Dates: Thursday, May 28, 3:00pm – Thursday, June 4, 10:30am; 8 days (includes 2 partial days). See schedule below.
Sliding Scale: $280-$1900; Code 356R20.
This retreat is now full. If you are interested in being on the wait list, please send an email to the Registrar at Retreats@SpiritRock.org.

ONLINE: This at-home retreat is now offered online only, on a sliding scale basis from $280-$1900. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.

PLEASE NOTE: This retreat will be modified for an at-home schedule and experience.

Prerequisite: Completion of two (or more) 6-night (or longer) silent, residential insight meditation retreats.

Retreat Description:
As a support for Insight meditation, the Nine Bodies teachings and meditations presented on this retreat offer you a new means for tracking and classifying meditative experiences which can help you stay present with whatever arises. These explorations may also increase the clarity and specificity of your mindfulness and enable the arising of insight. In this time of great uncertainty, strengthening our practice in these ways allows us to deal skillfully with the challenges related to the current health crisis.

The Nine Bodies online retreat starts by focusing on the consciousness that arises in the physical body and then presents a series of meditations for exploring ever more subtle levels of consciousness. These teachings and meditations are intended to help you be more empowered in your Insight meditation practice.

The Nine Bodies retreat systematically explores a set of teachings about the nature of consciousness that were first transmitted to Phillip Moffitt by the Himalayan yoga master Sri Swami Premvarni Balyogi twenty years ago. They are the basis for Phillip’s book: Awakening through the Nine Bodies.

This retreat is specifically designed as an online offering. It combines the dedicated practice time of a residential retreat while supporting yogis with family members and/or other responsibilities. The format is configured to maximize its effectiveness as a virtual retreat during this extraordinary time of shelter-in-place. It provides each of us the opportunity to integrate formal meditation and daily life practice. Each day there will be two guided meditations, a small group practice meeting, time for independent sitting in the communal virtual hall, and a dharma talk with Q & A.

Please note that each teaching session and guided meditation of the retreat is a building block for the next teaching session and guided meditation. Due to this progressive building process, please plan on attending all guided meditations and teaching sessions. We understand that due to the home retreat aspect of this offering, you may need to skip a walking meditation or other non-essential part of the retreat. In reviewing the retreat schedule below, we ask that you consider carefully whether you can commit to attending all of the active teaching sessions (both daily guided meditations and the 5:00 pm teaching session) and one small group practice meeting each day of the retreat.

This retreat is for practitioners that have a committed practice and the ability to sit multiple times a day over a seven-day period. As a prerequisite, we ask that you have attended a minimum of two 6-night retreats (or longer). This retreat is not recommended for students who are experiencing acute depression or grief or other strong mental challenges.

In order to allow for smaller-sized group practice meetings, each practitioner will be seen three times in the course of this retreat. Thank you for your understanding.

Daily Schedule
Please note: all are shown in Pacific Time
Bold sessions mean all are encouraged to attend

Opening Day Schedule, Thursday, May 28
3:00 p.m.  Technology Check for participants unfamiliar with Zoom
4:00 p.m.   Break – Main Hall Closed
4:15 p.m.   Meditation Hall Opens – Arrive and Settle
4:30 p.m.   Formal Opening/Welcoming Talk
6:30 p.m.   Close for Night

Daily Schedule; Friday, May 29 – Wednesday, June 3
7:00 a.m.    Personal Early Practice / Sitting, Walking
8:00 a.m.    First Guided Meditation Period
9:15 a.m.    Individual Sitting and Walking Practice
11:00 a.m. Second Guided Meditation Period
12:00 p.m.  Lunch
1:30 p.m.   Group A and C Practice Meetings
3:00 p.m.   Group B and D Practice Meetings
1:30 – 5:00 p.m. Individual Sitting/Walking Practice – when not in Practice Meeting
5:00 p.m.   Teaching Session
6:30 p.m.    Close for Night

Closing Day Schedule, Thursday, June 4
8:00 a.m.    Closing Session
11:30 a.m.   Close of Retreat

Dates: Thursday, May 28, 3:00pm – Thursday, June 4, 10:30am; 8 days (includes 2 partial days). See schedule below.
Sliding Scale: $280-$1900; Code 356R20.
This retreat is now full. If you are interested in being on the wait list, please send an email to the Registrar at Retreats@SpiritRock.org.

ONLINE: This at-home retreat is now offered online only, on a sliding scale basis from $280-$1900. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.

PLEASE NOTE: This retreat will be modified for an at-home schedule and experience.

