Programs

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  • March 21, 2025
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  • March 26, 2025
  • Ayya Santussika

Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

  • Practice the instructions of ānāpānasati to explore how it can lead into the limitless states of the brahmavihāras.
  • Residential
  • March 27, 2025
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  • March 30, 2025
  • Mark Unno, Judith Simmer-Brown, Ruben Habito

Love and Compassion in Pure Land Buddhism: Human Nature and Buddha Nature

  • This is a rare opportunity to learn and practice with three senior teachers with a deep knowledge of Pure Land compassion practices.
  • Residential
  • April 21, 2025
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  • May 1, 2025
  • Leigh Brasington, Heather Sundberg

Jhānas and Emptiness

  • Train in the meditative absorption states and explore how they support deepening insights into emptiness.
  • Residential
  • May 2, 2025
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  • May 6, 2025
  • Melanie Harris, Joshuah Brian Campbell

Black Spirituals & Protest Songs: Singing for Liberation – A BIPOC Retreat

  • Explore liberation through the history of movement songs, Buddhist meditation, active listening, and the sacred tradition of African American Spirituals.
  • Residential
  • May 9, 2025
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  • May 13, 2025
  • Kaira Jewel Lingo

Living Ecodharma: Finding Fulfillment in Healing and Loving the Earth

  • Join fellow contemplatives in a sacred gathering to embody Earth care, grieve, rest, and celebrate joy. Through meditation, movement, storytelling, and nature, we will nurture wisdom and deepen community bonds.
  • Residential
  • May 21, 2025
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  • May 25, 2025
  • Larry Ward, Peggy Rowe-Ward

Widening the Heart: The Practice of Interbeing

  • Engage with nature, practice with family, spiritual, and land ancestors, and explore our shared humanity through practices that help build a truly beloved community.
  • Residential
  • 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 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
  • June 25, 2025
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  • June 29, 2025
  • Pamela Weiss, Kate Johnson

Unearthing Buddhist Women’s Wisdom: A Retreat for Mothers and Daughters

  • Anyone who identifies as a mother or daughter is invited to join, with or without their family. Together, we will celebrate women’s wisdom, tenacity, tenderness, and joy.
  • 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
  • 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
  • August 15, 2025
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  • August 24, 2025
  • Tuere Sala

Nine Bodies Insight Retreat: Exploring Natural Capacities of Consciousness

  • Experience a new style of Insight Meditation that employs the “Nine Bodies of Consciousness” map.
  • 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
  • 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
  • December 8, 2025
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  • December 14, 2025
  • GuoGu

Silent Illumination and Investigating a Critical Phrase: A Chan Retreat

  • Deepen your practice in this Chan-style retreat, engaging in a sustained, focused way within a protected environment with a teacher.
  • Residential

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