Letting Go of Distraction: Insight and Metta Weekend

Registration for this retreat is closed

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Registration is closed for this retreat.
June 19 - June 21, 2015 (Friday to Sunday)


A few spaces currently available!

All scholarship funds have been awarded.

All You Choose fee spaces for ages 18-26 have been filled.


This retreat, appropriate for those just learning meditation as well as experienced practitioners, will offer the opportunity to completely unplug. This is a chance to re-establish connection with ourselves and the present moment, unmediated by our electronic devices.

Except for guidance from the teacher, the course will be in silence. Instruction will be given in the practice of insight and metta (lovingkindness) meditations.

A Message from IMS's Guiding Teachers

Work on expanding and improving IMS's Retreat Center dining room has begun and will continue through late summer.

Inevitably, this will result in construction and machinery noise. However, this will not be sustained and will mostly take place outdoors during regular construction hours, usually Monday - Friday, 7:00am-4:00pm. Toward the end of the project, there will be some indoor work, but this will be planned for between courses.

To help minimize the impact of the noise, windows in our Retreat Center meditation hall will be kept closed. (The air circulation and conditioning system there allows fresh air to move around very well, without opening windows.)

We have decided to continue offering retreats throughout this building period, knowing that conditions for practice are rarely perfect. We trust that this construction endeavor can be met with the equanimity and grace with which we meet a range of conditions in our lives.

All of us at IMS look forward to supporting you on retreat.

Teachers