Reto Weishaupt

Reto Weishaupt is a meditation and mindfulness teacher with MINDFULMIND, based in Bern. He describes meditation as a strong instrument for cultivating the inner attitude of mindfulness, along with other wholesome qualities of mind and heart. His approach is undogmatic and secular, with Buddhist teaching as its basis. His guiding line is "Es ist schon alles da, wonach wir suchen" (everything we are looking for is already here).

Retreat participants describe a calm, mindful and open atmosphere, and an unhurried way of guiding meditation. One wrote of the frame Reto created, another that he was present without being overwhelming.

His own practice shows in his writing. He has described a ten-day silent Vipassana retreat in the Bernese Jura, which he called work rather than a wellness cure, and a three-day Buddhist retreat on emptiness at the Kailash International Retreat Center in Törbel. In that second account he also says candidly that the rituals were unfamiliar to him at first.