Half-Day Retreats at the Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha
May 25, 2025, 1:00 to 4:00 pm. Each hour will include a sitting meditation for 40 minutes and walking meditation for 20 minutes.
Other Retreats
September 12 – 19, 2025
Settling and Opening: A Journey Into Insight and Loving Kindness
Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey in Pecos, New Mexico
A seven-day retreat with Brian Lesage and Diana Clark, sponsored by the Santa Fe Vipassana Center and the Albuquerque Insight Meditation Center at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey in Pecos, New Mexico. Friday, September 12 to Friday, September 19, 2025
This retreat offers a gentle arc of practice, beginning with Insight meditation to help us settle into presence, quiet the mind, and establish a grounded awareness. As the retreat unfolds, we will transition into the heart-centered practice of Loving-Kindness (Mett?), allowing the steadiness of mindfulness to support the opening of the heart.
Through this natural progression from settling into stillness to opening into warmth, we’ll explore how awareness and kindness together can nourish inner peace, compassion, and freedom.
Held in silence, the retreat includes daily meditation instruction, Dharma talks, and practice discussions with the teachers. Suitable for both beginning and experienced meditators, this retreat invites a deepening of practice and a softening of the heart.
When registration is full, you will be placed on a waiting list.
View the program and get a registration link here.
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September 3 – 7, 2025
Insight Meditation Retreat with Alexis Santos and Matthew Brensilver
Blazing Mountain Retreat Center, Crestone, Colorado
Visit the center at www.durangodharmacenter.org
View the retreat program here
The Buddha suggested we underestimate the capacity of our heart. Retreat helps us to remember. Together, we’ll sit in the refuge provided by a 2,600-year legacy of wisdom and kindness. In the silence, we come to know the preciousness of life and the poignancy of the human condition.
Matthew Brensilver serves on the Guiding Teachers Committee and Board of Directors at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Before committing to teach meditation, he spent years conducting research at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine. He is the co-author of two books about meditation and is interested in the unfolding dialogue between Buddhism and science.
Alexis Santos has practiced Insight Meditation in India, Burma and the US since 2001. He met Sayadaw U Tejaniya in Burma in 2003 and has been his long-time student. He brings a practical, intuitive and compassionate approach to the development of wisdom. He has completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training and can be found assisting retreats throughout the US.
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Regional Vipassana retreats will be posted on the web sites of our neighbor sanghas. See Other Sanghas and Retreat Centers for a list of regional Vipassana sanghas.