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Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support self-identified people of color, members of marginalized groups (queer people, transgender people, and  people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible). 

These spots are offered on a first come, first served basis. Please pay at the highest level you can afford. In order for this support to be available, we rely on those who can afford to pay the full price to do so.

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Safety 

We work to protect the safety of all students. We reserve the right to remove any student from any class, sitting group, retreat, or any event if the student is disruptive to the safe learning environment we maintain for all.

Cancellation & Refunds

We reserve the right to cancel a class or special event due to low enrollment or other circumstances which would make the event non-viable. If InsightLA cancels an event you’ve registered for, you will be offered a full refund. If an event has to be postponed for any reason, you will have the option to either receive a full refund or transfer your registration to the same event at the new, future date. If you cancel, we apply a 5% credit processing fee and the refunded amounts are listed below:

MBSR, MSC, & MBHC, Mindfulness for Beginners & Special Events

7 days – 95% Refund
<7 days – No Refunds – Credit given if requested or donation to InsightLA

Fee-Based Non-Residential Retreats (note: Donations are non-refundable)

>7 days – 95% Refund
<7 days – No Refunds – Credit given if requested or donation to InsightLA

Residential Retreats

> 8 weeks – amount paid less $100
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $175
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $300
< 2 weeks – No refund

Residential Retreats with Financial Support:

> 8 weeks – amount paid less $75
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $100
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $200
< 2 weeks – No refund

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  • Location Big Bear Retreat Center
  • Experience Levels All
  • Date Starts Monday, October 13, 2025
    Ends Saturday, October 18, 2025

    5 nights

Refund and Event Policies

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: Sacred Refuge: An Embodied Devotional Retreat in Nature

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Open to both beginning and experienced practitioners.
Registration for this retreat closes on September 29, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org.

Devotion is the expression of our most intimate longing to awaken. Our retreat will tend to this longing through Insight Meditation, mindful movement, and devotional practice. Our days will include intentional time and practice in nature.

Devotion begins as attention and deepens through love. Devotion is expressed in the body, heart, and mind as our most intimate longing to awaken. Within the refuge of an integrated experience of Dharma, our retreat will tend to this longing through insight meditation, mindful movement, and devotional practice.

Our time together will include chanting and bowing practices drawn from the Kuan Yin Dharmas—devotional practices that invite us to listen into the compassionate heart—as well as classical Pali chants from the early Buddhist tradition. Our movement sessions will combine gentle somatic movements with accessible yoga to both unwind and embody the Dharma. Weather permitting, we intend to offer meditation and group practices outside on the land at Big Bear, receiving teachings from nature—our primary relationship and teacher.  

 

Djuna Deveraux,E-RYT, SEP

Djuna Devereaux has taught the integration of yoga and Buddhist Dharma for 20 years. She teaches retreats at Spirit Rock and leads their Dharma and Yoga Teacher Trainings, and supports her primary Dharma teachers, Thanissara and Kittisaro, as a core teacher and board member for Sacred Mountain Sangha. Djuna is also faculty for Prajna Yoga,... Read more

Yong Oh

Yong’s initial doorway into the Dharma was through Soto Zen. His love for Vipassana began with his, then and now, primary teachers Kittisaro and Thanissara. He is currently a Dharma Council teacher at the Durango Dharma Center, teaches for the Chattanooga Insight Meditation group, and is currently on the Leadership Council for Thanissara and Kittisaro’s... Read more

Pricing Options
Private room with private bath $1500
Private room with shared bath $1100
Double room with shared bath $750
Triple room with shared bath $450

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Financial Support

Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support members of marginalized groups (people of color, queer people, people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible).

These spots are offered on a first come, first served basis. Please pay at the highest level you can afford. In order for this support to be available, we rely on those who can afford to pay the full price to do so.

Register Now

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