RETREAT SCHEDULE: 7 nights, 8 days
Arrive 2-4pm Friday, May 29th
Depart 11:00am Friday, June 5th
The daily rhythm of a retreat usually involves alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation, nature walks, meals and tea, as well as practice... Read more
Two-Week Summer Insight Retreat
Retreat practice gives us the time and space to cultivate awareness and that awareness is meant to be taken into all parts of our life. In this retreat we will learn how to make that awareness unstrained and natural so that practice is seamless with ou... Read more
Big Bear Mindfulness Family Camp
This four night Mindful Family Camp is a special opportunity to unplug, check in, and explore a variety of different ways to be present and connected with your family in a beautiful mountain setting. In breakout groups and together, families will uncov... Read more
CANCELLED Love and Let Go
Dharma practice invites us into a spacious and gracious relationship with life; challenging us to love what is, whether we like it or not. This retreat will be orientated around loving awareness and non-clinging wisdom. We will explore the various de... Read more
Insight Meditation Retreat
This silent retreat offers practical instruction in mindfulness, concentration, and insight meditation practice (vipassana). Through developing mindfulness of breath, body, feelings, and mind, meditators will find that habitual judgments, fear, and crav... Read more
The Nine Bodies of Consciousness: A Practical Map for Insight Meditation Practitioners
As a support for Insight meditation, the Nine Bodies teachings offer you a new means for tracking and classifying meditative experiences, which can help you stay present with whatever arises. These explorations may also increase the clarity and specific... Read more
The First Foundation of Mindfulness: Finding Freedom in the Body
Many practitioners of mindfulness have practiced the “body scan” but few are aware of its origins found within the first foundation of mindfulness in the body called the “32 Parts of the Body Meditation”. The methodical practice of the 32 Parts of the ... Read more
Training the Heart: Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence
Research increasingly points to Mindfulness’s contribution toward increased emotional intelligence. The overall principle is that if we could see below the line of what we are normally conscious of, then we can discern what is present and subtly influen... Read more
Be True to Yourself: An Afternoon with George Mumford
Be True to Your Self is a workshop to explore ways of building more integrity with you are, what you want, how you are and how you want to be. Join expert mindfulness and performance coach George Mumford who is nationally recognized for his work teachin... Read more