Մեդիտացիա · Медитация · Meditation
Retreats, courses, regular sittings, sanghas and teachers across Armenia, gathered on one board.
8 dates ahead · 16 places
Retreat · Yoga
Eight days of yoga practice and forest hikes from Dilijan, with excursions to Garni, Lake Sevan and Sevanavank. The team includes a kundalini yoga teacher and an Osho practices facilitator.
Also 12 Oct, 21 Oct, 31 Oct and 9 NovIn Russianfrom 42,000 RUB
Meditation · Sahaja Yoga
Yerevan Free Meditation Meditate, meet and get motivated. Meditation that you can use. Meditate for spiritual awakening, stress care, personal development, health... How to join? Please click on 'Attend Online' to RSVP to get Zoom link We recommend joining by laptop for better experience. All…
Also 9 more dates, until 6 Dec
Retreat · Other
Three days in the Yeghegis gorge combining breathwork, yoga, meditation, art and dance therapy, with a cacao ceremony and a singing circle. An optional ceremony day follows on 21 December.
118,000–138,000 AMD
Retreat · Mixed
Five days of breathwork, gentle yoga, Shaolin qigong, meditation classes and sound healing in Tsaghkadzor.
In Englishfrom US$2,149
Retreat · Other
A week of daily meditation and breathing practice, hatha yoga and a fireside meditation at a retreat hotel on the slopes of Aragats, with trips to Garni and Geghard.
In Russian
Retreat · Other
The follow-on week to “The Road Home”, at the same hotel.
In Russian
Festival · Yoga
A free public yoga session held every 21 June since at least 2023: at Victory Park in 2026, the Cascade in 2024 and 2025. The 2027 venue is not announced yet.
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Tibetan · Yerevan
Tergar YerevanJoy of Living guided meditation every Saturday, with separate Armenian, Russian and English groups at different times. Ask in the Telegram group for times.
Goenka Vipassana · Yerevan
Vipassana Armenia10-day silent residential courses several times a year, and 1-day courses for old students roughly monthly. Registration opens about two months ahead.
Yoga · Yerevan
Shunch Yoga StudioYoga classes, plus gong meditation and sound evenings and Sat Nam Rasayan practice a few times a month. Dates on their Instagram.
Sahaja Yoga · Online
Yerevan Free MeditationFree guided meditation on Zoom every Sunday at 17:45 Yerevan time, for beginners and intermediate.
Tibetan · Group · Yerevan
The Yerevan practice group of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's Tergar Meditation Community (Kagyu and Nyingma lineages). The most active Buddhist group in Armenia found so far: in-person Joy of Living practice, plus Tergar's online events.
Small yoga hall, Van Business Center
In Armenian, Russian, English
Goenka Vipassana · Organization · Yerevan
The Armenian branch of S. N. Goenka's worldwide Vipassana courses. There is no permanent center: 10-day courses run at rented camps near Yerevan, are free, and are funded by donations from past students. Six 10-day courses ran in 2026.
In English, Russian
Buddhist · Online
A small Facebook page describing itself as the Armenian Buddhist Community. The only explicitly Buddhist community page found in Armenia.
Facebook Not yet confirmed
Sahaja Yoga · Center · Yerevan
Free meditation classes in the Sahaja Yoga movement founded by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. With 2,500 followers, its We Meditate Armenia page is the largest meditation community page in the country.
Eznik Koghbatsi St 42
In Armenian, Russian, English
Art of Living · Organization · Yerevan
The Armenian branch of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living Foundation, teaching Sudarshan Kriya breathing, the silent Part 2 course and Sahaj Samadhi meditation.
In Armenian
Transcendental Meditation · Organization · Yerevan
Certified TM teachers give a free introductory talk followed by a four-day course, online or in person around Armenia. TM teachers taught about 30,000 people after the 1988 Spitak earthquake.
In Armenian, Russian
Yoga · Studio · Yerevan
A small studio offering yoga, meditation, sound healing and aromatherapy, one to one and in small groups.
Instagram Not yet confirmed
Mixed · Studio · Yerevan
A community space hosting yoga classes, satsangs in the Indian non-dual style, retreats and body-oriented workshops.
Instagram Not yet confirmed
Yoga · Studio · Yerevan
A yoga and meditation center founded in 2018 (erkinq means sky), focused on slow, deep practice.
Sevastopolyan St 32, at Kievyan St
Instagram Not yet confirmed
Yoga · Studio · Yerevan
A community studio offering yoga, meditation and pranayama, along with pilates and classes for children and expecting mothers.
