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Retreat Calendar 2025
The following are residential retreats only. Our online retreats and programs are listed here.
Retreat Calendar
The following are residential retreats, to see our online retreats and programs, click here.
Find YOUR retreat, your teacher, your community.
We offer a wide variety of retreat styles and offerings!
We offer these icons as a way to quickly help you better find your retreat and determine retreat type.
Lodging Pricing (by room type)
Sliding Scale Pricing (flexible)
Dana Pricing (donations at any amount)
Community / Kinship Retreat
Silent Meditation Retreat
Relational or Workshop Retreat
Hybrid Online Retreat
Online Only Retreat or Event
OCTOBER
Meditation
Retreat
Lodging
Pricing
Sacred Refuge: An Embodied Devotional Retreat in Nature
An Expression of Our Most Intimate Longing to Awaken
A Silent Meditation and Chanting Retreat
Djuna Devereaux and Yong Oh
A Silent Meditation and Chanting Retreat
Starts: Monday, October 13, 2025
Ends: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Meditation
Retreat
Lodging
Pricing
Loving Nature and Finding Joy: Nature-based Retreat
Deepening Our Connection to Loving Awareness for Ourselves and for the Earth
JD Doyle and Andrés González
Starts: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Ends: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Meditation
Retreat
Lodging
Pricing
Great for
Beginners
Mindfulness for Everyone
A Retreat for Beginners and All Levels of Practice
Silent Meditation Retreat
Mary Stancavage and Harry Um
Silent Meditation Retreat
Starts: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Ends: Sunday, October 26, 2025
A great option if this is your first retreat!
This retreat will be held in noble silence and is suitable for all – both beginners and experienced practitioners are welcome.
Meditation
Retreat
Lodging
Pricing
Embodying the Heart of Listening
A Meditation Retreat for Facilitators, Guides, Spaceholders, and Therapists (open to all)
Restoration Based in Deep Embodied Listening to Ourselves, the Earth, One Another and the Invisible
Deborah Eden Tull
Restoration Based in Deep Embodied Listening to Ourselves, the Earth, One Another and the Invisible
Starts: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Ends: Friday, October 31, 2025
Meditation
Retreat
Lodging
Pricing
Luminous Darkness: The Power of Embracing the Unknown
Making Space for New Discoveries, Insights and Transformation
Deborah Eden Tull
Starts: Friday, October 31, 2025
Ends: Sunday, November 2, 2025
NOVEMBER
Meditation
Retreat
Lodging
Pricing
Befriending Mortality
Living an Awakened and Joyful Life through Mindfulness of Death (Maranasati)
Nikki Mirghafori
Starts: Sunday, November 2, 2025
Ends: Thursday, November 6, 2025
Partner-Hosted
Retreat
Nourish Your True Nature
by True Nature Yoga
A Yoga and Meditation Retreat
Program hosted by Danielle Fowler of True Nature School of Yoga
by True Nature Yoga
Starts: Thursday, November 6, 2025
Ends: Sunday, November 9, 2025
Meditation
Retreat
Lodging
Pricing
Resting in Metta
Cultivating an Awakened Heart
Celeste Young and Dawn Scott
Starts: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Ends: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
DECEMBER
Meditation
Retreat
Sliding Scale
Pricing
Community /
Kinship
Retreat
LGBTQIA+ Retreat: Belonging and Thriving, Being your Own Good Friend
Cultivating Our Capacity to be Our Own Good Friend through Self-Compassion, Mindfulness, Movement and Music
Lev Michael Moses and Eve Decker
Starts: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Ends: Sunday, December 7, 2025
Meditation
Retreat
Lodging
Pricing
New Year’s Retreat: The Four Protective Meditations
Weaving Ancient and New Ways of Being
Ayya Santacitta and Celeste Young
Starts: Sunday, December 28, 2025
Ends: Saturday, January 3, 2026
Autumn
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Loving Nature and Finding Joy: Nature-based retreat
Deepening our connection to loving Awareness for Ourselves and for the Earth
JD Doyle
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Mindfulness for Everyone
A Retreat for Beginners and All Levels of Practice
Silent Meditation Retreat
Mary Stancavage & Harry Um
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Embodying the Heart of Listening
A Meditation Retreat for Facilitators, Guides, Spaceholders, and Therapists (open to all)
Restoration Based in Deep Embodied Listening to Ourselves, the Earth, One Another and the Invisible
Deborah Eden Tull
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Luminous Darkness: The Power of Embracing the Unknown
Making Space for New Discoveries, Insights and Transformation
Deborah Eden Tull
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Befriending Mortality
Living an Awakened and Joyful Life through Mindfulness of Death (Maranasati)
Nikki Mirghafori
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Resting in Metta
Cultivating an Awakened Heart
Celeste Young & Dawn Scott
Winter
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Affinity/Kinship Retreat
LGBTQIA+ Retreat: Belonging and Thriving, Being your Own Good Friend
Cultivating Our Capacity to be Our Own Good Friend through Self-Compassion, Mindfulness, Movement and Music
Lev Michael Moses and Eve Decker
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
New Year’s Retreat: The Four Protective Meditations
Weaving Ancient and New Ways of Being
Ayya Santacitta and Celeste Young
2026?
Meditation Retreat
Sliding Scale Flexible Pricing
Dana-Based Pricing
Lodging Pricing
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