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Mindful Walking
Vipassana Retreat (1 - Day)
Vipassana Retreat (1 - Day)
Join us for Mindful Walking, a gentle and grounding practice that invites you to slow down, connect with your breath, and experience each step with full presence. As we walk together, you’ll learn to attune your awareness to the sensations of movement, the rhythm of your body, and the natural world around you. This simple yet powerful practice helps quiet the mind, ease stress, and cultivate a sense of spacious clarity.
Our Mindful Walking sessions are open to all experience levels and offer a supportive environment to explore mindfulness in motion. Whether you’re seeking calm, a deeper connection to your surroundings, or a fresh way to integrate mindfulness into daily life, this practice provides a nourishing path forward. Join us, step by step, as we cultivate peace, presence, and a renewed appreciation for the gift of walking.
Dates: 1st Saturday of each month from April to October.
Time: 1 PM - 2 PM
Location: Living Legacy Gardens, Staples, MN.
Free - donations accepted.
This event is suitable for all ages and levels of practice.
Vipassana Retreat (1 - Day)
Vipassana Retreat (1 - Day)
Vipassana Retreat (1 - Day)
Our monthly silent (vipassana) retreat offers a rare and nourishing opportunity to rest deeply in stillness within a serene natural setting. In the quiet, free from the rush of daily responsibilities, you are invited to slow down, breathe, and gently turn your attention inward. This dedicated time creates space to observe your mind with clarity, soften habitual patterns, and reconnect with the calm that is always available beneath the noise of everyday life.
Silent retreats give you the precious gift of meeting the most important person in the world, you. As you settle into guided meditation sessions, mindful walking, and spacious periods of personal reflection, you may uncover insights, emotional ease, and an inner steadiness that often remains hidden amid constant activity. Whether you are seeking renewal, clarity, or simply a peaceful pause, this retreat supports a profound return to your own presence and well-being.
Dates: Third Saturday
beginning April 18 until October 17 from 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM.
Light snacks, tea, and water provided
Fee: $40
This event is suitable for all ages and levels of practice and is ideal for introductory vipassana.
Vipassana Retreat (5 - Day)
Vipassana Retreat (1 - Day)
Vipassana Retreat (10 - Day)
Vipassana is the art of living to promote clarity and understanding in life for spiritual goals.
In this preparatory retreat over the course of 5 days you'll remove yourself from all of the luxuries and conveniences modern life offers (cellphones, comfortable home, fancy meals, and more) so that you may explore more deeply your own Buddhist or personal spirituality through silent meditation.
Dates: Individually Arranged - please reach out directly.
Fee: : $300
This event is suitable for the more advanced practitioner preparing for the 10-day Vipassana retreat.
Vipassana Retreat (10 - Day)
Vipassana Retreat (10 - Day)
Vipassana Retreat (10 - Day)
Vipassana is an art of living to promote spiritual goals.
Built upon the 5 - day preparatory retreat 10 - day vipassana retreat you'll remove yourself from all of the luxuries and conveniences modern life offers (cellphones, comfortable home, fancy meals, and more) so that you may explore more deeply your own Buddhist or personal spirituality through silent meditation.
Dates: Individually Arranged - please reach out directly.
Fee: Freewill donation for those who have completed the 5 - day preparatory vipassana retreat.
All others: $600
This event is suitable for the advanced practitioner.
Teen Mindfulness Retreat
Vipassana Retreat (10 - Day)
Teen Mindfulness Retreat
Teens face real challenges every day, many of which they carry quietly, without sharing with friends or family.
Guided by a senior Dharma teacher and supported by compassionate peer mentors, our teen retreat offers a safe and uplifting space for your young adult to learn Buddhist-centered mindfulness skills. Throughout the retreat, they’ll explore practices that nurture emotional well-being, cultivate healthy mindsets, and strengthen personal boundaries, all essential tools for navigating an often overwhelming world with clarity and confidence.
2026: June 15 - 19
Fee: Free
Camping supplies (tent and sleeping bag) are freely provided.
This event is suitable for ages 13 - 17 and all levels of practice.
Vipassana Meditation
Vipassana means to see things clearly and as they truly are. Without proper training it’s very difficult to see past the disillusions presented to us in everyday life. Our disillusionment is the result of social constructs and bias as well as our own prejudice and bias towards ourselves and others.
As such, we live in a dissatisfied state of existence continually looking for peace, harmony, and balance.
Originating in India, Vipassana was rediscovered by Buddha over 2,500 years ago and has been continually taught since and is a remedy for eradication of mental impurities resulting in lasting happiness and liberation.
What Vipassana is:
- It is a technique that will eradicate suffering.
- It is non-sectarian and is suitable for all religions, faiths, and non-religious individuals.
- It is a method of mental purification allowing one to face life's problems in a calm, balanced way.
- It is an art of living that one can use to make positive contributions to society.
What Vipassana is not:
- It is not a religious ceremony based on blind faith.
- It is neither an intellectual nor a philosophical debate.
- It is not a vacation or an opportunity for social interaction.
- It is not an escape from the troubles and difficulties of everyday life.
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