Insight Meditation Society

07/10/2026

10% Happier with Dan Harris released a special podcast episode today featuring an IMS Founders’ Roundtable discussion facilitated by Dan. The discussion was recorded during IMS’s 50th Anniversary online celebration in February of this year, and included Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Jacqueline Mandell, and Steven Schwartz.

Find options to listen or watch here: https://www.danharris.com/podcast

Photo: IMS’s four original founders Jack, Sharon, Jacqueline, and Joseph in the early days IMS welcome room.

07/09/2026

How do we break the cycles that keep us stuck? Devin Berry explores the path to freedom and an open heart.

🌀 Join Devin Berry along with Rev. Shinmu Tamori Gibson and Neesha Patel for Rooted in Presence—an IMS online hybrid retreat—Tuesday, July 21-Tuesday, July 28.

The online retreat experience will mirror the in-person retreat, with talks live-streamed directly from the meditation hall.

🌿 Join from wherever you are at the link below.

07/08/2026

This weekend, join Anthony “T” Maes and Kate Siber for Introduction to Insight, a welcoming half-day online retreat introducing the foundations of Buddhist practice.

We’ll explore why suffering calls us toward freedom, and how mindfulness can become a direct, lived experience.

🗓️ Sunday, July 12
⏰ 10 am – 1 pm ET
🌿 Online | Sliding scale options | Join here: https://ims.dharma.org/courses/intro-to-insight

This is the first session in our eight-week Essential Dharma Summer Series, but it also stands on its own—perfect for anyone beginning or returning to the path of insight.

07/07/2026

The teaching team of “Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation” enjoy a happy moment of calm early-summer weather outside the Retreat Center. Thank you for your teachings!

L-R: Akincano Marc Weber, Yuka Nakamura, and Thimo Wittich

07/06/2026

Happy 91st Birthday to His Holiness the Dalai Lama!

Joseph Goldstein vividly remembers the visit of His Holiness in the early days of IMS: “In 1979, His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited IMS and we gave him a tour. When we got to the old bowling alley, left from the time when this was a Catholic novitiate, His Holiness demonstrated the joy and ease of heart for which he is so well known. He took a ball and sent it flying down the lane.”

07/03/2026

Spend your summer with IMS Online and the next generation of IMS teachers 🌞🌻

Beginning July 12, join us for eight half-day retreats (10 am - 1 pm ET). Register for the full series or individual sessions: https://ims.dharma.org/bundles/essential-dharma-an-eight-week-summer-retreat-series

Each Sunday mini retreat will explore a foundational teaching of Buddhism—the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, and more.

🩵 Practice with and learn from emerging voices in the IMS lineage. We hope to see you there!

07/01/2026

A walk around the Retreat Center in June 🌻🌞💚

06/30/2026

Spaces are available during this year’s Two-Month Retreat! The full retreat runs from Sept. 29–Nov. 24, with Part 1: Sept. 29–Oct. 26, and Part 2: Oct. 27–Nov. 24.

An IMS tradition since the beginning (50 years this year), meditators from around the world have come to sit long retreat with us. This is a unique opportunity to devote a longer period of time to deepen practice in silence with sangha.

We’re excited to share that Joseph Goldstein will be offering in-person sessions throughout the retreat (three sessions in Part 1 and three in Part 2). Joseph taught on the Three-Month Retreat team until 2016, and we’re grateful for his return to the meditation hall during this special retreat.

If you’re curious about this longer retreat and the full teaching team, learn more here: https://events.dharma.org/en/5f7ITk77/g/dF22C48yn6/two-month-retreat-5a2xVI3mc4T/overview

*Note: this year’s retreat will be the Two-Month Retreat and will return to the typical Three-Month Retreat next year.

06/29/2026

Through the natural unfolding of mindfulness, we learn to rest in presence and attune to the rhythms of body, heart, and mind 🌿🌀

Next month (Tuesday, July 21 - Tuesday, July 28) join Devin Berry, Rev. Shinmu Tamori Gibson, and Neesha Patel for an online hybrid retreat, Rooted in Presence: https://ims.dharma.org/courses/Rooted-in-Presence-2026

As presence deepens, we begin to recognize the ways we turn away from connection within ourselves, with one another, and with the world. This silent retreat supported by sangha offers a refuge for practice and a space to remember what truly sustains us.

The online experience will mirror the in-person retreat with talks live-streamed directly from the meditation hall.

06/24/2026

IMS was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal. The journalist attended the five day retreat, Living the Buddha’s Teachings, with Annie Nugent and Devin Berry. Read her full experience: https://on.wsj.com/4oJ1TRN

Imagine being entirely disconnected. No phone, no laptop, no smartwatch, no ring, no pings. No TV, no reading, no journaling, no music. And no talking whatsoever—not even eye contact—as you sit, eat and stroll mindfully alongside 90 or so strangers.

For five long days.

This may sound like the setting for a “White Lotus”-style murder plot. Something best suited to self-satisfied tech bros with their own private mountaintops or people who enjoy soybeans and use hashtags like .

Some may say that sounds like hell. And yet…that was the draw.

🔗 Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4oJ1TRN