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Programs

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  • 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 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
  • 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 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