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IMS is a spiritual refuge for all who seek freedom of mind and heart.

05/13/2026

“There really is no them; there’s just us.” - Anu Gupta

Join author and mindfulness teacher Anu Gupta for two special sessions on Healing Divides in a Distracted World, part of the Practicing with Modern Life IMS Online series.

🌳 Thursdays, May 14 & 28
⏰ 6:30 - 8:00 pm ET
🌿 Online | Fee waivers available

Join for Anu’s sessions or the full six-month series bundle: https://ims.dharma.org/courses/practicing-with-healing-divides-in-a-distracted-world

In these sessions, Anu will share how insight meditation can help us unlearn false narratives and unwholesome emotions that fuel division and disconnection—creating possibilities for personal and social healing.

05/08/2026

A peaceful moment with the teaching team of Embodying Kindness and Wisdom, an insight and lovingkindness retreat at IMS last month. It was a joy to have you all on-campus! ❤️

L-R: Greg Scharf, Rebecca Bradshaw, Roxanne Dault, Wynn Fricke (assistant teacher), and Aishah Shahidah Simmons (assistant teacher)

04/27/2026

It’s beginning to feel like spring in Barre 🌱🌤️

04/22/2026

Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌿

Did you know there are 200+ indoor plants at IMS, including 170+ in the Retreat Center and more in the Forest Refuge? One of our resident plant caretakers recently counted 👀

In honor of Earth Day, we celebrate not only the land that surrounds us, but the living presence of plants within our center. These beings offer beauty, support, connection, and inspiration for those in retreat.

Do you have a favorite memory or story of the plants at IMS? Share below. 💚

04/21/2026

Lovingkindness begins this Thursday 💚

Join this cherished annual Lovingkindness Retreat—offered this year with an online hybrid option—April 23–30: https://ims.dharma.org/courses/Lovingkindness-hybrid-Retreat-2026

Guided by Oren Jay Sofer, Dawn Scott, and Jessica Morey, this weeklong retreat invites you into deep metta practice through silent meditation, Dharma talks, and the cultivation of an open, caring heart.

Whether you’re new to metta or returning to your practice, all are welcome.

04/18/2026

What if everything in your life was actually perfectly designed for your awakening?

Join Cara Lai tomorrow for an online mini retreat, Real Awakening in Modern Life

🌼 Sunday, April 19
⏰ 11 am - 3 pm ET
🧡 Join here: https://ims.dharma.org/courses/Real-Awakening-in-Modern-Life

We’ll explore awakening in this very lifetime—even with all the obligations, commitments, distractions, and chaos of modern life.

Reveal how your life is exactly what you need to awaken. Cara will guide bringing the practice into our lives as they are, right here and now.

04/14/2026

Come celebrate the launch of devon & nico’s new book, This Messy Gorgeous Love, TONIGHT at IMS Book Club!

💛 Tuesday, April 14, 7-8:15 pm ET
🌼 FREE online event
🪴 Register to join live or watch the replay: https://ims.dharma.org/courses/This-Messy-Gorgeous-Love

This Buddhist guide to lasting partnership comes from our friends devon and nico—two married Buddhist teachers.

As devon says in this clip, this path of meditation, mindfulness, and liberation was “never meant to be practiced alone”.

04/13/2026

A pleasure to have these dear ones on campus last month! The teaching team of “Reclaiming Wholeness: Liberation through Wisdom & Love” gather in the staff dining room at the retreat center 🪴💛

Back row, from L-R: Devin Berry, DaRa Williams, Shelly Graf, Melanie Cherng (assistant teacher), and Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith (assistant teacher)
Front row, from L-R: Isabel Adon (teacher trainee), Monica Williams (movement), and Yong Oh

04/10/2026

Lovingkindness Retreat ❤️ April 23–30 🌹 Online hybrid

Oren Jay Sofer talks about IMS’s cherished annual Lovingkindness retreat - offered this year as an online hybrid - and the profound impacts lovingkindness has on our own lives and the world around us.

Together with Dawn Scott and Jessica Morey, this team will guide deep metta practice, dharma talks, and silent meditation live from the meditation hall.

❤️ Join from wherever you are: https://ims.dharma.org/courses/Lovingkindness-hybrid-Retreat-2026

04/08/2026

Begins tomorrow! Mindful Habit Change with Dr. Judson Brewer 🌲

Online | Fee waivers available
Thursdays, April 9 & 23
6:30 - 8 pm ET
Join here: https://ims.dharma.org/courses/practicing-with-modern-life-mindful-habit-change

🌿 Judson Brewer is a thought leader in the science of habit change. With dual expertise in neuroscience and psychiatry, he bridges the gap between ancient contemplative wisdom and modern behavior change techniques.

🌿 These sessions will explore approaches to healing the habits that hold us back—from anxiety to addiction to everyday stress.

Part of a six-month online bundle with different teachers & topics each month—join for just Mindful Habit Change, or the full bundle.

04/06/2026

There are spaces available to join this beloved two-week Mahasi style in-person retreat this summer—

🍁 The Natural Clarity of Awareness, June 1-15

🍂 For the third year, Roxanne Dault, Tara Mulay, Victoria Cary, and Devin Berry are offering an opportunity to deepen mindfulness and momentary concentration through the progression laid out in Mahasi Sayadaw’s Manual of Insight—but in a more relaxed format than a classical Mahasi retreat.

🍂 This two-week retreat offers a similar schedule and guidance as IMS’s Three-Month Retreat, and can serve as a great introduction for those aspiring to sit longer retreats.

Learn more: https://events.dharma.org/5f7ITk77/5a2xVI3mI2Y

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Barre, MA
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