Dates: Material available immediately upon registering – April 1, 2020. Registration open until February 1, 2020.
Sliding scale: $199 – $299. Code MC1N20.

Foundational Buddhist Teachings offers a core understanding of the Buddha’s teachings and Insight Meditation practices, including the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, the Four Noble Truths, Brahma-Viharas, and the Eightfold Path. This course emphasizes cultivation of mindful awareness and learning to apply and live these wisdom and heart practices in our daily lives. These are essential teachings for building a baseline understanding, and for the Buddhist path of practice. In each session, there will be guided meditations, lectures, discussion, and inquiry.

COURSE INCLUDES:
• 5 video sessions for self-paced participation (course videos originally recorded in 2018)
• Each video session contains dharma talks, reflections, and guided meditations
• Teacher support: 2 video conferences with Mark Coleman (will be recorded and accessible for later viewing)
• Downloadable audio recordings —compatible with iTunes and Android media libraries

COURSE OVERVIEW:
Session 1: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness – Developing Awareness
Session 2: Four Noble Truths – Freedom From Suffering
Session 3: The Boundless Heart – Love, Compassion, Joy & Equanimity
Sessions 4 & 5: The Eightfold Path – The Buddhist Path to Freedom

VIDEO CONFERENCES – 6:00 P.M. PT ON:
Wednesday, January 8
Wednesday, February 5

REGISTRATION AND ACCESSING COURSE MATERIAL:
After completing your online registration, you will receive an auto-confirmation email with the link to the class page and will have immediate access to the class materials. Course materials will be available through midnight April 1, 2020. This course is useful for newer students as well as those with more experience who want to refresh their knowledge. Because you will be given immediate access to the materials, we have a strict no refund policy for this course.

QUESTIONS? Email us. 

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

SCHOLARSHIP AND WORK EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITY:
Two spaces will be reserved for work exchange participants.  These positions will be awarded on a needs basis for participants who would otherwise be unable to participate in the training program.  The work exchange program fee is $2500.  If you are interested in applying, please write to Trainings@spiritrock.org, and include your intention for the training program, your economic conditions, and any other details that may be relevant.  All applicants will be reviewed and participants will be notified by December 2.

Five spaces will be reserved for partial scholarship participants.  These positions will be awarded on a needs basis for participants who would otherwise be unable to participate in the training, and are not participating as a work exchange participants.  The partial scholarship fee is $3000.  If you are interested in applying, please write to Trainings@spiritrock.org, and include your intention for the training program, your economic conditions, and any other details that may be relevant.  All applicants will be reviewed and participants will be notified by December 16.

ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS: Absences of up to two days will be permitted for all programs except for Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga and Embodied Yoga (Commuter Retreat), and the Integrating the Teachings weekend.  Written make-up assignments, submitted within 30 days of the missed class, will be required to receive the certificate of completion. Participants who miss more than two days, for whatever reason, will not be eligible for the certificate of completion, or a refund.

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Material available immediately upon registering – April 1, 2020. Registration open until February 1, 2020.
Sliding scale: $199 – $299. Code MC1N20.

Foundational Buddhist Teachings offers a core understanding of the Buddha’s teachings and Insight Meditation practices, including the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, the Four Noble Truths, Brahma-Viharas, and the Eightfold Path. This course emphasizes cultivation of mindful awareness and learning to apply and live these wisdom and heart practices in our daily lives. These are essential teachings for building a baseline understanding, and for the Buddhist path of practice. In each session, there will be guided meditations, lectures, discussion, and inquiry.

COURSE INCLUDES:
• 5 video sessions for self-paced participation (course videos originally recorded in 2018)
• Each video session contains dharma talks, reflections, and guided meditations
• Teacher support: 2 video conferences with Mark Coleman (will be recorded and accessible for later viewing)
• Downloadable audio recordings —compatible with iTunes and Android media libraries

COURSE OVERVIEW:
Session 1: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness – Developing Awareness
Session 2: Four Noble Truths – Freedom From Suffering
Session 3: The Boundless Heart – Love, Compassion, Joy & Equanimity
Sessions 4 & 5: The Eightfold Path – The Buddhist Path to Freedom

VIDEO CONFERENCES – 6:00 P.M. PT ON:
Wednesday, January 8
Wednesday, February 5

REGISTRATION AND ACCESSING COURSE MATERIAL:
After completing your online registration, you will receive an auto-confirmation email with the link to the class page and will have immediate access to the class materials. Course materials will be available through midnight April 1, 2020. This course is useful for newer students as well as those with more experience who want to refresh their knowledge. Because you will be given immediate access to the materials, we have a strict no refund policy for this course.

