[updated 5/27/94; expires 8/20/94]

                   NEWBURY INSIGHT MEDITATION CENTER
                   One Rolfes Lane, Newbury, MA 01951
                             (508)463-0131
                                           
                            COURSE SCHEDULE
                           Spring/Summer 1994
                                           
                                           
                              INFORMATION
                              ~~~~~~~~~~~
   NIMC is a non-profit, non-residential center for the practice of 
   Insight Mediation, in existence since October 1990.  NIMC offers 
   classes, retreats, talks, sittings, special programs and social 
   activities to members and non-members.  It is concerned with the 
   development of community, based in a practice of mindfulness.  
   
   DIRECTIONS:
   From I-95, take Exit 57. Proceed on Route 113 (High St.) toward 
   Newbury for four miles until you see the Common on the right. At the 
   light, turn left onto Rolfe's Lane. Turn into the first driveway on 
   the left. Welcome!
   
   
                                CLASSES
                                ~~~~~~~
   Insight Meditation is concerned with the development of calm and 
   insight.  Classes, running in ten-week cycles, include instruction, 
   practice and dialogue, and emphasize the moment to moment 
   mindfulness of breath and general awareness of body and mind.
   
           Cycle 1:  April 13 - June 15
           Cycle 2:  June 29 - August 31
           
   Price per cycle:  Members $100.00/Nonmembers $150.00
   
   
           WEDNESDAYS, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
           Introduction to Insight Meditation -  Daeja Napier
           For people interested in beginning the practice.
   
           TUESDAYS, 10:00 - 11:30am / 12:00 - 1:30pm
           Daytime Sitting
           Mothers are welcome
   
           WEDNESDAYS, 8:00 - 9:30pm
           The Way of Awareness- Daeja Napier      
           For people with some meditation experience.
   
   
   
                               WORKSHOPS
                               ~~~~~~~~~
   Workshops provide an opportunity to bring the practice of 
   mindfulness to our multi-faceted lives.  Each workshop will include 
   meditation and discussion.
   
   Workshop fees:    Members - $25.00/Nonmembers $35.00
   
   DEVELOPING PHYSICAL EASE- Allen Bourque
   Sunday,  July 24,  1:00 - 5:00 pm
   Posture is not inherently fixed. The Alexander Technique helps free 
   the body's basic fluidity.  This workshop will use sitting and 
   walking meditation to demonstrate how to transform physical tension 
   allowing greater ease of well being and enhanced presence of mind.
   
   
   YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORKSHOP - Daeja Napier
   Friday, June 3, 7:00 - 10:00 pm
   A workshop for people between the ages of 13 - 18.
   
   MOTHERING IN AWARENESS - Daeja Napier & Jan Surrey
   Sunday, June 5, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
   Friday, July 15, 7:00 - 9:30 pm
   We will look at the practice of mindfulness as a way to cultivate 
   the sustaining power to mother with full presence of mind and heart.
      
   COMPASSION & THE PRACTICE OF DYING - Nancy & Art Ledoux
   Saturday, June 11, 10:00am - 5:00 pm
   How can we be with one who is dying even as it breaks our hearts?  
   Meditation and discussion in the spirit of Stephen & Odetta Levine.
   
   
                                RETREATS
                                ~~~~~~~~
   Retreats include the practice of sitting and walking meditation, 
   dialogue, and individual or group meetings with the teacher.  Those 
   new to the practice as well as long-time students are welcome.
   
   Residential retreats:  Members $75.00 / Nonmembers $95.00
   One-day retreats:      Members $40.00 / Nonmembers $50.00
   
   DAY OF METTA - Daeja Napier
   Sundays, 10:00 - 5:00pm
   May 1, May 29, June 12- (held at Interface in Cambridge, Ma), July 
   17, & August 14.
   Metta is a concentration practice that softens the experience of 
   life, enhancing a loving, compassionate, joyful and balanced 
   relationship with self and others.  These days support the 
   practice's momentum.
   
   MEN'S RETREAT - Joseph Kappell
   Saturday, May 28, 10:00 - 5:00pm
   Exploring the practice of mindfulness in the context of male 
   experience.
   
   FRIENDS & FAMILY RETREAT - Daeja Napier
   Saturday, July 9 9:00 am - Sunday July 10, 12:00pm
      $50.00 adults/$25.00 children
   This retreat offers a core of sitting and walking meditation, 
   including generous amounts of time with friends and family.  
   Activities will be provided for children.
   
   WOMEN'S RETREAT (Residential) - Daeja Napier
   Saturday, August 27, 10:00 am - Sunday August 28, 4:00 pm
   Exploring mindfulness practice in the context of the feminine 
   experience.
   
   
                               COMMUNITY
                               ~~~~~~~~~
   MONDAY EVENING DROP-IN MEDITATION
   Mondays, 8:00 - 8:45pm
   Meditation followed by tea, open to all.  Suggested Donation: $5.00
   
   CHILDREN'S GATHERING
   Saturday, August 20, 9:00 - 11:00 am
   Adults are welcome
   
   
                                OUTREACH
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   PARTNERSHIP IN PEACE: Making Newburyport A Safe and Peaceful Harbor
   Second Thursday of each month, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
   March 1994 was proclaimed as Nonviolence Month in Newburyport.  
   These monthly meetings keep this theme alive through ongoing 
   exploration of the question of peace.  Evenings include meditation 
   and discussion.  All are welcome, donations accepted.
   
   
   
                                  DANA
                                  ~~~~
   In the practice of Insight Meditation, DANA -- generosity -- is the 
   feeling that arises out of gratitude when one directly experiences 
   the sacredness of the teachings.  Dana has been maintained as a 
   tradition over the 2,500 years of Buddha Dhamma.  Honoring this 
   tradition -- which regards the teaching as priceless -- those who 
   transmit them do so freely, and are dependent upon Dana from others 
   for their livelihood.
   
   NIMC membership and course fees reflect the concern within the 
   Insight Meditation community to keep fees to the minimum necessary 
   to cover the operating needs of the centers.
   
   Teachers' financial support comes solely through Dana.
   
   
                              BIOGRAPHIES
                              ~~~~~~~~~~~
   Allen Bourque is and Alexander Teacher and a long-term student of 
   Insight Meditation.
   
   Joseph Kappell was a Buddhist monk in Thailand and Great Britain 
   with Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho for twenty years.  He has been 
   practicing Buddhist meditation since 1970.  Since leaving monastic 
   life in 1991, he has been exploring ways to integrate his experience 
   in to secular life.  He presently teaches mindfulness-based stress 
   reduction in prisons here in Massachusetts.
   
   Arthur Ledoux, Ph.D. teaches meditation and Asian philosophy at 
   Merrimack College.
   
   Nancy Ledoux, M. Div. is a former campus minister at Merrimack 
   College.  She is a hospice volunteer and has offered workshops on 
   meditation and bereavement.
   
   Daeja Napier, the founding teacher of NIMC and of the Insight 
   Meditation Program at Phillips Exeter Academy, has been studying and 
   practicing Buddhist meditation for over 20 years and is the mother 
   of five children.
   
   Janet Surrey, Ph.D., the mother of an adopted two-year old, Katie, 
   is a research associate of the Stone Center, Wellesley College, 
   instructor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and attending 
   psychologist and consultant to the Women's Treatment Network at 
   McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA.  She is also author of the book, 
   "Women's Growth in Connection: Writing from the Stone Center."  She 
   has practiced Insight Meditation for fourteen years.

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