Date: Sunday, January 19, 2020; 10:00am – 4:30pm.
Sliding Scale: $95 – 200. Code JB1D20.
Note: The average cost per person, per day to Spirit Rock to offer a program is $160.

Description:
Although it is a foundational Buddhist teaching, joy can seem frivolous or unspiritual, especially in these challenging times when it’s easy to get overwhelmed or outraged. We need skills to help us open to suffering, while not missing all the blessings. In this day retreat, we’ll discover ways to cultivate wholesome states to develop our natural capacity for well-being and joy, which then becomes our gift to a troubled world. We’ll explore how to open to the whole package of life with joy for our blessings, compassion for suffering, and holding it all with balance and equanimity that allows us to act with wisdom.

Our time together will include periods of guided and walking meditation, discussion, connection in community, written reflection, and Q&A.

Dates: Saturday, February 1, 3:00pm – Saturday, February 29, 11:30am; 28 nights
Sliding Scale: $6200- $2800, PLUS a donation to the teachers and retreat staff. Code 334R20.
The lottery closed at midnight on August 31, 2019.
All applications are now being processed for the wait list.

Prerequisites: BEFORE applying for this 28-night retreat (either February or March retreat), you must have completed at least 15 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time must include a minimum of two (2) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer. Please note that the 2-Month retreat (56-night retreat) requires 21 nights of silent retreat time with the same criteria. These retreats must have been led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. For your retreats to qualify, these previous retreats must be silent retreats and have a similar format to this retreat, with instructions, practices and talks focused on Insight Meditation. You will need to provide the teachers’ names, dates, location, length (# of nights), and style of the retreats when applying.

Retreat Description:
An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, combined with training in loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers.

These extended retreats (and all retreats at Spirit Rock) are not open for “self-retreats”.

Scholarships:
Special Offering for the month-long retreats only: Spirit Rock is extending the upper age limit of the Young Adult scholarship rate to individuals 18-32 years of age. This special rate is $40 per night. A limited number of special rates will be available.

Additional scholarship funding has been offered once again to support practitioners who self-identify as people of color. Scholarship rates are $40 per night.

Lottery/Application Information:
Our one-month and two-month retreats are extremely popular and in order to create more ease and fairness, we use a lottery process. The lottery is now closed (midnight Saturday, August 31, 2019). We will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis; however, you will be put on a waiting list. If you need scholarship funds to attend, please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application; however, please know that funding may likely not be available after the lottery close date.

People of Color and Young Adult applicants (whether scholarship applicants or not) are given high priority. Applicants who were on the waiting list the last two years in a row and did not get into our month-long retreats will also be given a higher priority. All others will go into the lottery system and be selected at random.

After the lottery closes and selections have been made, lottery applicants will be notified by email of their status no later than the second week in October; please refrain from calling before this deadline. We will need this time to process all the applications, pull the lottery, and allocate scholarship funding. If you are selected in the lottery pull, you will be sent an email with a special link to register and pay your retreat fees online. If you end up on a waiting list, you will be notified of your position on the list.

Work Retreatant (WR) Information for Monthlongs:
If you are interested in a work exchange for one of the month long retreats you must meet the following:
• You must have sat a month long retreat at Spirit Rock prior to this application; which includes meeting the retreat prerequisite: completion of at least 15 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time should include a minimum of two (2) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer.
• You must have completed a WR position at Spirit Rock on at least a 5-night retreat prior to this application.

We will have a lottery pull for the WR positions should more than four (4) apply for these month long positions. Everyone who applies for a WR position, is also required to fill out the month long retreat application. Please indicate on the retreat application that you have also applied for the Work Retreatant position. If you are not interested in attending the retreat unless you get the WR position, please indicate that as well. We will have two WRs for February and two WRs for March, so please indicate the retreat you are interested in. We do not have a WR role for the full two-month retreat. Work Retreatant Details

Dates: Saturday, February 1, 3:00pm – Saturday, March 28, 11:30am; 56 nights
Sliding Scale: $12400- $5600, PLUS a donation to the teachers and retreat staff. Code 336R20.
The lottery closed at midnight on August 31, 2019.
All applications are now being processed for the wait list.