QUESTIONS? Email us. 

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

SCHOLARSHIP AND WORK EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITY:
Two spaces will be reserved for work exchange participants.  These positions will be awarded on a needs basis for participants who would otherwise be unable to participate in the training program.  The work exchange program fee is $2500.  If you are interested in applying, please write to Trainings@spiritrock.org, and include your intention for the training program, your economic conditions, and any other details that may be relevant.  All applicants will be reviewed and participants will be notified by December 2.

Five spaces will be reserved for partial scholarship participants.  These positions will be awarded on a needs basis for participants who would otherwise be unable to participate in the training, and are not participating as a work exchange participants.  The partial scholarship fee is $3000.  If you are interested in applying, please write to Trainings@spiritrock.org, and include your intention for the training program, your economic conditions, and any other details that may be relevant.  All applicants will be reviewed and participants will be notified by December 16.

ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS: Absences of up to two days will be permitted for all programs except for Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga and Embodied Yoga (Commuter Retreat), and the Integrating the Teachings weekend.  Written make-up assignments, submitted within 30 days of the missed class, will be required to receive the certificate of completion. Participants who miss more than two days, for whatever reason, will not be eligible for the certificate of completion, or a refund.

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Friday, January 3 – Sunday, January 5, 2020; 8:00am – 6:00pm.
Sliding Scale: $345 – 750. Code MC1P20.
9 CE credits available for $90 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Note: The average cost per person, per day to Spirit Rock to offer a program is $160.

NOBLE SILENCE. LIGHT BREAKFAST AND LUNCH INCLUDED.

Description:
Mindful awareness is the foundation for living with wisdom and compassion. In this retreat, we will explore mindfulness practices, which are at the heart of the Buddha’s teachings. These core teachings support insight and awakening, as well as bringing genuine joy, peace, understanding, and freedom to our practice and our lives. During this retreat, we will learn skills and techniques to (re)establish and refine mindfulness in the body, mind, and heart, and discover ways to more fully embody and bring these practices with us out into the world.

The retreat will include a variety of sitting and walking meditations, talks, group practice check-ins, mindful movement, meditation outdoors on the land, and time for discussion and Q&A.

Open to all levels of experience.

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, CE schedule, and more information.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:
• List 4 practices that can be used to cultivate mindfulness;
• Describe how mindfulness practices can promote insight into the origins of stress and suffering;
• Incorporate mindfulness of breath practices to develop present moment awareness, and to calm the mind in preparation for, and when working with clients;
• Differentiate which attitudes of mind, when present, increase distress and which attitudes and mental qualities decrease stress;
• Utilize the practice of tracking real-time flow of sensations with continuous mindful attention, to cultivate peace and ease;
• List at least three benefits of how a health care professional cultivating a mindfulness practice can improve patient care;
• Incorporate the practice of kindness to others in a clinical setting in ways that may reduce compassion fatigue and improve patient care.

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

Dates: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Material available immediately upon registering – April 1, 2020. Registration open until February 1, 2020.
Sliding scale: $199 – $299. Code MC1N20.

Foundational Buddhist Teachings offers a core understanding of the Buddha’s teachings and Insight Meditation practices, including the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, the Four Noble Truths, Brahma-Viharas, and the Eightfold Path. This course emphasizes cultivation of mindful awareness and learning to apply and live these wisdom and heart practices in our daily lives. These are essential teachings for building a baseline understanding, and for the Buddhist path of practice. In each session, there will be guided meditations, lectures, discussion, and inquiry.

COURSE INCLUDES:
• 5 video sessions for self-paced participation (course videos originally recorded in 2018)
• Each video session contains dharma talks, reflections, and guided meditations
• Teacher support: 2 video conferences with Mark Coleman (will be recorded and accessible for later viewing)
• Downloadable audio recordings —compatible with iTunes and Android media libraries

COURSE OVERVIEW:
Session 1: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness – Developing Awareness
Session 2: Four Noble Truths – Freedom From Suffering
Session 3: The Boundless Heart – Love, Compassion, Joy & Equanimity
Sessions 4 & 5: The Eightfold Path – The Buddhist Path to Freedom

VIDEO CONFERENCES – 6:00 P.M. PT ON:
Wednesday, January 8
Wednesday, February 5

REGISTRATION AND ACCESSING COURSE MATERIAL:
After completing your online registration, you will receive an auto-confirmation email with the link to the class page and will have immediate access to the class materials. Course materials will be available through midnight April 1, 2020. This course is useful for newer students as well as those with more experience who want to refresh their knowledge. Because you will be given immediate access to the materials, we have a strict no refund policy for this course.

