What brings people here
Over 2,000 students have told us why they came. The same few reasons come up again and again:
Caught in your head. Thoughts run on their own, and you live far away from your body.
Pulled out of the present. Replaying the past, worrying about what's next.
Swept along by reactions. Emotions and situations take over before you notice.
Out of touch with yourself. Wanting to know yourself and trust your own inner sense.
Vipassanā is a practice of learning to see experience more clearly. We begin by turning attention inward, developing stability, clarity and equanimity with what is happening in the body (sensations and feelings) and in the mind (thoughts and emotions).
Over time, practice loosens the patterns through which we tighten, solidify and struggle against ourselves and the world, allowing us to live more lightly, with ease and natural awake presence.
Stability
Developing steady, embodied attention and awareness.
Clarity
Noticing experience with increasing vividness and clarity.
Insight
Loosening identification and reactivity, and coming to know yourself more deeply.
Angela M.
“I’ve become calmer and far more aware. I realise I can pause before I react. This has been life-changing for me.”
Kurt P.
“I now meditate consistently twice a day for about 40 minutes … and am more equanimous and mindful off the cushion.”
Richard W.
“For those who work, and for seniors like myself who are less able to participate in a retreat, this is a good alternative—and definitely a good starting point and preparation for a retreat experience.”
Practice with us this Sunday
Join us for a taste of the community — a space to practice together, get inspired by the teachings, and stay connected with the Vipassana at Home Sangha.
We meditate every Sunday.
Free, donation-supported, no experience needed.
4pm Lisbon/London
5pm Oslo/Copenhagen/Berlin
8AM US West Coast / 11AM US East Coast
Calls are free and supported by the community.
Words from the Community
“I’m less reactive and more present in my body and my life.”
Working with Reimar and the Vipassana practice itself have changed me and how I am in the world. I’m less reactive and more present in my body and my life.
Things no longer have to go well because I’m better at being with what is.
Stephanie
New York
“Unhurried, reflective, valuing words and silence.”
I admire Reimar’s ability to be open to learn from his students, to be in a listening posture with deep respect.
I enjoy the pace of our time together — unhurried, reflective, valuing words and silence.
Francine
Canada
“More of a space for self-discovery than a direction.”
Reimar is a clear and welcoming guide, fluid and patient — a guide who is more of a space for self-discovery than a direction.
Each time we meet I feel he is truly there for me with kindness and calmness, creating the conditions for my progress.
Andrea
Italy
About the Teacher
Reimar Wen Shen is a German-Singaporean meditation teacher and the founder of Vipassana at Home. He has practised Vipassanā for over a decade and has taught since 2021.
He trained through many intensive retreats in the Goenka and Mahāsi traditions, and was authorised to teach after four months of training in a monastic setting with Ajahn Puttar at Wat Sopharam in Northern Thailand. He is currently in a five-year training in non-dual meditation (Dzogchen, Mahāmudrā) with Michael W. Taft.
Before teaching, he studied economics and worked in investment management at Vanguard, which still shapes his practical, systematic approach.
Today his teaching also draws on somatic and movement practice, and on everyday life as a father and community leader. He lives in Portugal.
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