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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
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
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
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Resting in Metta
Cultivating an Awakened Heart
Celeste Young & Dawn Scott
Winter
Meditation Retreat
Sliding Scale 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 & Eve Decker
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
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
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
The Embodied Mind
Experiencing the Somatic and Subtle Body
Jill Satterfield
Registration Opens October 31st
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
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
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
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
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
Insight Retreat
A silent meditation retreat
Celeste Young & Dawn Scott
Registration Opens November 26th
Meditation Retreat
Dana (Donation) Pricing
When Awareness Becomes Natural
A Sayadaw U Tejaniya style retreat
Lienchi “LC” Tran & Neesha Patel
Registration Opens November 26th
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
32 Parts of the Body
The Original Body Scan
Christiane Wolf
Registration Opens November 26th
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
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
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
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
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
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
Liberation Spirituality for Our Times
Sacred Strategy in an Age of Unraveling
Thanissara
Registration Opens November 26th
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
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
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
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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