Caring for Our Tender Hearts

Half Day Insight Retreat
with Mary Davis and Kitty Costello
How do we bear the suffering of the world without getting overwhelmed, without collapsing? How do we keep our hearts soft in hard times?
The Buddha offered the 4 “Divine Abodes” as heavenly places for our hearts and minds to dwell—Lovingkindness, Compassion, Gladness and Equanimity.
We will explore these territories, honing in on compassion for ourselves as an essential support in caring for the world.
All are welcome to join, regardless of meditation experience!
About the teachers:
Kitty Costello has been teaching meditative and movement practices for more than forty years. She found her Dharma home in Insight Meditation practice in 2000 and since graduated from Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders Program, Dedicated Practitioners Program, and Buddhist Psychology Program. She teaches at various local sanghas, is a writer, an editor, a poet, and a retiring psychotherapist.
Mary Davis fell in love with the teachings of the Buddha about 30 years ago. She started her Buddhist practice in a Tibetan tradition where she also took on leadership and teaching roles. She has been practicing in the Theravada meditation tradition for almost 20 years and completed Spirit Rock's two-year Community Dharma Leader program in 2017. She has been mentored by Howie Cohn for over a decade. In 2016, she co-founded Insight Richmond. She is also a guest teacher at Mission Dharma and the Alameda Sangha.