The Google photo album website holds photos of our retreats. Please take a look!

I led eleven retreats in Aldergrove, just outside Vancouver, BC. The groups have been really nice people- warm and kind. We had some good long meditation sessions of sitting, walking and loving kindness. Now, I’m also co-leading retreats at Furry Creek near Squamish.

I sometimes start retreats on a Friday night. We arrived around 7pm, had tea and met at 7:30 pm for a talk and meditation. This was a good start and everyone was ready at 6:00 am to get up and practice Saturday morning.

We do “all nighters” on Saturdays from 8 – 11 pm when we have questions and discussion about many philosophical concepts and this was a special part of the retreat for the half that chose to stay up! This is on You Tube. It is encouraging that some younger people joined us which is always good to see. There was sometimes too much chatting for a silent retreat. I feel that I wasn’t reminding people enough and being vigilant enough and asking people to maintain the silence which supports everyone’s meditation. Some retreats have worked much better as I asked people to go outside if they really needed to talk.

Also, I’m now leading more retreats out of town, such as northern BC or wherever invitations take me. Those photos and videos are linked here as well, with more videos on my You Tube channel. See 350+ You Tube videos of Brian Ruhe, and others at: youtube.com/user/BrianRuhe

Much metta!
Brian Ruhe