Dharma Retreats

      After a three year hiatus (due to COVID-19 restrictions) we returning in 2023.

The next retreat will be held July 21 - 28, 2023. 

More information about the retreat, including location and cost is available here. 

Registration will open in January 2023. 

 

     Since Dharma Retreats (officially "Dharma Vipassana And Metta Retreats") was founded by Dr. Kate Partridge in 1998, this small non-profit venture has been providing annual meditation retreats in Ontario for people wishing to learn and deepen their practice of Vipassana / Insight Meditation and Metta / Loving-kindness Meditation.

     In July 2016, Laurie Morrison, Leslie Morgan & John Lovas happily joined Kate to help run Dharma Retreats. Despite health challenges, Kate remained actively involved until a month before she died peacefully at home, with her family by her side, on March 5, 2018.

     Each year, before & after Covid, we offer a week-long silent meditation retreat, usually at the Guest House of the Sisters of St. John the Divine, in Willowdale (Toronto), Ontario, Canada.

     As a non-profit organization, the registration fee covers participants' accommodation & meals; the teacher's travel expenses, accommodation & meals; website maintenance; email, registration & payment platforms; and incidentals.  Financial assistance for one participant is available.

     Teachers do not charge for the teachings - so in addition to the registration fee, participants voluntarily support teachers by way of 'dana'.

     Dharma Retreats is run by unpaid volunteers, who pay the same registration fee & dana as other participants. The retreat manager, is also unpaid, though the cost of registration, accommodation & meals are covered. 

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