Buddhist Recovery Network

Freedom Within: Mindfulness Tools for Sustaining Recovery – April 2026
2026-04-23 - 2026-04-26 | Metta Meditation Center, 3864 – 420th Avenue, Janesville, MN, 56048, United States
A Buddhist Meditation Retreat for People in Recovery
Deadline for enrollment extended to April 15th!
Experience a path toward genuine freedom through Buddhist mindfulness practices designed to support ongoing recovery from impulses and compulsive patterns. This supportive retreat offers ancient wisdom tools to help interrupt cycles of craving, urges, triggers, and habitual behaviors. Participants will learn to meet challenges with mindful awareness rather than automatic reactions, cultivating an inner sense of safety, grounding, and resilience that supports long-term recovery. Please note: This retreat is not a substitute for direct treatment for active addiction. It is intended for participants who are already in recovery—ideally with at least one year on their recovery journey—particularly if their experiences with craving, urges, triggers, or compulsive patterns relate to substance use or process addictions. Family members of individuals experiencing active addiction are also welcome, as the retreat aims to deepen understanding of the roots of addiction and strengthen supportive pathways for recovery.
Read more at the event sign up and information link

Eight Step Recovery BIPOC meeting
2026-04-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-23 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-30 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 3 more dates | NS
8 Step Recovery Meeting for Black Indigenous People of Color and Black Asian Minority Ethnic
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6794136360?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 679 413 6360
Passcode: brn

Contact: Email- eightstepsrecovery@gmail.com

Kevin Griffin - Zoom Classes
2026-04-28 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-05-05 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-05-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-05-19 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-05-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-06-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-06-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-06-16 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 3 more dates | NS
One hour Zoom classes, Tuesdays at 10am Pacific Time. Fridays at 5pm Pacific are now community classes with rotating leaders (except 2nd Fridays which are hosted by Spirit Rock). These classes are casual, drop-in events. We start with 20 minutes of guided meditation, followed by a short talk on Buddhism and recovery. Offer dana through Paypal or Venmo.

Buddhist Daylong with Kathy Cherry - Finding Stability in the Current
2026-05-02 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Unitarian Society of Germantown, 359 W Johnson St, Philadelphia, PA, 19144, United States
Sponsored by PA Recovery Dharma & Friends

Buddhist Daylong with Kathy Cherry (Dharma Punx NYC)

In Buddhist teachings, there is a story of a person being carried by currents in a strong river, reaching for reeds and branches that cannot keep them from being washed further down stream. This reflects how, when we feel agitated or out of sorts, we often cling to familiar thoughts,tendencies, feelings, and identities, even when they no longer help.
In this daylong retreat, we’ll explore this metaphor as a way to better understand ourselves, our nervous system and how the body responds to stress. We’ll also look at how the Dharma works hand in hand with this desire for a felt sense of safety, offering practical guidance for meeting difficulties with awareness, kindness, and wisdom. Together, these perspectives help us recognize our survival patterns as natural, intelligent efforts to find stability and protection.
Throughout the day, you’ll be invited to slow down, practice, and notice your direct experience. Through guided meditations, mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing® techniques, relational practices, guided inquiry, and group reflection, you’ll learn to tune into sensation, move at a supportive pace, and create the conditions for your system to settle and restore balance so that wisdom can emerge.
As steadiness deepens, insight and choice become more accessible. This retreat is open to everyone, and all practices are gentle, optional, and adaptable to your individual needs.

Location & details – see registration page

The Mind in the Body: Breathing with the Nervous System with Kevin Griffin
2026-05-03 10:00 - 11:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87579202512?pwd=[REDACTED]

Insight Recovery Sangha
2026-05-21 21:30 - 22:45, 2026-06-18 21:30 - 22:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | NS
The Insight Recovery Sangha will meet monthly on Zoom and is for anyone (self-identified) who is working with strong cravings or addictions. We will meditate, hear short dharma talks related to Buddhist teachings and recovery, and share candidly with each other in community. The purpose of this group is to foster community and learn how to apply teachings on mindfulness, compassion and wisdom to our recovery program.
The emphasis will be on how craving causes suffering and how cultivating insight into the nature of craving can greatly ease our suffering, and help us lead more peaceful and contented lives. We have no affiliations with any other organizations and this is not a 12-Step group, although various known addiction recovery modalities may be referred to from time to time.
This group is open to everyone. There is no need to qualify for membership when you introduce yourself to the group. However, we do believe this group will work best for those committed to a life free from substance abuse and harmful addictive behaviors.
The teachers, Walt Opie and Dalila Bothwell, will serve as group facilitators, dharma teachers, and sangha (community) members. Over time, there will be guest teachers, as well.
There is no fee to enroll in the Insight Recovery Sangha. If you would like to support this program or your teachers, you may make an offering within the program platform after you enroll.
Enroll at
ims.dharma.org/courses/insight-recovery-sangha-2025

June BRN Academy with Rev. Myokei Caine-Barrett
2026-06-07 10:00 - 11:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87579202512?pwd=[REDACTED]
More About the Academy
The Academy has invited some of the leading teachers in the field of Buddhist recovery. On the first Sunday of every month for an hour each teacher will explore the sharp edges of suffering through the lens of the Buddhist Teachings.
The Academy brings together teachers from different Buddhist lineages and approaches. Themes like addiction, alcoholism, depression, stinking thinking and compulsive behaviors will be explored.
During this event we will meditate, listen to the teaching, then have time for a Q & A at the end.

Refuge Recovery - REFCON 2026
2026-06-12 - 2026-06-14 | NS
Annual Refuge Recovery Conference — for the first time ever in the Pacific Northwest
Hosted at the Dumas Bay Centre near Seattle
Three days of recovery, meditation, speakers, meetings, and connection
A peaceful Bayfront setting with space to rest, reflect, and recharge

The Unshakeable Heart with BRN July Academy with Vince Cullen
2026-07-05 10:00 - 11:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87579202512?pwd=[REDACTED]
Gotama, the Buddha, taught processes, not virtues. Equanimity is the clear‑eyed balance that stops us taking the world’s friction personally. Resilience is the active staying power to endure that friction without striking out. And forgiveness is their most radical by‑product. In this unsentimental talk, Vince reframes equanimity as grounded awareness, resilience as a practical capacity of a regulated nervous system, and forgiveness as a radical act of intelligence. Drawing on secular dharma and evolutionary psychology, he explores how our basic survival instincts — to protect, promote, and satisfy — map directly onto Buddhism’s three types of craving, trapping us in a state of existential friction that fuels resentment, shame, and defensive living. The talk offers a practical way out: not another set of rules to live up to, but a way to settle the nervous system so the heart no longer has to fight reality.

More About the Academy
The Academy has invited some of the leading teachers in the field of Buddhist recovery. On the first Sunday of every month for an hour each teacher will explore the sharp edges of suffering through the lens of the Buddhist Teachings.
The Academy brings together teachers from different Buddhist lineages and approaches. Themes like addiction, alcoholism, depression, stinking thinking and compulsive behaviors will be explored.
During this event we will meditate, listen to the teaching, then have time for a Q & A at the end.
