RETREATS AT SUOI TU
AWAKENED MONASTERY
Retreats at Suoi Tu Meditation Center are opportunities to pause, return inward, and reconnect with the awakened nature already within each person.
Under the guidance of Awakened One Thich Thong Hoi and Awakened One Thich Dieu Thien, each retreat supports participants according to their own capacity and stage of practice — from beginners learning meditation, to youth seeking healing, to core students deepening their vow, and monastics walking the complete path of liberation.
Through meditation, Dharma sharing, mindful work, chanting, community living, and direct guidance, participants are invited to understand the roots of suffering, awaken their inner potential, and continue walking the path toward complete liberation from birth, death, and suffering.
Walking Meditation
Sitting Meditation
Outdoor Activities
Eating Meditation
INTERNATIONAL RETREATS
For people from all backgrounds seeking meditation, liberation, and awakening…
The International Retreat welcomes people from all cultures, languages, and spiritual backgrounds who are sincerely seeking clarity, true compassion, healing, and the Awakened Destination. Through meditation, Dharma sharing, mindful eating, walking meditation, chanting, and community practice, participants are guided to look deeply into the roots of suffering, reconnect with the truth within themselves, and experience the Awakened Path directly. Beyond belief, culture, or language, the retreat offers a gentle and welcoming space for transformation and a deeper return to the Awakened Source.
CORE STUDENT RETREATS
The Core Students Retreat offers a deeper environment for practitioners to strengthen their vow, recognize the subtle patterns of ego, and continue returning to the Awakened Source. Through direct guidance from the Awakened Ones, students are invited to look honestly at where the mind still clings, struggles, resists, or seeks a place to rest. Every part of the retreat-sitting and walking meditation, Dharma dialogue, mindful work, community living, and contemplation in nature-becomes a living opportunity to see attachment, dissolve ignorance, and deepen connection with the Unborn Mind. Like a stream returning to its source, the path continues through every obstacle, without stopping at any experience, achievement, realization, or inner state. As the ego loses its place to stand, the way toward true liberation opens more clearly.
YOUTH AND TEEN RETREATS
For young people seeking inner answers, direction, and self-understanding
The Youth & Teen Retreat offers a safe and compassionate space for young people facing pressure, comparison, loneliness, emotional struggles, and uncertainty. Through the guidance of the Awakened Ones, monastic support, meditation, group sharing, creative reflection, healing conversations, and community practice, participants are encouraged to understand themselves more deeply, reconnect with their families, and discover a clearer direction in life. The retreat helps young people return to kindness, confidence, gratitude, emotional balance, and the goodness already within them—not by becoming someone else, but by coming home to themselves with greater clarity, courage, and love.