Radiant is the Mind: A Retreat for BIPOC Practitioners
Teacher
Tara Mulay & Devin Berry
When
October 8-12, 2026
Where
Kio-o
Ste-Lucie-des-Laurentides, QC
Registration starts in January.
In today’s world, it is vital that BIPOC people have access to the Buddha’s empowering teachings on the heart-mind’s capacity for deep stillness, tranquility, and insight. A calm, collected mind offers strength and stability, allowing us to meet life’s challenges with resilience and to open to liberating wisdom.
This retreat will offer teachings and practices that support the development of wise mindfulness and wise concentration. We will explore qualities of mind that nurture these states—including equanimity, renunciation, seclusion, calm, and joy. Participants will engage in both mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation, discovering how the cultivation of these practices can enrich and deepen one another.
This retreat is open to self-identified Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) of all experience levels.
Teachers
Tara Mulay
Tara Mulay is a dharma teacher and mentor, guiding practitioners in both retreat settings and everyday life. She was trained and authorized to teach by the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, and her teachings draw deeply from the Mahasi Sayadaw lineage, while being enriched by a range of Theravāda and Early Buddhist traditions. Tara began her meditation practice in 2003, during a two-decade career as a criminal defense attorney. She has engaged in extensive periods of silent retreat in both the United States and Myanmar, immersing herself in intensive training. Of South Asian heritage, Tara was initially drawn to the Buddha’s teachings on the rejection of caste as a measure of human value and spiritual potential. Her teaching is grounded in a vision of the dharma as a liberative path of non-harm and wise action in the world, naturally leading to release of the heart and mind from suffering.
Devin Berry
Meditation teacher, Devin Berry, began practicing in 1999. His teaching is rooted in the Buddhadharma and mindfulness daily life practices. Devin’s training includes Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher training, the East Bay Meditation Center Commit to Dharma Program, Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioners Program, and Insight Meditation Society’s four-year Residential Retreat Teachers Program. Devin also co-founded both the Teen Sangha and Men of Color Deep Refuge Group at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland. In addition, almost 20 years ago, Devin began some of the first mindfulness programs in SF Bay Area schools, including weekly mindfulness groups for youth.
Devin began working with youth over 25 years ago as a frontline advocate for marginalized youth living on the streets, in recovery and exploitation. Over the years Devin’s work has included leading wilderness camp programs for teens, Rites of Passage programs for tweens, and a summer camp for boys.
After retiring from youth work, Devin co-created Deep Time Liberation, an ancestral healing journey that explores the impact of ancestral legacy and intergenerational trauma on Black Americans. He is passionate about the power of witnessing and storytelling as a liberation tool. Devin is a father and teaches nationally.
Registration Information
LOCATION: Kio-o, 1905 Chemin 6e Rang, Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides, QC J0T 2J0
Most of the rooms are double rooms, with shared washrooms. There are a small number of single rooms.
ARRIVAL TIME: 3:30 - 5 pm, Thursday, October 8. The retreat will conclude by lunch on Monday, October 12. Everyone is welcome to stay for lunch.
COST: TNI is dedicated to offering affordable rates to all. TNI retreat fees are on a sliding scale basis that allows participants to pay according to individual means. Fees do not include compensation for the teachings, and teachers rely on the generosity of retreatants for a sustainable income. There is an opportunity to offer dana (donations) to the teachers at the end of each retreat.
A deposit of 50% of the base rate is required to register to the retreat.* The deposit is included in all of our fees.
- Benefactor: $1 640
- Sustaining: $1 280
- Base: $860
- Reduced: $720
- You Choose Rate: Please choose between $300 and $719. The deposit is half of the chosen rate.
◆ Deposit : $430
So that TNI can offer this form of financial assistance to as many as possible, we invite you to contribute at the highest rate that feels possible for you.
Benefactor
The Benefactor rate provides the opportunity to offer more substantial support for TNI.
Sustaining
The Sustaining rate represents the actual cost to TNI to operate our programs. If you can afford this level or higher, you assist our efforts to offer lower sliding-scale rates and ongoing financial subsidies.
Base
The Base rate covers 69 % of what is needed to run our organization. To balance our budget and to wisely steward our resources, donations must supplement our registration income.
Reduced
Payment at the Reduced rate covers only 55 % of what is needed to run our organization. To balance our budget and to wisely steward our resources, donations must supplement our registration income.
Scholarship
TNI offers scholarships providing a reduction of up to 50% on the base rate on our sliding scale to those who request them. Scholarships are available for a limited number of places.
Important Information