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Practice format will be similar to residential retreats: Alternate periods of sitting and walking, instruction, conferences, contemplative movement (Tai Chi Chih), Dharma talks, and Heart Practices. Insight Meditation is a practice that aims to free the mind from the distortions of self-centeredness, negativity, and confusion. Through the intensive practice of moment-to-moment investigation of the body-mind process the mind gradually sees more clearly into the nature of itself. Such clear seeing leads to freedom from the attachments and misconceptions that cause our suffering and allows us to open to a path of wisdom and compassion. About our retreat leaders: Robert Brumet: He has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1990. Robert received Community Dharma Leader certification from Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2000. He is also a Spiritual Director, having received certification from Mt. St. Scholastica College in 2013. Victor J. 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