Catalogue of Skills / Vipassana & Meditation

Learn Vipassana & Meditation in Yangon

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.

Birthplace of the discipline

Yangon, Myanmar

Learn on the Burmese soil where the technique was preserved, in the Mahasi and U Ba Khin lineages.

●●●●○ Thriving living community · Season: Nov-Feb · Beginner -> Long-term retreatant

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 masters

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

The lineage

Masters & lineage

Where it is taught — hand-verified

Schools in Yangon

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

What you walk away with

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.

Yangon pulls you? Leave an email — we'll introduce you to the school and the people going as the map grows toward it.

Prices are a verified starting point — no checkout, no hard sell. We introduce; you decide.

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Why you can trust this map

What we check before we send you anywhere

This 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.

Before you trust any school — mine or anyone else's — ask these five things
  1. Who actually teaches it? Can you find them by name, with a track record you can check yourself?
  2. Is the craft alive in that place, or is the school the only thing there? A real scene has more than one good option.
  3. What exactly do you walk away with — a recognised qualification, or a certificate they printed themselves? Ask which.
  4. Can you speak to someone who did the course? A real person, not a testimonial on their own page.
  5. What happens on a bad day — weather, an injury, a teacher who doesn't show? A serious place has an honest answer.

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.