Programs

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  • 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 14, 2025
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  • November 18, 2025
  • Ruth Ozeki

To Study the Self: Zen and the Art of Creative Writing

  • Explore writing as contemplative practice. Using Dogen’s Zen wisdom, we’ll study and forget the self, play with genre, and let the world speak through us—one word, one breath at a time.
  • 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

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Deepening Practice,
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