Unified Mindfulness Immersion 2024 (Free Virtual Retreat)

Immersion is a free, virtual, worldwide meditation event that you can join anytime, from anywhere, for five full days.

In this retreat, you'll be guided and supported by Shinzen Young, the creator of Unified Mindfulness (UM), and a community of UM teachers. You'll learn not only seated practice techniques, but also dozens of ways to practice on the go and when you need it most.

How to participate

Visit the Immersion website to register.

A drop-in meditation retreat

It's easy to talk yourself out of a meditation retreat - Just don't have the time, pressing commitments, fear of being trapped in a faraway place with a bunch of weirdos.

Immersion makes it easy to talk yourself into one. A drop in retreat gives you a chance to dip your toe in and get a taste of the retreat without having to commit to the whole schedule. You just do as much as you can, when you can. With a virtual retreat, you don't have to worry about disturbing the room.

It's a great way to see what it's like or just get in a little extra sitting than you normally would. Who knows where that will take you one day? Or, feel free to treat Immersion as a five-day formal retreat. The choice is yours!

Immersion and the Northern Beaches meditation group

This Meetup group is run by a UM teacher, Marcel, who will guide three sessions during the retreat.

Through this group, you will have ongoing local, in-person support to continue deepening your mindfulness and insight meditation practice after Immersion.

What Is Unified Mindfulness?

Unified Mindfulness (UM) is a meditation system created by Shinzen Young.

There is no "right way" to meditate. What matters most is that you find a technique that works for you, keeps you motivated, and supports the outcomes you're hoping to achieve.

What makes the UM system so special is that for the first time ever, the mechanics of meditation practice have been brought together in a comprehensive, all-encompassing framework. This framework allows you to understand what's going on when you practice ANY meditation technique.

Once you start to understand the "how to" of meditation, you become empowered to adapt your practice to meet you where you're at, at any time and in any situation. That makes UM ideal for practice in daily life.
UM has also been carefully designed with precise terminology which makes learning it straightforward and exact.