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Jess Huon

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Address: Abbotsford Convent Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Join Jess on 14 September for the Weekly Sit, presented by @melbourne_insight_meditation . We will come together via zoom from 7.30-8.40pm Melbourne time. All welcome, wherever you are. Please tag or forward to friends whom you think might like to join. Bookings and more information via www.melbourneinsightmeditation.org Here is what Jess has in store for you: "Lets make our encampment around a good well, drawing up freshness and creativity to meet ourselves, each other, and... the wider world." Jump on in! Design by @haushaas & @kirstymoegerlein

25.01.2022 Let's sit and talk together this Sunday 7.30 - 8.45pm. Come and join Jess Huon on zoom for a Spontaneous Sunday Sit You are required to register yourself for this sit, so head on to www.jesshuon.com to do so! We are looking forward to coming together tomorrow. As always, everyone welcome, wherever you are in the world!... Design: Kirsty Moegerlein & Sun Haas Art: Sun Haas

24.01.2022 Join Jess Huon this coming Monday August 10 for the Weekly Sit with Melbourne Insight Meditation Group from 7.30-8.40pm. We will come together via zoom, everyone welcome. Book your spot via http://www.melbourneinsightmeditation.org/ or the link in the facebook event. For all enquiries email [email protected] . We would love you to join! Design: Sun Haas & Kirsty Moegerlein

23.01.2022 Two Streams - Online Day Retreat Buddhist practice offers us a generous view that ultimately we need not be defined by our neurosis. This allows us to know our seat in freedom, no matter how brilliant or messed up we feel ourselves to be. Join Jess Huon on May 9 for the Online Day Retreat 'TWO STREAMS', presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation Group... The retreat will include: - Meditation instruction - Sitting, walking and lying down meditation - Discussion and questions - Dharma talk - Guided relaxation practice We will come together via zoom, all welcome, wherever you are in the world. Tag anyone whom you think might be interested or would enjoy this day retreat. Bookings via jesshuon.com/twostreams/ and the facebook event above. For enquiries contact [email protected] Photography: Motoki Tonn via unsplash Design: Kirsty Moegerlein and Sun Haas

23.01.2022 This beautiful photo was taken by Andrew Metter, during a Yatra in the Bay of Fires in Tasmania led by Ronny Hickel, from Yatra Australia, and @jesshuon earlier this year. To learn more about Jess's upcoming retreats and sits, head to her website www.jesshuon.com, where you can sign up for her newsletter as well. Here is an excerpt on Yatras from Ronny's website: "Bushwalking in Mindfulness... The Sanskrit word yatra means journey, path of life or pilgrimage. A yatra is a unique journey providing a special environment to engage with and enquire deeply into the potential of human awakening. In the company of like-minded people, a yatra takes place within some of the most pristine landscapes of our natural world."

21.01.2022 Today is Day 3 of the Annual Women's Retreat BLOOM - it's well under way. A few of Jess's words on the image are below. "Pictured here with Andy M. and Chani G. This bright committed woman in the middle here is teaching Bloom from New Zealand with me. I am so glad that she's with us."

21.01.2022 Join Jess on July 26 for Nourishment on the edge - Online Day Retreat, presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation Group This retreat will include an exploration on the potency of loving kindness to meet and melt obstacles. What qualities are needed in our living practice as men, women, or whatever else we may go by, to meet these powerful and alarming times? The retreat will include... - Meditation instruction - Sitting, walking and lying down meditation - Discussion and questions - Dharma talk - Guided relaxation practice We will come together via zoom, from 10am - 4.30pm Melbourne time. Every-one, near and far, welcome! We would love you to join us! Bookings are open, visit the facebook event, www.jesshuon.com or www.melbourneinsightmeditation.org to book your spot. For all enquiries please contact [email protected] Photography by Isabell Schulz Design by Kirsty Moegerlein & Sun Haas

