Learn Vipassana & Meditation in Barre, Massachusetts

Honest level: Beginner -> Teacher Training — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Masters & lineage

• Joseph Goldstein
• Sharon Salzberg

Schools in Barre, Massachusetts

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Insight Meditation Society (IMS)
  Silent insight (vipassana) and metta retreats, weekend to three months
  The Insight Meditation Society, founded in 1975 and based on roughly 400 wooded acres at 1230 Pleasant Street in Barre, Massachusetts, runs silent Theravada vipassana and metta retreats ranging from a weekend to three months across its Retreat Center and Forest Refuge.
  https://www.dharma.org/
• Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
  Residential study-and-practice courses combining Buddhist scholarship with meditation
  The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, founded in 1990 by Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg as a complement to the nearby IMS, offers residential and online courses that combine classical Buddhist study, discussion, and meditation practice on its forested Barre campus.
  https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/

The credential

Completed 10-day silent course (prerequisite to serve/assist), then long-courses and Assistant Teacher appointment in the Goenka tradition · Certifying body: Vipassana Research Institute (Goenka / U Ba Khin tradition); Theravada monastic lineages

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Vipassana & Meditation

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.