Thursdays, 6:30pm in-person
Sundays, 6pm online

There are two opportunities per week to join the Heart Insight Group. On Thursday evenings in-person at Mindful Psychology in Woollongabba and Sunday evenings online. Please sign up to the mailing list or visit the HI facebook group for the Zoom login details. You can also import the HI calendar (.ics) file to your calendar software for updates on the topics and teachers for each week.

Developing a meditation practice is so much easier with the support of a group. Every Thursday and Sunday evenings join us as we explore the liberating insights and practices taught by the Buddha.

Cost is by donation. The teachings are considered beyond a monetary value so instead the tradition of dana (generosity) is practiced. Those that wish to support the continuation of the group and the teacher’s offerings, can do so via donation boxes on the night.

Find us

On Thursday evenings at 6:30pm we meet at Mindful Psychology in Woollongabba. There is off-street parking. Enter through the main entrance at the front of the building and go up the stairs on the left. The sitting room is on the first floor. We follow the current Qld Health Covid-19 requirements.

Upcoming Meetings

Dec
3
Sun
Guided Insight Meditation with Sama, Jacqueline and Maggie
Dec 3 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84957739986?pwd=NGlTMUVncE1qaHp2cDFnbkloWVRuUT09

Meeting ID: 849 5773 9986
Passcode: 771103

Program:

  • Introductions (5 minutes). A short check-in.
  • A short settling guided meditation (5 minutes).  
  • An short dharma prompt (5 minutes). This may be as short as a poem or as long as a little dharma talk.  
  • A longer meditation. Guided in and out of the meditation by a teacher, but with plenty of quite time for people to explore their own process (25 minutes).   
  • A shared discussion about the prompt or whatever arises from the meditation (18 minutes).  
  • A few moments silence at the end. With a dedication of merit (2 minute).


Sama is a nun in the Theravada tradition and has been doing meditation for 25 yrs. She organises retreats in Rockhampton and teaches mindfulness and loving kindness meditation.
Jacqueline lives in Sydney.  She has been meditating since the late nineties, mainly in the insight Mahasi tradition. As a chronic pain sufferer, Jacqueline has a lived experience of how meditation and visualisation can help ease pain. She is passionate about helping others with there chronic pain through meditation.
Maggie has been teaching for 15 years, 8 years as a dharma teacher in schools and 7 years as the founder of Pottsville Meditation in her home town. She teaches mindfulness, loving kindness and recollective awareness meditation, promoting the shared wisdom that arises out of sangha.

Dec
7
Thu
Guided Mindfulness with Lody Levy
Dec 7 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Time: 6:15pm for 6:30pm start.

Lody Levy is teaching this week.

Lody Levy is a Buddhist Psychotherapist working inBrisbane. She has a well-established meditation practice over many years and regularly attends retreats in the Zen and Insight Meditation tradition. She is a graduate of the Insight Meditation Institute’s Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher Training course. Lody believes that meditation, compassion and mindfulness are essential qualities to cultivate if we are to live a wise and compassionate life, especially in these challenging times.

Location: Mindful Psychology
6 Qualtrough Street, Woolloongabba
 
There is off-street parking. Enter through the main entrance
at the front of the building and go up the stairs on the left. The sitting room is on the first floor. Chairs are available, but please bring your own cushion or meditation bench.

Join with Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/mfz-kwbb-dea

Learn more about Meet at: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282720

Dec
10
Sun
Guided Insight Meditation – Guest Teacher: Bhikkhuni Ayya Kārunikā
Dec 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84957739986?pwd=NGlTMUVncE1qaHp2cDFnbkloWVRuUT09

Meeting ID: 849 5773 9986
Passcode: 771103

This week we will have a guest teacher: Venerable Kārunikā 

Bhikkhuni Ayya Kārunikā

Ayya Kārunikā iscurrently the senior resident monastic at Santi Forest Monastery and has been in monastic life for over 12 years. She received her full ordination as a bhikkhunī in 2014 at Dhammasara Nuns monastery in WesternAustralia where she lived and trained for over a decade with Ajahn Hāsapaññā. She is also a student of Ajahn Brahm and Ajahn Brahmali. AyyaKārunikā is able to articulate the Buddhist teachings in a way that is practical and comprehensible to people of all ages and has experience in conducting day retreats for both adults and youth. While she has a PhD in Microbiology and worked as a scientist, she has also been the building project manager for the construction of Dhammasara main monastery complex and has worked with many volunteers over the years. Ayya Kārunikā was born in SriLanka but has been living and working in Australia for over 2 decades. She hasa passion to share her experience and knowledge and loves working with people and also doing creative projects.

Dec
17
Sun
Guided Insight Meditation with Sama, Jacqueline and Maggie
Dec 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

To join the Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84957739986?pwd=NGlTMUVncE1qaHp2cDFnbkloWVRuUT09

Meeting ID: 849 5773 9986
Passcode: 771103

Program:

  • Introductions (5 minutes). A short check-in.
  • A short settling guided meditation (5 minutes).  
  • An short dharma prompt (5 minutes). This may be as short as a poem or as long as a little dharma talk.  
  • A longer meditation. Guided in and out of the meditation by a teacher, but with plenty of quite time for people to explore their own process (25 minutes).   
  • A shared discussion about the prompt or whatever arises from the meditation (18 minutes).  
  • A few moments silence at the end. With a dedication of merit (2 minute).


Sama is a nun in the Theravada tradition and has been doing meditation for 25 yrs. She organises retreats in Rockhampton and teaches mindfulness and loving kindness meditation.
Jacqueline lives in Sydney.  She has been meditating since the late nineties, mainly in the insight Mahasi tradition. As a chronic pain sufferer, Jacqueline has a lived experience of how meditation and visualisation can help ease pain. She is passionate about helping others with there chronic pain through meditation.
Maggie has been teaching for 15 years, 8 years as a dharma teacher in schools and 7 years as the founder of Pottsville Meditation in her home town. She teaches mindfulness, loving kindness and recollective awareness meditation, promoting the shared wisdom that arises out of sangha.

Our teachers

We are very grateful to have the following resident meditation teachers offering regular dharma talks at Heart Insight.

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