Standing in Integrity:
A Daylong Retreat with Gina LaRoche & nico hase
Saturday, February 10th
10 am to 4 pm pacific time
The world is spinning, tumbling, toppling. Sometimes it's tough to know where you stand, or how to stand at all.
This is where sila parami (integrity) comes in. Sila starts with five principles to live by. From there it deepens into a living sensitivity, a momentary knowing of what benefits you, others, and everyone.
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In this one-day online retreat, Gina & nico will delve into sila ("integrity" or "ethics") as the foundation from which all other happy states of the heart arise, with a special emphasis on the experience of sila, the feel of it, and its nuts and bolts development in a world that often feels at odds with the goodness we seek.
The day will begin with an hour of conversation and an opening talk around the theme. We’ll then sit and walk for four hours in lightly guided practice, before reconvening for a closing talk and further dialogue.
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This daylong is the second in a series of ten online daylong retreats on the paramis hosted by Refuge of Belonging, a collective founded by nico hase & Devin Berry that is dedicated to sustaining the relationships and the deepening the dharma that people experience in insight meditation retreats.
The ten paramis (“furtherances” or “completions”) are foundational to the Buddhist path of awakening. Spanning states of the heart from kindness and equanimity to resolve and renunciation, they offer us a time tested way forward, a manner of cultivating what most truly benefits ourselves and others, both right now, in this moment, and as a stepping stone to final liberation.
Registration & Payment
Please use the button below to register. We offer these daylong retreats on a dana model. The suggested donation is $50 to $150 per session. We gratefully accept contributions of greater or lesser amounts, based on your resources.
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email from Rachael Tanner-Smith, our retreat manager. A day or two before the event, you will receive a second email with a Zoom link and other information.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Gina LaRoche (she*/her*) is an Insight Meditation practitioner and teacher. Gina has participated in several IMS retreats, sitting the annual People of Color retreat as well as other retreats with teachers such as Gina Sharpe, Larry Yang, Sharon Salzberg and DaRa Williams. She was a teacher at the New Haven (Connecticut) Insight Sangha now called Elm Community Insight and now serves as their board chair. In 2014, Gina was nominated by Sharon Salzberg for the Community Dharma Leaders Program at Spirit Rock where she graduated in 2017. She has completed the eight-week MBSR training. She is currently on the Board of Insight Mediation Society in Barre, MA, is one of the leaders for Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC) POC affinity group. And co-led a Dharma Talk Series for Tricycle Magazine called, “Living in Our Money-Driven Society: Navigating a Path to Awakening.”
nico hase lived in a monastery for six years before earning a PhD in counseling psychology and becoming an Insight Meditation teacher full time. He currently mentors mindfulness teachers, teaches online and in-person retreats, and speaks with students in one-on-one sessions. He and his beloved life partner devon are the authors of How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Buddhist Survival Guide for Modern Life.