Common Ground Meditation Center is a Minneapolis insight meditation community, run since 2009 on donations, offering drop-in sits, classes and a separate retreat center.
Meditation centers
Common Ground Meditation Center
A Minneapolis insight meditation center running entirely on donations, with its own dedicated retreat center.
About Common Ground Meditation Center
Services & offerings
open meditation drop-in sits
weekly practice groups
buddhist studies classes
half-day and daylong retreats
teacher-led residential retreats
peer-led practice periods
peer-led community groups
Details
In person in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and online
Book on commongroundmeditation.org
In business since 2009
Pros & cons
Pros
- All programs are offered on a donation basis with no fixed fee, so cost never gates attendance
- Runs a dedicated retreat center an hour and 15 minutes outside Minneapolis in addition to the city center
- Most in-person offerings have a Zoom option for those who cannot attend the city center
Cons
- Because fees are donation-based, the site does not publish a price a newcomer can budget against ahead of a visit
- No refund or cancellation policy is published on the pages reviewed
