Matthew teaches mindfulness, early Buddhist wisdom, and secular contemplative practices at meditation centers in New England and across North America. He is a Guiding Teacher of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.
Events with Matthew Hepburn
May 24 - 29, 2026
Wholesome joy arises when we release expectations and create the conditions for the practice to blossom easefully, without grasping for outcomes. In a culture that teaches us to seek pleasure through external stimulation, this retreat invites a return to the creative play, investigative curiosity and gladness that dwell within our own hearts and minds. Through meditation, dharma talks, and deep attunement to both nature and the body, we will awaken an intimate sense of the heart-mind continuum. Together, we will gently uncover barriers that obscure ease and happiness and rediscover the quiet medicinal qualities of spacious presence, where openness ripens and old…