Meditation
Sacred Refuge: An Embodied Devotional Retreat in Nature
With Djuna Devereaux and Yong Oh
Open to both beginning and experienced practitioners. Registration for this retreat closes on October 6, 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 […]
Loving Nature and Finding Joy
With JD Doyle and Andrés González
Open to both beginning and experienced practitioners. Registration for this retreat closes on October 4, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org This four night retreat will deepen our connection to loving awareness for ourselves and for the earth. Each day will include time to meditate […]
Mindfulness for Everyone
With Mary Stancavage and Harry Um
This retreat will be held in noble silence and is suitable for all - both beginners and experienced practitioners are welcome. Registration for this retreat closes on October 9th, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org This meditation retreat will foster a meaningful engagement with ourselves […]
Embodying The Heart of Listening: A Meditation Retreat for Facilitators, Guides, SpaceHolders, and Therapists
With Deborah Eden Tull
Open to both beginning and experienced practitioners. Registration for this retreat closes on October 19, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org Listening to Life as it unfolds moment by moment is the essence of Buddhist meditation, facilitation, and regenerative leadership. This is a restorative retreat […]
Luminous Darkness: The Power of Embracing the Unknown
With Deborah Eden Tull
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 luminosity and medicine. Darkness […]
Befriending Mortality: Living An Awakened Life Through Mindfulness of Death (Maranasati)
With Nikki Mirghafori
Open to beginner and experienced practitioners. Previous silent meditation retreat experience strongly recommended. This retreat invites you to stop running from mortality and instead harness its wisdom to align more fully with your deepest values. In Western culture, death is often an avoided topic, despite being an inevitable part of life. Through the ancient Buddhist […]
Resting in Metta: Cultivating an Awakened Heart
With Celeste Young and Dawn Scott
Open to both beginners and experienced practitioners. Registration for this retreat closes on October 28, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org Join us in the beauty of the San Bernardino mountains as we relax into the four qualities of an awakened heart: Lovingkindness (Metta), Compassion […]
Ancestors Welcome Here [Online]
With Ream, Kimber Simpkins and Em Morrison
*For self-identified white people. If you identify as white and are committed to racial justice, land and liberation, this retreat is for you. Registration for this program closes on November 14, 2025 at 5pm Pacific Time. To inquire about joining after registration closes, please contact guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org. An Ancestral Healing Retreat for White Practitioners Committed to […]
Taking a Larger Perspective in these Transition Times [Online]
With Ayya Santacitta and Kate Davies
This online retreat is open to both new and experienced practitioners. Registration for this program closes on November 21, 2025 at 5pm Pacific Time. To inquire about joining after registration closes, please contact guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org. Slowing down - Listening - Re-membering - Engaging In this retreat we will look at what’s happening in our world through […]
Belonging and Thriving, Being Your Own Good Friend: LGBTQIA+ Retreat
With Lev Michael Moses and Eve Decker
This in-person retreat is open to both beginning and experienced practitioners who self-identify as LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, and beyond). Registration for this retreat closes on November 19, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org Please join us for a place of […]
New Year's Retreat: Weaving Ancient and New Ways of Being
With Ayya Santacitta and Celeste Young
This retreat welcomes both beginners and experienced meditators. Registration for this retreat closes on December 21st, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time. If looking to join after this date, please inquire at guestservices@bigbearretreatcenter.org. During this retreat we will come together in community to support each other in consciously letting go of the past and opening to […]