QUESTIONS? Email us. 

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Sunday, March 29, 3:00pm – Wednesday, April 1, 11:30am; 3 nights
Sliding Scale: $1000 – $450, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 338R20.

This retreat has recently filled. Please submit an application and know you may be placed on a wait list. This early on, there is a high likelihood of getting into the retreat.

Retreat Description:
Do you wish to live with more clarity, wisdom, and peace? The Buddha taught that there is a direct way for alleviating suffering and living with genuine ease and freedom in our lives – and that is through cultivating awareness through the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
In this retreat, we will explore this liberating practice. We will investigate how mindfulness supports insights into what causes suffering and what creates genuine well-being. What arises out of such understanding is a tangible sense of inner clarity, spaciousness, peace, and freedom.
The retreat will be a mix of guided meditations, dharma talks, sitting and walking practice, and mindful movement, all held in the beauty and power of silence. Suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators who wish to refresh their understanding of this essential Buddhist practice.

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: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Sunday, March 29, 3:00pm – Wednesday, April 1, 11:30am; 3 nights
Sliding Scale: $1000 – $450, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 338R20.

This retreat has recently filled. Please submit an application and know you may be placed on a wait list. This early on, there is a high likelihood of getting into the retreat.

Retreat Description:
Do you wish to live with more clarity, wisdom, and peace? The Buddha taught that there is a direct way for alleviating suffering and living with genuine ease and freedom in our lives – and that is through cultivating awareness through the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
In this retreat, we will explore this liberating practice. We will investigate how mindfulness supports insights into what causes suffering and what creates genuine well-being. What arises out of such understanding is a tangible sense of inner clarity, spaciousness, peace, and freedom.
The retreat will be a mix of guided meditations, dharma talks, sitting and walking practice, and mindful movement, all held in the beauty and power of silence. Suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators who wish to refresh their understanding of this essential Buddhist practice.

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: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: April 10 – April 12, 2020; 9:30am – 5:00pm.
Sliding Scale: $270 – 600. Code MC1M20.
12 CE credits available for $120, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Note: The average cost per person, per day to Spirit Rock to offer a program is $160.

Description:
On this silent mindfulness retreat in the serenity of nature, we will explore potent practices that open the heart and mind to insight, intimacy, and interconnection with all life. Through various Buddhist awareness and heart meditation practices, we will discover how mindfulness can help us see through the illusion of separateness and learn from nature’s wisdom teachings of transience, interdependence, and letting go. We will also explore how nature evokes a profound peace and genuine transformation in our practice and in our lives, and brings forth the beautiful qualities of joy, wonder, and love for all life.

This retreat will weave together periods of guided and walking meditation, discussion, Q&A, mindful movement, and both group and individual practice check-ins.

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:
• Incorporate mindfulness meditation and its related disciplines in ways useful for clients;
• Describe a meditation technique for cultivating joy, that may improve patient care by reducing emotional exhaustion;
• Demonstrate mindfulness and nature practices that can aid in reducing client stress levels;
• Describe how practicing in nature can reduce suffering and increase a sense of ease and joy;
• Identify the barriers to experiencing joy, and describe to clients practices to cultivate sympathetic joy;
• List 4 practices that can be used to cultivate mindfulness;
• Incorporate mindfulness-in-nature based self-care strategies to promote professional and personal well-being, including reducing emotional exhaustion & burnouts;
• Apply the principles of equanimity and compassion for meeting stress, pain, and burnout with kindness and wisdom.

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Wednesday, August 19, 3:00pm – Friday, August 28, 11:30am; 9 nights.
Sliding Scale: $2600-$1150, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 376R20.
Will open for registration on 4/14/20.

Retreat Description:
Centuries ago, the Buddha taught about the Seven Factors of Awakening, a teaching as relevant to Dharma students then as it is now. This teaching provides a guide to cultivating and balancing essential qualities of mind and heart, which in turn help deepen the path of meditation and support us in our journey of awakening.

