Practicing Metta or Metta in Practice?
By Lian Beijers
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When I started practicing meditation, I felt drawn to the practice of metta or loving kindness....
A Plum Village retreat in your living room
Plum Village Retreat Shifts Online
No one planned for an online retreat at Plum Village in 2020, but conditions are now sufficient to better realize...
Welcome Tickets for Artist Retreat
This Spring, the EIAB will welcome participants in the fourth Wake Up Your Artist (WUYA) Retreat in Germany*. WUYA is dedicated to "discovering your creativity:...
European Wake Up Ambassadors Week
We’re planting seeds of new communities
It’s time to wake up!
It’s time to wake up together! The European Wake Up Ambassadors had a retreat in...
My Life-Changing Experience at the Wake Up Earth Retreat
By Wake Up Belgium friend
Dear friends.
You have given me such treasure.
I love you so.
Last summer, I discovered the wonderful world of mindfulness. It has...
North American Wake Up Care-Taking Council
Dear friends,
On behalf of our current North American Wake Up Care-Taking Council (NAWUCTC), we would like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves and...
Mindfulness Beyond Borders
Eight of us walked across the bridge, exiting the border patrol, and emerging into the new streets, smells, sounds, language, and people of this...
How the Viet Wake Up Retreat Helped to Reconnect With My Roots
By Thien Kim Truong
During a trip to visit to one of Thay's monasteries, Magnolia Grove Monastery in Mississippi, I became really good friends with...
Wake Up Your Artist
by Joe Holtaway
About a year ago, I was headed to the European Institute of Applied Buddhism (EIAB) for my first time to help out...
Witnessing a Birth
Reflections on Forming the Wake Up Collectivity of Ambassadors
By Nhu-Mai Nguyen and Elli Weisbaum
It all started during a Wake Up Order of Interbeing (OI) Skype...
Healing at the Wake Up Earth Retreat
I traveled to Plum Village as I wanted to spend the week having some time for reflection and to allow for some self-understanding and...
Letter to Thay on Diversity
By Anthuan Vuong
Leading up to my Order of Interbeing ordination at the 2015 Wake Up Ambassador Retreat during the North American Tour at Deer...
Wake Up Ambassador
Have you been involved with the Wake Up movement in some form and you’d like to learn how to become even more active in...
The Monastics on French Television: Part II
On 31st May 2015, Louis Nagot from Wake Up Paris and Sister Su Nghiem were interviewed on French national television.
They shared about the Five Mindfulness Trainings, the Beginning...
Weaving the Wake Up Web
For the past few years I have had the immense pleasure of serving as a Wake Up Coordinator. What exactly is a Wake Up Coordinator?...