Ten days of noble silence and bare attention to breath and sensation, an unbroken Theravada technique taught exactly as it was 2,500 years ago.
Learn the ten-day course at the source, in the world headquarters where the modern revival began.
The world headquarters of Goenka Vipassana and one of the largest meditation centres on Earth, where the modern revival was born and the gold-standard 10-day course is taught at the source.
BirthplaceLiving sceneMeccaGold credentialUnbroken lineageVerified schoolsLearn on the Burmese soil where the technique was preserved, in the Mahasi and U Ba Khin lineages.
The Burmese soil where the technique was preserved and re-ignited for the modern world, the original training ground of the Mahasi and U Ba Khin lineages.
BirthplaceUnbroken lineageHeritageNamed mastersLearn on a rigorous 26-day insight retreat, in a valley thick with Mahasi-tradition monasteries.
A temple-dense valley where Mahasi-tradition monasteries run rigorous 26-day insight retreats and a deep cohort of travelling meditators gathers year-round.
Living sceneUnbroken lineageHeritageLearn where the founders of the modern mindfulness movement built a serious silent-retreat campus.
The Western cradle of insight meditation, where the founders of the modern mindfulness movement built a serious silent-retreat campus and a real teacher-training pipeline.
Living sceneVerified schoolsNamed mastersThis Atlas exists because there is a real difference between a school that teaches you and a good-looking website — and too much of the internet is the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what we'll tell you straight when it doesn't.
If a place dodges these, that's your answer. It costs you nothing to ask, and it tells you everything.
This is the short version. The full method is here — the six questions, in order, for any craft anywhere.