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Deep Belonging: Connecting with ourselves, each other, and the natural world 2025 [On Land]

With Christiane Wolf, Greg Serpa and Jennifer Cho

June 2 - 8, 2025

This retreat is open to both beginners and experienced practitioners. Registration for this program closes on May 27, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org. On this silent retreat, led in the Vipassana (or Insight) meditation tradition, we will explore how being still and opening our […]

Opening the Heart, Deepening Wisdom

With Kim Allen and Diana Clark

June 21 - 26, 2025

This retreat is open to both beginners and experienced practitioners. Registration for this program closes on June 7, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org Dharma practice can unfold as a journey of both opening the heart and deepening wisdom – these two movements are intertwined, […]

Love and Rest

With Beth Sternlieb and Matthew Brensilver

September 16 - 21, 2025

Open to both beginning and experienced practitioners. Registration for this retreat closes on September 2nd, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org We often long for love, both giving and receiving, but the busyness of life and the agitation of our minds do not create the […]