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Programs

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  • October 16, 2026
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  • October 21, 2026
  • Lama Rod Owens

Practicing Spiritual Abolition through the Heart Sutra

  • Explore the liberating power of contradiction through the Heart Sutra and spiritual abolitionism. Guided by Lama Rod, this retreat invites deep practice for personal and collective freedom—across time and being.
  • Residential
  • October 30, 2026
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  • November 4, 2026
  • Ayya Santussika

The Liberating Power of Mindfulness: Finding Freedom from Entanglements

  • Step into five days of monastic-style retreat and explore the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. With kindness and clarity, untangle habitual patterns and rediscover spaciousness, simplicity, and inner freedom.
  • Residential
  • November 6, 2026
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  • November 15, 2026
  • Gregory Kramer, Ayya Anopama, Viveka Bhikkhu

From Concept to Experience: Apprehending Dhamma Through Insight Dialogue

  • Bring the Dhamma to life through embodied practice and relational inquiry. This retreat invites you to explore Insight Dialogue as a way to feel, reflect on, and share the living energy of the teachings—here and now.
  • Residential
  • November 17, 2026
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  • November 21, 2026
  • 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
  • December 8, 2026
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  • December 13, 2026
  • Guo Gu

Gateway to Chan Hybrid Retreat

  • This Chan program will deepen your practice through 30-minute sitting meditation periods punctuated by mindful yoga and walking meditation.
  • Hybrid
  • December 15, 2026
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  • December 20, 2026
  • Kittisaro, Thanissara

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
  • January 9, 2027
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  • January 13, 2027
  • Akincano Weber

In the Buddha’s Presence: Individuality and Liberation

  • Explore a person-centered view of the Dharma through the lives of the Buddha’s contemporaries, discovering how different temperaments, talents, and challenges shaped their paths to liberation.
  • Residential
  • January 22, 2027
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  • January 27, 2027
  • Dhammadīpā

Three Facets of Investigation: Patterns, Processes, and Moments of Presence

  • Investigate experience through three lenses: mental patterns, unfolding processes, and momentary presence, to see more clearly, respond more wisely, and explore the lack of self in experience.
  • Residential
  • January 29, 2027
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  • February 3, 2027
  • Chris Crotty

The Wisdom of an Open Heart: Integrating Mindfulness and Compassion

  • Explore how mindfulness, compassion, and loving-kindness can meet vulnerability, grief, uncertainty, and change, helping you stay open to life and discover wisdom in the truth of your experience.
  • Residential
  • February 5, 2027
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  • February 14, 2027
  • Yahel Avigur

Deepening Joy: A Samadhi and Jhana Retreat

  • Explore samadhi and jhana through approaches inspired by Rob Burbea, cultivating sensitivity, attunement, and refined perception while opening the heart and body to greater calm, aliveness, and joy.
  • Residential
  • February 16, 2027
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  • February 21, 2027
  • Yahel Avigur

Seeing That Frees: Exploring the Path of Emptiness

  • Explore Rob Burbea’s path of emptiness through ways of looking that reduce dukkha, relax the usual sense of self and world, and open into deeper insight, freedom, relief, and boundlessness.
  • Residential
  • February 23, 2027
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  • February 28, 2027
  • Nicola Redfern, Bart van Melik

Finding Freedom in Relaxing the Sense of Self: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

  • Explore how the sense of self forms and softens through silent and relational practice, and discover how the Buddha’s teachings on impermanence and not-self can open into greater ease and freedom.
  • Residential
  • March 4, 2027
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  • March 7, 2027
  • Dr. Melanie Harris

Fierce Compassion: Black Women Buddhist Practices for Healing Self and Earth: A BIPOC retreat

  • Explore fierce compassion through practices shaped by Black women Buddhist teachers, integrating compassion, accountability, and healing while cultivating wisdom, hope, and nonviolent right action.
  • Residential
  • March 26, 2027
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  • March 31, 2027
  • Guo Gu

Interdependence: Bridging Chinese Huayan Buddhism and Western Buddhist Practice

  • Explore Huayan Buddhism’s profound vision of interdependence through Fazang’s classic teachings, discovering a contemplative tradition that shaped East Asian Buddhism and can deepen and enrich Western Buddhist practice.
  • Hybrid
  • April 1, 2027
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  • April 4, 2027
  • Mark Unno, Judith Simmer-Brown, Ruben Habito

Buddha-nature, Other Power Compassion, and Living in this World

  • Explore buddha-nature and “other power” compassion across Buddhist traditions, discovering how compassion beyond ego can deepen understanding of suffering, liberation, and how we live in this world.
  • Residential
  • April 14, 2027
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  • April 24, 2027
  • Leigh Brasington, Meagan Chambers

Jhānas and Insight

  • Explore jhāna as a practice of meditative absorption, developing one-pointed concentration through sitting and walking meditation and learning how these states can deepen and enhance insight practice.
  • Residential
  • April 27, 2027
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  • May 2, 2027
  • Lama Liz Monson

The Living Field: A Dzogchen Retreat on Remembering Our Original Belonging

  • Explore Dzogchen as a path of recognition, softening the sense of separation and rediscovering innate openness, clarity, compassion, and belonging through meditation, nature, and shared inquiry.
  • Residential
  • June 4, 2027
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  • June 9, 2027
  • Sayadaw U Jagara

Right Concentration: Exploring Samadhi, Samatha, Vipassana, and Jhanas

  • Explore Right Concentration in theory and practice, from samādhi and samatha to vipassana and jhāna, while learning skillful ways to cultivate concentration across different approaches to meditation.
  • Residential
  • June 18, 2027
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  • June 23, 2027
  • Akincano Weber, Andy Rotman

Making the Most of Suffering: Stories of Failing Forward

  • Explore Buddhist stories of suffering wisely, discovering how courage, skill, and perseverance can open unexpected possibilities for growth, insight, joy, and freedom amid life’s hardship and loss.
  • Hybrid
  • June 25, 2027
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  • June 27, 2027
  • Judson Brewer, Robin Boudette

Psychotherapy as Investigation: Cultivating Curiosity, Presence, and Transformation

  • Explore psychotherapy as investigation through curiosity, embodied awareness, and presence, loosening habits that narrow perception while deepening flexibility, insight, and therapeutic relationships.
  • Residential
  • July 15, 2027
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  • July 20, 2027
  • Nikki Mirghafori

Befriending Mortality: Living An Awakened Life Through Mindfulness of Death (Maranasati)

  • Practice the Buddha’s mindfulness of death, turning toward mortality to live with greater presence and clarity, loosen grasping, lessen fear, and align this precious life with what matters most.
  • Residential
  • July 22, 2027
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  • July 27, 2027
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

Awakening Joy in Ordinary Life

  • Discover how ordinary life can reveal a wellspring of joy, wonder, gratitude, and appreciation, while softening habits of rushing and striving through mindfulness, compassion, and shared practice.
  • Residential
  • August 14, 2027
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  • August 17, 2027
  • Trent Walker, Chenxing Han

Cambodian Dharma Songs: A Khmer Affinity Retreat

  • Connect with Cambodian Buddhist heritage through Khmer, Pali, and English chant, learning expressive Cambodian Dharma songs while exploring music, language, culture, heritage, meditation, and community.
  • Residential
  • August 20, 2027
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  • August 25, 2027
  • Tuere Sala, Peace Twesigye

Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue Retreat For People of Color

  • Awaken together through Insight Dialogue, Brahmavihara practice, and relational meditation. Cultivate embodied presence, interdependence, and equanimity in community with fellow practitioners of color.
  • Residential