The Deer Park community is mindfully preparing to host our annual summer retreats during the months of June and July. This is a special and busy time as we welcome new and returning families and teens to practice joyfully together with the fourfold community. As a result, the monastery will not host regular Sunday Days […]

We are very happy to inform you that we are offering a Family Retreat and Teen Camp staff program at Deer Park Monastery. Before, during, and after the retreats, we need additional help, so we are inviting mindfulness practitioners who have already attended a 5-day retreat (or longer) at a Plum Village monastery to apply […]

Thank you to the many parents who expressed interest in our children’s program. We are happy to announce that we will host the children’s program on June 2 of 2019. Please click here for more details. The program is for children 6-12 years old. Children will learn basic mindfulness practices from monastic and lay program […]

As the spring retreat opens we have several people participating in our aspirant training program here at Deer Park. The monastic community continues and is growing deeper roots on this land! This past winter retreat the monks of Solidity Hamlet offered a class entitled: Introduction to Monastic Life. The class was open to all friends […]