Back to Centre: 5-Day Silent Retreat with Jess Huon

Location: Atisha Centre, 25 Sandhurst Town Rd, Myers Flat VIC (near Bendigo) 

Dates: Friday 16th May – Wednesday 21st May 2025

THIS RETREAT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED – WAITING LIST ONLY

Do you want time to deeply resource yourself for what’s next?

-to settle beneath the noise and sharpen your discernment?

-to strongly nourish your practice, and have the time to stay with it?

Join us for this longer practice immersion with Jess Huon and assistant teachers.

Come back to your centre and stabilise energy, within a supportive practice environment.

Silence has become almost as rare as dinosaurs. In this five day residential retreat, we will be conserving this precious quality. Silence can speak so much when we give over to it – clearing up what’s in our field of awareness, fortifying us, holding us.

We will get quiet to uncover what’s already here. Natural qualities such as humour, power, clear seeing, and inherent goodness can arise in this space.

We will gather in The Atisha Centre, a place of rich creative tradition and lineage – a vision actualised by two llamas (Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa) who brought Tibetan teachings to westerners in the 70s.

Together, backed by these teachings, practices, and the strong practice energy of this place, we settle deeper than stress and agitation. Our own deeper knowing can be heard here.

Orienting towards this deeper ground gives the opportunity for what’s not necessary – the old dead wood – to fall away, clearing the way for fresh direction to arise.

Together, we can empower non-reactivity, inner-resourcefulness and the courage to pursue what’s important to us.

This retreat will be supported by –

-Small groups

-1-1 interviews

-Dharma talks

-Instructions

-Movement practice

-Q and A

Accommodation & Cost

There are 4 types of accommodation available for this retreat:

*twin rooms with bedding included at $845 each + dana: 

*canvas tents. BYO bedding 1 person per tent at $795 + dana

*BYO tents/bedding at $620 + dana

*Single rooms with bedding included, that are a 600m walk through bushland to the meditation hall and dining area at $1295

Fully booked – to go on the waiting list click here 

Enquiries: retreats@melbourneinsightmeditation.org