Programs

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  • May 26, 2025
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  • June 1, 2025
  • Vimalasara, Maitriveer Nagarjuna, Upayadhi

Ambedkar’s Dharma of Liberation, Equality, Love, and Justice

  • Reflect on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s legacy and what we might integrate from his teachings and example for our times.
  • Residential
  • June 3, 2025
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  • June 8, 2025
  • John Makransky

Harmonizing with the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • This program blends Tibetan Buddhist practices with modern psychology to cultivate unconditional love and wisdom. Through receptive, deepening, and inclusive modes, will harmonize with our buddha nature for greater compassion and wisdom.
  • Residential
  • June 13, 2025
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  • June 15, 2025
  • Judson Brewer, Robin Boudette

Cultivating Curiosity for Habit Change: Mindful Inquiry Training for Transformation

  • Join Drs. Jud Brewer and Robin Boudette for a weekend-long program that trains facilitators in the 3 Gears Method of behavior change to help individuals transform unhealthy habits like stress eating, smoking, or worrying.
  • Residential
  • June 17, 2025
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  • June 23, 2025
  • Ayya Anandabodhi

Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening

  • This monastic-led program explores the power of chanting to cultivate the Seven Factors of Awakening. By engaging body, heart, and mind, we transform limiting habits, fostering joy, mindfulness, and deeper spiritual growth.
  • Residential
  • July 8, 2025
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  • July 13, 2025
  • Dawn Scott, Rupert Marques

Courageous Heart: Meeting the Spirit of our Times with Steadiness and Love

  • Develop the capacity to heartfully respond to beauty and difficulties, consciously calling forth the deep biological imperative for freedom.
  • Residential
  • July 18, 2025
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  • July 21, 2025
  • Trent Walker, Chenxing Han

Cambodian Dharma Songs: A Khmer Affinity Retreat

  • Connect with your Cambodian heritage through chant and song! Join this 4-day program of chanting, meditation, and community, exploring expressive Dharma songs in Khmer, Pali, and English—no experience needed!
  • Residential
  • July 24, 2025
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  • July 29, 2025
  • Chenxing Han, Kaishin Victory Matsui, Ryan Wong

Roots and Refuge: An Asian American Buddhist Writing Retreat

  • How do our roots shape us as Asian Americans in connection to Buddhism? Where can we find refuge in the practice of putting pen to paper? As writers shaped by...
  • Residential
  • August 1, 2025
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  • August 6, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Peace Twesigye

Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue Retreat For People of Color

  • Cultivate embodied presence, inner strength, and the strength of interdependence in order to stand with equanimity in a tumultuous world.
  • Residential
  • August 8, 2025
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  • August 13, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Yahel Avigur

Emptiness: Seeing That Frees – A Hybrid Retreat

  • Join us in this hybrid program as we delve deeper into Rob Burbea's Seeing That Frees, exploring dependent origination and emptiness, with a focus on the balance of wisdom and mettā. Open to year-long BCBS Seeing That Frees participants.
  • Residential
  • September 19, 2025
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  • September 24, 2025
  • David Chernikoff

Intimacy With All Things: Body, Heart, Mind, World

  • Dōgen taught that “enlightenment is intimacy with all things.” Explore what this means and how we can apply this teaching in our lives.
  • Residential
  • October 10, 2025
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  • October 15, 2025
  • nico hase, devon hase

Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat for Young Adults

  • Discover safety, rest, and resilience through the brahmavihāras—love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. This young adult program offers guided meditation, relational inquiry, and silent practice to deepen the heart.
  • Residential
  • October 27, 2025
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  • November 5, 2025
  • Gregory Kramer

Experiencing the Relational Dharma in Insight Dialogue

  • An Insight Dialogue retreat for experienced practitioners.
  • Residential
  • November 20, 2025
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  • November 23, 2025
  • Dhammadīpā

Seeing Yourself on the Path: Exploring Buddhist Art and the Art of Seeing

  • Engage with a variety of Buddhist artistic expressions in visual and tactile ways, and reflect on how these portrayals relate to what you have experienced on the Path.
  • Residential
  • December 2, 2025
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  • December 7, 2025
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

Embodying Mindfulness

  • Explore grounding into the body to support practice, working with and mindfully inhabiting this unique body.
  • Residential

Deepening Practice,
Building Community.

Deepening Practice,
Building Community.

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