28-Day Vipassana Retreat with Patrick Kearney
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28-Day Vipassana Retreat with Patrick Kearney
25 Rutland Rd, Medlow Bath NSW 2780
Up to 18 in group
January 16 - February 13, 2026
About this Retreat
Patrick Kearney is an independent dharma teacher in the lineage of Mahāsī Sayādaw of Burma, his principal teachers being Paṇḍitarama Sayādaw and John Hale. He has also trained in the Diamond Sangha lineage of Zen Buddhism. His original teacher was Robert Aitken Roshi, and he is now studying with Paul Maloney Roshi. Patrick has a particular interest in the Buddha’s teachings before Theravāda or Mahāyāna were thought of. He studies Pāli and seeks to bring his understanding of the early texts to the practice of dharma in the contemporary world. For further details see his website.
Emma Pittaway teaches an open “natural awareness” approach that emphasises meditation as a way of being in the world, based on her training in the Burmese lineage of Mahāsī Sayādaw via Shwe Oo Min Sayādaw and his dharma successor, Sayādaw U Tejaniya. Inspired by the Buddha and his followers, who lived and meditated in the forest, she draws on the natural world to support her practice. She is the principal insight teacher at the Kuan Yin Meditation Centre in Lismore, NSW.
Robyn Gibson has been practising and studying meditation for 30 years, predominantly in the Mahāsi lineage of Theravāda Buddhism. Her principal teachers have been Patrick Kearney and Carol Perry. Teaching since 2016, Robyn’s approach brings together the Buddha’s radical teachings of freedom through embodied presence, deep ecology and other nature-based practices, and creative expression. All this allows us to enquire into what it means to live a wise and ethical human life on this earth, and how to face the challenges of our current times with courage and integrity.
Details of this retreat
This retreat is open to people who have done at least three insight meditation retreats in the Mahasi tradition of nine days longer.
Satipaṭṭhāna, the applications of mindfulness, is based on the continuity of awareness cultivated in every circumstance of life. We practise to become intimate with ourselves, our circumstances and the world around us. As we do so, we discover what the Buddha calls the three universal characteristics of experience – that all we undergo is changing, fundamentally unsatisfactory, and neither ours nor us.
This retreat is for experienced practitioners who want to deepen their practice and understanding. The first two weeks will be co-taught with Robyn Gibson and the second two weeks with Emma Pittaway.
Satipaṭṭhāna, the applications of mindfulness, is based on the continuity of awareness cultivated in every circumstance of life. We practise to become intimate with ourselves, our circumstances and the world around us. As we do so, we discover what the Buddha calls the three universal characteristics of experience – that all we undergo is changing, fundamentally unsatisfactory, and neither ours nor us.
This retreat is for experienced practitioners who want to deepen their practice and understanding. The first two weeks will be co-taught with Robyn Gibson and the second two weeks with Emma Pittaway.
Getting Here
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre, 25 Rutland Rd, Medlow Bath NSW 2780
Accommodation
Female Single Room
Male Single Room
Single Room (Any Gender)
If male or female, please only choose this option if male/female rooms are full.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
