Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Woodacre)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center is an insight (vipassanā) meditation retreat centre in Woodacre, Marin County, California, USA. It grew out of the Insight Meditation West group and was established in the mid-1980s by a group of teachers including Jack Kornfield and Sylvia Boorstein, becoming a leading West Coast centre of the Western Theravāda-derived insight movement.
2 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 1993
A Path with Heart
- 1995
It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness
- 2000
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
- 2007
Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Woodacre). Click any to trace the idea across time and place.