Plum Village

I took my first meditation retreat in March, just under a month ago. Already in Europe for work, I decided to finally take some genuine time away from the work that has defined me through my adult life and sign up for a two week retreat at Plum Village in Western France.

An hour train ride and another 30 minute car ride from Bordeaux, Les Villages des Pruniers was initially founded by Thich Nhat Hanh back 40 years ago. Thich Nhat Hanh, or Thay, as he is affectionately called by everyone at the hamlets, both those who met him and those that didn’t have chance to, started the hamlet as an experiment to see…