Insight Meditation

• Insight Meditation Community - Washington DC, USA
  

The Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC is vipassana meditation group approximately in the tradition of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massacheusetts, USA. Tara Brach is the founding and guiding Dhamma teacher. Over 100 meditators attend the weekly sitting / class. Meditation retreats of one, three, or seven days are held regularly in the Washington, DC area.

• Vipassana Meditation Website - International
  

This is the international home page of the organizations which offer courses in Vipassana Meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin as taught by S.N. Goenka and his assistant teachers.

• The International Meditation Centers - USA, Australia, England & Austria

There are five International Meditation Centres in the Sayagyi U Ba Khin Tradition. Each of the Centres in the West is a direct offspring of the International Meditation Centre of Yangon, Myanmar, which was founded by Sayagyi U Ba Khin. All the Centres are guided by Mother Sayamagyi and Sayagyi U Chit Tin, two of Sayagyi U Ba Khin's closest disciples, who have practised and taught meditation for more than forty years and have carried on the tradition since Sayagyi U Ba Khin's demise in 1971.

• Vipassana Metta - Maui, USA
  

The small vipassana retreat community on Maui conduct regular silent vipassana metta retreats: daylong, weekend, two week and an annual month long (August). We undertake cultivation of awareness through the traditional practices of generosity, moral conduct, concentration, insight and lovingkindness with the understanding that liberation of the heart brings the greatest happiness which is peace. Teachers: Kamala Masters and Steven Armstrong. Periodically other senior teachers are invited to offer the dhamma on Maui.

• Madison Insight Meditation Group - USA
  

The Madison Insight Meditation Group is comprised of people with varying levels of training and experience in Vipassana, or Insight Meditation. They focus on the essence of the Buddha's teachings that underlie 2500 years of cultural traditions.

• Gaia House - England
  

A Centre for meditation, enquiry and compassion. Gaia House offers insight meditation and zen retreats throughout the year. The Centre provides comprehensive Dharma teachings and spiritual practices to realize wisdom and compassion in daily life. The Centre is not tied to any religion. The teachings explore depths of awareness and the discovery of an enlightened life.

• Vipassana.com

- England
Vipassana.com offers resources and support to meditators in the Theravada tradition. Several hundred people have participated in the free 10 week Online Meditation Course since it began in 1997. Led by Andrew Quernmore, a London-based meditation teacher, the course introduces both samatha and vipassana techniques and is currently available in English and Russian (Spanish and French translations are in progress).
Association for Insight Meditation - England
Association for Insight Meditation website's has books in the Burmese Insight Meditation tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw, Ledi Sayadaw and Chanmyay Sayadaw. Retreats are conducted by an English monk ordained by Mahasi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Pesala.

• Dharma.org.au

- Australia.
Dharma.org.au is the website of a network of Insight Meditation groups, centres and teachers in Australia. There is a wide variety of practice styles in the network, but all the teachers are members of the Insight Teacher Circle Australia, a group established by Christopher Titmuss and Subhana Barzaghi.

• Vipassana Meditation Centre - Singapore
  

The Burmese, Mahasi Sayadaw Satipatthana Vipassana tradition is followed in this centre. (Sayadaw U Pannathami stays at this centre from time to time) Transport: The nearest MRT station is Tanah Merah and the SBS Buses passing through are no. 10 and 14. Meditators are welcome to the centre anytime to practise, either individually or in groups for retreats.

• Chanmyay Yeiktha - Myanmar (Burma)
  

Chanmyay Yeiktha ('Peaceful Hermitage') is a Buddhist meditation centre in Rangoon, Myanmar (Burma) where the teachers are senior Buddhist monks who teach Vipassana (Insight) meditation in Myanmar and English languages. Anyone who takes a keen interest in mental development can practise meditation here, regardless of sex, race, nationality and religion.

• Panditarama Shwe Taung Gon Sasana Yeiktha - Myanmar (Burma)
  

Both local and foreign yogis come to the Shwe Taung Gon center in Yangon to practice intensive Vipassana meditation. The Mahasi method involves mindfulness of body, sensations, mind, and general objects such as seeing, hearing, tasting and smelling. The primary objects of meditation are the rise and fall of the abdomen in sitting meditation and the movement of the feet in walking meditation.

• Malaysian Buddhist Meditation Centre - Penang, Malaysia
  

The Malaysian Buddhist Meditation Centre, is open throughout the whole year. Intensive retreats as well as part time meditation classes are held throughout out the year. The present meditation teacher is Sayadaw U Pannathami. He is the disciple of Sayadaw U Pandita of Panditarama in Myanmar (Burma). Sayadaw speaks English well and teaches vipassana meditation in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition.

• Stichting Inzichts Meditatie - The Netherlands
  

This organization promotes the practice of vipassana meditation in The Netherlands and organizes vipassana meditation retreats with teachers from the East and the West. It publishes a yearly schedule including the activities of regional centers.

• The Swedish Vipassanagruppen - Sweden
  

Vipassanagruppen is a nonprofit organisation for people interested in insight meditation. We arrange regular sittings, seminars and retreats. Vipassana means insight. It is a meditation method taught by the Buddha around 500 BC. The purpose is to develop mindfulness here and now which leads to compassion, equanimity and enlightenment.

• Passaddhi Retreat Centre - Ireland
  

Passaddhi, a small retreat and meditation centre in the Beara Peninsula in the southwest of Ireland, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The meditation taught is vipassana in the tradition of the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw (Burmese/Thai Theravadin).

• The Insight Meditation Community of New Haven - New Haven, USA.
  

The Insight Meditation Community of New Haven is a gathering of individuals who are interested in deepening our meditation practice and developing our understanding of Buddhist teachings. We host a weekly, drop-in sitting group, free of charge and open to the public, and beginners are particularly welcome.

• Satipatthana — The Foundations of Mindfulness - USA