19.01.2022 Come along to the final Spontaneous Sunday Sit tomorrow! We will come together via zoom, so you can join from wherever you are in the world. Jess is going to hold the sit 7.30-8.45pm (AEST) (which is 11.30am-12.45pm CEST). Tag any friend, family member or person whom you think could enjoy joining in the sitting and talking together. The previous Sundays have been rich, joyous and connecting, we are looking forward to coming together tomorrow.... This sit requires booking, so head to Jesss website www.jesshuon.com Design by @kirstymoegerlein & @haushaas Artwork by @haushaas

19.01.2022 Last year Jess offered the two online courses 'Ground' and 'Deep Springs'. As part of the courses, the students were given access to wonderful maps illustrating Buddhist teachings and principles, that Kirsty Moegerlein and Jess collaborated on. The pictured illustration by Kirsty Moegerlein is a detail from 'The Middle Way' map they created together. The planning and formatting of the courses for this year is currently taking place! We will keep you up to date here and via Je...ss's newsletter; sign up on her website. For those who are interested in joining the Two Streams - Online Day Retreat this Saturday, only a few spots are left. To book head to the link in the facebook event or Jess's website www.jesshuon.com/twostreams/ The retreat is presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation Group

19.01.2022 Today the 'Conscious Voices Rising Summit' is going to commence! From today until August 14 @dipikadel is going to host a wonderful group of speakers and presenters. Jump on in for free, accessible from wherever in the world you are. Register via http://www.consciousvoicesrising.com/

19.01.2022 The annual womens’s retreat with Jess is going to take place 2-5 October, you are warmly invited to join. Details are in the link in bio or visit www.jesshuon.com . Some words from Jess: Dear practicing community; friends, near and far, A shout out again to warmly invite women to join me for Bloom Online, 2 - 5 October 2020. It’s rare to have an opportunity to talk candidly about feminine embodiment, and deepen in practice together.... We would love you to take your seat here, it’s waiting for you! Let’s create a nourishing container at home. Artwork detail by @jesshuon

18.01.2022 Join @jesshuon this coming Monday for the Monday Sit, presented bu @melbourne_insight_meditation Book your space through their website melbourneinsightmeditation.org We will come together via zoom from 7.30-8.40pm Melbourne time.... All welcome. Lets sit & talk together. Design by @kirstymoegerlein & @haushaas

17.01.2022 Going into 2021 at full charge, we have some amazing Day Retreats coming up! You can book for CHARGING UP on the website now, the retreats in April and May are going to be in person (condition to the social distancing regulations at the time). For more information and booking head to jesshuon.com We look forward to seeing you there!

17.01.2022 Adjusted time for the Weekly Sit! This coming Monday, 14 September, you are welcome to join Jess for the Weekly Sit, presented by @melbourne_insight_meditation Please note that the time we come together has changed slightly! We will now meet a little earlier via zoom, from 7 - 8.15pm. ... For bookings please visit the link in bio or head to MIMGs website http://www.melbourneinsightmeditation.org/ We look forward to seeing you there. Everyone welcome, wherever in the world you are! Please share with anyone whom you think could be interested. Design by @haushaas & @kirstymoegerlein

17.01.2022 Jump on in this Friday, 23 October, and join Jess at the Embodiment Conference. You can sign up for free via the link https://theembodimentconference.org/#JessHuon We would love for you to come along for the ride! Fee free to share with anyone whom you think might be interested. Why the Body? 23 October, 2-3pm AEDT... on the Meditation and Breathwork channel @theembodimentconference See more

16.01.2022 In this period of lock-down Im reflecting on past artistic, therapeutic and spiritual (have always found that word weird, if you have another one please let me know!) influences. Many of you know my seventeen-year-old story, when I hit my own dead-end and began practicing meditation. This time of my life feels online with the theme explored over our last three Sunday sits; renunciation. This could be simply put as something that happens when you can no longer go on in the m...Continue reading

