This program will be hosted both in-person and online (hybrid). This is the registration page to join Devin Berry and Tara Mulay online, via Zoom. (Register here if you prefer to attend in person.) Registrants will receive the link to join the program in the Order Confirmation email. This program will not be recorded. Times are ET.
Join us for a daylong insight meditation retreat where we’ll explore the heart of the Buddha’s teachings and cultivate the Pāramīs—ten cherished qualities of the heart-mind that guide us towards awakening. Among these, patience, courage, and compassion (a beautiful expression of lovingkindness) will be our focus. By nurturing these qualities through both our everyday lives and our meditation practice, we can embrace a life of greater wisdom, skillfulness, and inner freedom.
Throughout the retreat, we’ll immerse ourselves in noble silence, grounding our practice in mindfulness meditation. Our day will flow with periods of sitting and walking meditation, dharma teachings, and time for your questions. We’ll also engage in a closing relational practice, enriching our experience and deepening our connections. This retreat warmly welcomes both seasoned practitioners and those new to meditation.
Full and partial scholarships are available up to 72 hours before the start of the program.
Devin Berry began practicing in 1999. His teaching is rooted in the Buddhadharma and daily life mindfulness practices. Devin’s training includes Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher training, the East Bay Meditation Center Commit to Dharma Program, Spirit Rock’s Dedicated
Practitioners Program, and Insight Meditation Society’s four-year Residential Retreat Teachers Program. Devin co-founded the Teen Sangha and Men of Color Deep Refuge Group at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland. In addition, Devin began some of the first mindfulness programs in SF Bay Area schools, including weekly mindfulness groups for youth.
From working with youth as a frontline advocate for marginalized youth living on the streets, to co-creating Deep Time Liberation, an ancestral healing journey that explores the impact of ancestral legacy and intergenerational trauma on Black Americans, Devin is passionate about the power of witnessing and storytelling as a liberation tool. Devin is a father and teaches nationally.
Tara Mulay Mulay is a teacher and mentor of dharma practitioners, dedicated to helping them cultivate insight through meditation and in daily life practice. Trained and authorized by the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, Tara serves as a Guiding Teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and teaches nationally.
Her path to the dharma began during her 20-year career as a criminal defense attorney. Tara’s teachings are rooted in the Mahasi Sayadaw lineage, enriched by influences from other Theravadan and Early Buddhist traditions.
Of South Asian heritage, Tara was initially drawn to dharma practice by the Buddha’s teachings rejecting caste as a measure of worth and capacity for awakening. She believes that classical Buddhist practices—fostering compassion, non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion—are powerful tools for empowering marginalized communities.
Closed Captions (CC) for CIMC Programs are generated through Zoom.