Dependent Arising

Explore the mechanics of our lived experience

While mindfulness practice lays the foundation for presence and stability, insight into dependent arising reveals the mechanics of our lived experience: how perception, feeling, craving, identity, and suffering are continuously constructed and how they can be released.

This course supports participants to move beyond conceptual understanding and into direct, embodied insight, making these profound teachings accessible, relevant, and applicable in contemporary life.

The emphasis is on clarity, simplicity, and experiential knowing - learning the map, and then discovering it within one’s own body, mind, and relationships.

Course structure & flow

This is a 10-week course that unfolds progressively, allowing time for depth, reflection, and integration.

Each week includes:

• Dharma teachings on 12 links of Dependent Origination 

• Guided meditation 

• Somatic practices to help the nervous system settle and insight to emerge naturally

• Inquiry practices - individual, relational, and group-based

• Integration into daily life, exploring how these patterns show up in real situations

  
  

Who is this course for?

This course is for people who:

• Are drawn to deepening their understanding of Buddhist wisdom teachings

• Wish to move beyond theory into direct, lived understanding

• Are seeking consistency, sangha, and accountability

• Want to integrate Dharma into everyday life, relationships, and challenges

It is ideal (though not compulsory) that participants have:

• Previous experience with mindfulness or insight meditation

• Completed a foundational mindfulness course (such as the 8-week mindfulness program)

If unsure, participants are invited to have a brief conversation with the teacher before enrolling.

Course details

• Format: Live Online Sessions

• Schedule: 6 consecutive Sundays, starts on 11 April 2027 from | 7.00 pm – 9.30 AM AEST

   The others are on the 18th April, 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23, May from | 7.00 to 9.00pm

• Dates: Starts Sunday the 11 April, 2027

  
  

Course pricing

Full Rate: $55 Admin cost + Dana

What is 'Dana': 

This course is offered in the spirit of Dāna, the traditional practice of generosity through which the Buddha’s teachings have been shared for generations. Rather than a fixed fee, participants are invited to offer a donation at the end of the course that reflects their experience, appreciation, and financial capacity.

Dāna supports both the accessibility of the teachings and the continuation of this work.

If you would like guidance around offering Dāna, you may refer to the suggested framework here.

Course overview

About the teacher

Renata Malinauskas

Insight Meditation Dharma Retreat Teacher

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Renata Malinauskas is an Insight Meditation teacher with an extensive background in Western Insight, Vajrayana, and non-dual teachings. With extensive experience in silent retreat practice, she now serves as an insight meditation teacher, leading residential retreats, workshops, and courses in Australia and online.

​With a background in somatics and trauma-informed work, her interest lies in exploring the meeting point of psychological transformation and spiritual awakening, and in sharing the Dharma as a living practice of presence, inquiry, and unfolding in everyday life. Renata works as a somatic therapist in private practice in Byron Bay NSW, and online.