Love and Rest with InsightLA
With Beth Sternlieb, Matthew Brensilver and InsightLA Meditation Center
June 10 - 14, 2021
This Retreat is offered in partnership with InsightLA’s “Love and Rest” online retreat with Beth Sternlieb and Matthew Brensilver. For additional information and to register for the online retreat, please click HERE.
Please note the retreat center has a 4 night minimum stay. This is a 2-day online retreat with Beth and Matthew, Saturday and Sunday. Big Bear Retreat Center is offering an extended weekend retreat option of Thursday – Monday for those participating at the retreat center. There will be no additional programming beyond the 2-day online retreat.
Retreat Cabin Rates
Cabin WITH Meal Plan
$150 / night
+ $30 per add’l guest
Includes 3 healthy vegetarian meals a day
Cabin WITHOUT Meal Plan
$130 / night
+ $10 per add’l guest
in partnership with
Big Bear Retreat Center is a meditation retreat center located in the forested mountains of Southern California (2.5 hour drive from Los Angeles) on about 100 acres of private forested land and connected to the national forest, giving us plenty of space for hiking trails, peace, and serenity. It’s a wonderful place for all forms of practice – a space to RECONNECT, RECHARGE, and REST.
Teachers & Facilitators
Beth has been involved with InsightLA from the start and seeing our community grow from an idea into a reality has awakened in her a deeper appreciation for what an unexpected transformation mindfulness and commitment can bring into our lives. As a member of InsightLA’s teacher council, she explores ways of bringing mindfulness and metta practice to our community in creative and innovative ways. While as director of the Buddhist studies program, she shares her interest in how ancient wisdom can support us through our everyday life struggles. She also teaches MBSR, where she is excited to observe how each…
Learn more about Beth Sternlieb
Matthew Brensilver, PhD, offers retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the Insight Retreat Center. For more than a decade, he taught for Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. He continues to teach at UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center about the intersections between mindfulness and mental health. He spent years doing research on addiction treatment at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine and continues to be interested in the unfolding dialogue between dharma and science.
Learn more about Matthew Brensilver