Classes, Workshops, & EventsUpcoming Classes and EventsThe Power of Meditation Friday | 8:30 am (check-in) - 5 pm
Saturday | 9 am - 5 pm
Sunday | 9 am - 4 pm Lunch will be provided each day. These retreats are an opportunity to gather with others in a beautiful setting conducive to contemplative practice. All levels of experience and practice traditions are welcome. New meditators or those wishing to begin a practice will learn the basics of mindfulness meditation and loving kindness practice.
Experienced meditators can use this 3 day meditation program as a way to deepen or reconnect with their practice, with the support of a group retreat setting, and have the opportunity to discuss and reflect on their experiences with others.
This is a rare opportunity to become more intimate with ourselves, and to touch in to our basic sanity in ways not possible in the busyness of daily life. The three days will be a combination of sitting and walking meditations, mindful movement, small group discussions, and talks by retreat leaders. Each of our instructors has an extensive personal practice, and many years of teaching and work in healthcare settings. They are currently both instructors in Duke Integrative Medicine’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program. InstructorsJeff Brantley, MD, DFAPA (The Heart of Mindfulness, Opening Into Stillness)
Dr. Brantley is the founder and Director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine. He has been practicing meditation for over 30 years, and has been teaching programs in mindfulness meditation for almost 20 years. Dr. Brantley is the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You From Anxiety, Fear, and Panic and is the co-author, with Wendy Millstine, of the Five Good Minutes series and the recently released book: five good minutes in your body: 100 mindful practices to help you accept yourself & feel at home in your body. Mary Matthews Brantley, MA, LMFT (The Heart of Mindfulness)
Mary Matthews Brantley has been practicing meditation for over 25 years. She has done many intensive retreats and her teachers have included Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Larry Rosenberg, Rodney Smith, Ruth Denison, Joan Halifax, and Thich Nhat Hanh. She has been an instructor in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program at Duke Integrative Medicine since 2000. She has a master’s degree in psychology from Pepperdine University of California. In addition to teaching she has developed and taught a course based on loving-kindness meditation. She is co-author of The Gift of Loving-Kindness: 100 meditations on Compassion, Forgiveness, and Generosity from New Harbinger Publications. Ron Vereen, MD (Opening Into Stillness)
Ron Vereen is a board-certified psychiatrist with a private practice in Durham, NC, and serves as a Consulting Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. A practitioner of mindfulness meditation since 1992, he participated in a professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli, and has been teaching in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine since 1999. In addition, he completed the Community Dharma Leader Program though Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2007, and has been teaching introductory meditation classes throughout the community, along with leading a weekly sitting group in Durham. His interests are in exploring the interface between contemplative practices and Western psychology.
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