Dates: Wednesday, August 28, 3:00pm – Monday, September 2, 11:30am; 5 nights
Sliding Scale: $1300 – $600, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 280R19.

We are very sorry, this retreat is FULL. Please submit an application if you are interested in being on the wait list. We do have cancellations, so the longer you’re able to wait, the better your chances of getting in.

If you are interested and need financial assistance, we may have a work exchange available.

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).

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: Wednesday, August 28, 3:00pm – Monday, September 2, 11:30am; 5 nights
Sliding Scale: $1300 – $600, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 280R19.

We are very sorry, this retreat is FULL. Please submit an application if you are interested in being on the wait list. We do have cancellations, so the longer you’re able to wait, the better your chances of getting in.

If you are interested and need financial assistance, we may have a work exchange available.

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).

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.

Date: Sunday, September 15; 9:30am – 4:30pm.  
Sliding Scale: Dana (by Donation) Day. Code JB1B19.
Presenters: In-person: James Baraz, Joanna Macy, Belvie Rooks, Jennifer Berezan & others. Via video: Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Venerable Analayo, & others.

Online option available via Livestream. Register here.

Arrival: Please arrive by 9:15am, to allow enough time for parking and check-in.

This day will be offered in the spirit of dana as a benefit for One Earth Sangha and Spirit Rock. 

Description:
Looking for inspiration to be the change you want to see? In this day together, we will explore through teachings, meditation, and experiential exercises, how to apply the gifts and tools available through Dharma practice to the climate crisis–learning to face and transform fear, grief, anger, overwhelm and blocks that keep us from contributing in a meaningful and inspiring way. With this embodied awareness, we can move into conscious action with a deeper connection to ourselves, our community, and our world.

This day will be offered in the spirit of dana as a benefit for One Earth Sangha, a platform for teachings on a wise Dharma response to climate change, and for Spirit Rock. All presenters are offering teachings as their dana to support this day. We want to make the day available to all and we hope it will inspire everyone to be as generous as possible.

Date: Sunday, September 15, 2019, 9:30am – 4:30pm. Livestream registration open until September 22, 2019.
Sliding Scale: Dana (by Donation). Code JB2L19.
Livestream access: Available for 3 months after the program.

Presenters: In-person: James Baraz, Joanna Macy, Belvie Rooks, Jennifer Berezan & others. Via video: Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Venerable Analayo, & others.

In-person option: Register here.

This day will be offered in the spirit of dana as a benefit for One Earth Sangha and Spirit Rock.

Description:
Looking for inspiration to be the change you want to see? In this day together, we will explore through teachings, meditation, and experiential exercises, how to apply the gifts and tools available through Dharma practice to the climate crisis–learning to face and transform fear, grief, anger, overwhelm and blocks that keep us from contributing in a meaningful and inspiring way. With this embodied awareness, we can move into conscious action with a deeper connection to ourselves, our community, and our world.

This day will be offered in the spirit of dana as a benefit for One Earth Sangha, a platform for teachings on a wise Dharma response to climate change, and for Spirit Rock. All presenters are offering teachings as their dana to support this day. We want to make the day available to all and we hope it will inspire everyone to be as generous as possible.

Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019; 10:00am – 4:30pm.
Sliding Scale: $75 – 200. Code JB2D19.

Description:
The mind can cloud be clouded with our personal aspirations, in our effort to support others, or in doubt disguised as wisdom. External influences can raise questions. Who am I to do that? What if I fail? What if people don’t approve?”

In this day together, we’ll explore how Dharma teachings can help us see through the perception of our small sense of self to align with a truth that is beyond our personal ego, fears, and doubts. In doing so, we can cultivate the courage to overcome these obstacles, and allow ourselves to be used as a force for good while inspiring others to do the same.

The day will include periods of guided and walking meditation, discussion, written and interactive reflections, and Q&A.

Date: Saturday, December 7, 2019; 10:00am – 4:00pm.
Sliding Scale: $75 – 200. Code BS2D19.
Presenters: Bob Stahl, Richard Shankman, James Baraz, Thanissara, Bob Isaacson, Patti Breitman, Will Tuttle, and Jina Shah, and via video: Tara Brach, Konda Mason, and Dawn Mauricio.

Description:
This day retreat will be devoted to exploring the first precept of not killing or non-harming, which is the basis, or foundation for the remaining four precepts of not stealing, not causing sexual harm, not hurting with speech, and not getting intoxicated.

