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Rest in Simplicity

With Celeste Young and Dawn Scott

September 22 - 27, 2026

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 […]

Rooted Not Planted: A Queer Retreat

With Leslie Booker, Ian Challis and Calvin Burnap (Assistant)

October 5 - 10, 2026

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 […]

Solo Silent Retreat, October 2026

October 22 - 25, 2026

Solo Silent Retreat: open to experienced practitioners Registration closes on October 15, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. There is a particular kind of learning that only happens alone. The kind of aloneness where the noise of obligation quiets, where we stop performing our lives for others, and where we finally have the […]

The Seven Factors of Awakening

With Lisa Ernst and Trudy Goodman

November 17 - 21, 2026

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 […]

Easing Into the New Year

With Enrique Collazo and Devon Sangster Rath

December 27, 2026 - January 2, 2027

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 […]

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January 5 - 10, 2027

Tagline: open to experienced and new practitioners [or insert if affinity etc] Registration closes on [enter date from above]. If joining after this date, please contact us. Program description is provided by teachers & refined by BBRC if needed. First paragraph (1-2 lines) is the core description of the program (bolded), sometimes reworded or moved […]