Insight Meditation

Awakening through Direct Experience


About Still Water Insight

Still Water Insight is the container through which my meditation and insight-based work unfolds — a space dedicated to deepening practice through courses, retreats, and ongoing sangha gatherings.

Co-founded by Renata Malinauskas, Still Water Insight began as a local sangha and has since evolved into a platform for offering Insight Meditation (Vipassanā) teachings in New South Wales and online. Rooted in the Buddha-dharma, this work invites a direct seeing into the nature of experience, cultivating clarity, wisdom, and a deepened relationship with reality as it is.

Through retreats, structured courses, and regular community sittings, these spaces support the natural unfolding of insight through embodied presence. At its heart, Still Water Insight is a living sangha — a space where practice is shared, explored, and integrated together. You are warmly invited to step into this container and continue deepening your path through the Dharma.

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View fullsize This one-day silent retreat with @renatamalinauskas_ 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 fr
View fullsize 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 v
View fullsize 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”. &
View fullsize 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 muc
View fullsize 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 fol
View fullsize 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’

Testimonials

  • ‘Renata is a gifted teacher and I like very much the way she tunes in to an individual's response and honour that, whilst giving back what might be a good offering for them as well.

    I can see that Renata has studied the dharma extensively and it is fab to be the recipient of this specialised knowledge. I love the space and authenticity in her teachings as well as inclusion of relevance to trauma and the unconscious as related to processing deep feelings. I also really enjoyed the class on The Inner Critic!

    It seems to me that she lives what she teaches. It is so wonderful to experience that.’

    Deborah B.