It is interesting to note that within the Western Insight and Theravada tradition, there is a philosophical divide between vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters. The first precept clearly states not killing any living being, which implies that all of life is sacred. Yet how is it that many of us still eat animals? And also what about climate change, can shifting to a plant based diet help? Is it possible to reconcile these conundrums?

In the Rhinoceros Horn Discourse, the Khaggavisana Sutta, the Buddha says: “Renouncing violence for all living beings, harming not even a one”… In light of the first precept of non-harming, which literally means to not take away one’s breath (panatipata), how do you reconcile eating meat or wearing leather? How do we deal with termites, mosquitoes, flies, mice, rats, bacteria, or other creatures? How do we feel about using products that may hurt animals?

What is our highest aspiration for living a life of non-harming? What can support us to live more in fully in alignment with those aspirations? Is it possible to live without harming, or reduce harm in our society?

This day will explore non-harming (ahimsa) in our modern world. We will show the film, “Animals and the Buddha” and then have a panel discussion and Q & A moderated by Bob Stahl and Richard Shankman with: James Baraz, Thanissara, Bob Isaacson, Patti Breitman, Will Tuttle, and Jina Shah. There will also be video presentations from Tara Brach, Konda Mason, and Dawn Mauricio.

Bob Stahl
Bob has founded eight Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs in medical centers in the SF Bay Area and is currently offering programs at Dominican Hospital, El Camino Hospitals in Los Gatos and Mt. View, and Good Samaritan Hospital.  He serves as a Senior Teacher for Brown University Mindfulness Center and the Oasis Institute for Mindfulness-Based Professional Education and Training at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Bob teachers MBSR Teacher Trainings and Insight Meditation retreats worldwide and is the guiding teacher at Insight Santa Cruz and a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock. He is coauthor of 5 books:  A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Living With Your Heart Wide Open, Calming the Rush of Panic, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety, and MBSR Everyday.  Bob holds deeply that all life, the earth and universe is sacred and has been a vegan for nearly 30 years…

Richard Shankman
Richard Shankman has been a meditator since 1970, and teaches at Dharma centers and groups internationally. He is guiding teacher of the Metta Dharma Foundation, and cofounder of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and of Mindful Schools. He practices and teaches meditation that integrates compassion, mindfulness, concentration and insight as one path of practice. Richard is the author of The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation and The Experience of Samadhi.

James Baraz
James has been a meditation teacher since 1978. He is creator and teacher of the Awakening Joy course (since 2003). He leads retreats, workshops and classes in U.S and abroad. Co-founding Teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA.Co-author of Awakening Joy, the book based on the course (with Shoshana Alexander).He is a Guiding Teacher for One Earth Sangha, a website devoted to expressing a Buddhist response to Climate Change.  James lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, Jane.   He has two sons and three grandchildren

Thanissara
Thanissara spent 12 years as a nun in the Forest School of Ajahn Chah as a founding member of the UK monasteries. She has taught meditation retreats internationally for 30+ years and has an MA in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy Practice. With Kittisaro, she co-founded Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa in 2000 and co-initiated several HIV/Aids response projects in there. Together, they founded Sacred Mountain Sangha, which now has a presence in the USA as a California based Non Profit. She currently lives in Sebastopol. Her latest book is Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth.

Bob Isaacson
Bob Isaacson is the co-founder and president of the only international Buddhist animal rights/advocacy organization in the world, Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA). He has practiced the Dharma in the Vipassana/Theravada tradition for over twenty years. He was a civil rights-human rights attorney for twenty-five years, specializing in defending people against the death penalty. Bob currently teaches the Dharma, leads two Sanghas, and leads day-long and weekend retreats in the San Diego area, having been trained in Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Community Dharma Leader Program.  

Dr. Will Tuttle
Dr. Will Tuttle is author of the acclaimed best-seller, The World Peace Diet, published in 16 languages. A recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award and the Empty Cages Prize, he is also the author of several other books on spirituality, intuition, and social justice, as well as the creator of online wellness and advocacy programs. A vegan since 1980 and former Zen monk, he is featured in a number of documentary film The co-founder of the Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals, he is a frequent radio, television, and online presenter. With his spouse Madeleine, a Swiss visionary artist,he lectures extensively throughout North America and worldwide.

Jina Shah
Dr. Jhankhana Jina Shah is a member of the Order of Inter-being in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Nhat,  the Chair of the Ahimsak Eco-Vegan Committee of the Federation of Jain  Associations of North America and a Climate Realities Leader.  She is  Board Certified in General Preventive Medicine and in Family Medicine, with experience in global public health, vaccine and drug development, lifestyle medicine and the field of bioethics. Raised as a vegetarian, she decided to go vegan 29 years ago for ahimsa and, in her professional training, has come to appreciate and teach about the health benefits of a whole foods, plant based diet. She contributes to the blog veganjains.com.