Instagram Not yet confirmed
Yoga · Studio · Yerevan
A community yoga studio with an 18-year history (shunch means breath). Alongside hatha, vinyasa and kundalini yoga it holds gong meditations and sound therapy evenings.
Instagram Confirmed Oct 2026
Yoga · Studio · Yerevan
A small wellness studio with a view, holding yoga, meditation and sound healing sessions, workshops and the occasional retreat.
Olympia Garden Hotel
Instagram Not yet confirmed
Yoga · Studio · Yerevan
An established studio whose teachers trained in the Sivananda lineage and at S-VYASA in Bangalore, teaching Satyananda, Raja and restorative yoga in groups of up to twelve.
Tamanyan St 5, near the Cascade
Sahaja Yoga · Online
A Meetup group of 1,200 members running free online Sahaja Yoga meditation aimed at Yerevan. Sessions are online only. Their dates arrive here automatically.
In English
Website Confirmed Oct 2026
Yoga · Online · Yerevan
The Telegram chat of the Arts&Yoga Club, which shares its address with Sahaja Yoga Armenia.
Arts&Yoga Club, Eznik Koghbatsi St 42
Yoga · Online
A Russian-language Telegram chat about yoga, practices and meditation in Armenia.
In Russian
Telegram Not yet confirmed
Website · Armenian
Vipassana in ArmenianOne of the few Dharma texts written in Armenian: an introduction to Vipassana as taught by S. N. Goenka, the code of discipline and what a course is like.
Online sangha · English
Joy of Living onlineYongey Mingyur Rinpoche's online meditation course, in cohorts. The same program the Tergar group in Yerevan practises in person.
Article · English
Buddhism in ArmeniaFrom the 13th-century Mongol monastery in the Armenian highlands to the Barlaam and Josaphat legend and the present day.
Article · English
Buddhism in Armenia, by the numbersTricycle's short profile from 2021: under 0.1% of the population, a Thai monk teaching 250 people in three cities, and the first Vipassana courses.
Article · Russian
How I did Vipassana in ArmeniaA first-person account of ten silent days at a former pioneer camp in the Armenian mountains, with practical notes on applying.
Article · Russian
The body remembers everythingA long personal account of a 10-day Vipassana course in Armenia, by someone who had sat two courses in Russia before.
Article · English
A deep wish for lasting peace in ArmeniaThe Tergar community's story of an Armenian practitioner building a local practice group.
Article · English
The Japanese monk, his vow and ArmeniaMediamax on Kanshin Ikeda, the Nipponzan Myohoji monk who walks through Armenian towns beating a drum and chanting for peace.
App
Dhamma.org appThe official Vipassana app: course search for everyone, and recorded group sittings for old students.
This board brings everything contemplative in Armenia into one place: retreats, courses, regular sittings, sanghas, teachers and the halls that hold them. Course dates and calendars are read automatically from public sources every few hours. The directory is checked by hand, and each entry says when it was last confirmed. It is an early preview and far from complete.
Some historians identify An Shigao, the Parthian prince who first translated Buddhist texts into Chinese, with Parthamasiris, an Arsacid king of Armenia.
King Hethum I travels to the Mongol court at Karakorum. Kirakos Gandzaketsi's account of the journey is among the first descriptions of Buddhism written in Armenian.
Hulegu Khan builds a Buddhist monastery in his summer pastures in the Armenian highlands. It was probably destroyed after Ghazan Khan converted to Islam in 1295.
The legend of Barlaam and Josaphat, a Christian retelling of the life of the Buddha, is read in Armenian.
Ghazaros Aghayan begins translating Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia. Hovhannes Tumanyan and Avetik Isahakyan are drawn to Buddhism, and in 1936 Yeghishe Charents is photographed in the lotus position.
A bell inscribed with the Tibetan mantra om ah hum, which hung in the belfry of Etchmiadzin Cathedral, is taken down by the Soviet authorities.
After the Spitak earthquake, teachers of Transcendental Meditation teach some 30,000 people across Armenia.
A group of Armenian Buddhists sends Vesak greetings to the United Nations Day of Vesak conference in Thailand.
The Thai monk Luang Phi John Paramai teaches meditation to some 250 people in Vanadzor, Gyumri and Yerevan.
The Japanese monk Kanshin Ikeda walks from town to town in Armenia, beating a hand drum and chanting for peace.
Armenia has no Buddhist temple. Practice happens in rented halls and camps: six 10-day Vipassana courses near Yerevan in 2026, and Tergar's Saturday sittings.
From Buddhism in Armenia on Wikipedia, Tricycle, Mediamax and the UN Day of Vesak archive.