La Maison de l’Inspir (roughly translated as “The House of Inspiration”) was founded in the Paris suburbs in 2008 as home to a small community of Plum Village nuns. Ten years later, the sisters had outgrown the small site and so relocated to Villeneuve-sur-Bellot. Since the move, the Maison de l’Inspire Sangha has grown to include monastic brothers as well as sisters.

A small, French-speaking only community, the Maison de l’Inspir Sangha is working to build a meditation hall and parking lot to welcome more practitioners. Events include weekend retreats, Wake-Up retreats for young adults, and even Mindful Cooking Days.

For more information, to organize a visit, or to offer your time and energy to support Maison de l’Inspir, visit the website.

Maison de l’Inspir

For more information, to organize a visit, or to offer your time and energy to support Maison de l’Inspir, visit the website.

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From time to time we offer multi-week courses related to mindfulness, the teachings and life of Thich Nhat Hanh, and a variety of similar subjects. Please see our schedule of upcoming courses.

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Take the Deer Park Monastery and Plum Village community with you wherever you go. The Plum Village app is designed to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and joy through guided meditations, deep relaxations, practice poems, bells of mindfulness, and other practices — all through a mobile device.

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