General information

• Age : 18 – 40 Years Old
• Arrival : Friday (check in starts at 15h00)
• Departure : Sunday (check out 14h00)
• Venue : Healing Spring Monastery
• Language: It will be in English & Vietnamese
• Dharma Teacher: Healing Spring Monastic Dharma Teacher
• Meal : 3 meals a day (vegan)
• For All Gender

What is Weekend Retreat for Young Vietnamese?

Are you a young Vietnamese (18–40), living in the West, looking for inner peace, connection, and clarity? Join us for a special retreat at Healing Spring Monastery, where we’ll explore mindfulness in a space that honors our Vietnamese culture and heritage.

Together, we’ll be bathing in culture, language, food, music, and the presence of our spiritual ancestors. This is a rare opportunity to find rest, joy, and community with others who understand the unique challenges of growing up between cultures.

✨ Reconnect. Reflect. Heal. Come as you are.

Wonderful. Very strengthening for my practice and mental health.

weekend Participant

Who can participate ?

• For ages 18–40
• All genders
• People with Vietnamese origins

This is an Affinity Retreat for Vietnamese young people (18-40 years old), If you are not in this category, Please don't be sad, you may choose another general weekend retreat . Healing Spring Monastery offers retreats almost every weekend. Thank you for your understanding and your support for our young Vietnamese friends.

You don’t have to speak fluently Vietnamese, because the retreat will be mostly in English.

Be aware that Healing Spring Monastery is home for monks, so all the teaching will be offered by monks.

You may bring your children or/and your teenagers in the retreat, but we don’t have a special program for them. please take good care of them during the practice session.

How is the schedule?

During this retreat, we will have a chance to practice Sitting Meditation, walking meditation, mindful meal, service to the community, sharing and teachings. Our morning generally starts at +/- 6.30 am and noble silence will start at 21.30 until the next morning after washing the dishes of the breakfast. See the sample schedule here

Please note that this is not a whole day silent retreat.

_{(Note: All of our programs embrace the nature of impermanence, if the condition is not sufficient the elements of the retreat may be adjusted, be rescheduled or be canceled)}

Contribution 

The contribution for the retreat is a donation and it depends on your financial situation. Your reservation confirmed after payment.

We don’t want financial difficulties to be a barrier to practice.

You can choose your contribution according to several price rates for the weekend :

Rate 4 : 150€ ^{(book the 200€ then contact us)}

We don’t have 100% reduction but we’ll be doing our best to support those who are really…. really…. in need. Don’t hesitate to contact us after you make a reservation. Contact us even the scholarship is not available. Thank you very much for your generosity & support.

Registration

Register here (available from 15 July): https://plumvillage.org/event/retreat/young-vietnamese

Sharing from previous participants

Insightful and calming 🙂

weekend Participant

Great. It was a really slowing down and energize yourself time

weekend Participant