Insight Meditation

A Course on How to Meditate in the Insight Tradition for Inner Peace & Wisdom

Even in the most difficult of times, the Buddha taught that there is a practice to build resilience, find peace, make wise decisions, and live with empathy for everyone on our shared journey … This practice offers us a contemplative path to emotional balance, personal sovereignty, and spiritual freedom. It's a path that has served millions of people for centuries—and it’s available to all of us.

Insight meditation, also known as vipassana, is the traditional art of meditation as it was taught by the Buddha himself, then passed from friend to friend for over 2,600 years. Insight meditation remains popular even today because it works.

Since Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein cofounded the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) nearly 50 years ago, they've witnessed thousands of students make personal breakthroughs and transform their lives through meditation. (Many have even become teachers themselves!) Now, they want to bring you our most comprehensive at-home retreat curriculum with Insight Meditation: An In-Depth Course on How to Meditate.

They created this 12-session program to teach anyone, with any level of experience, how to start and continue a meditation practice. We’re confident this course is unlike any other online training available today.

PROGRAM INCLUDES

A Complete Audio/Video Curriculum

Start and sustain your meditation practice with over 23 hours of insightful teachings and practices to inspire, instruct, and transform.

Two Pre-Recorded Q&A Sessions

Join Sharon and Joseph for two pre-recorded sessions, where they answer specific questions and share additional insights.

12 Downloadable Guided Meditations

Practice anywhere and anytime with expertly guided meditations led by Sharon and Joseph, from basic breathwork to lovingkindness and more.

An In-Depth Learning Portal

Reinforce your learning with an online portal full of insightful writing, exercises, resources, articles and more.

Lifetime Access

Go at your own pace and revisit your favorite materials anytime with lifetime access to all course content.

ABOUT YOUR TEACHERS

Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg, a student of Buddhism since 1971, has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. Influenced by her more than twenty-five years of study with Burmese, Indian, and Tibetan teachers, she teaches intensive awareness practice and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion. She is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society and The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and the author of several books, including The Kindness Handbook, A Heart as Wide as the World, and most recently, Real Change. Sharon's Sounds True audio programs include Embracing Your Boundless Heart and Guided Meditations for Love and Wisdom.

Joseph Goldstein

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974, and has studied and practiced different forms of Buddhist meditation under eminent teachers from India, Burma, and Tibet since 1967. He is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and the Forest Refuge. His books include A Heart Full of Peace, One Dharma, Insight Meditation, Mindfulness, and The Experience of Insight. Joseph's audio programs with Sounds True include the three-volume Abiding in Mindfulness series.