Jess Huon

It can be hard to do this alone.

Join Jess and a vibrant community of practice in a program that honours the time and support needed for change and empowers you to take your unique next steps through the heat of these times.

Together, we’ll dive under the noise, gather our energy in, and harness innate power and heart for what matters.

To register follow the link in bio

“I’ve spent years in monasteries and solitary practice, intensely immersed in classical Buddhist teachings, and I’ve also broken out of these confines – scaled the walls – to deeply explore what it means to include my body, the ‘feminine’ – all aspects of my life on my path. I’ve done my time on the mountain, but perhaps you don’t have to. Together we can tap into this depth and wisdom from wherever we are.”
— Jess Huon

Join Jess for The Collective Well 2024
A four month meditation practice and mentoring course.
Begins 19 July to 10 November 2024.
Online with optional in-person component in Melbourne, Australia.

To register and find more information head to the link in bio.

The Collective Well 2024 -
A four month meditation practice and mentoring course with Jess
19 July to 10 November 2024
Online with optional in-person component in Melbourne, Australia

Bookings are now open. Link in bio for the booking and to the program overview or visit jesshuon.com

Join Jess and a vibrant community of practice in a program that honours the time and support needed for change and empowers you to take your unique next steps through the heat of these times.

Together, we’ll dive under the noise, gather our energy in, and harness innate power and heart for what matters.

The Collective Well 2024
A four month mentoring and practice container situating the Buddha-dharma’s potent inheritance within our embodied lives and locales.
July 19 - November 10

This round of The Collective Well particularly aims to offer you anchors into practice depth and to harness capacity to meet your inner life in the times we are living through.

"As we resource ourselves, we become a resource for others."

The program allows for deepening practice and settling as well as expansion/expression/empowerment.

Please fill in the expression of interest form in the bio link or on jesshuon.com if you are considering joining.

Image by Graham Earnshaw

Dear everyone,
soon registrations are going to open for The Collective Well 2024, a four months mentoring and practice container situating the Buddha-dharma’s potent inheritance within our embodied lives and locales.

Fri July 19th - Sun Nov 10th 2024 with Jess and a line up of wonderful guest speakers.

To register your interest follow the link in bio or head to Jess's website jesshuon.com

We look forward to hearing from you

Dear all,
There are a few last spots available for Ocean Mind this Sunday, our first urban day retreat of the year - we’d love you to join us!

We're looking forward to practicing together at this new venue in Hawthorn!

Take your seat with us through the link in bio. Bookings close this Sat 4 pm.

Image by Peter Casamento
lunawanna-allonah / Bruny Island

Ocean Mind
Urban Day Retreat
7 April 2024
Booking via bio link

"Insight practice offers us so much!

Key insights mapped in the Dharma can assist us to unlock areas where we might get stuck in the same old loop (the old broken record).

These particular insights, written like freedom tattoos in original teachings, help free up and loosen our experience.

It takes support to carve out a deeper channel, a sense of spaciousness, to disidentify with repetitive states – to write fresh music.

Through embodying these insights, we can learn to move through certain states that might have once tossed us around.

Here; we can stay mobilised and flexible in difficult times.

Practice becomes our own. We become supported by these ancient maps and reference points.

Let’s look into this together on a day of practice. This is an intimate process of discovery."

Come 'pause' with us and explore 'writing fresh music' within 'familiar broken record' mind patterns! Spaces are still available. Book here to immerse in Ocean Mind one day retreat, April 7!

For more information and the booking link, head to the bio.

Image by Peter Casamento

We are opening up weekend options April 19-21 for our upcoming retreat Regeneration. We hope this opens up an opportunity for you to dive into the retreat experience for the weekend. We’d love to have you along for this special quiet forest container for practice.Link in bio to explore this option.

Of course, we’d love to have you along to the whole retreat - April 19-24 - come and experience the power in sustained practice within a supportive community. Link in bio for whole retreat booking as well.

We learn to stay mobilised and flexible in difficult times.

You are warmly invited to join the Monday Sit at Ceres this evening. Bookings through MIM.

Upcoming retreats with Jess
April 7 Ocean Mind
April 19-25 Regeneration
Co-presented by MIM

Image by Peter Casamento

Set on a beautiful retreat centre near the You Yangs, embodied meditative techniques, both settling and rousing, will be utilised to collect, harness and brighten our attention.

Regeneration
5-day residential retreat
Co-presented by MIM
Booking link in bio

Coming Monday, March 18, Jess is going to facilitate the Meditation Sit at Ceres. Everyone is welcome to join. Bookings through the bio link or MIM.

Image by Peter Casamento

Ocean Mind
April 7
Urban Day Retreat

Regeneration
April 19-25
5-day Residential Retreat

Co-presented by MIM
Booking and more information via bio link.
Everyone is warmly invited.

We warmly welcome you to join for the coming day retreat "Ocean Mind" April 7, or if you can, joining a community in the 5 day retreat "Regeneration"April 19-25 which gives due time to tap into both potent depth and inner resource/connection.

Co-presented events by MIM
Booking links in bio
Image by Peter Casamento

"Unknown margins can be fertile. Insight and disarming love can arise. Extending our capacity to feel, we’ll offer fellowship to ourselves and others."

5 days of practice in Baanya Biami, Staughton Vale, near the You Yangs, Victoria.

You are warmly invited to join.
Booking link in bio

Bookings are open for the 5-day residential retreat Regeneration. We will be spending five days within wild nature and silence, together, supported to deepen our unique meditation practice and inquiry.

For more information and booking, click the bio link.

