MahaSati: Emptiness Awareness Practices from the Southern Thai Forest Tradition

MahaSati: Emptiness Awareness Practices from the Southern Thai Forest Tradition is an online meditation retreat led by Yahel Avigur. It draws on the Southern Thai forest tradition and its MahaSati practices, which cultivate pure awareness and teach how to release reactive patterns. It runs over ten days and is held entirely online, so you can take part from home.

What to Expect

The retreat explores MahaSati as a path of emptiness awareness. The organizer describes the work as moving through four themes: embodiment, concentration, emptiness, and letting go. Together they form a practice in which attention rests in awareness itself and habitual reactions are gradually seen and loosened rather than fed.

Expect a contemplative, practice-centered retreat in which the days are given to meditation and to teachings that frame what you are doing on the cushion. The material does not list a daily schedule or session times, so the exact rhythm is best confirmed on the event page.

If you have searched for an online emptiness meditation retreat, a forest tradition retreat, or guidance in releasing reactive patterns through awareness, this one is built around exactly those questions.

About Yahel Avigur

Yahel Avigur leads this retreat and also teaches a residential samadhi and jhana retreat, Deepening Joy, which draws on approaches inspired by Rob Burbea. That work, which cultivates sensitivity, attunement, and refined perception, sits alongside the emptiness-oriented practice offered here, and it shows the range of his teaching across concentration and insight.

Before You Go

The retreat takes place online, so what you need is a quiet place to sit and a reliable connection. No prerequisites or experience level are stated for this retreat, so if you are unsure whether it suits your practice, check the event page or ask the organizer before registering.