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  • Location Big Bear Retreat Center
  • Experience Levels All
  • Date Starts Friday, October 31, 2025
    Ends Sunday, November 2, 2025

    2 nights

This retreat is hosted by Big Bear Retreat Center, not InsightLA.

For any questions or support for registering or preparing for this retreat, contact guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org.
For more details and to register for this retreat, visit the Big Bear Retreat Center’s website: Luminous Darkness: The Power of Embracing the Unknown

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Open to both beginning and experienced practitioners.
Registration for this retreat closes on October 17, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org

We often think of the darkness as an absence of light, but the darkness–we discover through meditation practice–has its own enlightening power. Darkness reveals the unknown and embodies depth, making space for new discoveries, insight and transformation.

This autumn, join Deborah Eden Tull as we take a walk on the dark side, exploring the power of our shadow, our challenges and our adversities to awaken us to new levels of insight and depth. We will explore, through practice and reflection, how to meet the unknown with presence, curiosity and serenity, and how to move from fearing the darkness to embracing it.

We will engage with practices of meditation under the brilliant Big Bear night sky, in the shadows (both literally and metaphorically), and in our beloved meditation hall.

This retreat will be held in a container of silence, and in addition to sitting meditation and dharma talks, we will also engage in conscious movement, relational mindfulness, and deep time in nature.

 

Deborah Eden Tull

Deborah Eden Tull is a Zen meditation/mindfulness teacher, author, spiritual activist and sustainability educator. She spent seven years as a monastic at a silent Zen Monastery, and has been immersed in sustainable communities for 25 years. Eden’s teaching style is grounded in compassionate awareness, non-duality, mindful inquiry, and an unwavering commitment to personal transformation. She... Read more

Pricing Options
Private room with private bath $900
Private room with shared bath $740
Double room with shared bath $600
Triple room with shared bath $480

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