Sliding Scale: $75 – 200. Code JB3D18.

The shift from “thinking” to “being” is one of the most essential aspects of the meditative journey. We will explore somatic practices to quiet the conceptual mind, unlocking the hidden power, warmth, and wisdom of the body.

Drawing upon their father-son Dharma connection, James and Adam Baraz will offer Buddhist teachings from Tibetan yoga and Theravada mindfulness practice. Through experiential exercises and guided meditations, we will focus on the somatic path of spiritual transformation to support “bypassing the thinking mind” which will include techniques to release physical and emotional tension, awaken presence and relax the body into being.

Young Adults (18-26) and Seniors (65+ with limited income) are invited to attend this day for $45.

Sliding Scale: $75 – 200. Code JB4D18.
5.5 CE credits available for $55 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, and LPCCs.

The Buddha emphasized the importance of wise relationship in the world including Right Speech and Right Action as two links of the Eightfold Path. Relationships can be complicated, especially with those closest to us. A rich expression of our practice is learning to authentically communicate what is both truthful and useful—the hard stuff as well as our loving connection.

The day will include periods of experiential exercises, talks, discussions and guided meditations. We’ll explore various elements of wise relationship: forgiveness, appreciation, loving-kindness vs. attachment, and sympathetic joy, in order to deepen our connection with others in our lives.

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. Continuing Education (CE) credit available. See below for attendance requirements and more information.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
Based on the content of this program, you will be able to:

• List fours elements that cultivate a wise relationship;
• Describe a forgiveness practice that may be used by clients or patients to improve relationships and reduce the suffering caused by holding grievance;
• List elements of right speech, and describe to clients how incorporating this practice when communicating may improve relationships;
• Describe the difference between loving-kindness and attachment, and the possible relative effects on personal well-being.

Young Adults (18-26) and Seniors (65+ with limited income) are invited to attend this day for $45.

Dates: Saturday, February 2, 3:00pm – Saturday, March 30, 11:30am; 56 nights
Sliding Scale: $12200 – $5545, PLUS a donation to the teachers and retreat staff. Code 238R19.
Lottery is now closed; however, we will continue to accept eligible late applications in the order they were received.

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

See Lottery/Application and Scholarship Information below.

Prerequisites for Long Retreats: BEFORE applying, you must have completed at least 14 nights of silent residential retreat time with at least 2 retreats being 5-nights or longer. These retreats should have been led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. To qualify, these previous retreats must 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, along with a practice-meeting questionnaire.

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 $35 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 $35 per night.

Lottery/Application Information:
Our one-month and two-month retreats have become extremely popular and in order to create more ease and fairness, we have moved to a lottery process.

Although the lottery is now closed (August 31, 2018); we will continue to accept applications as they are submitted and in the order they are received. However, anyone applying after the lottery deadline above will not be added to the lottery and will be added to the waiting list after the application has been reviewed for eligibility. All applicants must apply online. No retreat fees will be collected at this time, you will be notified of your wait list status once reviewed. If you need scholarship funds to attend, please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application. Funding may likely not be available later, but changes is constant.

During the initial lottery pull, 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 – applications must be received within the lottery deadline. All others will go into the lottery system and be selected at random.

Applicants will be notified by email of their lottery status no later than the first week in October or sooner; 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. Late applicants will be placed below all the lottery applicants in the order they were received.

Dates: Saturday, February 2, 3:00pm – Saturday, March 2, 11:30am; 28 nights
Sliding Scale: $6095 – $2770, PLUS a donation to the teachers and retreat staff. Code 236R19.
Lottery is now closed; however, we will continue to accept eligible late applications in the order they were received.

See Lottery/Application and Scholarship Information below.

Prerequisites for Long Retreats: BEFORE applying, you must have completed at least 14 nights of silent residential retreat time with at least 2 retreats being 5-nights or longer. These retreats should have been led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. To qualify, these previous retreats must 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, along with a practice-meeting questionnaire.

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 $35 per night. A limited number of these 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 $35 per night.

Lottery/Application Information:
Our one-month and two-month retreats have become extremely popular and in order to create more ease and fairness, we have moved to a lottery process.

Although the lottery is now closed (August 31, 2018); we will continue to accept applications as they are submitted and in the order they are received. However, anyone applying after the lottery deadline above will not be added to the lottery and will be added to the waiting list after the application has been reviewed for eligibility. All applicants must apply online. No retreat fees will be collected at this time, you will be notified of your wait list status once reviewed. If you need scholarship funds to attend, please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application. Funding may likely not be available later, but changes is constant.

During the initial lottery pull, 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 – applications must be received within the lottery deadline. All others will go into the lottery system and be selected at random.

Applicants will be notified by email of their lottery status no later than the first week in October or sooner; 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. Late applicants will be placed below all the lottery applicants in the order they were received.

Dates: Saturday, February 2, 3:00pm – Saturday, March 30, 11:30am; 56 nights
Sliding Scale: $12200 – $5545, PLUS a donation to the teachers and retreat staff. Code 238R19.
Lottery is now closed; however, we will continue to accept eligible late applications in the order they were received.

