Retreat Opportunities

This is a partial list of retreat centers. Depending on the type of retreat you are looking for, you may be able to find retreat offerings in your own area by doing a web search such as "meditation retreats Scotland" or "meditation retreats Chicago". If you are unable to find a residential retreat that works for you, there are many online opportunities, including, for instance, 1-day online retreats offered by Mindful Leader.

Insight Meditation Society is based in Barre, Massachusetts, but there are many Insight Meditation centers elsewhere which can be found with a web search such as "Insight Meditation Maryland". Only a few of them are listed below.

There are many Vipassana retreats offered world-wide (see the last entry in each of the categories below), but these are very intense retreats, usually 10 days, and with up to 10 hours of meditation a day. If you are interested in doing one these, you should first do some shorter, less intense, retreats.

Western U.S.

Spirit Rock (Woodacre, California)
Cascadia Mindfulness Institute (Seattle, Washington)
Seattle Insight Meditation Society (Seattle, Washington)
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center (Castle Rock, Washington)
Zen Community of Oregon (Clatskanie, Oregon)
Sravasti Abbey (Newport, Washington)
Mainstream Mindfulness (Spokane, Washington)
"The Land" (Philo, California)
San Francisco Zen Center (San Francisco, California)
Zen Center of San Diego (San Diego, California)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Woodacre, California)
Shambhala Mountain Center (Red Feather Lakes, Colorado)
Vipassana Meditation Centers (directory of the many centers in the U.S. and Canada)

Eastern U.S. & Canada

Insight Meditation Society (Barre, Massachusetts)
Dharma Retreats (Toronto, Ontario)
Boundless Way Zen (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Karme Choling (Barnet, Vermont)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington (Cabin John, Maryland)
Southern Dharma (Hot Springs, North Carolina)
Vipassana Meditation Centers (directory of the many centers in the U.S. and Canada)

International

Gaia House (Devon, England)
Vipassana Meditation Centers(directory of the many centers world-wide)