Weekly Meditation Groups:
- True North Insight: a nonprofit center for the practice of insight meditation in English and French in Eastern Canada. Weekly sits in Montreal in English and French, see website for schedule.
- Montreal Institute of Applied Mindfulness In person and online sittings in French and English from the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition
- Zen Montreal: workshops and weekly sitting
- Sivananda Yoga Centre: weekly satsang sittings on Wednesdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 7 pm
- Integral Yoga Institute: weekly satsang with meditation and chanting on Sundays from 4 -5:30 pm. Contact Emily to join at info@emilymoody.com.
- Zen Montreal: workshops and weekly sittings
- Shambala Buddhist Centre of Montreal: meditation courses, weekly sittings
Meditation Retreat Centers:
- True North Insight: TNI’s programming includes residential retreats, day-long retreats, non-residential daily life retreats, and weekly sitting groups in the regions of Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Kingston.
- http://www.suttama.dhamma.org (Vipassana Meditation in the Goenka Tradition based out of Montabello Quebec: 10 days of silence for starting retreat)
- http://www.sivananda.org/camp – Sivananda Yoga Camp in Val Morin. There is a shuttle that leaves every Friday evening from the Montreal center and returns Sunday afternoon.
- Bluecliff Monastery: Mindfulness Meditation Retreat center in the Thich Nhat Hahn tradition in Catskill Mountains, NY state
- http://www.eomega.org – Yoga and wellness center based out of Rhinebeck, NY state
- http://www.kripalu.org – Yoga and wellness center in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts
- http://www.dharma.org – Insight Meditation based out of Barre, Massachusetts