IMS refreshes online learning center with July-August offerings
IMS has reset its online front page with July and August classes on insight, the Four Noble Truths, mindfulness of the body, dhammas, and ethics.
The Insight Meditation Society has refreshed its Online Learning Center with a new run of classes and retreats stretching from mid-July into mid-August, giving practitioners a clear view of the organization’s next online offerings. The page serves as the entry point for registration and presents IMS as grounded in the Theravada tradition, while also highlighting sliding-scale pricing, scholarship options, and fee waivers.
The lineup opened July 12 with Introduction to Insight, led by Anthony T. Maes and Kate Siber. It moved July 19 to The Four Noble Truths with Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Jean Leonard, then turned to Rooted in Presence, a hybrid retreat scheduled for July 21 to 28 with Devin Berry, Shinmu Tamori Gibson, and Neesha Patel. On July 26, Isabel Adon was set to lead Mindfulness of the Body, keeping the sequence anchored in core practice areas that many Insight practitioners will recognize immediately.
The August sessions continue that same pattern. Practicing with Dhammas is scheduled for August 9 with Adam Stonebraker and Margrit Pittman Polletta, followed by Ethics and Intention on August 16 with Ronya Banks and Brett Bethke. Taken together, the classes map neatly onto foundational Buddhist frameworks: direct insight into experience, the Four Noble Truths, embodied mindfulness, dhamma categories, and ethical intention.
IMS also uses the page to remind visitors of its larger identity. Founded in 1976 by Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield, the organization continues to serve retreatants in Barre, Massachusetts, while extending that same practice lineage to people learning online. The refreshed schedule makes that balancing act visible in practical terms: a compact calendar of live offerings, a hybrid retreat in the middle of the month, and access tools intended to lower the cost barrier.
For practitioners scanning the calendar, the update is straightforward and useful. The organization’s online center now lays out a progression from first-step instruction to more focused study, with dates, teachers, and access options all in one place, and the July-August sequence shows IMS keeping both entry-level and continuing practice on the same path.
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