A Feb. 18, 2005, New York Times article describes an Eastern Catholic Maronite monastery in Massachusetts that offers spiritual retreats. The story also has links to other monasteries around the country that open their doors to the public for spiritual retreats.

Read a Jan. 16, 2005, Boston Globe article on a religious retreat in Tucson, Ariz.

The Prayer Foundation has a history of New Monasticism and its roots.

The Lindisfarne Community is a neomonastic network that offers various links and an FAQ on the movement.

The Simple Way is a New Monasticism movement based in Philadelphia.

Richard Davidson is a professor of psychology and psychiatry and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has studied the brain activity of meditators and since 1992 has collaborated with the Dalai Lama and Buddhist monks to study the effect of meditation on mental activity.

Anne Harrington is acting chair of the department of the history of science at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. She was a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions and is on the board of the Mind and Life Institute. Harrington teaches courses on the mind-body connection in modern medicine and has worked on […]

Satya Dev Negi is a senior lecturer at Emory University in Atlanta and chairman of the Emory-Tibet Partnership. He has written about traditional Buddhist and contemporary Western approaches to emotions and their impact on health, and he has done other research on the mind-body connection and health. He has studied whether meditation can reduce depression […]

Josephine P. Briggs is director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Research into the interconnectedness of the body and mind is funded by the center, which was created in 1992 (as the Office of Alternative Medicine) in response to the public’s growing interest in alternative health therapies, such as yoga […]