Well Being Retreat Center - Event
Silent Meditation Retreat
with Upasaka Upali (Paul Peterson)
April 3 - 7, 2019
This meditation retreat will serve as a platform to support your practice, wherever it’s at, and aims to provide a space where it can deepen and flourish. It will be filled with extended periods of meditation, personal interviews, evening teachings, nourishing food, and natural surroundings. It will be especially beneficial for those wanting to deepen and their experience and understanding of the stages described in The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa.
Upasaka Upali (Paul Peterson)
Schedule
Check in will be at 4 pm.on Wednesday and the program will end by 2 p.m. on Sunday. Meals will be vegetarian (including organic eggs and some organic dairy) and are generally gluten-free. Meals include Thursday supper through Sunday lunch. Teas, coffee & snacks provided throughout. Cabins (but not Cabinettes) have equipped kitchenettes if you have "special" foods you want to bring.
Upasaka Upali is a meditation instructor who specializes in working with beginning to advanced meditators. Upali’s teaching style strives to provide tangible instruction, inspire consistent practice, and to create a rewarding meditation experience.
He has taught broad and diverse audiences from adult professionals seeking stress reduction to elementary students in underserved communities. He began teaching in the Southeastern United States where he would travel once a month to a Federal Prison in Virginia to talk about meditation with inmates of a prison Sangha (meditation community). He later moved to South America, where he was encouraged to continue his teaching practice by Tucker Peck, Ph.D. through teaching beginning meditation classes online. Since then, his online teaching practice has expanded, which he has found to be a delightful way to connect with meditation practitioners from all over the world.
After arriving back in the United States, Upali began a local meditation Sangha in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Additionally, he became a teacher for the Mindful Schools Program where he taught mindfulness to elementary students in underserved communities of Chattanooga. In April of 2018, he completed a one month Teacher in Residence program at Dharma Treasure with Upasaka Culadasa. Since the program, Upali has increased his teaching of in-person meditation retreats and has enjoyed seeing the benefit and progress silent retreats create for practitioners. He is currently a teacher in training with Culadasa, the author of The Mind Illuminated.
About the Four Night Meditation Program
The retreat will be held in noble silence (meaning minimal talking and distraction). It is open to beginning and advanced practitioners alike. The only prerequisite to attend is a history of consistent meditation practice. It will largely be taught in the style of The Mind Illuminated, but all traditions and styles of meditation are welcome. If you have any questions about whether this retreat will be a good fit for you, send a message to
Registration for April 3 - 7, 2019 Retreat
Register with Well Being Retreat Center for Accommodations using the online form below.
Prices do not include Dana (generosity/donation) for Upali's teachings.
Pictures of Cabins and Cabinettes are shown here. Accommodations (lodging, meals and snacks) for this 3 night retreat range from $320 to $620, depending on the lodging selected.
Well Being Retreat Center's Policies for Accommodations are here.
If you have any questions about the program content or structure, please contact Paul at upasakaupali@gmail.com
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