Fee: $99. Code MC2N18.
Open for registration until October 1st.

Based on techniques from his latest book, Mark Coleman delivers a powerfully practical and experiential online course filled with lightness, compassion, and humor… a reminder to not take yourself too seriously! Have you ever noticed how cluttered your mind can be? Is it ever quiet? And why, sometimes, can it be so critical… especially of yourself? Join Mark as he shows you how to recognize the way your thoughts impact your experience. Explore how to cultivate freedom, happiness and a flourishing life through easy-to-implement mindfulness and self-compassion techniques. Develop constructive insights into what creates, drives, and disarms the inner critic. Change the story of the mind to set yourself on a path to a more peaceful and happier life. Through mindfulness and compassion, you can break free from your inner critic.

This course is useful for newer students as well as more experienced meditators who want to refresh their knowledge.

Course includes:

• 2 hours of video instruction, divided into eight 15-min segments
• 8 reflections/at-home exercise techniques you can easily employ in your daily life
• A sample excerpt from Mark Coleman’s latest book: Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from the Inner Critic
• Downloadable audio

This online class will help you effectively:

• Deal effectively with self-judgment / and inner critic attacks
• Distinguish between judgment and discernment
• See the role of a healthy conscience versus reliance on the inner critic
• Develop greater self-acceptance, self-compassion and loving-kindness as an antidote to the self-judgment
• Cultivate forgiveness as a support for working with judgment

Course Reading List:

• Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic by Mark Coleman
  Registration, Payment, and Accessing the Class Material:
  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to the class page where the course materials will be available beginning January 1, 2018. This is a self-paced course: there is no required time frame to watch the videos or be available for class material. This course is useful for newer students as well as those with more experienced who want to refresh their knowledge.

Teacher(s): Mark Coleman. For the schedule of teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale $0 – 108. Code 35ML18.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the LIVESTREAM registration page. To attend in person, just come! Learn more here.

Join us for “Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield and Friends”, a Livestream of Monday Night.

Now in its 33rd year, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice insight meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a dharma talk.

If you’re unable to tune in Monday Night for the Livestream, register anyway! The recorded program will be available for 2 weeks. PLEASE NOTE: Registration available until midnight.

View a recording of Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield & Friends...

Fee: $99. Code MC2N18.
Open for registration until October 1st.

Based on techniques from his latest book, Mark Coleman delivers a powerfully practical and experiential online course filled with lightness, compassion, and humor… a reminder to not take yourself too seriously! Have you ever noticed how cluttered your mind can be? Is it ever quiet? And why, sometimes, can it be so critical… especially of yourself? Join Mark as he shows you how to recognize the way your thoughts impact your experience. Explore how to cultivate freedom, happiness and a flourishing life through easy-to-implement mindfulness and self-compassion techniques. Develop constructive insights into what creates, drives, and disarms the inner critic. Change the story of the mind to set yourself on a path to a more peaceful and happier life. Through mindfulness and compassion, you can break free from your inner critic.

This course is useful for newer students as well as more experienced meditators who want to refresh their knowledge.

Course includes:

• 2 hours of video instruction, divided into eight 15-min segments
• 8 reflections/at-home exercise techniques you can easily employ in your daily life
• A sample excerpt from Mark Coleman’s latest book: Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from the Inner Critic
• Downloadable audio

This online class will help you effectively:

• Deal effectively with self-judgment / and inner critic attacks
• Distinguish between judgment and discernment
• See the role of a healthy conscience versus reliance on the inner critic
• Develop greater self-acceptance, self-compassion and loving-kindness as an antidote to the self-judgment
• Cultivate forgiveness as a support for working with judgment

Course Reading List:

• Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic by Mark Coleman
  Registration, Payment, and Accessing the Class Material:
  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to the class page where the course materials will be available beginning January 1, 2018. This is a self-paced course: there is no required time frame to watch the videos or be available for class material. This course is useful for newer students as well as those with more experienced who want to refresh their knowledge.

Teacher(s): Mark Coleman. For the schedule of teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale $0 – 108. Code 39ML18.

Will open for registration soon. 

PLEASE NOTE: This is the LIVESTREAM registration page. To attend in person, just come! Learn more here.

Join us for “Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield and Friends”, a Livestream of Monday Night.

Now in its 33rd year, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice insight meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a dharma talk.

If you’re unable to tune in Monday Night for the Livestream, register anyway! The recorded program will be available for 2 weeks. PLEASE NOTE: Registration available until midnight.

View a recording of Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield & Friends...

Sliding Scale: $75 – 200. Code M10D18.

