Auckland Meditation and Yoga Retreat with Susan Allen

Join us for this urban meditation and yoga retreat in Ponsonby, central Auckland. Meditation is a journey of discovery; this practice cultivates understanding of how your mind works and offers the possibility of flourishing in this world.
This is a non-residential retreat where participants have the flexibility to find their own accommodation, coming together each day for learning and practice.

Led by Susan Allen, practitioner and meditation teacher for the last 22 years.

This meditation retreat offers 5 days of meditation practice and discussion in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. This is an opportunity for you to begin a daily meditation practice for life or to advance an existing practice with fresh ideas and strategies. These meditation retreats are usually mixed level from beginners to more advanced practitioners, all are welcome.

The retreat is hosted by one of NZ’s most experienced meditation and yoga teachers, Susan Allen. Suze has been teaching meditation for 22 years and has an authentic passion for sharing this transformative practice with others.

Meditation will change your life, it is a tool for developing calmness of mind, a poise of character. Through the practice we gain insight into how our mind works; we find a path that facilitates the flourishing of all mental traits.

The meditation practices and discussion will have a particular emphasis on cultivating quietness and steadiness in the mind as well as cultivating insights that bring freedom and peace of mind into our everyday life. Tibetan Buddhist meditations value an intelligent and structured approach to investigating ‘What is the mind?’ and consequently frame meditation in a practical and methodical way. You can read more detail about the meditation approach here. The meditation practices will be taken from the Mahamudra and Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhist tradition. These will be presented in a secular, practical fashion.

The primary offerings on this retreat are:
1. Attention training practices specifically to quieten the busy mind; this cultivates tranquility and stability of mind.
2. Insight practices that liberate the mind from its conditioned patterns. This causes our habitual reactive emotional states to decline, we feel more connected to others and we begin to operate more from a spacious, ease-ful awareness rather than from the obsession with thought.
3. Quiet time to nourish and gain inspiration on a path forward.