Still Water Insight

Still Water Insight Insight Meditation Retreats, Courses & Dharma Talks

A day of rest, embodied awareness, and inquiry.Clear Seeing is an insight meditation day retreat inviting you to slow do...
15/12/2025

A day of rest, embodied awareness, and inquiry.

Clear Seeing is an insight meditation day retreat inviting you to slow down and meet experience as it unfolds. Through meditation, movement, and inquiry, a deeper understanding of the nature of reality emerges naturally.

🗓 Sunday 29 March 2026
📍 North Narrabeen, NSW
💫 $55 + dana
🧘‍♀️ Beginners & experienced practitioners welcome

For more info and to register go to link in Bio or email [email protected].

This one-day silent retreat is an opportunity for you to deepen your connection with the boundless qualities of the hear...
25/07/2025

This one-day silent retreat is an opportunity for you to deepen your connection with the boundless qualities of the heart – kindness, joy, compassion, and equanimity – as a foundation for developing insight and freedom. By connecting with and cultivating these heart qualities in an embodied way, a profound sense of nourishment and well-being naturally emerges, leading to deep calm, ease of mind and intimacy with life.

The program will consist of guided meditation practices, walking meditation, relational inquiry, dharma talks and somatic practices.

📍When: Sunday 21st September 2025
📍Times: 10:00am - 4:30pm
📍Where: Bilarong Reserve, North Narrabeen NSW
📍Cost: $55 + Dana

For more info and to register use link in Bio. We would love to see you there! 💛

Join us tomorrow evening for a sit, dharma talk and shared group discussion. The session will be guided by Renata Malina...
25/06/2025

Join us tomorrow evening for a sit, dharma talk and shared group discussion. The session will be guided by Renata Malinauskas on the topic

“Freedom through Embodied Investigation”

In this talk, Renata explores Investigation—a vital quality of heart and mind known as one of the Seven Factors of Awakening. Investigation invites us into intimate, embodied presence with our moment-to-moment experience. Through cultivating curiosity and the willingness to meet reality directly, we learn to gently loosen identification with stories, concepts, and conditioned patterns, and open to the freshness of what is truly here. Rooted in mindfulness and supported by wisdom, investigation becomes a portal—not only into insight and freedom, but into the compassionate and luminous essence of our being.

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See details of the session below:

📍When: Thursday 26th June. Please arrive at 6:45pm for a 7pm start.
📍Where: 59 Old Barrenjoey Rd, Avalon Beach NSW 2107 (Annexe, detached building near the playground)
📍Cost: $10 + donation

We look forward to seeing you there.

With much metta
🙏🏼Still Water Insight

Join us tomorrow evening in Avalon for a sit, dharma talk and shared group discussion. Beginners and experienced meditat...
18/06/2025

Join us tomorrow evening in Avalon for a sit, dharma talk and shared group discussion. Beginners and experienced meditators are welcome.

The session will be guided by Renata Malinauskas on the topic “Coming Home to our True Nature”.

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What if you’re not just the wave, but the whole ocean? 🌊

This week I’ll be sharing a Dharma talk on the path of remembering who we are beneath the surface of our thoughts, emotions, and stories.

Drawing on the Buddha’s teachings and the beautiful metaphor from Thich Nhat Hanh — “Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean” — we’ll explore how suffering arises not from our experience itself, but from clinging to it.

This is an invitation to gently step back from identification, and come home to the vast, open awareness that holds it all.

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See details of the session below:

📍When: Thursday 19th June. Please arrive at 6:45pm for a 7pm start.
📍 Where: 59 Old Barrenjoey Rd, Avalon Beach NSW 2107 (Annexe, detached building near the playground)
📍Cost: $10 + donation

We look forward to seeing you there.

With much metta
🩵Still Water Insight Team

Join us tomorrow evening for a sit, dharma talk and shared group discussion. The session will be guided by Renata Malina...
10/06/2025

Join us tomorrow evening for a sit, dharma talk and shared group discussion. The session will be guided by Renata Malinauskas on the topic

“The Roots of Suffering, the Path to Freedom.”:

Why do we suffer? And how do we let go?

So much of our human suffering comes not just from life’s difficulties, but from how we relate to them. When things don’t go our way, or when we cling to what feels good, we can become trapped in a cycle of reactivity and disconnection—from ourselves, from others, and from life. In this talk, we’ll explore what it really means to let go—not by pushing things away, but by meeting our experience with clarity and care. Together, we’ll inquire into the roots of suffering and the possibility of freedom that arises when we open to life as it is.

See details of the session below:

📍When: Thursday 12th June. Please arrive at 6:45pm for a 7pm start.
📍Where: 59 Old Barrenjoey Rd, Avalon Beach NSW 2107 (Annexe, detached building near the playground)
📍Cost: $10 + donation
We look forward to seeing you there.