Nowhere is the power of contemplative meditation more profound than the serenity of nature. In this tranquil, rejuvenating day, we will explore how meditation is supported by the stillness of nature as we sit and walk in meditation among the hills and meadows of Spirit Rock.

Through various Buddhist and nature meditation practices, the quality of mindfulness meditation will support us being awake to our direct experience. We will explore the natural joy and well-being that arises in nature, the interconnection between our inner and outer landscape, and how nature evokes the beautiful qualities of peace, wonder, and love.

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

Fee: $99. Code MC2N18.
Open for registration until October 1st.

Based on techniques from his latest book, Mark Coleman delivers a powerfully practical and experiential online course filled with lightness, compassion, and humor… a reminder to not take yourself too seriously! Have you ever noticed how cluttered your mind can be? Is it ever quiet? And why, sometimes, can it be so critical… especially of yourself? Join Mark as he shows you how to recognize the way your thoughts impact your experience. Explore how to cultivate freedom, happiness and a flourishing life through easy-to-implement mindfulness and self-compassion techniques. Develop constructive insights into what creates, drives, and disarms the inner critic. Change the story of the mind to set yourself on a path to a more peaceful and happier life. Through mindfulness and compassion, you can break free from your inner critic.

This course is useful for newer students as well as more experienced meditators who want to refresh their knowledge.

Course includes:

• 2 hours of video instruction, divided into eight 15-min segments
• 8 reflections/at-home exercise techniques you can easily employ in your daily life
• A sample excerpt from Mark Coleman’s latest book: Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from the Inner Critic
• Downloadable audio

This online class will help you effectively:

• Deal effectively with self-judgment / and inner critic attacks
• Distinguish between judgment and discernment
• See the role of a healthy conscience versus reliance on the inner critic
• Develop greater self-acceptance, self-compassion and loving-kindness as an antidote to the self-judgment
• Cultivate forgiveness as a support for working with judgment

Course Reading List:

• Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic by Mark Coleman
  Registration, Payment, and Accessing the Class Material:
  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to the class page where the course materials will be available beginning January 1, 2018. This is a self-paced course: there is no required time frame to watch the videos or be available for class material. This course is useful for newer students as well as those with more experienced who want to refresh their knowledge.

Teacher(s): Mark Coleman. For the schedule of teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $0 – 108. Code 41ML18.
Will open for registration soon. 

PLEASE NOTE: This is the LIVESTREAM registration page. To attend in person, just come! Learn more here.

Join us for “Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield and Friends”, a Livestream of Monday Night.

Now in its 33rd year, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice insight meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a dharma talk.

If you’re unable to tune in Monday Night for the Livestream, register anyway! The recorded program will be available for 2 weeks. PLEASE NOTE: Registration available until midnight.

View a recording of Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield & Friends...

Teacher(s): Mark Coleman. For the schedule of teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $0 – 108. Code 45ML18.
Will open for registration soon. 

PLEASE NOTE: This is the LIVESTREAM registration page. To attend in person, just come! Learn more here.

Join us for “Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield and Friends”, a Livestream of Monday Night.

Now in its 33rd year, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice insight meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a dharma talk.

If you’re unable to tune in Monday Night for the Livestream, register anyway! The recorded program will be available for 2 weeks. PLEASE NOTE: Registration available until midnight.

View a recording of Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield & Friends...

Sliding Scale: $75 – 200. Code M11D18.
5.5 CE credits available for $55 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, chiropractors, and acupuncturists.

Do you experience the painful effects of self-judgment, from telling yourself you are never good enough? If you wish to be free from the torment of the inner critic, then this day is for you.

We will explore how to mindfully and skillfully work with self-judgment, and develop greater self- acceptance, self-compassion and forgiveness as antidotes to criticism.

The day will be a combination of talks, and interactive exercises, mindfulness and kindness techniques. This will be a practical and experiential day taught with lightness, compassion, and humor as a reminder not to take ourselves too seriously!

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

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

• Describe the practice of mindful awareness, and how this relates to understanding the inner-critic;
• Contrast judgment and discernment, and their effects on well being;
• Incorporate self-acceptance, self-compassion and loving kindness practices when working with clients as an antidote to self-judgment;
• Describe a forgiveness practice to patents or clients as a support for working with judgment.

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

Dates: Monday, November 26, 3:00pm – Sunday, December 2, 11:30am
Sliding Scale: $1505 – $685, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 217R18.

Please note: All Young Adult rates and Scholarship funds have been allocated for this retreat.

