About
Peggy Rowe-Ward is a meditation teacher affiliated with the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. She teaches within the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition and the Order of Interbeing. Rowe-Ward co-facilitates residential retreats focused on interbeing and interconnection, incorporating meditation, music, nature, and ceremony into her teaching.
Teaching focus
Peggy Rowe-Ward's teaching focus sits inside the Insight Meditation lineage that grew from Burmese vipassana through teachers like Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield, with insight meditation (vipassana) as the working ground. The Insight Meditation lineage carries forward the Burmese vipassana teaching as it took root in the West through teachers like Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield. That means mindfulness held at the center, with metta and the broader brahmaviharas as steady companions, and a household-friendly framing that doesn't require ordination or extreme retreat conditions. The teaching is shaped by the silent-retreat container, with the long arcs and the sustained quiet that container makes possible. Across the body of work, the consistent thread in Peggy Rowe-Ward's teaching is the refusal to let practice become abstract. The instruction asks for direct contact with what's actually arising, and the framing supports practitioners in giving it that. Recurring questions in the teaching include how to keep practice honest across years, how to hold difficulty without bypassing it, and how the dharma actually shows up in ordinary life rather than only on the cushion. Recurring questions in the teaching include how to keep practice honest across years, how to hold difficulty without bypassing it, and how the dharma actually shows up in ordinary life rather than only on the cushion.
Background
Peggy Rowe-Ward is a meditation teacher affiliated with the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. She teaches within the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition and the Order of Interbeing. Rowe-Ward co-facilitates residential retreats focused on interbeing and interconnection, incorporating meditation, music, nature, and ceremony into her teaching. Experience interconnection through meditation, music, nature, and ceremony, awakening joy, insight, and belonging. RESIDENTIAL June 10, 2026, June 14, 2026 Peggy Rowe-Ward, Diane Little Eagle The Art of Interbeing Celebrate 60 years of the Order of Interbeing with a retreat rooted in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings. Experience interconnection through meditation, music, nature, and ceremony, awakening joy, insight, and belonging. Celebrate 60 years of the Order of Interbeing with a retreat rooted in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings. Experience interconnection through meditation, music, nature, and ceremony, awakening joy, insight, and belonging. Filter by: - Metta - Metta Sorry, we couldn’t find any results. Peggy Rowe-Ward's teaching is anchored at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in central Massachusetts, the scholarly partner to IMS. The teaching draws from the Insight Meditation lineage that grew from Burmese vipassana through teachers like Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield, with insight meditation (vipassana) as the working ground. Areas of particular focus include retreat. The voice in Peggy Rowe-Ward's teaching is recognizably in the Insight Meditation lineage, warm without being soft, and willing to sit with the difficult places practice opens. Mindfulness, loving-kindness, and the gradual accumulation of insight are the working vocabulary. Practitioners drawn to Peggy Rowe-Ward's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Peggy Rowe-Ward's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Peggy Rowe-Ward's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Peggy Rowe-Ward's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Peggy Rowe-Ward's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way.
Lineage
Peggy Rowe-Ward teaches within the Insight Meditation lineage that grew from Burmese vipassana through teachers like Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield. Classes June 10, 2026, June 14, 2026 Peggy Rowe-Ward, Diane Little Eagle The Art of Interbeing Celebrate 60 years of the Order of Interbeing with a retreat rooted in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings. RESIDENTIAL June 10, 2026, June 14, 2026 Peggy Rowe-Ward, Diane Little Eagle The Art of Interbeing Celebrate 60 years of the Order of Interbeing with a retreat rooted in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings. Current affiliation runs through Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in central Massachusetts, the scholarly partner to IMS. Peggy Rowe-Ward teaches as a lay practitioner rather than from a monastic role.
What to expect
On retreat with Peggy Rowe-Ward you'll get long sits, walking practice, and dharma talks that build on each other across days. The container is silent or near-silent, which gives the teaching room to land in a way that single classes can't quite reach. Sittings are conventional, mindfulness of breath and body, with metta and inquiry into difficult mind-states woven through. There's space for questions, and the answers don't get rushed. The atmosphere is grounded rather than performative, and practitioners tend to leave with practical ground to keep working from on their own. The atmosphere is grounded rather than performative, and practitioners tend to leave with practical ground to keep working from on their own.
