Programs

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  • 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
  • January 9, 2026
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  • January 16, 2026
  • Catherine McGee

Making Soul

  • Deepen your Soulmaking Dharma practice by cultivating perception as an art—opening to beauty, love, and sacred meaning. For alumni of the Fall intensive online Soulmaking program.
  • Residential
  • January 16, 2026
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  • January 18, 2026
  • Soulmaking Dharma Sangha

A Gathering of Souls

  • A Gathering of Souls will be a time for Soulmaking sangha members to enjoy one another’s company, to connect more deeply as a group of peers, and to explore themes that speak to our souls.
  • Residential
  • January 20, 2026
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  • January 25, 2026
  • Nikki Mirghafori

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

  • Embrace the truth of impermanence through maranasati—mindfulness of death—to live more fully, align with your deepest values, and prepare for dying as a moment of peace, freedom, and liberation.
  • Residential
  • January 27, 2026
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  • February 1, 2026
  • Dhammadīpā

When Insight Flows: Four Practices for Building Momentum on the Path

  • Build momentum on the Path of awakening through four foundational practices from the early suttas—deepening insight, energizing your practice, and entering the stream toward liberation.
  • Residential
  • February 10, 2026
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  • February 15, 2026
  • 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
  • February 17, 2026
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  • February 22, 2026
  • Chris Crotty

Seeing and Knowing: The Practice and Study of Insight Meditation

  • Explore how insight meditation reveals the nature of suffering and self. Blend study and practice to cultivate clear seeing, personal discernment, and a path of freedom grounded in lived experience.
  • Residential
  • March 19, 2026
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  • March 22, 2026
  • Mark Unno, Judith Simmer-Brown, Ruben Habito

Pure Land Compassion Retreat: Beyond The Storied Self

  • Explore the stories that shape us—and the freedom beyond them. This retreat journeys through Zen koans and Pure Land compassion to awaken the heart beyond words, in the embrace of boundless reality.
  • Residential
  • March 24, 2026
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  • March 29, 2026
  • Ayya Anandabodhi

Making the Mind Your Friend

  • Get to know your heart and mind as the Buddha taught—with care, compassion, and wisdom. This retreat invites you to nurture your inner life, clear away old stories, and awaken to natural freedom and joy.
  • Residential
  • April 1, 2026
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  • April 11, 2026
  • Leigh Brasington, Rachael O’Brien

The Gradual Training: Mettā, Jhānas, and Insight

  • Explore the Early Buddhist Path through the Gradual Training and deepen your practice with the Jhanas—cultivating stability, clarity, and liberating insight, supported by daily talks and one-on-one guidance.
  • Residential
  • May 22, 2026
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  • May 26, 2026
  • Dr. Melanie Harris, Joshuah Brian Campbell

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

  • Explore liberation through the sacred power of song. This program blends Buddhist practice with Civil Rights music and African American Spirituals—inviting joy, reflection, and heart-opening social awareness.
  • Residential
  • June 26, 2026
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  • June 28, 2026
  • Judson Brewer, Robin Boudette

Cultivating Curiosity for Habit Change: Mindful Inquiry Training for Transformation

  • Join Drs. Jud Brewer and Robin Boudette for a weekend-long program that trains facilitators in the 3 Gears Method of behavior change to help individuals transform unhealthy habits like stress eating, smoking, or worrying.
  • Residential
  • July 3, 2026
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  • July 8, 2026
  • Rupert Marques, Dawn Scott

Embodying Ecodharma: Kinship Amidst the Great Unravelling

  • Gather in community to meet the heartbreak and hope of our times. This retreat weaves Dharma, Earth-care, and deep listening to help us root in love, resilience, and a story of mutual flourishing.
  • Residential
  • July 10, 2026
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  • July 19, 2026
  • Yahel Avigur

True Joy: A Samadhi and Jhana Retreat

  • Discover the joy at the heart of samadhi. Rooted in Rob Burbea’s teachings, this retreat invites deep meditative sensitivity, refined perception, and a natural unfolding toward jhana and awakening.
  • Residential
  • July 21, 2026
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  • July 26, 2026
  • Yahel Avigur

Seeing That Frees: Exploring the Path of Emptiness

  • Explore the liberating insight of emptiness through practices from Seeing That Frees. This retreat invites subtle, joyful perception that softens suffering and reveals the freedom at the heart of all experience.
  • Residential
  • August 4, 2026
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  • August 9, 2026
  • Bill Morgan, Susan Morgan

Finding Balance in Chaos: A Mindfulness Retreat for Coming Back to Ourselves

  • In turbulent times, return to what steadies you. This retreat offers mindfulness practices to calm the nervous system, release built-up stress, and restore balance—held in silence and spiritual friendship.
  • Residential
  • 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

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

Deepening Practice,
Building Community.

Deepening Practice,
Building Community.

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