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

See Lottery/Application and Scholarship Information below.

Prerequisites for Long Retreats: BEFORE applying, you must have completed at least 14 nights of silent residential retreat time with at least 2 retreats being 5-nights or longer. These retreats should have been led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. To qualify, these previous retreats must 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, along with a practice-meeting questionnaire.

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 $35 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 $35 per night.

Lottery/Application Information:
Our one-month and two-month retreats have become extremely popular and in order to create more ease and fairness, we have moved to a lottery process.

Although the lottery is now closed (August 31, 2018); we will continue to accept applications as they are submitted and in the order they are received. However, anyone applying after the lottery deadline above will not be added to the lottery and will be added to the waiting list after the application has been reviewed for eligibility. All applicants must apply online. No retreat fees will be collected at this time, you will be notified of your wait list status once reviewed. If you need scholarship funds to attend, please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application. Funding may likely not be available later, but changes is constant.

During the initial lottery pull, 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 – applications must be received within the lottery deadline. All others will go into the lottery system and be selected at random.

Applicants will be notified by email of their lottery status no later than the first week in October or sooner; 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. Late applicants will be placed below all the lottery applicants in the order they were received.

Dates: Saturday, February 2, 3:00pm – Saturday, March 2, 11:30am; 28 nights
Sliding Scale: $6095 – $2770, PLUS a donation to the teachers and retreat staff. Code 236R19.
Lottery is now closed; however, we will continue to accept eligible late applications in the order they were received.

See Lottery/Application and Scholarship Information below.

Prerequisites for Long Retreats: BEFORE applying, you must have completed at least 14 nights of silent residential retreat time with at least 2 retreats being 5-nights or longer. These retreats should have been led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. To qualify, these previous retreats must 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, along with a practice-meeting questionnaire.

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 $35 per night. A limited number of these 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 $35 per night.

Lottery/Application Information:
Our one-month and two-month retreats have become extremely popular and in order to create more ease and fairness, we have moved to a lottery process.

Although the lottery is now closed (August 31, 2018); we will continue to accept applications as they are submitted and in the order they are received. However, anyone applying after the lottery deadline above will not be added to the lottery and will be added to the waiting list after the application has been reviewed for eligibility. All applicants must apply online. No retreat fees will be collected at this time, you will be notified of your wait list status once reviewed. If you need scholarship funds to attend, please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application. Funding may likely not be available later, but changes is constant.

During the initial lottery pull, 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 – applications must be received within the lottery deadline. All others will go into the lottery system and be selected at random.

Applicants will be notified by email of their lottery status no later than the first week in October or sooner; 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. Late applicants will be placed below all the lottery applicants in the order they were received.

Dates: Monday, June 3, 3:00pm – Sunday, June 9, 11:30am
Sliding Scale: TBD, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 258R19.
Will open for registration on 2/6/2019.

Retreat Description:
“It is that gladness connected with the wholesome that I call an equipment of mind….for developing a mind that is without hostility and without ill will.”
-The Buddha

The Buddha was known as “The Happy One.” However, the teachings often seem to emphasize working with suffering. Joy and happiness can seem frivolous or unspiritual even though joy is one of the Seven Factors of Awakening. In this retreat we will practice with an emphasis on cultivating wholesome states to develop our natural capacity for well-being and happiness. Our own development of well-being and joy then becomes our gift to a troubled world.

The retreat includes silent sitting and walking periods with instructions and practice meetings with teachers, as well as some experiential exercises during the five days. This retreat is appropriate for both experienced as well as new/beginning students.

Practices will include:

• Inclining the mind toward wholesome states;
• The power of wholesome intention;
• Mindfulness as appreciation practice (wonder and gratitude);
• Embracing suffering as a path to joy;
• How letting go leads to true freedom;
• Integrity as a foundation for well-being;
• Metta (loving-kindness) for self and others;
• Mudita (sympathetic joy);
• Compassion–the expression of a wise heart;and
• The joy of simply being.

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: Wednesday, August 28, 3:00pm – Monday, September 2, 11:30am; 5 nights
Sliding Scale: TBD, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 280R19.
Will open for registration on 4/23/2019.

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! If you are an Educator, Health Care Professional, or Artist that has never attended a residential retreat longer than a weekend retreat (1-3 nights), you may qualify for a Hemera Foundation Fellowship to assist in attending your first week-long residential retreat. Hemera Foundation Fellowships: Click link for more information. ONE scholarship allowed per person, per calendar year.

Dates: Wednesday, August 28, 3:00pm – Monday, September 2, 11:30am; 5 nights
Sliding Scale: TBD, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 280R19.
Will open for registration on 4/23/2019.

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! If you are an Educator, Health Care Professional, or Artist that has never attended a residential retreat longer than a weekend retreat (1-3 nights), you may qualify for a Hemera Foundation Fellowship to assist in attending your first week-long residential retreat. Hemera Foundation Fellowships: Click link for more information. ONE scholarship allowed per person, per calendar year.