Visit the link below for:
February 1-Month Retreat
March 1-Month Retreat

Prerequisites: BEFORE applying for this 56-night retreat (the 2-Month retreat), you must have completed at least 21 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time must include a minimum of three (3) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer. These retreats must have been led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. For your retreats to qualify, these previous retreats must be silent retreats, and have a similar format to this retreat, with instructions, practices and talks focused on Insight Meditation. You will need to provide the teachers’ names, dates, location, length (# of nights), and style of the retreats when applying.

Retreat Description:
An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, combined with training in loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers.
These extended retreats (and all retreats at Spirit Rock) are not open for “self-retreats”.

Scholarships:
Special Offering for the month-long retreats only: Spirit Rock is extending the upper age limit of the Young Adult scholarship rate to individuals 18-32 years of age. This special rate is $40 per night. A limited number of special rates will be available.

Additional scholarship funding has been offered once again to support practitioners who self-identify as people of color. Scholarship rates are $40 per night.

Lottery/Application Information:
Our one-month and two-month retreats are extremely popular and in order to create more ease and fairness, we use a lottery process. The lottery is now closed (midnight Saturday, August 31, 2019). We will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis; however, you will be put on a waiting list. If you need scholarship funds to attend, please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application; however, please know that funding may likely not be available after the lottery close date.

People of Color and Young Adult applicants (whether scholarship applicants or not) are given high priority. Applicants who were on the waiting list the last two years in a row and did not get into our month-long retreats will also be given a higher priority. All others will go into the lottery system and be selected at random.

After the lottery closes and selections have been made, lottery applicants will be notified by email of their status no later than the second week in October; please refrain from calling before this deadline. We will need this time to process all the applications, pull the lottery, and allocate scholarship funding. If you are selected in the lottery pull, you will be sent an email with a special link to register and pay your retreat fees online. If you end up on a waiting list, you will be notified of your position on the list.

Work Retreatant (WR) Information for Monthlongs:
We do not have a WR role for the full two-month retreat. If you are interested in a work exchange for one of the month long retreats you must meet the following:
• You must have sat a month long retreat at Spirit Rock prior to this application; which includes meeting the retreat prerequisite: completion of at least 15 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time should include a minimum of two (2) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer.
• You must have completed a WR position at Spirit Rock on at least a 5-night retreat prior to this application.

We will have a lottery pull for the WR positions should more than four (4) apply for these month long positions. Everyone who applies for a WR position, is also required to fill out the month long retreat application. Please indicate on the retreat application that you have also applied for the Work Retreatant position. If you are not interested in attending the retreat unless you get the WR position, please indicate that as well. We will have two WRs for February and two WRs for March, so please indicate the retreat you are interested in. Work Retreatant Details

Dates: Saturday, February 1, 3:00pm – Saturday, March 28, 11:30am; 56 nights
Sliding Scale: $12400- $5600, PLUS a donation to the teachers and retreat staff. Code 336R20.
The lottery closed at midnight on August 31, 2019.
All applications are now being processed for the wait list.

Visit the link below for:
February 1-Month Retreat
March 1-Month Retreat

Prerequisites: BEFORE applying for this 56-night retreat (the 2-Month retreat), you must have completed at least 21 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time must include a minimum of three (3) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer. These retreats must have been led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. For your retreats to qualify, these previous retreats must be silent retreats, and have a similar format to this retreat, with instructions, practices and talks focused on Insight Meditation. You will need to provide the teachers’ names, dates, location, length (# of nights), and style of the retreats when applying.

Retreat Description:
An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, combined with training in loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers.
These extended retreats (and all retreats at Spirit Rock) are not open for “self-retreats”.

Scholarships:
Special Offering for the month-long retreats only: Spirit Rock is extending the upper age limit of the Young Adult scholarship rate to individuals 18-32 years of age. This special rate is $40 per night. A limited number of special rates will be available.

