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Donations are our main source of support, so every offering is greatly appreciated. Your contribution helps us to keep the monastery open to receive guests throughout the year.
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Each year we offer a variety of events and retreats during which we welcome visitors to come together in the great hidden mountain of Deer Park.
We welcome visitors for Days of Mindfulness and Special Retreats, as well as one or two week General Practice Retreats. All events and retreats require advance registration.
Enjoy a day of mindfulness and peace at Deer Park. On most Sundays we host an in-person day for adults and families, including kids, from 9AM - 2PM. Space is limited and these events do fill up. Advance registration is required.
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We host a variety of Special Retreats at Deer Park and beyond, including the Family Retreat, Wake Up Retreat (ages 18-35), The Buddha the Scientist Retreat & Symposium, BIPOC Retreat, Holiday Retreat, and more. See our Events Calendar for upcoming Special Retreats.
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Enjoy the daily schedule of the monastery and the basic practices such as sitting meditation, walking meditation, and mindful eating. During the retreat period, you spend each day following the schedule of the resident monastics and lay community.
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Before, during, and after some Special Retreats, we need additional help, so we invite mindfulness practitioners who have already attended a 7-day retreat (or longer) at Deer Park to apply for the volunteer program on an as-needed basis.
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We welcome you to join us for the third cohort of Who Is Thich Nhat Hanh? Encountering the Spring Online Course. Whether you are returning or joining us for the first time, this course invites us to look deeply into the life and teachings of Thay. We may look again with fresh eyes, noticing what we did not see before and exploring what we can learn, carry into our own lives, and bring into our practice.
We welcome you to join us for this day of practice.
Join us in person or online to celebrate 100 years of Thay at a special Day of Mindfulness honoring his life and teachings.
From time to time we offer multi-week courses related to mindfulness, the teachings and life of Thich Nhat Hanh, and a variety of similar subjects. Please see our schedule of upcoming courses.
Take the Deer Park Monastery and Plum Village community with you wherever you go. The Plum Village app is designed to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and joy through guided meditations, deep relaxations, practice poems, bells of mindfulness, and other practices — all through a mobile device.
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Your generosity will help us renew Deer Park and preserve this refuge for generations to come.
