Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Date: Friday, May 22, 2020; 10:00am – 5:00pm.
Sliding Scale: $95 – 200. Code DR2D20.
6 CE credits available for $60, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, chiropractors, and is pending approval for acupuncturists.
Note: The average cost per person, per day to Spirit Rock to offer a program is $160.

Description:
Connecting our meditation practice with our speech and communication is one of the main ways to bring spiritual values further into our everyday lives. In this day retreat, we will support this intention by integrating periods of sitting and walking meditation with talks, communication exercises, and discussion. We will focus on:
• The fundamental teachings of the Buddha on wise speech;
• Cultivating mindfulness during both speaking and listening; and
• Learning how to practice wise and compassionate speech in challenging situations—such as when there are intense emotions, when there is conflict, or when there are difficult interpersonal or group dynamics.

Continuing Education (CE) credit available. Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.  Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients.  See below for attendance requirements and more information.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:

• Describe the nature and importance of wise speech and its grounding in ethical principles, in ways that will help guide practical work with both self and clients;
• Utilize several of these practical methods of developing skillful speech in a professional setting: through following ethical guidelines, mindfulness, empathy toward others, and skillful choice of language;
• Demonstrate skillful speech in challenging and difficult situations, in ways useful both for self and clients;
• Utilize the development of presence and mindfulness in wise and skillful speech, in ways that may be used in a professional setting.

Continuing Education content level: Intermediate 

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Dates: Thursday, May 28, 3:00pm – Thursday, June 4, 11:30am; 7 nights
Sliding Scale: $1900-$850, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 357R20.

Pre-requisite: Completion of at least two 5-night or longer silent insight meditation retreats, or permission of the teachers.

This retreat is full. If you are interested in being a commuter (and you meet the prerequisite) or you would like to add your name to the residential wait list, please submit an application. You will need to choose one or the other. We do receive cancellations for residential spaces close to a retreat start, so the longer you’re able to wait, the better your chances of getting in.

Please Note: A limited number of People of Color scholarships are still available. All Young Adult rates and Mudita/Karuna scholarship funds for this retreat have been allocated.

Retreat Description:
In the context of a small retreat, we will train in three inter-related modes of practice. First, we will settle and stabilize our minds and bodies, becoming more concentrated, through both sitting and moving forms of meditation, including Qigong. As we settle, we then become better able to examine closely both our experiences of our bodies, thoughts, and emotions, and the general patterns of experience. We see more clearly when we are reactive, when we suffer, when there is a thick sense of self, and we learn to be more with the impermanent flow of experience. We can also tune in more, as we settle and see, to an increasingly unconfined and luminous awareness beyond reactivity, that is a source of freedom, wisdom, and compassion, both in retreat practice and daily life.

Financial assistance is available for all Spirit Rock residential retreats. Our scholarship rate is $40/night and available for all those with financial hardship with special funds allocated to People of Color (POC), folks with serious medical conditions, and young adults (age 18-26). Scholarship funding is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Scholarships are budgeted per retreat and because they are in high demand, can run out quickly. We encourage you to register for a retreat as close as possible to the registration opening date (lotteries are an exception).

Location: Upper Walking Hall. This retreat is designed as a smaller and more intimate retreat and, as such, will be held in the upper Walking Hall located in the upper retreat building. The upper Walking Hall is accessible by the stairs to the left as you enter the Retreat Hall foyer, or by a path at the back of the building, on the left.

Dates: Thursday, May 28, 3:00pm – Thursday, June 4, 11:30am; 7 nights
Sliding Scale: $1900-$850, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 357R20.

Pre-requisite: Completion of at least two 5-night or longer silent insight meditation retreats, or permission of the teachers.

This retreat is full. If you are interested in being a commuter (and you meet the prerequisite) or you would like to add your name to the residential wait list, please submit an application. You will need to choose one or the other. We do receive cancellations for residential spaces close to a retreat start, so the longer you’re able to wait, the better your chances of getting in.

Please Note: A limited number of People of Color scholarships are still available. All Young Adult rates and Mudita/Karuna scholarship funds for this retreat have been allocated.

Retreat Description:
In the context of a small retreat, we will train in three inter-related modes of practice. First, we will settle and stabilize our minds and bodies, becoming more concentrated, through both sitting and moving forms of meditation, including Qigong. As we settle, we then become better able to examine closely both our experiences of our bodies, thoughts, and emotions, and the general patterns of experience. We see more clearly when we are reactive, when we suffer, when there is a thick sense of self, and we learn to be more with the impermanent flow of experience. We can also tune in more, as we settle and see, to an increasingly unconfined and luminous awareness beyond reactivity, that is a source of freedom, wisdom, and compassion, both in retreat practice and daily life.

Financial assistance is available for all Spirit Rock residential retreats. Our scholarship rate is $40/night and available for all those with financial hardship with special funds allocated to People of Color (POC), folks with serious medical conditions, and young adults (age 18-26). Scholarship funding is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Scholarships are budgeted per retreat and because they are in high demand, can run out quickly. We encourage you to register for a retreat as close as possible to the registration opening date (lotteries are an exception).

Location: Upper Walking Hall. This retreat is designed as a smaller and more intimate retreat and, as such, will be held in the upper Walking Hall located in the upper retreat building. The upper Walking Hall is accessible by the stairs to the left as you enter the Retreat Hall foyer, or by a path at the back of the building, on the left.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.

Dates: Friday, December 18, 3:00pm – Wednesday, December 23, 11:30am; 5 nights.
Sliding Scale: $1600-$700, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 224R20.
10 CE credits available for $100, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Will open for registration on 8/18/20.

Retreat Description:
In this retreat, we will emphasize centering ourselves at the time of the holidays and the New Year, through quieting our minds, grounding in our bodies, opening up our hearts, and using inquiry to help give energy to our practice. There will be a special emphasis on opening to the darkness, including to our difficulties and challenges, as well as to the coming light—to our beauty, joy, wisdom, and love. The retreat will include complete meditation instructions, sitting and walking meditation, daily loving kindness practice, daily Qigong practice, evening talks, practice discussions, and a Winter Solstice ceremony.

Financial assistance is available for all Spirit Rock residential retreats. Our scholarship rate is $40/night and available for all those with financial hardship with special funds allocated to People of Color (POC), folks with serious medical conditions, and young adults (age 18-26). Scholarship funding is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Scholarships are budgeted per retreat and because they are in high demand, can run out quickly. We encourage you to register for a retreat as close as possible to the registration opening date (lotteries are an exception).

Continuing Education (CE) credit available. Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. See below for attendance requirements and more information.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:

• List 4 ways of developing mindfulness of different elements of experience;
• Describe a loving-kindness meditation that may be useful during difficult times;
• Incorporate mindfulness of breath practices to settle and stabilize awareness and to calm the mind, that may be used in preparation for and when working with clients.
• Incorporate various mindfulness practices to improve emotional self-regulation, that may be used while working with clients;
• Utilize body awareness practices to deepen presence and the ability to listen well with clients;
• Demonstrate three ways to bring mindfulness into daily life in ways that improve well-being;
• Demonstrate three ways to bring lovingkindness into daily life in ways that improve well-being;
• Describe the applicability of mindfulness meditation as a resource for health care providers;
• Utilize Qigong movements to develop the centering and grounding of the body, and settling and calming of the mind and body.

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

Teacher(s): Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg and Friends. For a complete schedule of upcoming teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $15 – $30. Code zWED.
Register:  Registration not required – just come.

Sitting and practice-oriented discussion, suitable for beginners, as well as engaged practitioners.