Austin Insight Meditation

Residential Retreats

Residential Retreats will open for registration several months in advance. Check here to save the dates for future retreats.

November 12-15, 2026

BE AWARE BE FREE : a residential retreat with Howie Cohn

At Ancient Yoga Center in Austin. Registration NOW OPEN.

The unaware mind wanders through an imaginary world, bound to its own stories and conflicts. The aware mind releases that distress and returns to life as it actually is—simple, immediate, and whole.

This retreat weaves sitting and walking meditation into a continuous thread of embodied presence. Moving between stillness and mindful movement, we train not just in isolated sessions but in the art of letting go across every posture, transition, and breath. Awareness is portable—alive on the cushion, alive on the path, alive in every ordinary moment. This is liberation through letting go in action.

Open to all. Whether you are taking your first retreat or your hundredth , you are welcome. No experience required. Click here to register and for more information.

February 4-7, 2027: Kim Allen Retreat

At Ancient Yoga Center in Austin. Registration opening soon.

Kim Allen has been practicing Insight meditation since 2003, and has trained intensively in the U.S. and Asia with cumulative years of silent retreat. She has trained primarily with Gil Fronsdal, as well as Theravādan monastics and a few Mahāyāna teachers. She offers retreats, sutta study, and experiential Dharma engagement. As a teacher and author, Kim aims to bring classical Dharma to a modern context and to encourage lay practitioners in fully living a life of Dharma. She serves as guiding teacher of Uncontrived: http://www.uncontrived.org.

April 15-18, 2027: Howie Cohn Retreat

At Ancient Yoga Center in Austin

September 23-26: Howie Cohn Retreat

At American Bodhi Center in Waller County, Texas

November 11-14, 2027: Anushka Fernandopulle Retreat

At Ancient Yoga Center in Austin

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