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– Retreat Participant, 2023

2025 Residential Retreats

Find YOUR retreat, your teacher, your community.

The following are residential retreats only. Our online retreats and programs are listed here.

Save the Date! We’re launching our 2026 retreats soon. Scroll down to see more or click here to get an update when registration opens.

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

Autumn

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
October 23 - 26, 2025
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Mindfulness for Everyone

A Retreat for Beginners and All Levels of Practice
Silent Meditation Retreat

Mary Stancavage & Harry Um

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
October 26 - 31, 2025
embodying the heart of listening

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
October 31 - November 2, 2025
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Luminous Darkness: The Power of Embracing the Unknown

Making Space for New Discoveries, Insights and Transformation

Deborah Eden Tull

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
November 2 - 6, 2025
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Befriending Mortality

Living an Awakened and Joyful Life through Mindfulness of Death (Maranasati)

Nikki Mirghafori

Partner Hosted Retreat
November 6 - 9, 2025 (Hosted by True Nature Yoga)
true nature yoga

Nourish Your True Nature
by True Nature Yoga

A Yoga and Meditation Retreat

Program hosted by Danielle Fowler of True Nature School of Yoga

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
November 11 - 18, 2025
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Resting in Metta

Cultivating an Awakened Heart

Celeste Young & Dawn Scott

Winter

Meditation Retreat
Sliding Scale Pricing
Affinity/Kinship Retreat
December 2 - 7, 2025
belonging-thriving

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 & Eve Decker

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
December 28, 2025 - January 3, 2026
new-years

New Year’s Retreat: Weaving Ancient and New Ways of Being

The Four Protective Meditations

Ayya Santacitta & Celeste Young

2026 Residential Retreats

Subscribe to receive an early invite to sign up! We’ll send only 1 email (unless you opt in for more) to let you know when registration opens.

GET AN UPDATE WHEN OUR SPRING RETREATS LAUNCH OCTOBER 31st

STAY INFORMED WHEN OUR FULL 2026 RETREAT CALENDAR LAUNCHES NOVEMBER 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Affinity/Kinship Retreat
March 7 - 11, 2026
sacred-path

The Sacred Path of Connection, Belonging & Love

A Women’s Springtime Nature Retreat

Heidi Bourne & Laurie Cousins

Registration Opens October 31st

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
March 17 - 22, 2026
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The Embodied Mind

Experiencing the Somatic and Subtle Body

Jill Satterfield

Registration Opens October 31st

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
March 25 - 29, 2026
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Grounding in the Dharma

Connecting with ourselves and a way to live in harmony with others

Mary Stancavage, Ian Challis, Valerie Cusson & Jokai Blackwell

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
March 31 - April 4, 2026
wisdom and love

The Convergence of Wisdom and Love

Sitting in The Quiet of Our Own Hearts, the Miracle of Mindfulness

Matthew Brensilver

Registration Opens October 31st

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
April 15 - 19, 2026
coming-home

Coming Home to Our Senses

Connecting with the truth of each moment

Gullu Singh, Trudy Goodman, Lienchi (LC) Tran & Gabrielle Hammond

Registration Opens October 31st

Meditation Retreat
Sliding Scale Flexible Pricing
Affinity/Kinship Retreat
May 21 - 25, 2026
recovery-retreat

Recovery Retreat

All recovery paths are welcome, whether Twelve Step, Recovery Dharma, Eight Step Recovery, substance, process, or relationship-oriented.

Vimalasara Mason-John & Kevin Griffin

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
June 8 - 14, 2026
celeste dawn

Insight Retreat

A silent meditation retreat

Celeste Young & Dawn Scott

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Dana (Donation) Pricing
June 15 - 21, 2026
when-awareness

When Awareness Becomes Natural

A Sayadaw U Tejaniya style retreat

Lienchi “LC” Tran & Neesha Patel

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
June 22 - 28, 2026
christine

32 Parts of the Body

The Original Body Scan

Christiane Wolf

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
July 9 - 12, 2026
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Tending the Self, Tending the World

A weekend to rest the heart and steady the mind

Gullu Singh & Gabrielle Hammond

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Dana (Donation) Pricing
July 12 - 18, 2026
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Listen, Heart, Peace

Opening the heart and evoking greater freedom

Kim Allen & Diana Clark

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Sliding Scale Flexible Pricing
Affinity/Kinship Retreat
August 5 - 9, 2026
creating refuge

Creating Refuge in Community

A Silent Retreat for Trans, Nonbinary & Gender Expansive Practitioners

JD Doyle, Lev Michael Moses, René Rivera

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Sliding Scale Flexible Pricing
Affinity/Kinship Retreat
September 2 - 6, 2026
devin alli hakim

BIPOC COMMUNITY RETREAT

A silent retreat for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person-of-Color

Devin Berry, Alli Simon & Hakim Tafari

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
September 15 - 20, 2026
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The Refuge of the Heart

A Retreat on the Four Manifestations of Love

Matthew Brensilver & Beth Sternlieb

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
October 11 - 17, 2026
thanissara

Liberation Spirituality for Our Times

Sacred Strategy in an Age of Unraveling

Thanissara

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
October 25 - 31, 2026
celeste devon

The Heart of Awakening: Exploring the Seven Factors

Qualities of mind and heart that lead to freedom and well-being

Celeste Young & Devon Hase

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
November 2 - 7, 2026
djuna anne

Resilience and Refuge: Mindful Yoga and Embodied Dharma

Meeting life’s challenges with grace and wisdom

Djuna Devereaux & Anne Cushman

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
November 17 - 21, 2026
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The Seven Factors of Awakening Retreat

Bringing ease, joy, and clarity to the heart and mind

Lisa Ernst & Trudy Goodman

Registration Opens November 26th

Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Sliding Scale Flexible Pricing
Dana (Donation) Pricing
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