Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community, and a graduate of the 2017-2021 IMS teacher training program. She deeply appreciates metta and nature based practices. She has been practicing since 1999, and is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner and Community Dharma Leader Programs. Jeanne is certified with Indigenous Focusing Oriented Trauma Therapy (IFOT), is a certified MBSR teacher, and she has trained with Mindful Schools and Somatic Experiencing. She is Métis, and one of her first teachers in loving presence was Cree Elder Jim Settee.
Drawing on the four foundations of mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths, we explore the difference between the inevitable difficulties of human experience and the suffering that arises through grasping and resistance. By noticing feeling tone, reactivity, and the embodied qualities of tightness and ease, we can begin to recognize moments of release and cultivate a wiser relationship with experience.
Readings from The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi by Susan Moon; Remembering How I Got Here in the First Place by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer; The Second Music by Annie Lighthart.
Exploring vedanā, or feeling tone, we notice the pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral quality of experience and the reactions that may follow. Staying grounded in the body, this practice invites curiosity about grasping and pushing away, and the possibility of responding with greater wisdom and freedom.
Beginning with the body as a home base for attention, we explore an easeful, gentle way of returning to bodily sensations and the breath. Sitting and walking practice support steadiness of attention and a growing capacity to be present with our experience without judgment.
Reflections on carrying retreat practice into daily life through gentle mindfulness, the Three Refuges, the precepts, generosity, and connection with Sangha. The talk offers practical ways to sustain practice at home while exploring how lineage and community can nourish and support the path.
Guided instructions for noticing moments when craving softens and for abiding in wholesome experience without grasping. By sensing how beauty, ease, and nourishment are felt in the body, we can cultivate an inner refuge and support the gradual fading of craving.
Exploring virāga, the fading away of craving, and how insight into impermanence, not-self, and dukkha supports this release. As the impulse to grasp, resist, and control gradually loses its hold, we can discover greater ease and the possibility of peace within the changing conditions of our lives.
Guided instructions for recognizing ordinary moments when grasping and ill will lessen and the mind experiences a taste of ease or "cooling." Through body and breath practice, we learn to become more sensitive to these small moments of non-clinging and temporary liberation.
Continuing with the body and breath, these instructions explore how to recognize subtle qualities of quiet joy and pleasantness in the body and allow them to become a support for practice. Calming and quiet joy can nourish one another, deepening ease and steadiness in both sitting and walking meditation.
Exploring the second tetrad of mindfulness of breathing, with its movement from quiet joy and contentment toward experiencing and calming mental activity. The talk considers how recognizing and cultivating subtle sources of nourishment can support steadiness, reduce reactivity, and help us meet difficult experiences with greater ease.
Beginning with the preliminary practices that establish a foundation for meditation, these instructions explore mindfulness of the body in sitting, walking, and everyday movement, with an emphasis on curiosity, kindness, ease, and continuity of awareness.
