Learn Vipassana & Meditation in Chiang Mai

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

Schools in Chiang Mai

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

• Wat Ram Poeng (Tapotaram) Northern Insight Meditation Centre
  26-day basic Vipassana course (Mahasi method)
  Wat Ram Poeng (Tapotaram), the Northern Insight Meditation Centre in Chiang Mai, runs an ongoing 26-day basic Vipassana course in the Mahasi tradition under teacher guidance, with silent sitting and walking practice from before dawn and follow-on 10-day retreats for graduates.
  https://www.watrampoeng.com/
• Wat Suan Dok (Monk Chat / meditation retreats)
  Two-day residential meditation retreat for foreigners (MCU Monk Chat)
  Wat Suan Dok in Chiang Mai, through the Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University Monk Chat programme, offers English-language Buddhism conversations and short residential meditation retreats for foreigners, including a weekly two-day course and a longer three-day course at month's end.
  https://www.monkchat.net/

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.