

May 19: Study group with Kimberley Snow at EMID. For more information click here

Rancho Embarcadero,

224 Vereda Leyenda, Goleta

Monday weekly sitting group at the Unity Church and Monthly meeting group at EMID. For more information, please click here

2012 RETREATS WITH ALAN WALLACE IN SANTA BARBARA & PHUKET

Weeklong Retreats  Nov. 11-18, 2012- Retreat on Düdjom Lingpa’s The Fine Path to Liberation: An Explanation of the Stages of the Preliminary Practices For Manuals Such as Refining One’s Perception, followed by “Phase Four: Determining the Characteristics and Qualities of the Ground” in Düdjom Lingpa’s classic mind treasure The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra, together with his commentary, at the Santa Barbara Mission Renewal Center, Santa Barbara, California, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies

Dates in Phuket for 2012:
8-week Spring Shamatha & Four Immeasurables: April 6 - June 1

The retreat is full but if you would like to be placed in the waiting list, please email retreats@sbinstitute.com

Cultivating Emotional Balance Teacher Training: July 16 - Aug. 20

The Application is available. Please email retreats@sbinsitiute.com to apply.

Please join our mailing list to receive the announcement. 

8-week Fall Shamatha and Four Applications of Mindfulness: Aug. 24 - Oct. 19 

The retreat is full but if you would like to be placed in the waiting list, please email

retreats@sbinstitute.com

All three retreats are led by B. Alan Wallace, the Spring and Fall exclusively by him, and the CEB teacher training with Alan Wallace and Eve Ekman. All three retreats are sponsored by Santa Barbara Institute, and hosted by the Thanyapura Mind Centre, part of the Phuket International Academy, in Phuket, Thailand. http://www.thanyapura.com/mind-centre

 Please email retreats@sbinsitiute.com for more information.

TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL WHEN THE APPLICATIONS FOR THE CEBTT AND FALL 8 WEEK RETREATS ARE READY, PLEASE SIGN UP HERE & REQUEST TO BE PUT ON THE PHUKET MAILING LIST.

For photographs of the facility, click here

SHAMATHA & VIPASHYANA RETREATS

During the Spring retreat, the focus will be on Shamatha or Calm Abiding meditation and the Four Immeasurables. The Fall retreat will focus on The Four Applications of Mindfullness, foundational practice for all of Vipashyana or Insight meditation. In both retreats, 36 single rooms will be available at TMC available. The cost for Spring and Fall 2012 is $3,255. per person.This price included teachings, food, and lodging in a single room for 8 weeks, but not travel expenses. Everyone has their own air-conditioned room and private bath. Internet connection is available and there is a central computer for general use in the library. In addition to teachings by Alan Wallace, these retreats focus strongly on the practice of meditation, done as a group or privately in your room. Meditation periods will be 6 to 8 hours a day. It is recommended that you have taken a Shamatha or other retreat with B. Alan Wallace before applying or that you have listened to the podcasts or taken a self-retreat using his DVD or CDs recorded at one of his Shamatha retreats.
The Fall 2012 8 week retreat in Phuket is full. Please email retreats@sbinsitiute.com to apply and be put on the waiting list.

To listen to the podcast series recorded during the Shamatha & Four Immeasurables Spring Retreat in 2011, go to:

For Spring 2012 Podcast: click here
For Past Podcast: click here
For more about Shamatha meditation: Clik Here
For more about the Shamatha Project: Click Here

CEBTT" July 16 - Aug. 20, 2012
For more about Cultivating Emotional Balance Teacher Training, please visit this website:
http://cultivatingemotionalbalance.org/

During the CEB teacher training, double as well as single rooms are available. The cost in 2012 is $4,115.00. per person for single room and $2910 for a double, shared room. This includes all teaching, housing, and meals. Travel expenses are not included. All of the rooms are air-conditioned and have a private bathroom. Internet access is available. CEBTT includes periods of meditation but not as much as in the Shamatha retreats.

When the registration process opens for each retreat, we send out a notice to those who have signed up to get information about Phuket. When a certain number of the applications have been returned, they are vetted and everyone is notified if they are accepted, put on the waiting list, or do not qualify at this time to attend the retreat. To get on this list go to contact us and join the mailing list, making sure that "Phuket" and not just "General Interest" is checked. If you are already on our list, then make sure that your profile is updated so that "Phuket" is checked. You may also get on the list through clicking on the link in the podcasts or by asking  retreats@sbinsitiute.com to put you on the list.

There are two payments, the deposit of around $900 is due within 30 days of acceptance and the second payment is due three months before the retreat is due to begin.

If you have any questions, please contact retreats@sbinstitute.com

Photos from Thanyapura Mind Center, Phuket.

Dates for Retreat in Santa Barbara

Weekend Retreat- Feb. 3-5, 2012- CANCELLED

Retreat focused on the “Patience” chapter of Shantideva’s classic text A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life) at the Santa Barbara Mission Renewal Center, Santa Barbara, California, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
 

Weeklong Retreats March 4-11,2012

March 4 – 11: Retreat on the vipashyana section of Düdjom Lingpa’s classic mind treasure The Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra  together with the Dzogchen practice of dream yoga, at the Santa Barbara Mission Renewal Center, Santa Barbara, California, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
Information: info@sbinstitute.com 

Weeklong Retreats  Nov. 11-18,2012