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Programs

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  • August 27, 2027
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  • September 5, 2027
  • Tuere Sala

Nine Bodies Insight Retreat: Exploring Natural Capacities of Consciousness (Hybrid)

  • Explore the Nine Bodies of Consciousness through guided Insight Meditation, using felt sense to move from physical to subtler levels of awareness, steady the mind, and support liberating insight.
  • Hybrid
  • October 1, 2027
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  • October 3, 2027
  • Christopher Ives

Meditations on the Trail: Being in Nature as Nature

  • Explore Buddhist teachings of nonduality and dependent arising on the trail, calming the mind and opening the senses to experience interconnection, suchness, and being in nature as nature more fully.
  • Residential
  • October 5, 2027
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  • October 10, 2027
  • Damcho Diana Finnegan

Re-enchanting Meditation: Awakening to a Living World

  • Re-enchant your relationship with the living world through Buddhist and animist practice, deep listening, and time on the land, awakening to the vast web of relationships in which we are already held.
  • Residential
  • October 12, 2027
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  • October 17, 2027
  • Ayya Santussika

Ānāpānasati as a Vehicle for Awakening

  • Explore mindfulness of breathing through the Buddha’s sixteen ānāpānasati instructions, deepening calm, insight, and wisdom while opening to teachings on karma, rebirth, liberation, and awakening.
  • Residential
  • November 2, 2027
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  • November 14, 2027
  • Gregory Kramer

Deep Relational Wisdom of Mettānattā

  • Explore mettānattā, the union of mettā and not-self, through silent meditation and Insight Dialogue, discovering how relational practice can deepen wisdom, love, peace, and responsive compassion.
  • Residential
  • November 29, 2027
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  • December 5, 2027
  • Thanissara, Kittisaro

Meet the Kuan Yin Dharmas: Bringing the Mahayana and Theravada into Harmony

  • Explore how the Kuan Yin Dharmas bring Theravada and Mahayana into harmony, weaving wisdom and compassion to support individual freedom, collective healing, and a deeper response to our world.
  • Residential
  • December 7, 2027
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  • December 12, 2027
  • Guo Gu

The Practice of Wonderment: An Exploration into the Chan Method of Huatou

  • Explore the Chan practice of huatou through paradox and unanswerable questions, cultivating wonderment, embodying not-knowing, and opening a fresh approach to wisdom, compassion, and freedom from self.
  • Hybrid
  • December 16, 2027
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  • December 19, 2027
  • Pilar Jennings

Healing from Anxiety: A Buddhist and Psychotherapeutic Response

  • Explore anxiety through Buddhist and psychodynamic perspectives, examining its causes, relational patterns, and collective triggers while developing contemplative ways to respond to suffering.
  • Residential