15.01.2022 Heres Jess, speaking at The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas some time ago, where she was accepting an award on behalf of Gillian Mears, for Gillians book Foals Bread. Jess spoke of Gillian as a 'true artist with an acute sensitivity and borderless sensuality'. . . Jess has been asked to speak on the power of meditative practice in a variety of different contexts across the globe (more locally now) - from rural retreats, bush camps and monastic settings to s...ummits, festivals, and conferences in capital cities. Her talks have been described as 'street language for the soul'. Jump on and join Jess at the 'Conscious Voices Rising Summit' from August 11-14. The whole summit is generously offered free of charge! This is an international speaking summit to stimulate conversation on the power of contemplative practice and the feminine principle in meditative pursuit. Jess was invited to speak here by host and author Dipika Delmenico , during lock-down, among other remarkable voices. Its cool to see these voices coming through in a non-commercialised way. All welcome, join from wherever in the world you are. For registrations and more information head to https://www.consciousvoicesrising.com/

15.01.2022 'I left my robes on the street corner. I watched them dry out like a shrivelled skin. I could no longer wear that protective covering. The upcoming annual womens retreat, BLOOM is now accessible to all during these times. Well explore practices that hit the mark as contemporary multi-faceted women. Well practice getting under overwhelm and activating our life force. Feminine streams in the Dharma will support our inquiry.... How can we continue to bloom, wherever we find our-selves?' We are going to come together 2 - 5 October 2020. Head to jesshuon.com or the link in bio for more information. Enquiries: [email protected] Artwork by @jesshuon

13.01.2022 "Ive been reflecting too on my work with rollercoaster theatre (where I worked for around ten years) and what I was trying to get at. I think it was something to do with allowing the flow of an unrestricted mind. Sarah Sutherland (artistic director of the company) and I employed meditation techniques (entering the quiet well together) before engaging in open conversations, a surrealist technique, informed by Freud. We would keep the conversation between ourselves and the act...ors running, without pausing. A communal riffing, digging deeper than the cliché. Unusual lived experience, mysterious insight, and intimate perception began to arise. Youd feel a sense of congruency in the actors' lining up when we hit the right phrases - a certain potency in presence, word, and movement. We looked out for this. These words were part of the monologues we devised together. On stage, the unique voice of each individual blew out stereotypes around disability. Cut through apprehensions around difference'. The bolts, locking down self, opened; the interesting stuff of desire, loneliness, and dreams flooded through. In this un-self-conscious release, we sometimes reached this luminous rhythmic outpouring of words and free movement. It bursts my heart open when I think of entering this slip stream as a unified ensemble. The work could be hard, and tiring, but when we hit the jack-pot together, there was energy and power, not to mention hilarity." In her work with the rollercoaster ensemble Jess explored the way meditative processes can support unique expression. This theme was looked into last Saturday in the online day retreat 'Two Streams'. Stay tuned for further talks coming on this here, on Jess's instagram and her newsletter, sign up on www.jesshuon.com All photos courtesy of 'realeyes' production Top left: rollercoaster actor Cameron Stanly, right photo: rollercoaster actress Melissa Slavierosecond rollercoaster, bottom center photo: this rollercoaster ensemble

12.01.2022 Here are some words from Jess regarding the upcoming annual retreat OPENNESS. Dear all, We want to let you know about a few changes regarding the OPENNESS retreat. This will now be a weekend retreat, beginning Friday night and ending Sunday night (4-6 December 2020). This is to ensure that it will be more available for those of you who've expressed concerns about the time length post lockdown and within such a busy period.... In this retreat there will be a focus on lighting up our practice. There are still a few places for you to jump on in. For more information and the booking link, visit jesshuon.com We look forward to sharing the practice with you.‘

12.01.2022 This Friday, the Annual Women's Retreat BLOOM with Jess commences. There is still time to join and a space for you - you are warmly invited to jump on in. We will come together online from 2 - 5 October, everyone welcome from the warmth of their home. A schedule and further information on how the retreat is set up can be found via www.jesshuon.com Also coming up are the Online Day Retreat DEVOTION and the Annual Retreat OPENNESS. All booking links and more information are ava...ilable via Jess's website. Please share with anyone whom you think might be interested. Design by @haushaas & @kirstymoegerlein

12.01.2022 This Saturday is the last day-long retreat of the year. We’d love you to take your place with us. There are still a few places left. Jump on via www.jesshuon.com We’ll practice settling the inner life and giving room for what may have become dense to turn and ‘air out.’ There will be space for might have become dormant to stretch and step out.... Practice can aid in wiping, as poet Walt Whitman said, the ‘gum out of our eyes.’ We’ll explore devotion as a way of being attentive and receptive to what’s around us. We’ll look at what it is to ‘hold dear, to express what we care about - and why we might hold back. Let’s clear out some dust and open the track ahead!

