Each weekly session provides group support for one's personal meditation practice and includes a guided meditation, in-depth exploration of a meditation topic, and time for group questions and discussion. It's normally a small group of 6-12 attendees where everyone has a chance to share (or pass). The benefits of community and shared learning are a hallmark of each weekly session. This weekly meditation session is entirely donation based (in the Buddhist tradition of dana).

This weekly session is hosted on Zoom for the time being. We encourage everyone to participate with video on, if comfortable and available for your circumstances.

Since time immemorial human beings have observed the powerful influence of the moon’s cycles.  Early cultures, in response to this, often developed rituals for celebration, reflection and renewal on the full moon.  In fact, the Buddha directed his monks to gather together on each full moon to support each other, renewing their vows and offering teachings. 

In the spirit of these full moon gatherings of reflection and renewal, we invite you to join us for Minneapolis Insight’s monthly Full Moon Gathering.  Each month, on the full moon, we will come together to practice and offer support for reflection and re-commitment to the values and practices that give our lives meaning and balance.

We will meet via Zoom starting at 7pm CST, wrapping up by 8:30pm CST. Please feel free to join as many of these gatherings as you like (no need to register for them all).

Full Moon Dates

Friday, May 5th

Saturday, June 3rd

Monday,  July 3

Tuesday,  August 1

Wednesday,  August 30

Friday,  September 29

Saturday,  October 28

Monday, November 27 

These dates, that follow the cycle of the moon, fall on different nights of the week.  They do not follow the modern notion of gathering together on a set day. The moon has its own cyclical nature, that is not tied to the linear, modern, western concept of time.  Our hope is that by following the cycle of the moon, we are subtly invited into the cyclical ways of the feminine and of nature and the reality of our lives. When we only live in the linear, modern, concept of time, we can get hooked into the idea of “past” and “future” — and forget to appreciate the cycles of our life, as in the reality of death and rebirth in Buddhism and the rhythms of nature.

Weekend meditation retreats are an opportunity to set aside the demands of life and focus fully on practice for a dedicated period of time. This enables us to practice deeply and develop continuity of mindfulness, and can be a great source of inspiration to our greater meditation practices and daily lives.

Daylong meditation retreats are an opportunity to set aside the demands of life and focus fully on practice for a dedicated period of time. This enables us to practice deeply and develop continuity of mindfulness, and can be a great source of inspiration to our greater meditation practices and daily lives.

Ten-week group exploration of Phillip Moffitt's Dancing with Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering. We will utilize the book as a conceptual framework but the emphasis will be the direct experience of these teachings in formal meditation practice and inquiry, as well as in our greater lives.

Each weekly meeting will consist of a short talk, a guided meditation, and lots of time to discuss that week's themes through the lens of each of our direct experience.

This class is open to practitioners of all experience levels and will be facilitated by the Minneapolis Insight teaching team including Jean Haley, Benjamin Hohl, Jane Rauenhorst, and Alex Meyers.

Expectations for the class include:

- Attending as many of the weekly classes as possible (this is not a drop-in offering)

- Reading up to three chapters of the book per week

- Time for practice and reflection between classes

- Sharing your practice and reflections with the class as we will be co-creating this learning experience

This course is a meditation-based exploration of the Satipatthana, a 2,500 year old foundational Buddhist meditation teaching. Satipatthana is a systematic exploration of establishing mindfulness and cultivating insight. The Buddha taught Satipatthana as the direct path to a fully liberated heart and mind. He was abundantly clear about this. The Buddha begins and ends the teaching by saying:

Practitioner, this is the direct path for the purification of beings, for the surmounting of sorrow and lamentation, for the disappearance of dukkha and discontent, for acquiring the true method, for the realization of Nibbana, namely, the four satipatthanas.

The text has the meditator explore four ways to establish mindfulness.

This course will be an exploration of Bhikkhu Analyo's approach to Satipatthana, as outlined in his most recent book, Satipatthana Meditation: A Practice Guide.

For more information on the structure of this course, please visit the course website here.

Questions? Feel free to reach out to the facilitators by emailing [email protected].