It would seem that way. Organizations across the US are hosting retreats and gatherings focusing not just on the “Big Mind,” but on the brain. After the jump, a rundown of the ones we know about so far.

Wednesday, January 07 – Sunday, January 11, 2009:
Zen Brain: Open Presence, Selflessness, and Compassion: Perspectives from Buddhism, Neuroscience, and Complexity Theory, at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, NM. Taught by Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, James Austin, PhD, Sandra Blakeslee, Richard Davidson, PhD, Al Kaszniak, PhD, Neil Theise, MD, and Evan Thompson, PhD. Click here for more details, or to register.

Sunday, January 11 – Sunday, January 18, 2009:
The Scientist’s Insight Meditation Retreat, at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA. Taught by Sylvia Boorstein, Wes Nisker, Trudy Goodman, and Diana Winston with Richard Davidson, PhD, from the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This retreat has been organized by scientists, for scientists, as has the Insight Meditation Weekend for Scientists (below). Its goal is to help researchers in the broad area of the mind sciences experience an in-depth training in meditation and to explore ways in which a rigorous and systematic approach to introspection can inform research.

Sunday, March 22 – Sunday, March 29, 2009:
A Path of Contemplative Inquiry: A Meditation Seminar for Neuroscientists & Mental Healthcare Professionals, at Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies in Santa Barbara, CA. Led by B. Alan Wallace. Click here for more details and to register.

Thursday, September 17 – Sunday, September 20, 2009:
Insight Meditation Weekend for Scientists, at Insight Meditation Center in Barre, MA. Led by Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg and Susan O’Brien, also with Richard Davidson.

Tuesday, October 27 – Thursday, October 29, 2009:
The 2009 NeuroLeadership Summit,  UCLA Campus in Westwood, CA. Registrations open in early 2009, which is when the core program will be announced. You may want to join their mailing list to be kept up to date.

…And then of course, there’s the next Mind and Life Institute conference, Attention, Memory, and the Mind: a Synergy of Psychological, Neuroscientific, and Contemplative Perspectives. But you’ll have to be fortunate enough to be in Dharamsala, India in April. And also, you’ll have to be invited, as this one’s a private conference.