Upcoming Events
The Courage to Be Real: A Retreat with Aishah Shahidah Simmons & nico hase (online daylong retreat)
In this one-day online retreat, Aishah Shahidah Simmons & nico hase will explore sacca (truthfulness) parami in depth—the courage required for radical honesty and authentic living.
The Fire Inside Book Club Series (The Dharma of James Baldwin & Audre Lorde)
Join Sacred Mountain Sangha for a 4-week opportunity to study and practice with “The Fire Inside: the Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde” in an interactive book club featuring its author Dr. Rima Vesley-Flad and SMS sangha leaders - Kareem Ghandour, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, and Dr. Lisa D. Moore.
Essential Dharma: The Four Noble Truths
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is one of the featured teachers in the Insight Meditation Society's eight-week online Essential Dharma Summer Retreat Series.
Together, Aishah and Jean Leonard will guide participants in an exploration of the Four Noble Truths through Dharma talks, sitting and walking meditation, and contemplative practice.
Liberating the Heart: Navigating Seven Gates to Inner Freedom
A seven-day silent residential retreat designed for Black/African womxn only will begin with intentional community building and unfold into periods of silent sitting and walking, meditation instruction, daily embodied movement, Dharma talks, and meetings with teachers.
Sutta Study & Residential Retreat Teacher Training
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.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Rainbow (LGBTQ+) Online Sangha
Aishah is the featured teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Rainbow (LGBTQ+) online only sangha on September 23, 2026.
Cultivating Balance in the Eight Worldly Winds with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
A hybrid daylong retreat hosted by Delaware Valley Insight invites practitioners of all experience levels to cultivate balance, not by avoiding the eight worldly winds, but by learning to meet them with wisdom and care. Aishah will teach how to explore the eight worldly winds through meditation, dharma teachings, relational practice, and chanting. All are welcome, exactly as they are.
On Retreat
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.
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches
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.