Co-presented by Melbourne Insight Meditation.
Imagery by Peter Casamento

You are warmly invited to join Jess for the first weekly sit of this year at Ceres. Everyone is welcome, booking link in bio

In the latter half of last year Jess offered guided practices set within the mesmerising nightshifts exhibition at Buxton Contemporary. Here Jess is facilitating in front of Lisa Sammut's work. Image by Peter Casamento

Here are some reflective words by Jess:
"My Dharma collided with stunning cosmic art works in nightshifts exhibition at Buxton Contemporary, curated by the gorgeous and committed Hannah Presley and Annika Aitken."

Urban Day Retreat
Ocean Mind
April 7
with Jess, co-presented by MIMG
All welcome
Booking link in bio

"Insight practice offers us so much!

Key insights mapped in the Dharma can assist us to unlock areas where we might get stuck in the same old loop (the old broken record).

These particular insights, written like freedom tattoos in original teachings, help free up and loosen our experience.

It takes support to carve out a deeper channel, a sense of spaciousness, to disidentify with repetitive states – to write fresh music.

Through embodying these insights, we can learn to move through certain states that might have once tossed us around.

Here; we can stay mobilised and flexible in difficult times.

Practice becomes our own. We become supported by these ancient maps and reference points.

Let’s look into this together on a day of practice. This is an intimate process of discovery."

Date: April 7 2024
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Location: Augustine hall, 2 Minona St, Hawthorn

"Key insights mapped in the Dharma can assist us to unlock areas where we might get stuck in the same old loop (the old broken record).

These particular insights, written like freedom tattoos in original teachings, help free up and loosen our experience.

It takes support to carve out a deeper channel, a sense of spaciousness, to disidentify with repetitive states - to write fresh music."

For more information on the retreat, head to the link in bio or MIMG

Two retreats coming up in April:

Ocean Mind on April 7
Regeneration from April 19-25

Follow the link in bio for more information and to take your seat.
Co-presented by MIMG

You are warmly invited to join Jess for Urban Day Retreat "Ocean Mind" on April 7. For more information and to book head to the link in bio.

Ocean Mind
7 April 2024
Bookings now open, link in bio
Co-presented by MIMG

Photography by Peter Casamento

"It takes support to carve out a deeper channel, a sense of spaciousness, to disidentify with repetitive states -
to write fresh music."

Ocean Mind
Urban Day Retreat
7 April 2024
Bookings now open, link in bio
Co-presented by MIMG

Regeneration
Bookings are now open

"Drop an anchor to your depth. Enter regenerative territory. Bring fresh news for yourself. And for your community.

Come gather and experience the power cultivated through sustained contemplative practice!

Embodied, meditative techniques, both settling and rousing, will be utilised to collect, harness and brighten our attention. These practices also employ intimate and artful ways of seeing, and assist in freeing up our experience."

Regeneration
5-day residential retreat
bookings now open, link in bio
co-presented by Melbourne Insight

Dear everyone,

in April two retreats with Jess are coming up:
On Sunday April 7th you are warmly invited to join Urban Day Retreat "Ocean Mind" and from 19th-25th April the 5-day Residential Retreat "Regeneration".
Both retreats are open for bookings now - link in bio or via Melbourne Insight.

We are looking forward to practicing with you.

Photography by Peter Casamento

Dear everyone,
A new year has begun and below are some of Jess's reflections on 2023. We will share more in the coming posts. We are also excited to share the "Save the Dates" for this year with you.

Bookings for the first retreats will open in late January. If you are not signed up to the newsletter yet, you can do so via jesshuon.com to keep up to date with announcements related to upcoming events (including booking links), reflections, news and practices.

Jess's reflections, first part:

"Dear friends near and far,

Thank you for practicing with me this year.
A few reflections below...

Practice spaces
A practicing community can work like an anchor, a gravitational force drawing us down to saner ground.

I hope this year's practice spaces offered you succor, time to settle, metabolise and resource - possibly find fresh steps forward. As we continue to witness such a series of devastating global events and closer to home, digest the aftermath of the referendum. I trust that your inner work toward clear seeing is helping you reckon with what's happening around us."

On December 2 you are warmly invited to join Jess for the final Urban Day retreat of the year: "Joy - in challenging times" We will come together at the Abbotsford Convent, everyone is welcome. More information and booking through the link in bio.

Below are words from Jess on what to expect from the retreat. We are looking forward to practicing with you.

"I think it’s a lot to ask of an individual to calm down on one’s own within all that vies for our attention along with the pace of many of our days. Possibly you've been bearing with a lot quietly or wrestling with deeper concerns on your own?

I’m sure we all sense the power coming together in a community with shared intention - the way it can anchor us, like a gravitational force, closer to the ground, ourselves - even each other."

In two weeks we are coming together for the final Urban Day Retreat of this year "Joy - in challenging times" on December 2 at the Abbotsford Convent. You are warmly invited to join us, everyone is welcome. For more information and to book your seat, head to the link in bio⁠
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'On this urban retreat we’ll practice ‘lightening the load’ – changing, shifting, and refreshing attention.⁠
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This allows us to move from denial and a sometimes defensive posture against hardship, to a spring-like quality allowing for renewal and responsiveness in practice. ⁠
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We’ll start exploring calm abiding practice as a base and then we’ll open up techniques to elicit and feel sensations of joy, bubbles, waves, or electricity in the body – intending to free and loosen up the being and pave way for insight to arise.'

Image by Peter Casamento

Dear all, below is an excerpt from our most recent newsletter from Jess. For more information and bookings for Joy, head to the link in bio.

"It’s felt dissident talking about Joy - Another way in - our final urban retreat of the year (planned some months ago), as we bear witness to the devastating situation in Gaza, Israel, and Palestine. As we reckon with the aftermath of the referendum results here in Australia.

Quiet shared spaces can help us to metabolise what’s happening around us and find individual, congruent steps forward."