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Retreats in Nature, Gathered in Community.
Big Bear Retreat Center is a restorative space for healing and creativity. We humbly offer a supportive environment to gather in community for movement, stillness and practice, trusting in the power of embodied mindfulness and authentic connection.

Just 2.5 hours from Los Angeles, a thousand acres of protected land as your home.
Big Bear Retreat Center offers nourishment, rest and spacious land to hold you. Our buildings are carefully tended, calm and comfortable. Rooms are simple, single or shared. We cook with foods that nourish. Our tranquil land, originally tended by the Yuhaviatam (“People of the Pines”), is nestled in 1,400 acres of ancient Juniper woodland to help you recollect and realign with what matters most.

We are committed to accessibility, omitting none.
Big Bear Retreat Center has faith in the power of belonging and generosity. We bring careful attention to our fees, and we’ll do everything we can to get you here. We honor and respect where you are in your life journey.

 

The campus is spread out with hiking trails that connect into the national forest.  It is about a mile from the town and Big Bear Lake. 

For more information visit bigbearretreatcenter.org/

 

1000 Sugarpine Road, Big Bear, CA


Date
Programs and Classes

Teachers

Length

Experience Levels

Big Bear Retreat Center (Hybrid: In-person) Simplicity and Stillness: Cultivating The 5 Spiritual Strengths

Thursday
April 24, 2025

7 days 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Advanced Beginner/Intermediate, Experienced, Introductory

Big Bear Retreat Center (Hybrid: Online) Simplicity and Stillness: Cultivating The 5 Spiritual Strengths

Thursday
April 24, 2025

7 days 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Advanced Beginner/Intermediate, Experienced, Introductory

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Big Bear Retreat Center (Hybrid: In-person) Coming Home to Our Senses

Thursday
May 15, 2025

6 days 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Advanced Beginner/Intermediate, Experienced, Introductory

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Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) Living Recovery in Unsettling Times

Thursday
May 22, 2025

4 days 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Big Bear Retreat Center (Hybrid: In-person) Unfolding the Great Heart: Bhakti, Buddhism, and the Practice of Connection

Monday
June 9, 2025

6 days 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)
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Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) Opening the Heart, Deepening Wisdom

Saturday
June 21, 2025

6 days 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)
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Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

Monday
June 30, 2025

6 days 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) Shelter from the Storm: Cultivating a Steady Heart

Thursday
July 10, 2025

4 days 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)
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Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) Creating Refuge in Community: a Retreat for Gender Expansive Communities

Wednesday
July 16, 2025

5 days 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) Compassion for Couples

Friday
July 25, 2025

3 days 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) When Awareness Becomes Natural: a Sayadaw U Tejaniya Practice Style Retreat

Saturday
August 9, 2025

9 days 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) Dharma Dharma: The Unfolding of Nature

Tuesday
August 19, 2025

5 days 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)
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Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) BIPOC Community Retreat

Wednesday
August 27, 2025

5 days 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) The Brilliant Weave of the Brahma Viharas and Emptiness

Sunday
August 31, 2025

5 days 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) Love and Rest

Tuesday
September 16, 2025

6 days 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Big Bear Retreat Center (In-person) Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

Monday
September 29, 2025

6 days 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

Big Bear Retreat Center (Hybrid: In-person) In Wisdom We Walk, In Liberation We Rise: A Women’s Retreat

Sunday
October 5, 2025

8 days 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PT
Residential Retreats (Multi Day Retreat)

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