# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Learn to Meditate Retreat
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 10:00 am – Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 01:00 pm
- **Event Description**: https://meditationinsouthcarolina.org/saturday/learn-to-meditate-retreat/

Registration available online. Walk-ins also welcome!

“If we train in meditation, our mind will gradually become more and more peaceful, and we will experience a purer and purer form of happiness.”

– Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, How to Transform Your Life


Meditation is a powerful method to increase the degree of inner peace and authentic happiness in our life. It is also a way of pacifying our bad habits and painful states of mind that hold us back from living the life we want. Meditation apps can only take us so far, if you are interested in going deeper and getting more powerful results, a teacher and community are the best way of getting started or taking your practice to the next level.

In this introductory retreat, Buddhist monk Kelsang Tabkay will give teachings and guide meditations to learn how to get started, and make authentic progress in our practice of meditation.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/columbia/learn-to-meditate-retreat/200028723638156
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, meditation
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Columbia
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2000 Park Street, Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29201
- **lat**: 34.01148
- **long**: -81.04139
- **full address**: 2000 Park Street, Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29201

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Kadampa Meditation Center South Carolina (https://allevents.in/org/kadampa-meditation-center-south-carolina/25249986)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 2000 Park Street, Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29201
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Kadampa Meditation Center South Carolina
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** health-wellness, meditation
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Learn to Meditate Retreat ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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