Join Rebecca, Roxanne Dault, and Greg Scharf for a week of meditation practice in the vibrant energy of springtime. Talks and instructions will focus on body and heart oriented practice. For more information contact Insight Meditation Society

Join Rebecca and Devon Hase at the Forest Refuge at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, for one week or longer, to fit your schedule. Instructions and talks will center on body and heart oriented practice. For more information, contact Insight Meditation Society

Join Rebecca and Chas DiCapua for our annual one week Vipassana and Lovingkindness meditation retreat held in Minnesota. With meditation we receive our embodied experience, letting it teach us the way life is and how to hold the vast range of joy and sorrow that comes with being human. This retreat will focus on listening to our life moment by moment, letting go of demands of how it should be and resting fully in how it is. This receptive meditation takes us deeper into the truth of things, helping our heart orient towards wisdom and compassion. Our daily schedule will include guided insight and loving kindness meditation instructions, talks on the teachings, meeting time with teachers, and optional qi gong.

For more information or to register, contact Twin Cities Vipassana Collective

Join Rebecca and Jean Esther for this quiet lovely annual retreat at Pioneer Valley Cohousing in Amherst, Massachusetts. For more information or to register, contact Insight Meditation Community of Western Massachusetts

This three-month course, including its six-week partials, is a special time for practice. Because of its extended length and ongoing guidance, it is an opportunity for students to deepen the powers of concentration, wisdom and compassion. Based on the meditation instructions of Mahāsi Sayadaw and supplemented by a range of skillful means, this silent retreat will encourage a balanced attitude of relaxation and alertness, and the continuity of practice based on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

For more information, contact Insight Meditation Society

The emphasis in this retreat will be on continuity of awareness in all activities, stabilizing the mind, and cultivating insight. Combining relaxation with clarity, we will explore the liberating teachings of the Buddha, including the foundations of mindfulness, the radical nature of impermanence, and the cessation of craving.

Practitioners are encouraged to combine the Summer Insight Retreat with the Summer Lovingkindness (mettā) Retreat, although this is not required. For those attending both retreats, the teachers will guide and integrate the retreats as one offering. Those who attend the mettā retreat will have the option to continue with formal mettā as their primary practice through the second retreat. This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings.

For more information, contact Spirit Rock Meditation Center

The Buddha’s liberating teachings on the four divine sanctuaries (brahmavihāra) include meditations on universal friendliness (mettā), compassion (karuṇā), altruistic joy (muditā), and equanimity (upekkhā). Aimed at purifying our hearts and developing concentration (samādhi), these divine sanctuaries aid our ability to both find inner peace and powerfully engage with the world. This silent retreat will deepen our understanding of selfless love and its role in ending suffering. This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings.

Retreatants are encouraged to combine this 8-night lovingkindness retreat with the following 8-night Insight Meditation retreat, to further develop concentration, purify the heart, and learn to combine these two forms of Buddhist meditation. The combination of these two retreats give a unique opportunity to blend the two wings of Buddhist wisdom based in love and emptiness.

For more information, contact Spirit Rock Meditation Center

In this retreat dedicated to supporting the health and well-being of young adults in these difficult times, we will co-create a refuge from all forms of oppression, a nourishing refuge of rest and rejuvenation. With the Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion as our guide, we will cultivate a wholehearted attention to the present moment, waking up from worldly delusion and developing embodied ease, clarity and kindness.

The retreat format includes daily meditation instruction, group and individual meetings with teachers, and opportunities for questions and discussion. An optional daily period of mindful movement will be offered by Lissa Edmond.

The course will end with a day of optional activities centered on building relationships, supporting community, and integrating the practice into our everyday lives.

All are welcome to attend – this silent retreat is open to both beginning and experienced meditators. For more information, please contact Insight Meditation Society

Join us to practice orienting our meditation from the heart rather than the head. For more information, contact IM Online

Join us at the beautiful Jesuit Center in Milford, Ohio, for a weekend (May 5-7) or weeklong (May 7-14) retreat. In the enlivening energy of springtime, we will wake up heart body and mind to be more fully present and live with a more spacious mind and more caring heart. Rebecca will be assisted by Robert Pryor and Candace Cassin, who will offer daily qi gong practice. For more information , contact Yellow Springs Dharma Center

Exploring deeply the Buddhist teachings of mindfulness infused with lovingkindness, this silent meditation retreat in Barre, Massachusetts, open to all, will cultivate our connection to ourselves and to life itself through body-centered awareness. Developing intimacy with our physical, energetic and emotional bodies, we will touch essential truths about life and gain the stability of heart that helps us move through this world with greater wisdom and compassion.

 The course will be supported by daily insight and lovingkindness meditation instructions, talks about the teachings and meetings with the teachers. There will also be the opportunity to practice walking meditation outdoors on IMS's beautiful grounds, and an optional period of mindful movement will be offered each afternoon.

 Teacher Greg Scharf will offer an optional daily session of qigong.

For more information, please contact Insight Meditation Society

Looking ahead to March 2023 - Rebecca Bradshaw & Devin Berry

Metta Concentration Retreat

Join us in the beauty and quiet of the Forest Refuge for a month-long retreat focused on developing concentration through cultivating metta (loving kindness). By gathering our attention around the quality of kind friendliness, we develop samadhi (concentration) to increasing depth and unify our minds and hearts in gentleness, flexibility, and strength. 

Registration opens in the spring 2022.  For more info, contact the Insight Meditation Society

This retreat, taught with Chas DiCapua, will take place in the beautiful snowy hills of Wisconsion. In this retreat we will explore the two wings of Buddhism, emptiness and love. In our own practice we will develop the spaciousness of the uncontracted mind infused with the warmth of the tender heart. We will examine both aspects of the absolute truth; impermanence which leads to non-clinging, and interdependence which leads to a heart connection to the relative reality of our daily lives. Appropriate for both beginners and experienced students, this retreat will take place in the stillness of winter which will support deep inquiry into these liberating truths. It will include instructions in both Vipassana and loving kindness practice, daily teachings, and group and individual meetings with teachers.

For more information, please contact Twin Cities Vipassana Collective

We are delighted to return to our annual non residential retreat IN PERSON (conditions permitting) at the co-housing community in North Amherst, Massachusetts.

Please join us in the quiet of winter in the company of beloved Sangha as we open to whatever is in our hearts and touch into the innate wisdom and compassion that is our true home. We will sit and walk in meditation together, listen to and contemplate the wisdom of the dharma, and share together in large and small groups. 

There will be a potluck meal on Saturday evening and a prepared lunch offered on Sunday. To support the container of our retreat please plan to attend the full retreat from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon. Covid protocols will be followed, including requiring vaccination, limiting the number of participants, rapid testing upon arrival, and possible masking depending on conditions.

For more information, please contact Insight Meditation Community of Western Massachusetts

Taught with a team of six teachers, this six-week partial of the three-month course is a special time for practice. Because of its extended length and ongoing guidance, it is an opportunity for students to deepen the powers of concentration, wisdom and compassion. Based on the meditation instructions of Mahāsi Sayadaw and supplemented by a range of skillful means, this silent retreat will encourage a balanced attitude of relaxation and alertness, and the continuity of practice based on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

For more information, contact the Insight Meditation Society