Residential Retreats

sub-category of All ID Offerings

Waking Up Together

With Ayya Anopama

June 28 - July 4, 2025
Czech Republic
In this retreat we will explore how we can be present within ourselves and with others through the power of silent meditation and the practice of Insight Dialogue, listening deeply and speaking from silence. We will cultivate mindfulness and stillness as we explore different aspects of our human experience in the immediacy of the present moment. In the unconditional acceptance of our inner experience and in relationship with others, the door to compassion and liberating insight opens.

In un mondo fatto di parole dall’inizio alla fine, nulla di solido ha un suo solido sé.

With Antonella Commellato and Fabio Giommi

July 3 - 6, 2025
Italy

Incantamenti e autoinganni della mente alla luce della pratica di consapevolezza.

Opening the heart, freeing the mind: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Phyllis K. Hicks and Joyce Curnan

July 15 - 20, 2025
near Asheville, North Carolina

Join us for this relational meditation retreat. When we open to the immediacy of our experience, we have supportive conditions for seeing clearly, for loosening identification, and for transforming tension and reactivity into understanding.  As we cultivate meditative qualities together, the heart releases into connection.  We discover suffering and the end of suffering.[…]

Living Dharma

With Rosalie Dores and Ayya Anopama

July 17 - 24, 2025
Kruusila, Finland

As human beings subject to birth, ageing, sickness and death, how can we live in a way that leads to happiness? In response to this human predicament, the Buddha taught a path leading to freedom: a Dharma that is ‘apparent’ and accessible in the ‘here and now’ of our everyday lives, and that each of […]

Ruimte Geven

With Bart van Melik and Riët Aarsse

July 31 - August 3, 2025
Cadzand, Netherlands

Ruimte geven is ons thema van deze retraite. Ruimte om te vertragen, om helemaal jezelf te zijn, om niets in jezelf af te wijzen. Tijdens deze dagen oefenen we samen in Insight Dialogue — een boeddhistische meditatievorm waarin we met aandacht spreken en luisteren. Door deze beoefening ontstaat er een natuurlijke rust en verbinding, die ons helpt […]

Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue BIPOC Retreat

With Tuere Sala and Peace Twesigye

August 1 - 6, 2025
Barre, MA
Together, we are stronger and more resilient, and we can support one another to go a little bit further on the path towards awakening. This program is about just that: supporting each other to awaken together. We will integrate the wisdom practice of Insight Dialogue with the Four Noble Truths.

Insight Dialogue: A Relational Meditation Retreat

With Rosalie Dores

August 15 - 21, 2025
Devon, United Kingdom
With Jenny Wilks. Silent meditation supports and nourishes the cultivation of non-reactive awareness and kind acceptance of our inner experience. However, we also need to bring these same qualities into our various interactions and relationships, as it is often in our exchanges with others that challenge and suffering can arise. In this retreat, we will explore how relationship itself can be a path of practice.

Wahrheit hier und jetzt

With Ayya Anopama

August 16 - 22, 2025
Mittersill, Österreich
Gewahrsein und Freundlichkeit sind von zentraler Bedeutung, um uns mit dem zu verbinden, was wir sind und wirklich wollen. Das Gewahrsein offenbart, was in jedem Moment da ist, und Freundlichkeit erlaubt uns, diese Erfahrung zu empfangen und uns dafür zu öffnen, sie mit Weisheit zu sehen und die Wahrheit zum Vorschein kommen zu lassen.

The Two Wings to Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

With Jill Shepherd and Elizabeth Faria

August 22 - 28, 2025
Byron Bay, Australia
A six-night retreat weaving together silent and relational insight meditation practice This retreat offers a rare opportunity to bring together two complementary practices: silent insight (vipassanā) meditation and Insight Dialogue, a relational meditation practice that involves mindful speaking and listening together in pairs or small groups.

Retraite de Dialogue Conscient

With Anne Michel and Adriana Orellana de Rickebusch

September 4 - 7, 2025
Jaun, Suisse

La pratique du Dialogue Conscient nous met en relation directe avec la beauté et la complexité du monde interrelationnel. Lorsque l'expérience est vécue en pleine conscience ici et maintenant, nos peurs relationnelles s'adoucissent et nos besoins d'être reconnus diminuent. La confiance s'installe, ancrée dans l'instant, libérée des projections et des doutes. La retraite sera entièrement […]

Experiencing the Relational Dharma in Insight Dialogue

With Gregory Kramer

October 27 - November 5, 2025
Barre, MA

Human beings are fully relational just as they are individual. Because the Dharma addresses the human experience of suffering and freedom, it, too, must be both fully relational and individual. This program will be an exploration of our living experience of the individual and relational manifestations of Dharma teachings on suffering and freedom, insight, the […]

Gemeinsam erwachen - ein Vipassana-Meditationsretreat mit Einsichtsdialog

With Ayya Anopama and Irene Bumbacher

December 8 - 14, 2025
Unterwasser, Switzerland

In diesem Retreat werden wir erforschen, wie wir durch die Kraft der stillen Meditation und die Praxis des Einsichtsdialogs, des tiefen Zuhörens und des Sprechens aus der Stille, in uns selbst und mit anderen präsent sein können. In der bedingungslosen Akzeptanz unserer inneren Erfahrung und in der Beziehung zu anderen öffnet sich die Tür zu […]