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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
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
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Affinity/Kinship Retreat
The Sacred Path of Connection, Belonging & Love
A Women’s Springtime Nature Retreat
Heidi Bourne & Laurie Cousins
Early Bird Discount Expires January 5
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
The Embodied Mind
Experiencing the Somatic and Subtle Body
Jill Satterfield
Early Bird Discount Expires January 5
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Grounding in the Dharma
Connecting with ourselves as 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
Early Bird Discount Expires January 5
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
Early Bird Discount Expires January 5
Meditation Retreat
Sliding Scale Flexible Pricing
Affinity/Kinship Retreat
The Dharma of Recovery
A deeper sense of peace, freedom, and wholeness
A compassionate space for anyone walking the path of recovery—whether from addiction, codependency, trauma, or the many ways suffering takes root in our lives.
Vimalasara & Kevin Griffin
Registration Opens November 26th
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
 Love and Awareness: The Heart That Knows
Cultivating mindfulness that is infused with care, and love that is grounded in knowing
Celeste Young & Vance Pryor
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
The Original Body Scan: Discovering Freedom within the Body
A Mindfulness and Qi Gong Retreat with the “32 Parts of the Body” Meditation
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
Lodging Pricing
The Middle Way
An Embodiment Journey Exploring Stillness and Movement, Silence and Sound, Dark
and Light
Deborah Eden Tull, Enrique Collazo & Charlie Korda
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
Sliding Scale Flexible Pricing
Affinity/Kinship Retreat
Spanish Speaking Meditation Retreat
A Silent Insight Meditation Retreat led in Spanish
Tere Abdala
Registration Opens in January
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
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
Slow Down, Open, Belong: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat
Experiencing Radical Stillness
Devin Berry, Tara Mulay & Hakim Tafari
Registration Opens November 26th
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
Liberation Spirituality: A Dharma Gathering for Our Times
Weaving Dharma, inquiry, and systemic visioning into a collective field of practice
Thanissara, Andrés Gonzales, Yong Oh, Djuna Devereaux, Kareem Ghandour & emiko yoshikami
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
Lodging Pricing
Affinity/Kinship Retreat
Cultivating Home in Our Hearts
Recovering from adoption, foster care, orphanages and the youth care system
Vimalasara, Lev Michael Moses & MaryAnn Gallo
Registration Opens November 26th
Meditation Retreat
Lodging Pricing
The Seven Factors of Awakening
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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