Awakening Wisdom: Retreat with Radha Nicholson and Reni Ovadia, with the assistance of Asaf Federman - For experienced practitioners

01/08/2025 to 08/08/2025
Event category: 
Prerequisites: 
At least 2 weekends or 1 week
Prerequisites: 
2 סופ"שים בשתיקה, או ריטריט של שבוע
The teacher: 
Teacher Name:
Radha Nicholson
Teacher Name:
Reni Ovadia
Assisted: 
Teacher Name:
Asaf Federman
Location: 
Start time: Friday 14:30
End time: Friday 14:00
סטטוס הקורס: 
waiting list

 



Awakening Wisdom
 
This retreat will explore the Buddha’s profound teachings of Awakening. Through inquiry and non-clinging awareness the natural wisdom of the unbound and unconditioned expresses itself.



Please note:
Retreats at Tovana Center are tailored to a Hebrew-speaking audience.
If you’re not fluent enough in Hebrew, please read the following guidelines
 

Registration Fee

The registration fee for the retreat is 135 NIS.
This fee covers only a small portion of the course costs and is intended to help prevent cases of registration without attendance.
At the end of the retreat, participants will be invited to generously support the full costs, the teachers, and the continued activities of Tovana.

Refunds for cancellations will be issued in accordance with the refund policy.


What is Insight (Vipassana) Meditation, and What is a Tovana Retreat Like?

Vipassana (or Mindfulness) is a meditation technique that is based on directing relaxed and mindful attention to our body and mental functions.This technique helps develop tools for dealing with the vicissitudes of life while promoting tranquility, wisdom and compassion.

The course provide optimal conditions to devote the whole of our attention and energy to the practice of the method.

Most of the day is dedicated to alternately walking and sitting meditations, for set amounts of time. Every day, detailed instructions will be given concerning the meditation technique, and every evening a talk will be held by the teachers, concerning the principles of meditation and how they touch upon our everyday life and personal reality.

During the course there are group talks with the teachers, where the opportunity is given to share and examine our experiences. In some courses there is also the option of private meetings with the teachers.
 


Volunteering in the course

For the holding of courses and their success many helping hands are needed, both as members of the kitchen staff and particularly for management of the courses and the kitchen. Volunteers in the courses experience a "Service Retreat" that is an opportunity to combine giving and practicing meditation and is a bridge between sitting on the pillow and everyday life.

Tovana is based and mostly run by volunteers. During the year, there are about 200 practitioners volunteering in various courses in Ein Dor, in addition to about 50 volunteers in permanent roles.
You are invited to volunteer and practice while doing.

For more details about weekends please send an e-mail to weekends@tovana.org.il

For more details about retreats please send an e-mail to rishum@tovana.org.il
 


What is the meaning of Dana?

Since the time of the Buddha, the Asian tradition of Dharma (the spiritual path) is of the kind of mutual generosity. The local community shows its appreciation and respect for the spiritual practice by supporting the monasteries with the basic needs of food, clothing, shelter and medicines. In return, the community is supported by courses, teachings and guidance, that are offered by the monks and nuns. 

For 2,500 years this lively expression of collaboration and mutual existence offered spiritual support, both for the spiritual community and for the lay practitioners.

 

 

Hosts and assistants

ראדהה ניקולסון מלמדת את טיפוח התבונה והחמלה דרך הבנה ישירה. דרך ההוראה שלה מתמקדת בחקירה והטבע הלא-דואלי של המציאות. ההוראה שלה המלווה בחכמה וחמלה, מבטאת את אהבתה לתורת הבודהה ולמסורת האדווייטה (אי שניות) כאחד. ראדהה זכתה להכרה מהמורה התאילנדי הדגול, אג'אן בודהדסה, כמו גם ממורה הסאטסאנג ההודי האהוב, שרי פונג'ה (פאפג'י). בין המורים שלה היו: אנגאריקה מונינדרה, ווימלה טאקר וכריסטופר טיטמוס איתו היא מלמדת ריטריטים למדיטציה. ב-12 השנים האחרונות היא מלמדת בכל רחבי העולם. ראדהה היא המורה המנחה של מרכז Bay Insight ב-Byron Bay באוסטרליה. היא מלמדת ריטריטים באוסטרליה ובהודו. מדי שנה היא עולה לרגל...
Radha teaches the liberation of the heart and mind through inquiry and insight. She focuses on finding freedom through the non-dual nature of reality. Her teachings offered with wisdom and compassion express her great love for both the Buddha dharma and Advaita traditions. She has been acknowledged by both Ajahn Buddhadasa, Thailand's great teacher of emptiness and India's much loved Satang teacher Sri H.W.L. Poonja. Her teachers have included Anagarika Munindra, Vimala Thakar and Christopher Titmus with whom she currently teaches meditation retreats. She has been teaching world wide for the...
רני עובדיה
התוודעה לויפאסאנה בשיטת ס. ג’י. גואנקה ב-1998, כשעבדה כבר כפסיכולוגית קלינית, והיתה אם לשלושה בנים. פירות התירגול וכח השכנוע הפנימי שהרגישה ביחס להשקפת העולם שבבסיסו, שכנעו אותה מייד, לצד חרטה עמוקה על שלא הסתייעה בכלים שתירגול תשומת לב קשובה וריכוז עמוק מציעים לעזור בהם הן לעצמה והן למטופלים. למדה שלוש שנים בתוכנית פסיכודהרמה, תירגלה בריטריטים בהודו ובקורס מהמודרה 1 עם יונגי מינגור רינפוצ’ה, ממנו קיבלה שם חסות וברכת דרך. השתתפה בארבעה מחזורים בתוכנית מאפשרי דהרמה שהנחה כריסטופר טיטמוס, ובריטריטים רבים. ב2004 אימצה את הדהרמה כדרך חיים שלמה ומאז גם מלמדת ומנחה קבוצות מדיטציה ודהרמה במסגרת...
Reni is a Vipassana and Dzogchen practitioner and brings the fruits of her practice to her therapeutic work. She is a supervisor for other therapists, a teacher and a facilitator. Reni is a grandmother of three grandchildren. She is a member of "Standing Together" organization and supports the 'Movement for the Quality of Government in Israel'. Zealous for human rights and dignity in human-society relations, at all ages and at all levels of citizenship. Does not believe human beings are the crown of creation, and cares about the earth.     Dana to Reni Ovadia