Riët Aarsse

Riët Aarsse, whose practice is rooted in the classic vipassana school, encountered Insight Dialogue in 2012. Being a research psychologist and long-term student of the Abhidhamma expert Sayadaw dr. Nandamala, Riët tries to integrate Buddhist and western psychological understandings. She initiated Amsterdam Insight Meditation where she teaches courses and offers Insight Dialogue. Riët mentors several Insight Dialogue practice groups. She is deeply inspired by the power of Insight Dialogue that allows for peaceful transformations in and between people. Riët lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Please offer Riët dana with Wise (@Henriettea3 or Henrietta Aarsse).

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Upcoming Programs by Riët Aarsse

Friday, Monthly Insight Dialogue Practice in Dutch

Also With Marieke Duijvestijn, Nynke Humalda and Simin Abravesh

Open Dates

A monthly practice with the Dutch Insight Dialogue Practice group. Every 2nd Friday morning of each month at 9.00-11.00 am CEST of each month (7.30-9.00 pm CEST) you are welcome for online ID practice. The sessions will be guided by Riët Aarsse, Simin Abravesh, Joyce Curnan, Marieke Duijvestijn, Nynke Humalda . Please register via this […]

Brahmavihara — A Pathway to Liberating Together

Also With Dave Leggatt

December 7 - 12, 2026
Explore the Four Brahmavihāras, loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity, as ways of meeting life with greater understanding, connection, and freedom. This residential retreat weaves together silent meditation, mindful movement, and Insight Dialogue relational practice.

Awakening Through Human Relationality 透過人際關係覺醒

Also With Viveka Bhikkhu

December 19 - 25, 2026

We are relational beings. However, our experience of being relational might often be fragmented into limited perceptions of “you” and “I”, where “you” = “not me”. How would it be to release this and other causes of relational suffering through direct experience? What if human relationality could become a path for awakening? Insight Dialogue brings […]