On Retreat (No Teaching Engagements)

Aishah will be on silent retreat, devoted to meditation practice and away from email, phone, and other forms of communication.

An Insight Meditation Retreat offered over the holiday weekend with the option to attend in person or join online. Traditional meditation instruction will be combined with a spirit of lovingkindness.

Aishah is attending a residential retreat taught by Kittisaro and Thanissara, co-founders of Sacred Mountain Sangha, on the Kuan Yin Dharmas

Aishah is taking 15 days to unplug, rest, celebrate our wedding anniversary, and simply be.

This retreat is specifically designed for professionals involved in mindfulness-based approaches, whether as teachers, trainers, psychotherapists, clinicians or researchers. A minimum requirement for attendance is prior completion of a recognized eight-week mindfulness course, or prior retreat experience together with a professional involvement with mindfulness. The teachers of this retreat are all involved in training mindfulness-based professionals or in teaching mindfulness.

Aishah will be away engaged in intensive sutta study and residential retreat teacher training, with limited availability for email, phone, and other forms of communication.

“Fierce compassion” — inspired by the Vajrayana understanding of a wrathful protective deity — seeks to integrate compassion with ethical accountability and trauma-informed right action. This BIPOC retreat program draws on compassion practices shaped by five Black Women Buddhists teachers— Tina Turner, Alice Walker, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Melanie L. Harris, and bell hooks.

Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s April Insight Meditation Retreat with teachers, Kamala Masters, Tara Mulay, Vance Pryor, Winnie Nazarko, and Joseph Goldstein (via Zoom only). Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Adam Stonebraker are the assistant teachers.

Aishah will be away engaged in residential retreat teacher training, with limited availability for email, phone, and other forms of communication

Aishah will be away engaged in residential retreat teacher training, with limited availability for email, phone, and other forms of communication

This four-day Insight Meditation Retreat with an optional hybrid component invites practitioners to pause and turn gently toward our own lives. In this quiet awareness, qualities such as care, kindness, love, courage, joy, and inner stability are allowed to emerge—not as ideals to attain, but as companions on the path, shaping and being shaped by wisdom itself.

Throughout this five-day Insight Meditation Residential Retreat, we will explore the practices of forgiveness and letting go, with the primary supports of mindfulness, kindness, compassion, equanimity, and gratitude.