This retreat will focus on exploring – through the foundational quality of mindfulness – the energizing qualities of investigation, joy, and energy, as well as the calming factors of tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

We will investigate these factors through talks, meditation, and inquiry, and discover how they support us in the process of understanding, insight, and in the cultivation of peace and freedom.

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: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Monday, November 30, 3:00pm – Sunday, December 6, 11:30am; 6 nights.
Sliding Scale: $1700-$750, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 219R20.
15 CE credits available for $150, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Will open for registration on 7/29/20.

Retreat Description:
The Buddha stated that sati (mindfulness / awareness) is a direct and complete path to Liberation. Mindful awareness provides the ability to be present with all experience with clarity, insight, and equanimity. It is the foundation for wisdom, compassion, and awakening.

In this silent meditation retreat, we will explore this innate quality of awareness – what it is, how to recognize it, and how to cultivate and nurture it. We will investigate how moment-to-moment continuity of mindfulness builds concentration, which in turn supports a depth of awareness.

We will inquire into what interferes with fully stabilizing in awareness, both in meditation and in ordinary activity. As mindfulness grows, we will see how this capacity to abide awareness is available in every moment.

This retreat will include meditation, dharma talks, and inquiry.

Location: Upper Walking Hall. This retreat is designed as a smaller and more intimate retreat and as such, it is held in the upper Walking Hall. This hall is located at the top of a flight of stairs adjacent to the main meditation hall. It is not accessible by wheelchair or scooter. If you have mobility limitations such that you cannot climb a flight of stairs, this retreat is not appropriate for you. Please contact the registration department (retreats@spiritrock.org) for more details BEFORE you register for this retreat if you have concerns related to accessibility to the upper Walking Hall.

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.

TBD

Dates: Begins January 2020. See below for details.
Fee: $3500. Code DY3T20.

This five-month immersive training addresses body, mind, and heart through the study of mindful asana, pranayama, anatomy, mindfulness principles, meditation, and the wisdom teachings of Yoga and Buddhism. Students will develop both their personal practice, as well as the ability to guide and lead others. The heart of the practices will include the Brahma Viharas, with a focus on Metta, providing both refuge and support for kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others.

PROGRAM DETAILS:
• A five-month training program for meditation and mindfulness practitioners & aspiring yoga teachers
• Fulfills the requirements for the Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification
• Led by certified yoga therapist to promote healing and strengthening the body for easeful movement, rather than idealized poses.
• Emphasis on the integration of meditation and mindfulness with movement
• Accessible for a wide range of physical abilities, and suitable for adults of all ages.
• Incorporates non-residential silent retreat practice and the joy & support of building community together
• Minimum of a two-year yoga and mindfulness practice required

Read more details on course content and weekly training sessions here!

DATES:
• Foundational Buddhist Teachings Online Course — Mark Coleman, available beginning December 2, 2019
• Foundations of Body, Mind, and Heart — Djuna Mascall: 1/27 – 1/31, 9am – 5pm
• Wisdom of the Subtle Body — Tias Little and Djuna Mascall: 1/31 – 2/2, Friday: 6pm – 9pm; Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
• Mindfulness of the Breath — Djuna Mascall: 2/24 – 2/28, 9am – 5pm
• Energy, Embodiment, and Inquiry: Buddhist Approaches to Yoga and Breathwork — Sean Feit Oakes: 2/29, 10am – 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 3/18, 6pm – 7pm
• Finding Your Ground: Mindful Yoga & Embodied Meditation – 3-day commuter silent retreat with Anne Cushman & Leslie Booker: 3/26-3/28, 7am – 6pm
• Embodied Awakening: Trauma, Healing, and Collective Liberation — Sean Feit Oakes: 3/29, 10am- 5pm
• Online Conference for Foundational Buddhist Teachings — Mark Coleman: 4/15, 6pm – 7pm
• The Wisdom Body — Djuna Mascall: 4/27 – 5/1, 9am – 5pm
• Integrating the Teachings — Djuna Mascall: 5/2 – 5/3, 9am – 5pm

LEAD TEACHER:
Djuna Mascall

SUPPORTING TEACHERS:
Leslie Booker, Mark Coleman, Anne Cushman, Tias Little, Sean Feit Oakes

LEARN MORE: SPIRITROCK.ORG/DHARMAYOGA

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: April 2020 – November 2020. 
Sliding Scale: $1800 – $1400. Code LD1T20.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This eight-month program is for meditators / Buddhist practitioners, wishing to engage wholeheartedly in a deep exploration of their dharma practice through the study and teaching of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. Using the classic Buddhist teachings of Sila, Samadhi, Pana (Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom) we will look at how we cultivate mindfulness, kindness, and balance given the inner stresses of modern life and the outer social challenges of inequity and the pressure of climate change.

