Vipassana Retreat with Sophie Boyer

The residential format gives this meditation theme several days of attention, with a teacher whose background includes both palliative nursing and Buddhist practice.

The retreat explores our relationship with life and the ways we try to control our experience. Sophie draws on her background in Buddhist practice and dharma teaching. The organiser does not publish a detailed daily timetable or an explicit beginner requirement, so ask Mudita if you would like to understand the pace before booking.

CHF 210 covers accommodation, transport, organisation and the cook’s salary. A separate voluntary donation, called dana, supports the teacher and is offered at the end. Contact Mudita if the price is beyond your means. Arrive between 17:00 and 19:00; the retreat begins with a light meal at 19:00 and ends around 16:30 on the final day. Register through the organiser’s form, which asks about meditation experience and health. Bring bedding covers, towels, indoor and walking shoes, and clothes for rain and cool weather; bedding can be rented for CHF 15. Contact Christèle Pugin at christele@mudita.ch. The information is in French; spoken language is not explicitly stated. Cancellation less than seven days before the retreat leaves the full fee due.

Spend a few days with meditation and the question of how you meet life as it unfolds. Sophie Boyer leads this Vipassana retreat, a Buddhist meditation practice concerned with noticing experience clearly. The theme invites reflection on the sense of separation between ourselves and the world around us.

• Sophie Boyer

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  Sophie Boyer teaches Buddhist meditation and leads retreats in Europe. She completed the Bodhi College dharma teacher training after working in palliative nursing and practising as a Buddhist nun in Myanmar.

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