After launching their first Teens of Color in-person retreat in 2019, Inward Bound Mindfulness Education pivots to online programming.
Free “Love and Kindness” Retreat for BIPOC Practitioners Announced
From October 27-31, Spirit Rock Meditation Center is offering a free on-line meditation retreat for the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. Led by Pawan Bareja, PhD, the retreat offers an accessible healing space for BIPOC practitioners and is now free of charge through the support of a private foundation. The theme of the […]
Sharing Trans Joy at the First Residential Retreat for the Transgender and Gender Expansive Community
In September, “Creating Joy In Community” brought together 50 members of the transgender and gender expansive community for a residential retreat.
Big Shout, Big Echo
It takes intensive meditation practice to wear away your habitual patterns and discover the enlightened nature underneath, says Barbara Rhodes.
Buddhism’s Next 40 Years: Deepening Our Practice and Study
In the third issue in our 40th anniversary series, Melvin McLeod looks at how Western Buddhists can deepen their practice and study of Buddhism.
Beyond the Upper Middle Way
Convert Buddhism has a class problem: it appeals mostly to a narrow demographic of well-off college graduates. Buddhist scholar Ann Gleig offers some class consciousness to help Buddhism drop the barriers and benefit many more people.
Free at Last
Rima Vesely-Flad reports on Deep Time Liberation, a retreat that takes African American meditators into the heart of slavery’s past so they can free themselves from its legacy of trauma.
InsightLA to hold first residential meditation retreat for transgender community
“Creating Joy In Community,” the first residential retreat for transgender people, welcomes members of the transgender, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, and non-binary community to join together and cultivate “trans joy.”
Before You Go on a Long Retreat
Andrew Holecek offers some practical advice for anyone considering a long-term retreat.
What About the Cost of Retreats?
Many practitioners can’t afford to go on retreats. Pamela Ayo Yetunde says it’s time we start thinking about how to make the practice less exclusive.