Additional scholarship funding has been offered once again to support practitioners who self-identify as people of color. Scholarship rates are $40 per night.

Lottery/Application Information:
Our one-month and two-month retreats are extremely popular and in order to create more ease and fairness, we use a lottery process. The lottery is now closed (midnight Saturday, August 31, 2019). We will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis; however, you will be put on a waiting list. If you need scholarship funds to attend, please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application; however, please know that funding may likely not be available after the lottery close date.

People of Color and Young Adult applicants (whether scholarship applicants or not) are given high priority. Applicants who were on the waiting list the last two years in a row and did not get into our month-long retreats will also be given a higher priority. All others will go into the lottery system and be selected at random.

After the lottery closes and selections have been made, lottery applicants will be notified by email of their status no later than the second week in October; please refrain from calling before this deadline. We will need this time to process all the applications, pull the lottery, and allocate scholarship funding. If you are selected in the lottery pull, you will be sent an email with a special link to register and pay your retreat fees online. If you end up on a waiting list, you will be notified of your position on the list.

Work Retreatant (WR) Information for Monthlongs:
We do not have a WR role for the full two-month retreat. If you are interested in a work exchange for one of the month long retreats you must meet the following:
• You must have sat a month long retreat at Spirit Rock prior to this application; which includes meeting the retreat prerequisite: completion of at least 15 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time should include a minimum of two (2) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer.
• You must have completed a WR position at Spirit Rock on at least a 5-night retreat prior to this application.

We will have a lottery pull for the WR positions should more than four (4) apply for these month long positions. Everyone who applies for a WR position, is also required to fill out the month long retreat application. Please indicate on the retreat application that you have also applied for the Work Retreatant position. If you are not interested in attending the retreat unless you get the WR position, please indicate that as well. We will have two WRs for February and two WRs for March, so please indicate the retreat you are interested in. Work Retreatant Details

Dates: Wednesday, May 20, 3:00pm – Wednesday, May 27, 11:30am; 7 nights.
Sliding Scale: $1900-$850, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 354R20.
Will open for registration on 1/21/20.

Retreat Description:
The paradox of awareness is very profound and yet very simple. It can’t be described because it has no objective qualities and no limitation. Sometimes it comes naturally to the surface when we are fully in the present moment and no longer lost in thoughts or mental projections. Pure consciousness is neither high nor low, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither good nor bad.

Join us for this retreat where we will learn how to pay attention to this quality of awareness through formal and informal meditation. Once we know how to pay attention, it can be experienced in an instant – in all circumstances. When we reside in that liberated mind, we find the very thing we have been seeking all along.

The retreat includes silent sitting and walking periods with instructions and practice meetings with teachers, as well as daily dharma talks. This retreat is for both experienced as well as new students.

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).

A unique scholarship opportunity — the Hemera Contemplative Fellowship! If you are 18 years of age or older with a commitment to service — serving others through your profession — you should consider reviewing the eligibility for this Fellowship. In general, this Fellowship is for those who are full-time in the listed eligible professions and are new to silent residential retreat practice. Follow this link for more detailed information: Hemera Contemplative Fellowships. ONE scholarship allowed per person, per calendar year.

Dates: Saturday, August 29, 3:00pm – Thursday, September 3, 11:30am; 5 nights.
Sliding Scale: $1500-$650, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 378R20.
Will open for registration on 4/28/20.

Retreat Description:
This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing clarity and depth of practice. Traditional instructions will be combined with a spirit of loving-kindness and silent sitting and walking meditation, dharma talks, and meetings with the teachers.

Suitable for both beginning and experienced students.

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).

Dates: Saturday, August 29, 3:00pm – Thursday, September 3, 11:30am; 5 nights.
Sliding Scale: $1500-$650, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 378R20.
Will open for registration on 4/28/20.

Retreat Description:
This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing clarity and depth of practice. Traditional instructions will be combined with a spirit of loving-kindness and silent sitting and walking meditation, dharma talks, and meetings with the teachers.

Suitable for both beginning and experienced students.

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).