Vipassana at Home

03/04/2026

Silence that gentle meets the world again

Last weekend we practiced together in silence. A brief deep dive into the Buddha's teachings on Emptiness and Awareness. We stood and sat with all of ourselves, coming back over and over to the immediacy of the posture, body and breath.
There was a sense of spacious openness permeating through the group gradually.

Moments of release, resistance and genuine smiling faces at the end of the process as you see here.

"A kind of emptiness opened up"
"It was challenging but I loved the simplicity. There was just exactly enough"
"I slowly peeled open layer after layer, revealing more a more a kind of essence that is always there"

What we explore in these retreats are a kind of subtle release - of predictions, tension, control, resistance. These are what makes experience feel dense, solid and us separate from it. As we open up to and become curious about what arises when we are still, there is a gentle opening - of mind, heart & body.

Thank you for the trust and dedication
More retreats in Portugal soon.

26/03/2026

26/03/2026

Nerding out on Vipashyana Material. A deeper taste of Emptiness in all sense doors. A movement from thinking about, to experiencing phenomena, to contacting energetical flow and resting in the spaciousness it all arises and dissolves back into.

Gratitude to Michael Taft for this material in his deconstructing sensory experience course.

24/02/2026

Vipassana Meditation
Weekend Silent Retreat
Ericeira near Lisbon, Portugal
March 27 – 29, 2026

An Introduction to Vipassana Meditation

Guided by an experienced teacher and held in a quiet retreat house on a mountaintop in Terrugem, between Sintra and Ericeira.

Vipassana is a meditation practice that cultivates calm, clarity, and insight through direct observation of body and mind.

This weekend is an invitation to step out of daily busyness and into silence, simplicity, and steady practice.

The retreat runs from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon and will be mostly in silence (Saturday morning until Sunday noon). Each day includes sitting and walking meditation, guidance, rest, and time in nature.

The practice follows the Vipassana at Home approach:
• Calming and settling the body–mind
• Investigating sensory experience directly
• Resting in embodied awareness

The emphasis is continuity rather than intensity — creating conditions for clear, sustained practice within a supportive group field.

Suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

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The Teacher — Reimar Wen Shen

Reimar Wen Shen is a Vipassana meditation teacher, dancer, and father based at Quinta Ten Chi near Sintra, Portugal.

He has practiced Vipassana for over a decade across the Goenka, Mahasi, and Northern Thai traditions, with more than 30 weeks spent in intensive silent retreat. During COVID he trained for four months under Ajahn Puttar at Wat Sopharam monastery in Thailand, alongside deep immersion in embodied movement practices.

His teaching bridges classical Theravāda Vipassana with contemporary insight approaches and embodied awareness, grounded in ordinary life practice. He is currently part of a teacher training with Michael Taft (Deconstructing Yourself).

In 2021 he founded Vipassana at Home to make deep meditation practice accessible beyond traditional retreat settings.

26/08/2025

A week of diving into Embodied Consciousness, movement and meditation.

Just finished hosting our

Butoh and Contact Improvisation Retreat Hamburg Germany

More research in the embodied side of awareness :)

In November, we will share the essence of these practices in “ Vipassana & Embodied Insight “ 4-day retreat. A meeting if Vipassana meditations and active movement meditation inspired by Buddhist philosophy - working with Impermanence, NonSelf and Suffering through movement while meditating three hours daily Vipassana.

16/08/2025

More and more time spend with, in, as Nature.

Ive been very inspired by “otherness”.
Otherness, not as concept but the direct phenomenological experience of otherness.

How can I walk through the flowers, trees, birds. And see them not just as sensory experiences, as objects in my world.

But as others. Another with a thinking feeling BODY.
I look at flower, flower looks back at me.

In this way, my perception starts to shift from me as center, to me as part of a larger happening, a process of nature.

Reflections with .fenomenologo

28/03/2025

Excited to be in the final stages of finalizing “30 Day Foundations”—a fully self-paced meditation course featuring daily video lessons and 30-minute guided meditations.

This course was born from a real need:
1️⃣ For students waiting to attend a live 10-day retreat.
2️⃣ For those wanting to stay engaged after completing a retreat.
3️⃣ For experienced practitioners who’ve taken my courses and are looking for more.

I’m really enjoying the process of distilling and refining key insights—integrating what I’ve learned, what I’ve mapped out in my own practice, and what has been confirmed through direct experience.

The course draws inspiration from contemporary teachers like Shinzen Young, Culadasa, Daniel Ingram, Michael Taft, Sam Harris, and Joseph Goldstein, while staying rooted in traditional Theravada texts like the Satipatthana Sutta, the Anapanasati Sutta, and Vipassana techniques such as Mahasi Noting and Goenka Body-scanning. Beyond the cushion, it also integrates somatic influences from Wendy Palmer, Mark Walsh, and Janet Adler.

Looking forward to sharing this soon—launching mid-April!
Head to my website to sign up for notifications and be the first to know when it’s live.

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07/02/2025

„Dharma art“ refers to creative works that spring from the awakened meditative state, characterized by directness, unselfconsciousness, and nonaggression. Trungpa Rinpoche shows that dharma art provides a vehicle to appreciate the nature of things as they are and express it without any struggle or desire to achieve.

More and more allowing myself to create and improvise from the open nonjudgmental state cultivated through meditation practice. Beauty, mystery and the unimaginable future.

Learning more and more from artists!

23/11/2024

Welcome :) link for more info in bio!

17/11/2024

We are planning the next retreat for Feb 26 - Mar 2. After the overwhelmingly positive feedback of the retreat we hosted in Portugal last October, we will host another 4-day Vipassana & Embodiment retreat in Germany in the new year.

Here's some pictures of the space! It will take place in a large village house in the countryside near Hamburg. More info and registration coming soon :)

04/11/2024

Credit to Buddhist Humour page!