Visiting Teachers

Skilled and Compassionate Guidance Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center guided meditation retreats are led by the most skilled and capable teachers...

Devin Berry

Devin Berry is a Core Guiding Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) and a residential retreat teacher at IMS and Spirit Rock. A meditator since 1999, his practice is rooted in long-term retreat practice and the mettā and vipassanā teachings of the Insight Meditation tradition. A writer and storyteller at heart, Devin teaches at community sanghas nationally and internationally, drawing from lived experience and a deep love of the Dharma.

Events with Devin Berry

Belonging to the Earth: A BIPOC Insight Retreat in Nature
August 3 - 10, 2026

In the stillness of the mountains at Vallecitos, we remember a deeper refuge — a belonging that the world cannot give or take away. On this BIPOC Insight Meditation retreat, we will slow down into presence, supported by noble silence, the wisdom of the body, and the living refuge of nature. We will sit, walk, listen, and rest into the felt sense of being welcomed by the land. Through Dharma reflections, practice discussions, and time both together and alone in the wilderness, we reconnect with an inner steadiness that doesn’t depend on external conditions — learning to be in wise…