Press Archives

Silence is Golden

In body + soul magazine, Alyssa Giacobbe, a freelance writer and editor based in Boston, writes about the experience of being on retreat at IMS.

View PDF from body + soul (December, 2009)

Toughing It Out

IMS Executive Director, Bob Agoglia, joins a panel of US retreat center directors to explore how practice centers are dealing with the recession.

Read the introduction online or the full PDF from Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly (Winter, 2009).

Research into Meditation and the Brain

Research conducted at IMS on Three-Month Retreat participants by a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests meditation can help train attention.

Read the abstract online or the full PDF of the research article published in The Journal of Neuroscience (October 21, 2009).

View PDF of the research article, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Biology (May 7, 2007).

IMS Turns 30

When Sharon Salzberg joined two other twentysomething meditators to buy a former Catholic seminary for $150,000, creating the Insight Meditation Society, she learned for the first time what a mortgage was. View PDF... from Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly (Spring, 2006).

Through Good Times and Bad

Three pillars of American Vipassana talk to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review about 30 years of teaching in the West (Winter, 2004). View PDF...