No Part Left Out:
The Healing Power of Metta
WEEKEND RETREAT
With IMT Dharma Leader David Bornstein and Guest Teacher Jacoby Ballard
Watching the moon
at midnight
solitary, mid-sky,
I knew myself completely,
no part left out.
~ Izumi Shikibu
We are living in a time of deep fragmentation. This can be felt individually, collectively, and at the planetary level. In this weekend retreat, we will steep in the practice of metta, loving-kindness, to heal and restore wholeness for individuals, our human family, and the natural world.
Led by IMT dharma leader David Bornstein and guest teacher Jacoby Ballard, the retreat will include guided meditation, dharma teachings, inquiry, and Q&A. We will invite in all parts of ourselves including those we habitually turn away from, ignore, or don’t see. We will expand outward, taking in the human collective, and our conditioned relationship to discriminatory social systems that separate. And we will open our hearts to all beings, exploring how our thoughts, words and actions may serve well-being for the entire web of life.
WHEN
April 8-9,
10am-4pm PT
Note: Tucson, Arizona will be the same as Pacific Time.
WHERE
On Zoom
COST
IMT Registration Donation: $35 plus donation for teachers
This donation supports IMT in being able to hold this retreat. No one is turned away due to lack of funds. Opportunities to offer dana for the teachers will be available at the end of the retreat.
CONTACT
For any questions contact Terry by email at insightmeditationtucson@gmail.com or leave a voice message at 520-477-1897.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Registration is required. Once you register you will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours.
ABOUT THE TEACHERS
David Bornstein, MSW
David began meditating in 1997 and has sat residential retreats most every year since 2000. He graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner’s Program in 2016, the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program created by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, in 2019, and was part of the most recent Community Dharma Leader Program cohort until it was cut short due to covid. IMT founder Anna Douglas invited David to begin teaching at IMT in 2014. David lives in Thetford Center VT with his wife and daughter, and will be moving back to Tucson in the summer of 2023.
Jacoby Ballard
Jacoby Ballard teaches yoga and dharma as it intersects with social justice and leads trainings around the country on diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a yoga teacher with 20 years of experience, he leads workshops, retreats, sections in yoga teacher trainings, and teaches at conferences and universities. He has meditated since he was 17 years old, has resided in the Insight tradition for the past 14 years, and trained to teach meditation at the Interdependence Project in New York. In 2008, Jacoby co-founded Third Root Community Health Center in Brooklyn, to work at the nexus of healing and social justice. Since 2006 Jacoby has taught Queer & Trans Yoga as a weekly class, a traveling workshop, and an annual retreat, and has offered yoga at the annual Garrison Institute LGBT Meditation Retreat. Jacoby has taught yoga in schools, hospitals, non profit and business offices, a maximum security prison, a recovery center, a cancer center, LGBT centers, gyms, a veteran’s center, and yoga studios. Jacoby lives with his beloved, his gender-expansive child, and dog companion on land known as Co-Karmi to Ute, Goshute, Paiute, and Shoshone people, now understood as Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation. More at jacobyballard.net.