11.01.2022 On 31 October you are warmly invited to join Jess for the final Online Day Retreat of the year, DEVOTION. We will come together via zoom from 10-4.30pm AEDT, for more information and the booking link head to www.jesshuon.com Here are a few words on what to expect during the retreat: "The Dharma intends to ‘shake us’ out of our personal silos, to place our own lives in a much wider context. This asks us to relinquish control; to unclutch our hands and swim in a different strea...m. On this day, we’ll be exploring other entry points into practice. Let’s explore devotion together, in the daylight!" Every-one, near and far, welcome! We would love you to join us! Photography by Alex Buxton Design by @kirstymoegerlein & @haushaas

11.01.2022 Join Jess this coming Monday 18th May for the Weekly Sit from 7.30 - 8.40pm. Come as you are, everyone welcome. Tag anyone whom you think might be interested. We look forward to seeing you. This event is presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation Group We will come together via zoom, you can book your space via http://www.melbourneinsightmeditation.org/... Enquiries to [email protected] Design: Kirsty Moegerlein & Sun Haas

10.01.2022 A shout out to all of you again to join Jess, one of the speakers, in this free event - the "Conscious Voices Rising Summit" from August 11-14. This is an international speaking summit to stimulate conversation on the power of contemplative practice and the feminine principle in meditative pursuit. The whole summit is generously offered free of charge! Jess was invited to speak here, among other remarkable voices. Its cool to see these voices coming through in a non-comme...rcialised way. All welcome, join from wherever in the world you are. For registrations and more information head to https://www.consciousvoicesrising.com/ Jess Huon #consciousvoicesrising Dipika Delmenico

09.01.2022 All welcome to jump on into these upcoming practice containers! Wherever in the world you are. For more information and the booking link for the final retreat of the year OPENNESS head to www.jesshuon.com/openness For Weekly Sit bookings head to www.melbourneinsightmeditation.org... We look forward to seeing you! Design by @haushaas & @kirstymoegerlein

09.01.2022 Join Jess tomorrow for the Weekly Sit presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation Group All welcome, let's sit and talk together. Visit www.melbourneinsightmeditation.org or the facebook event link to book your spot. We are going to come together via zoom from 7.30-8.40pm Melbourne time.... Please share with people whom you think might like to join, everyone can come and join from anywhere in the world. We look forward to seeing you there. Design by Sun Haas & Kirsty Moegerlein

08.01.2022 On 31 October you are warmly invited to join Jess for the Online Day Retreat DEVOTION. In this day-event, we’ll explore the role of devotion in our practice. What is it? Where does it show up? Does it have a place in our modern lives? What might we have forgotten or overlooked in our modern individualistic pursuit of freedom? We will come together via zoom from 10 - 4.30pm. The retreat is presented by @melbourne_insight_meditation , booking link and more information via Jess'...s website www.jesshuon.com Please share with those whom you think might be interested. All welcome, wherever you are. Photography by Alex Buxton Design by @kirstymoegerlein & @haushaas

08.01.2022 Were offering another online day retreat on May 9th Two Streams - Online Day Retreat. Wed love you to join us. Jess will map out and offer her personal insight into how the tracks of meditation practice and Western therapeutic processes can work hand in hand to weave us into a cohesive whole. Booking link www.jesshuon.com/twostreams/ and in facebook event above... Presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation Group Design by Kirsty Moegerlein and Sun Haas

07.01.2022 You are warmly invited to come along for the ride! Jess is going to present at The Embodiment Conference 2020, on 23 October. You can join for free by visiting https://theembodimentconference.org/#JessHuon Here are a few words from Jess on the conference: "This event feels, to me, like a fortuitous arising; a generous pearl springing out of this challenging year.... My talk will look at the potency and necessity of an embodied meditation practice. We will explore skilful means to settle and meet the rawness of personal experience (in the body) whilst keeping an eye on the stars - a wider view of self. To the unbound through the bound! I’ll be presenting in good company, alongside a diverse crew of people who have been plunging into practice and embodiment, within many different methods and styles, for many, many years. It's quite astonishing to have access to all these impressive speakers, in the line-up. Check out the faces in the image!"