Much metta
🩵 Still Water Insight Team

Join us this evening Thursday 5th June for our second in-person meeting in Avalon. Sarah Napthali will be facilitating t...
05/06/2025

Join us this evening Thursday 5th June for our second in-person meeting in Avalon. Sarah Napthali will be facilitating the session on the topic:

“The Buddha’s Teaching on Loving-Kindness”

We will start with a 30-min meditation followed by a short tea break, dharma facilitation and open group discussion. See details below:

📍When: Thursday 5th June 2025. Please arrive at 6:45pm for a 7pm start.
​📍Where: 59 Old Barrenjoey Rd, Avalon Beach NSW 2107 (Annexe - detached building near the playground)
​📍Cost: $10 + donation

Feel free to bring your own meditation gear. Chairs will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you then!

Much metta
SWI team 🩵

Join us this evening for a sit, dharma talk and shared group discussion. The session will be guided by Renata on the top...
29/05/2025

Join us this evening for a sit, dharma talk and shared group discussion. The session will be guided by Renata on the topic “Timeless Wisdom for Modern Times.”

What brings you to this path? Often, it’s because we sense there’s something deeper—something we can’t quite touch through our roles, outer achievements or control. In this talk, we’ll explore the timeless truths that the Buddha and other wisdom traditions have pointed to for centuries: the impermanence of all things, the truth of suffering, and the insight that we’re not as separate or solid as we think. As we start to see these realities more clearly—in our own minds, hearts, and bodies—something softens. We let go a little. And in that letting go, find more peace, compassion, and a deeper sense of belonging in this ever-changing world.

📍When: Thursday 29th May. Please arrive at 6:45pm for a 7pm start.
​📍Where: 59 Old Barrenjoey Rd, Avalon Beach NSW 2107 (Annexe, near the playground)
​📍Cost: $10 + donation

We look forward to seeing you there.

Much metta
🩵 SWI team

Dear sanghaWe are happy to inform that our sangha meetings are back from this coming Thursday in Avalon. The meetings wi...
27/05/2025

Dear sangha

We are happy to inform that our sangha meetings are back from this coming Thursday in Avalon.

The meetings will take place at the Community Centre in Avalon Beach (Annexe), on Thursday evenings from 7–8:45pm. The sessions will be taught and facilitated alternately by Renata and Sarah, giving us the opportunity to connect weekly and create some consistency as a group.

Our hope is that we’ll have enough support from both the insight and local communities so we can build enough momentum for the ongoing unfolding of the group. So if this type of offering resonates with you, we’d love your support—whether by attending the meetings and/or helping to spread the word to anyone you think might benefit.

Please feel free to get in touch by sending us a DM with any questions or suggestions you may have.

We look forward to connecting with you!

With much metta,
🩵 Still Water Insight team

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15/04/2025

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We are thrilled to be offering the Living Mindfully Course again in October.This 8-week course is an opportunity for you...
22/09/2024

We are thrilled to be offering the Living Mindfully Course again in October.

This 8-week course is an opportunity for you to gain a deep understanding of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as taught by the Buddha in the Satipatthana Sutta. In addition to these ancient teachings, you will learn to integrate contemporary wisdom practices into your daily life.

Throughout the course, you’ll learn tools for developing compassion toward yourself and others, skilfully engage with difficult emotions and situations, and cultivate a kinder and wiser relationship with yourself and the world around you.

Whether you are just beginning your mindfulness practice or wish to deepen it further, this eight-week course will provide you with tools to weave mindfulness into your everyday life —at work, at home, in family life, and on the meditation cushion.

👉🏻 Who is this Course For?
This course is for anyone who is interested in deepening self-awareness, gaining a better understanding of the effects of stress on the mind and the body, calming the overthinking mind, responding to stressful situations in a wiser way, or simply wanting to be more present to life and relationships.

👉🏻About the Teacher

Renata Malinauskas - Renata has devoted over 15 years to the study and practice of Buddha Dharma, starting with the Tibetan tradition and later exploring Vipassana and Western Insight. She co-founded and leads the Still Water Insight Group in Sydney’s Northern Beaches and is an active committee member of the Insight Meditation Institute. Renata has a deep interest in the relationship between Buddhism and Psychotherapy, focusing on their mutual benefits in awakening, healing and personal growth. She is a certified Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher and works full-time as a Body-Centred Therapist in her private practice in Newport, NSW.

Below are the details for the course. You can find our more and register via link ‘EVENTS’ in Bio.

📍When: Tuesday 15th October to Tuesday 3rd December 2024
📍Times: 7-9pm (NSW time) on each Tuesday evening for 8 sessions.
📍Where: Online
📍Cost: $30 + dana (donation)

With metta
Renata

Dear sangha,We will be meeting again this evening via zoom for a 30-min sit and shared group discussion.This evening, I’...
26/03/2024

Dear sangha,

We will be meeting again this evening via zoom for a 30-min sit and shared group discussion.

This evening, I’ll begin a series of explorations on the book ‘Comfortable with Uncertainy’ by Pema Chodron. Experienced and beginners are welcome to join, sit and explore with us.

Please follow link ‘Attend’ in bio for more info or DM for zoom link.

With love
🧘🏼Renata

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