The Joy of Enlightenment

The retreat, The Joy of Enlightenment, approaches awakening not as something gained through struggle or withdrawal, but as something that unfolds through warmth, ease, and trust. Over four days of meditation, reflection, gentle movement, and attentive listening to body and mind, participants are invited to rediscover an innate sense of joy and aliveness, and to explore how awakening arises as the heart opens and relaxes.

Haemin Sunim is a Korean Zen monk and internationally known teacher and author whose work emphasizes emotional honesty, kindness, and a deeply humane approach to Buddhist practice. His teaching points toward a shift from self improvement to self recognition, from trying to become better to realizing a wholeness that has never been absent.
 

The retreat is open to both beginners and experienced practitioners. No prior meditation experience is required.