07.01.2022 Join Jess Huon this coming Monday for the Weekly Sit presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation Group. We are coming together via zoom on June 15, 7.30-8.40pm. To book your spot and for more information head to the Melbourne Insight Meditation website http://www.melbourneinsightmeditation.org/. All welcome, lets sit and talk together.... Design: Kirsty Moegerlein & Sun Haas

05.01.2022 "I left my robes on the street corner. I watched them dry out like a shrivelled skin. I could no longer wear that protective covering. . . BLOOM - Digging into the feminine streams in the Dharma Annual Women's Retreat 2 - 5 October... www.jesshuon.com/bloom Design by @jesshuon & @haushaas

04.01.2022 This Sunday we are going to come together for the third Spontaneous Sunday Sit with Jess Huon . Coming together, talking together over the last two Sundays has been rich and wonderful. Join us via zoom from 7.30 - 8.45pm (Melbourne time) this Sunday. Everyone welcome, wherever you are. Tell your friends and family, whether in Australia or anywhere else in the world. Come as you are, let's sit and talk together. Any questions around navigating this time welcome.... This sit is held on the tradition of Dana, but booking is essential to receive the zoom meeting code. To book, head to Jess's website www.jesshuon.com Beautiful Design and Art by Kirsty Moegerlein, detail illustration from the Unique Inheritance map created in collaboration by Jess and Kirsty

04.01.2022 Here are some pictures of the collaboration between Te Toa Matoa theatre (Kiribati), Rollercoaster Theatre (Melbourne) and Jess. Words from Jess below. In this phase of lock down, Im still going through memories and trawling through and archiving past work; drafts of long ago written stories, the unpublished manuscript of my first book (salt encrusted!), as well as the different projects worked on with Rollercoaster' theatre. This project, pictured above, a collaboration b...etween Rollercoaster theatre (Melbourne) and Te Toa Matoa theatre company (Kiribati), was one of all our favourites! We were utilising the meditative and dramatic methods wed developed to assist in empowering the voices of Te Toa Matoa theatre company, who were advocating for the rights of people with disabilities (backed by the UN) in Kiribati and raising awareness of those rights within their communities. We made work, spoken half in English, half in Glibertese, (Austronesian language spoken in the Kiribati). I remember the empathy, humour and kindness stirring between our different companies; many raw stories swapped. We explored differences as well as the crossovers. Guttural understandings of what it is to be hurled outside of the norm, as well as mutual experiences of creative burn, were boldly expressed. I was too shy to go outside/Didnt want to be seen/didnt like the way people looked at me/And I began to brew/A fire of poetry in me. The Te Toa Matoa ensemble often walked together into the rehearsal room in one snake-like formation, hands on each-others backs, sitting each other down. Knowing how to move as one body. They knew (without looking) where each other was situated in the room. A number of the actors in the Te Toa Matoa ensemble were visually impaired. We learnt a lot from the strength, sensitivity and unity in the Te Toa Matoa ensemble. One visually impaired man earned his living riding a bike through feeling the texture of gravel under his tyres to pick up coconuts to sell. One crash only. Ive been recalling the sound of their singing lately. I remember the way it was belted it out; fresh bright sound, cracking open like a waterfall, in our urban red bricked theatre. I facilitated these workshops with Sarah Sutherland and Carolyn Bock. Rollercoaster ensemble members: were Michael Buxton, Eli Jones-Resnik, Erin Pocervina, Melissa Slaviero, Cameron Stanley and Andrew Tresidder Te Toa Matoa ensemble members were: Kaburoro Baiteke, Tekamangu Bwauira, Ren Itonga, Bauraoi Keakea, Riano Kobebe, Tewaaki Konititan, Baia Namoriki, Regina Ritiata, Meekabwa Taberannang, Bobu Tabuia, Teuai Tainimaki, Kantaake Teingira and Tabwaia Tiimi Production Manager: Rachel Edward The project was hosted by Disability organisation of Australia, using arts as a an Advocacy and Education Tool project. Photos by Rachel Edward

