Healing Spring Monastery

Healing Spring Monastery is a Mindfulness Practice Center in the tradition of Plum Village founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.The monastery is situated on 1.8 hectares of land surrounded by green hills. The 19th century buildings of the monastery previously housed a Catholic convent. This convent was established by the Augustinian sisters of Meaux who eventually abandoned the grounds around 2000.  Today, Healing Spring Monastery maintains a peaceful atmosphere that is conducive to the cultivation of the mind, inner transformation, and deep healing. At the monastery is a spring known as the Sacred Spring. The spring itself is the source of many local legends and is the inspiration for the monastery’s name— La Source Guérissante (The Healing Spring).

Healing Spring Monastery is located in Verdelot, Seine et Marne, Ile de France. It is easily accessible with public transportation from Paris. The journey takes approximately 85 minutes from Gare de l’Est.

The monastery is permanently inhabited by a group of monastic brothers who practice and serve as a community.

Healing Spring hosts Mindfulness Days on Sundays and also organizes longer Residential Mindfulness Retreats. Our monastery is a peaceful refuge that is close to nature, an ideal retreat from the busyness of modern life. Beginning in November 2024, Healing Spring offers Mindfulness Days twice a month, in French and Vietnamese.

Nearby, about a 40 minute walk away, is also a mindfulness practice center for monastic sisters, called La Maison de L’inspir. Sisters and brothers have separate activities and come together several times per month. Our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh said, “Everyone knows that peace must begin with oneself, but few people know how to do it.” At Healing Spring Monastery, we have the opportunity to learn this with the support of the monastic community and all those around us.