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Retreats

Long Retreat
Sun Dec 28, 2025 - Fri Jan 2, 2026

New Year's Retreat

Bethlehem Retreat Centre, Nanaimo BC

Registration opens: Sep 26, 2025

Financial assistance deadline: Aug 21, 2025

Letting go and opening to possibilities

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Rachel Lewis
Kristina Baré
Kristina Baré
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Short Retreat
Fri Jan 9 - Sat Jan 10, 2026

January Retreat

Online

Registration opens: Oct 9 2025

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Living in Greater Ease with the Truth of Impermanence

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Kamala Masters
Vance Pryor
Vance Pryor
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Short Retreat
Fri Feb 20 - Sun Feb 22, 2026

Howie Cohn

UBC Asian Centre, Vancouver BC

Registration opens: Nov 20 2025

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At Peace in the World

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Howie Cohn
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Long Retreat
Sun Mar 1 - Sat Mar 7, 2026

City Retreat

Online

Registration opens: Nov 4 2025

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The Seven Factors of Awakening

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Rachel Lewis
Christina Feldman
Christina Feldman
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Hybrid retreat
Fri Mar 27 - Sun Mar 29, 2026

Pascal Auclair

UBC Asian Centre, Vancouver BC or Online

Registration opens: Dec 19 2025

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Clearly Seeing, Lightly Treading: A Silent Weekend of Insight & Presence

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Pascal Auclair
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Long Retreat
Sat Apr 18 - Sat Apr 25, 2026

James Lowe and Jeanne Corrigal

Sea to Sky Retreat Centre, Whistler, BC

Registration opens: Dec 18 2025

Financial assistance deadline: Dec 4, 2025

Metta in the Mountains

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James Lowe
Jeanne Corrigal
Jeanne Corrigal
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Long Retreat
Sat May 16 - Sun May 24, 2026

Residential Retreat

Bethlehem Retreat Centre, Nanaimo BC

Registration opens: Jan 16, 2026

Financial assistance deadline: Jan 2, 2026

Stay tuned for more information!

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Tempel Smith
Kristina Baré
Kristina Baré
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WELCOME to BCIMS

Indigenous Land Acknowledgment

BCIMS is based in what is now known as Vancouver, BC. With heartfelt gratitude we acknowledge that we come to you from the beautiful, traditional, and unceded lands of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, who live on and have stewarded this land for thousands of years.  

 

BCIMS, as a settler-led organization, recognizes the ongoing benefits of the theft of this land and its resources to all settlers. BCIMS is committed to continuous learning about genocide, the history of colonization, and their ongoing impacts on Indigenous communities. May our practices today centre this reality as a call to action to support Indigenous peoples’ sovereignty and liberation more fully beyond the practice of this land acknowledgement, and move us towards non-harming, restitution, healing, and reconciliation.   

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Asian Heritage Acknowledgement

We would like to name and honour the lineage of the ancient teachings offered by BCIMS, and we offer our deep gratitude to the rich lineage of Theravadan Buddhist teachers whose wisdom continues to support our practice. These teachings originated in Asia with the Buddha’s teachings, specifically in Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India. 

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