Meditation
The Original Body Scan: Discovering Freedom within the Body
With Christiane Wolf, Bob Stahl, Mary Grace Orr and Marcy Reynolds
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on June 15, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. In this retreat, we will work primarily with the first of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness – mindfulness of the body. The “32 Parts of the Body” meditation, which is part of the first foundation […]
The Original Body Scan: Discovering Freedom within the Body [ONLINE]
With Christiane Wolf, Bob Stahl, Mary Grace Orr and Marcy Reynolds
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on June 21, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. In this retreat, we will work primarily with the first of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness – mindfulness of the body. The “32 Parts of the Body” meditation, which is part of the first foundation […]
Tending the Self, Tending the World
With Gullu Singh and Gabrielle Hammond (Qi Gong)
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on July 2, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. If one knew oneself to be precious, One would guard oneself with care. The sage will watch over herself in any part of the night. — Dhammapada 157 Tending the Self invites you […]
Listen, Heart, Peace
With Kim Allen and Diana Clark
Open to experienced and new practitioners. This retreat is offered in partnership with Insight Retreat Center. Registration closes on July 5, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. Careful attention to our inner life awakens the heart and mind to the possibility of peace in the present moment. Supported by the quiet beauty […]
The Middle Way: An Embodiment Journey Exploring Stillness and Movement, Silence and Sound, Dark and Light
With Deborah Eden Tull, Enrique Collazo and Charlie Korda
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on July 24, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. Beyond the dualities that falsely divide life into two, what awakens within and through us in the fertile space between? How are both meditation and movement/dance devotional practices that liberate us from the realm of […]
Creating Refuge in Community
With JD Doyle and Lev Michael Moses
A Retreat for Trans, Gender Nonconforming, Genderqueer, Non-binary and All Gender Expansive Communities Registration closes on July 29, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. This 4-night retreat will be a space grounded in self-care and compassion, and held in community, to support our healing and resilience at this time in this world. […]
BIPOC Community Retreat
With Devin Berry, Alli Simon and Hakim Tafari
A silent meditation retreat for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person-of-Color. Both beginning and experienced practitioners are welcome. Registration closes on August 26, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. Coming together as a BIPOC community, we create a space of ease and support to meditate and cultivate inner […]
Retiro de Meditación
With Tere Abdala and Rosamaría Segura
Registration closes on September 2, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. Apto para principiantes y todos los niveles Te invitamos a un retiro de cuatro días dedicado a cultivar la atención plena, la serenidad interior y el descanso profundo en un hermoso entorno natural. Rodeado de montañas, bosques de pinos y senderos […]
The Refuge of the Heart
With Matthew Brensilver and Beth Sternlieb
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on September 8, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. The Buddha counsels: “Hatred does not cease by hatred but by non-hatred. This law is eternal.” The alternatives to love – namely, hate or apathy – are not viable for ourselves, for our communities or […]
The Refuge of the Heart [ONLINE]
With Matthew Brensilver and Beth Sternlieb
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on September 14, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. The Buddha counsels: “Hatred does not cease by hatred but by non-hatred. This law is eternal.” The alternatives to love – namely, hate or apathy – are not viable for ourselves, for our communities or […]
Rest in Simplicity
With Celeste Young and Dawn Scott
Open to experienced and new practitioners. Registration closes on September 15, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. Join us for an in person retreat in the beautiful San Bernardino mountains and deepen your practice within this secluded setting in nature. We live in an increasingly complex world, and many of us long […]
Slow Down, Open, Belong: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat
With Devin Berry, Tara Mulay and Hakim Tafari
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on September 20, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. In a culture of pressure and hurry, stillness is radical. On this four-night silent Insight and Lovingkindness retreat, we step out of habit and into presence—learning to stabilize attention and soften the heart. Through mindfulness […]
Cultivating Kindness Autumn Retreat: A Women's Journey through Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Writing & Movement
With Susan Steinberg-Oren, Christine Suarez and Lesley Hyatt
A retreat for women-identified people. Open to beginning and experiences practitioners. Registration closes on September 24, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. Cultivating Kindness invites women-identified individuals to slow down, soften, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom of their own hearts. We invite participants to discover new ways in to experiencing greater […]
Rooted Not Planted: A Queer Retreat
With Leslie Booker, Ian Challis and Calvin Burnap (Assistant)
A Silent meditation retreat for people who identify as queer. Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on September 28, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. For nine years, queer practitioners have gathered in the California desert in October for silent meditation, community, and refuge. In this, our 10th year, we […]
Rooted Not Planted: A Queer Retreat [ONLINE]
With Leslie Booker, Ian Challis and Calvin Burnap (Assistant)
An online silent meditation retreat for people who identify as queer. Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on September 28, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. For nine years, queer practitioners have gathered in the California desert in October for silent meditation, community, and refuge. In this, our 10th year, […]
Resilience and Refuge: Mindful Yoga and Embodied Dharma
With Djuna Devereaux and Anne Cushman
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on October 26, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. How do we cultivate resilience and connect with inner and outer refuge, especially in times of personal and global challenges? In this silent retreat, we’ll offer Buddhist Dharma and Yoga teachings and practices for settling […]
Cultivating Home in Our Hearts
With Vimalasara, Lev Michael Moses and MaryAnn Gallo
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on November 5, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. A Retreat for those who have lived life on a different road. This gathering is held by and welcomes adults who've experienced life as an adoptee, were fostered, and/or grew up in a group home. […]
The Seven Factors of Awakening
With Lisa Ernst and Trudy Goodman
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on November 10, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. In Buddhist practice we often investigate the nature of suffering and how to diminish it. Yet the Buddha also emphasized developing the wholesome, life-affirming qualities that bring ease, joy, and clarity to the heart and […]
The Seven Factors of Awakening [ONLINE]
With Lisa Ernst and Trudy Goodman
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on November 16, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. In Buddhist practice we often investigate the nature of suffering and how to diminish it. Yet the Buddha also emphasized developing the wholesome, life-affirming qualities that bring ease, joy, and clarity to the heart and […]
Easing Into the New Year
With Enrique Collazo and Devon Sangster Rath
Open to experienced and new practitioners. Registration closes on December 20th, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. For many of us, the new year arrives carrying a familiar pressure: set goals, make changes, become better somehow. But what if the most meaningful way to begin a new year isn't by striving toward […]