Patti Breitman
Patti Breitman is a co-founder of Dharma Voices for Animals and director of The Marin Vegetarian Education Group. She is the co-author of many books including How To Eat Like A Vegetarian (Even  If You Never Want to Be One); Never Too Late to Go Vegan: and Even Vegans Die (with a foreword by Dr. Michael Greger).   She is on the advisory council of Jewish Veg.  In 2016 she was honored to receive the Lisa Shapiro Award for Unsung Vegan Heroes.  Patti lives in Fairfax, CA where her neighbors and friends include coyotes, foxes, rabbits, bobcats, spiders, birds, snakes, deer, and countless other beautiful creatures.

Tara Brach
Tara Brach is a leading western teacher of Buddhist meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. She has practiced and taught meditation for over 35 years, with an emphasis on vipassana (mindfulness or insight) meditation. Tara is the senior teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. A clinical psychologist, Tara is author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha and the book, True Refuge–Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart(Bantam, 2013).  Find these, as well as her meditation CD “Mindfulness Meditation: Nine Guided Practices to Awaken Presence and Open Your Heart” on her products page. Tara’s podcasts are downloaded nearly 1 million times each month from over 150 countries.

Konda Mason
Konda Mason was introduced to Tibetan Buddhism in 1982. Her love for Vipassana began in 1996, working with Jack Kornfield at the Vallecitos Retreat Center. She has been a regular yoga teacher at Spirit Rock since 1997, teaching many retreats including the annual Metta Retreat and many of the POC retreats.
Konda’s dharma training includes the East Bay Meditation Center Commit to Dharma program, Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader and she is currently in the 2020 Spirit Rock Teacher Training program. Konda has taught daylongs, retreats and workshops. She sits on the Board of Directors of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and is on the Advisory Board of the Namchak Foundation Learning Circles.
In addition to her spiritual pursuits, Konda is a social entrepreneur, earth and social justice activist. She is the Co-Founder and former CEO of Impact Hub Oakland, a beautiful co-working space that supports socially engaged entrepreneurs and changemakers.

Dawn Mauricio
Dawn Mauricio has been practicing and studying Insight Meditation since 2005, sitting silent residential retreats in Canada, United States, Thailand, and Burma. Since discovering the Dharma, she has graduated from Spirit Rock’s Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training and the Dedicated Practitioners’ Program, as well as the first teacher development group of True North Insight. Dawn teaches with a playful, dynamic, and centered approach, currently leading a weekly sitting group, daylong retreats, and mindfulness workshops. She is a meditation retreat teacher for teenagers with Inward Bound Mindfulness Education and is currently in Spirit Rock’s 4-year Teacher Training.

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 is open now until August 31.

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. Applications for the lottery will be accepted Tuesday, July 16, 2019, to midnight Saturday, August 31, 2019. You do not need to apply on the first day it opens. The lottery applications will be available for approximately a 1-1/2 month period. All applicants must apply online. No retreat fees will be collected at this time, it is purely registration for the lottery portion of the process. If you need scholarship funds to attend, now is the time to request funding – please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application. Funding will likely not be available later. After the lottery closes, we will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis; however, you will be put on a waiting list.

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 first 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 is open now until August 31.

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. Applications for the lottery will be accepted Tuesday, July 16, 2019, to midnight Saturday, August 31, 2019. You do not need to apply on the first day it opens. The lottery applications will be available for approximately a 1-1/2 month period. All applicants must apply online. No retreat fees will be collected at this time, it is purely registration for the lottery portion of the process. If you need scholarship funds to attend, now is the time to request funding – please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application. Funding will likely not be available later. After the lottery closes, we will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis; however, you will be put on a waiting list.

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 first 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 is open now until August 31.

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. Applications for the lottery will be accepted Tuesday, July 16, 2019, to midnight Saturday, August 31, 2019. You do not need to apply on the first day it opens. The lottery applications will be available for approximately a 1-1/2 month period. All applicants must apply online. No retreat fees will be collected at this time, it is purely registration for the lottery portion of the process. If you need scholarship funds to attend, now is the time to request funding – please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application. Funding will likely not be available later. After the lottery closes, we will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis; however, you will be put on a waiting list.

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 first 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