IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allowing the continuing unfolding of deeper levels of wisdom and compassion. A personal retreat here strengthens practice, faith, confidence and self-reliance.
Latest episodes of the podcast Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction
- Andrea Fella: Morning reflection
- Caroline Jones: Wise speech.
- Caroline Jones: A practice for taking leave of a beloved place.
- Caroline Jones: The five aggregates.
- Caroline Jones: Guided metta meditation.
- Caroline Jones: Guided meditation on impermanence.
- Jill Shepherd: 10 Morning reflection and guided meditation: Muditā
- Caroline Jones: The Buddha's advice to Bahiya.
- Caroline Jones: Patience.
- Caroline Jones: Morning reflections: working with difficult mind states.
- Caroline Jones: Morning reflections: knowing how and when to exert, restrain, rest and gladden the mind.
- Caroline Jones: The five daily recollections.
- Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection - what is mindfulness?
- Jill Shepherd: 04 Morning reflection and meditation: releasing reactivity
- Caroline Jones: 3 basic reminders: simplifying, knowing, caring.
- Caroline Jones: Guided body scan meditation