03.01.2022 Join Jess for the Online Day Retreat Nourishment on the edge tomorrow from 10-4.30pm. Everyone welcome, wherever you are. Were coming together via zoom, presented by @melbourne_insight_meditation Booking link in bio

03.01.2022 ‘I joined @stephlake epic coming out of lock down dance piece last weekend. It was so cool to be dancing with 400 people in a public space. Go Melbourne! I like her choreography very much. This weekend is my last retreat of the year - hopefully the last one I will be teaching from my living room for awhile! We’ll be continuing to blow the dust out of our eyes and make space for the Summer ahead. There are still a few spaces for Openness - Exploring freshness. Every-one welcom...e. Listening out for a different kind of news, let’s see what insights arise in our practice to power us congruently forward.’ Openness commences tomorrow afternoon. For booking and more information visit www.jesshuon.com

03.01.2022 Buddhist practice offers us a generous view that ultimately we need not be defined by our neurosis. This allows us to know our seat in freedom, no matter how brilliant or messed up we feel ourselves to be. Join Jess Huon on May 9th for the Two Streams - Online Day Retreat . On this day of practice and inquiry, Jess will draw on her twenty years of meditation practice and her own psychotherapeutic process. We will come together via zoom, everyone welcome, wherever you are in... the world. Tag a friend who you think might be interested. For bookings head to the link in the above facebook event or jesshuon.com/twostreams/ Presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation Group Design by Kirsty Moegerlein and Sun Haas

02.01.2022 Join Jess on Wednesday 24th June for the Weekly Sit, exploring compassion and boundaries. We are going to come together for a Dharma talk and meditation via zoom from 7.30-8.40pm. All welcome. The Weekly Sit is presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation Group . Please head to their website www.melbourneinsightmeditation.org to book. For all enquiries please write to [email protected] Let's sit and talk together!... Design by Kirsty Moegerlein & Sun Haas, art by Sun Haas

02.01.2022 'I have both wrestled and fought with, and loved these teachings and kept forging my own relationship with them, as I hope you do too.' - Jess Huon, Deep Springs, Dharma Talk: Metta/Friendliness/Coming Closer Last October Jess offered the online course 'Deep Springs' for those who wished to engage in meditation practice and study to deepen compassion for self and others. Participants were supported to cultivate a daily practice and their own unique expression of these timeless heart teachings that offer nourishment in our modern context. More offerings are being prepared, stay tuned for upcoming workshops, retreats and online offerings.

02.01.2022 Join @jesshuon tonight from 7.30 - 8.45pm for the Spontaneous Sunday Sit via zoom. All welcome, come as you are. Bookings via jesshuon.com. We are looking forward to coming together, questions on how to navigate these times welcome.... Photography: Alex

01.01.2022 All welcome to join Jess for these upcoming events. Tonight Jess is going to offer a Dharma talk and meditation during the Weekly Sit presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation Group . We are coming together via zoom from 7.30-8.40pm. Let's sit and talk together. Visit http://www.melbourneinsightmeditation.org/ to book. On July 26th Jess is going to offer Nourishment on the edge - Online Day Retreat. This urban day retreat will include an exploration on the potency of loving k...indness to meet and melt obstacles. We will look into the sustaining warmth needed to keep our eyes open and not turn away from whats arising within us as well as the inequities flaring around us. Bookings are now open for the Annual Women's Retreat 'Bloom' Sept 18 22. This retreat is designed to support our practice as contemporary, multi-faceted women. How do we find practices that hit the mark and truly nourish? As we shed restricting modes of being (those old robes or outdated outfits) what can emerge? Visit https://jesshuon.com/ to book your space for 'Nourishment on the edge' - Online Day Retreat and 'Bloom' - Annual Women's Retreat. Design by Sun Haas & Kirsty Moegerlein