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

Retreat Description:
Mindful awareness is the foundation for living with wisdom and compassion and is the seed from which springs much joy and peace. Through this retreat you will learn skillful methods to establish and refine mindful presence that develops self-awareness, clarity and insight. We will draw on the Buddha’s discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as understood in Early Buddhist Teachings.

Participants will learn to cultivate mindfulness through meditations on:
1. The body, the 4 elements, exploring impermanence.
2. Responding to the changing nature of experience.
3. Understanding reactive emotions and states of mind that cause stress.
4. Cultivating qualities that support awakening.

The retreat will be a variety of sitting and walking meditations, talks on meditation and opportunity for questions and meetings with the teacher. Much of the day will be self-led where participants create their own rhythm of practice. This retreat is ideally suited for experienced meditators who wish to deepen their understanding of mindfulness.

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

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

• Identify the definition of mindfulness and what practices develop mindfulness;
• Identify at least four benefits of the effect of mindfulness meditation on health care professionals;
• Describe the relationship between health care professionals’ mindfulness practice and patient care;
• Describe how practicing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness develops present awareness, and can improve patient care;
• Utilize mindful breathing techniques to develop present moment awareness when working with clients and reduce stress;
• Describe how mindfulness of feelings can result in reduced emotional reactivity and difficult emotions such as anxiety and depression;
• Utilize compassion practices to reduce emotional exhaustion and burn-out syndrome;
• Apply, in a clinical setting, perspectives from Buddhist teachings on happiness and causes of happiness; on suffering and the causes of suffering;
• Utilize the powerful principles of equanimity and compassion for meeting the full range of human experience with balance and openness;
• Integrate the practices of equanimity and compassion for meeting stress, pain, and burnout with kindness and wisdom.

Spirit Rock extends a special invitation to young adults (age 18-26) who wish to attend this retreat at a rate of $35 per night, on a first come, first serve basis. A limited number of special rates are available, please apply early.

Dates: Monday, November 26, 3:00pm – Sunday, December 2, 11:30am
Sliding Scale: $1505 – $685, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 217R18.

Please note: All Young Adult rates and Scholarship funds have been allocated for this retreat.

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

Retreat Description:
Mindful awareness is the foundation for living with wisdom and compassion and is the seed from which springs much joy and peace. Through this retreat you will learn skillful methods to establish and refine mindful presence that develops self-awareness, clarity and insight. We will draw on the Buddha’s discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as understood in Early Buddhist Teachings.

Participants will learn to cultivate mindfulness through meditations on:
1. The body, the 4 elements, exploring impermanence.
2. Responding to the changing nature of experience.
3. Understanding reactive emotions and states of mind that cause stress.
4. Cultivating qualities that support awakening.

The retreat will be a variety of sitting and walking meditations, talks on meditation and opportunity for questions and meetings with the teacher. Much of the day will be self-led where participants create their own rhythm of practice. This retreat is ideally suited for experienced meditators who wish to deepen their understanding of mindfulness.

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

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

• Identify the definition of mindfulness and what practices develop mindfulness;
• Identify at least four benefits of the effect of mindfulness meditation on health care professionals;
• Describe the relationship between health care professionals’ mindfulness practice and patient care;
• Describe how practicing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness develops present awareness, and can improve patient care;
• Utilize mindful breathing techniques to develop present moment awareness when working with clients and reduce stress;
• Describe how mindfulness of feelings can result in reduced emotional reactivity and difficult emotions such as anxiety and depression;
• Utilize compassion practices to reduce emotional exhaustion and burn-out syndrome;
• Apply, in a clinical setting, perspectives from Buddhist teachings on happiness and causes of happiness; on suffering and the causes of suffering;
• Utilize the powerful principles of equanimity and compassion for meeting the full range of human experience with balance and openness;
• Integrate the practices of equanimity and compassion for meeting stress, pain, and burnout with kindness and wisdom.

Spirit Rock extends a special invitation to young adults (age 18-26) who wish to attend this retreat at a rate of $35 per night, on a first come, first serve basis. A limited number of special rates are available, please apply early.

Teacher(s): Mark Coleman. For the schedule of teachers, click here.
Sliding Scale: $0 – 108. Code 49ML18.
Will open for registration soon. 

PLEASE NOTE: This is the LIVESTREAM registration page. To attend in person, just come! Learn more here.

Join us for “Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield and Friends”, a Livestream of Monday Night.

Now in its 33rd year, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice insight meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a dharma talk.

If you’re unable to tune in Monday Night for the Livestream, register anyway! The recorded program will be available for 2 weeks. PLEASE NOTE: Registration available until midnight.

View a recording of Spirit Rock Live: Monday Nights with Jack Kornfield & Friends...