Monthly Retreat Day
Jan 18th-Apr 26th 2026
Shoreham & French Island, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria

The monthly retreat day provides an opportunity to leave aside ongoing projects, drop 'go nowhere' conversations, and to enjoy the symphony of the natural world. "Do yourself a favour", schedule the space, and devote a whole day to cultivating deeper stillness. Explore classical and contemporary practices while walking, sitting, standing, lying down (the four classical postures of Buddhadharma), and eating.
A general contemplative theme such as, "generosity", "centredness" or "patience" guides each retreat day, providing a common focus for all participants. As an entry point, we convene a gentle mindfulness through movement session and a group sit. Participants carry on with their own practice using the indoor/outdoor teaching space, the garden, the surrounding bush and nearby bush and beach walks. The day concludes with experiential group sharing of the explorations. No meditation experience or commitment is prerequisite.
Please bring your lunch, or a plate to share for lunch. Refreshments provided.
Sundays, 10.00am - 4.00pm (Shoreham), 10.45 - 4.00pm (French Island):
January 18 (French Island); March 1 (Shoreham); March 29 (Shoreham); April 26 (French Island).
(note: French Island Ferry Departs Stony Point at 10.15am, Sundays; seniors travel free at weekends and on public holidays).
Fee: nil. Traditionally, participants make an offering.
Register: contact@openpathmeditation.com.au

Cultivating Lucid Clarity
Feb 1st-Apr 12th 2026
Shoreham and Zoom, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria

The Buddha-dharma, the collective classical teachings in the Buddhist tradition, outline systematic steps to settle and awaken the mind by calming the body, cultivating loving kindness and practising non-clinging awareness. These practices, cultivated through direct, first-person, experiential, self-directed learning, nurture increased energy, happiness and clarity of mind.
This course provides participants the opportunity to engage with a range of practices both during the sessions and at home to support calm, gounded centredness and engaged, compassionate responsiveness. The two-hour sessions include classical teachings, contemporary approaches, gentle mindfulness through movement practice, group sitting practice, experiential sharing of the practices and discussion.
Six Sessions: Sundays, Fortnightly: 10.00am - 12.00noon,
Shoreham & Zoom. February 1st - April 12th, 2026.
Fee: nil. Traditionally, attendees make an offering.
Register: contact@openpathmeditation.com.au

Mindfulness through Movement
Feb 8th-Apr 19th 2026
Online via Zoom Victoria

Mindfulness Through Movement is a contemporary approach to the classical Buddhist practice of kayanupassana (Pali) - awareness of body. Offered fortnightly, these sessions lend both a micro and macro lens to the observation of gentle movement sequences: a micro lens enabling detailed attention to body sensation and related muscular-skeletal connections; and, a macro lens to discern overall associated qualities of arising experience associated with the deeply calm body, such as, direct, first-person experience of centeredness, groundedness or openness.
This focused, mindful way of working establishes deep bodily and mental calm, releases bodily tensions and liberates associated negativity, and provides direct, embodied experience of supportive, healthy mind states. With ongoing practice, calm becomes easily accessible through "muscle-memory" thereby supporting increased clarity and engaged responsiveness to all of life's challenges.
Sundays, Fortnightly,10.0 - 12.00pm.
Online via Zoom, February 8th - April 19th.
Fee: nil. Traditionally, participants make an offering.
Register: contact@openpathmeditation.com.au