(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Deep Welcome, Reflections on Retreat and Metta Practice

Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

Devon Hase: Opening the Retreat

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Four Great Efforts: Connecting with emotions in an onward leading way.

Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction

Rebecca Bradshaw: Morning Reflection

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Rebecca Bradshaw: The Embodied Heart

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Stories and humor from beloved teacher Ajahn Brahm.

Devon Hase: Storytelling

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided practice for directly experiencing the four elements in the body, followed by reading of Mary Oliver's "Humpbacks."

Devon Hase: Guided Meditation of the Elements in the Body

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha's contemplation of the four elements — earth, water, fire, and air — offers a gentle but radical path: from the conceit of "my body" to the felt sense of being nature itself. A guided exploration of elemental awareness, grounded in retreat experience, Satipatthana practice, and the luminous body-wisdom of beloved poets.

Devon Hase: This Body, These Elements: Coming Home to What We Are

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How does loving-kindness infuse every dimension of the path? Drawing from a sweat-drenched pilgrimage around Shikoku's 88 temples, Devon explores metta not as a single technique but as a way of life woven through the Eightfold Path — from wise intention and ethical attunement, through generosity and letting go, to the boundless radiance of the brahmaviharas. Along the way, we discover how metta practice can open into concentration, healing, and even emptiness itself, and how the original instructions invite us simply to fill our bodies and the whole world with a field of care.

Devon Hase: A Field of Care: Metta Through Every Dimension of the Path

Caroline Jones: Compassion

Caroline Jones: Morning Reflection: Right speech, silence and deep listening

Caroline Jones: Morning Reflections: Paramis and practice in daily life

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

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.