This will be a practical, experiential, and meditative program, through the exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on cultivating the eight limbs of the Dharma path, namely, Wise Effort, Wise Concentration, Wise Mindfulness, Wise Understanding, Wise Motivation, Wise Action, Wise Livelihood and Wise Communication. Through the support of these teachings we will inquire how to live and respond to life with awareness, wisdom, and compassion.

In this journey, we will create a vibrant learning community to study, meditate, inquire into these key areas of Buddhist teaching, and how to make these teachings practically relevant in our current social milieu. Our meditative path of practice and what is happening around us politically, socially and globally are not separate. As we explore the Eightfold Path teachings, we will apply what was taught 2600 years ago to what we live and experience in our contemporary lives.

PROGRAM DETAILS
• Dates: April – November 2020.
• Commitment: four 2-day non-residential retreats, 1 residential retreats, online conferences, + self-study.
• This program may potentially serve as a foundation for more extensive practitioner programs and training.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS & TUITION
• Program tuition sliding scale: $1800 – $1400. Partial scholarship sliding scale: $1200 – $700
• Prerequisites:
– -2 years of meditation practice
– -10 days of meditation day-retreats or silent residential retreats, or a combination.

PROGRAM DATES
Non-Residential* Retreats held in the Community Meditation Center:
• April 24-25, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• May 15-16, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• June 26-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020
• October 9-10, 9:30 am-4:30 pm, 2020

Residential Retreat held in the Upper Retreat Hall:
• November 16, 2 pm -November 19, 4 pm, 2020

Monthly 1-hour online video conferences:
• July 22, 6 pm
• August 26, 6 pm
• September 16, 6 pm

Accommodations are not available at Spirit Rock for non-residential retreats. Although Spirit Rock staff have not personally viewed or vetted them, as a courtesy to our out-of-town guests, we suggest you check out these nearby accommodations.

TEACHERS:
Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He is a psychotherapist, life-coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.
Mark’s books include Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic and From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation. Helping communities and individuals that don’t typically have access to traditional dharma settings, social/racial justice, and building multicultural community is top on her list of priorities. She is an empowered teacher in the Spirit Rock, IMS lineage. For more information, visit www.joannahardy.org.

APPLICATION & PAYMENT TIMELINE
• Application period: December 6, 2019 – January 31, 2020.
• Notifications sent out by February 28, 2020.
• First payment due by March 15.
• Final payment due by April 15.

CANCELLATION FEES (for Professional Training Programs:)
• 50% of fees: >4 weeks from programs start
• No refund: <4 weeks from program start

QUESTIONS?
Please email the Trainings Program Coordinator

Dates: Monday, November 30, 3:00pm – Sunday, December 6, 11:30am; 6 nights.
Sliding Scale: $1700-$750, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 219R20.
15 CE credits available for $150, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Will open for registration on 7/29/20.

Retreat Description:
The Buddha stated that sati (mindfulness / awareness) is a direct and complete path to Liberation. Mindful awareness provides the ability to be present with all experience with clarity, insight, and equanimity. It is the foundation for wisdom, compassion, and awakening.

In this silent meditation retreat, we will explore this innate quality of awareness – what it is, how to recognize it, and how to cultivate and nurture it. We will investigate how moment-to-moment continuity of mindfulness builds concentration, which in turn supports a depth of awareness.

We will inquire into what interferes with fully stabilizing in awareness, both in meditation and in ordinary activity. As mindfulness grows, we will see how this capacity to abide awareness is available in every moment.

This retreat will include meditation, dharma talks, and inquiry.

Location: Upper Walking Hall. This retreat is designed as a smaller and more intimate retreat and as such, it is held in the upper Walking Hall. This hall is located at the top of a flight of stairs adjacent to the main meditation hall. It is not accessible by wheelchair or scooter. If you have mobility limitations such that you cannot climb a flight of stairs, this retreat is not appropriate for you. Please contact the registration department (retreats@spiritrock.org) for more details BEFORE you register for this retreat if you have concerns related to accessibility to the upper Walking Hall.

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.

TBD