Prerequisite: Completion of two (or more) 6-night (or longer) silent, residential insight meditation retreats.

Retreat Description:
As a support for Insight meditation, the Nine Bodies teachings and meditations presented on this retreat offer you a new means for tracking and classifying meditative experiences which can help you stay present with whatever arises. These explorations may also increase the clarity and specificity of your mindfulness and enable the arising of insight. In this time of great uncertainty, strengthening our practice in these ways allows us to deal skillfully with the challenges related to the current health crisis.

The Nine Bodies online retreat starts by focusing on the consciousness that arises in the physical body and then presents a series of meditations for exploring ever more subtle levels of consciousness. These teachings and meditations are intended to help you be more empowered in your Insight meditation practice.

The Nine Bodies retreat systematically explores a set of teachings about the nature of consciousness that were first transmitted to Phillip Moffitt by the Himalayan yoga master Sri Swami Premvarni Balyogi twenty years ago. They are the basis for Phillip’s book: Awakening through the Nine Bodies.

This retreat is specifically designed as an online offering. It combines the dedicated practice time of a residential retreat while supporting yogis with family members and/or other responsibilities. The format is configured to maximize its effectiveness as a virtual retreat during this extraordinary time of shelter-in-place. It provides each of us the opportunity to integrate formal meditation and daily life practice. Each day there will be two guided meditations, a small group practice meeting, time for independent sitting in the communal virtual hall, and a dharma talk with Q & A.

Please note that each teaching session and guided meditation of the retreat is a building block for the next teaching session and guided meditation. Due to this progressive building process, please plan on attending all guided meditations and teaching sessions. We understand that due to the home retreat aspect of this offering, you may need to skip a walking meditation or other non-essential part of the retreat. In reviewing the retreat schedule below, we ask that you consider carefully whether you can commit to attending all of the active teaching sessions (both daily guided meditations and the 5:00 pm teaching session) and one small group practice meeting each day of the retreat.

This retreat is for practitioners that have a committed practice and the ability to sit multiple times a day over a seven-day period. As a prerequisite, we ask that you have attended a minimum of two 6-night retreats (or longer). This retreat is not recommended for students who are experiencing acute depression or grief or other strong mental challenges.

In order to allow for smaller-sized group practice meetings, each practitioner will be seen three times in the course of this retreat. Thank you for your understanding.

Daily Schedule
Please note: all are shown in Pacific Time
Bold sessions mean all are encouraged to attend

Opening Day Schedule, Thursday, May 28
3:00 p.m.  Technology Check for participants unfamiliar with Zoom
4:00 p.m.   Break – Main Hall Closed
4:15 p.m.   Meditation Hall Opens – Arrive and Settle
4:30 p.m.   Formal Opening/Welcoming Talk
6:30 p.m.   Close for Night

Daily Schedule; Friday, May 29 – Wednesday, June 3
7:00 a.m.    Personal Early Practice / Sitting, Walking
8:00 a.m.    First Guided Meditation Period
9:15 a.m.    Individual Sitting and Walking Practice
11:00 a.m. Second Guided Meditation Period
12:00 p.m.  Lunch
1:30 p.m.   Group A and C Practice Meetings
3:00 p.m.   Group B and D Practice Meetings
1:30 – 5:00 p.m. Individual Sitting/Walking Practice – when not in Practice Meeting
5:00 p.m.   Teaching Session
6:30 p.m.    Close for Night

Closing Day Schedule, Thursday, June 4
8:00 a.m.    Closing Session
11:30 a.m.   Close of Retreat

Date: Saturday, July 11, 2020; 9:30am – 4:30pm.
Sliding Scale: $45 – 200. Code PM1D20.

ONLINE: Spirit Rock’s programs are now offered online only. Our sliding scale options include financial support for our teachers. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.

Description:
Connecting to others is what gives meaning to our lives. It is the source of so much of our joy and suffering. And yet, making a connection can be so elusive. Poetry is full of wisdom and evocative descriptions of how we navigate relationships of all kinds.This 20th annual Poetry Day will consist of sitting and walking meditation practice interspersed with dharma discussions based on the collection of poems Phillip has selected for the day. In this participatory program, you will have the opportunity, if you choose, to read aloud one of the selected poems to those in attendance.

Dates: Friday, October 2, 3:00pm – Sunday, October 11, 11:30am; 9 nights.
Sliding Scale: $2800-$1250, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 202R20.

Please Note:  We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation and may move this retreat online. We have suspended taking registrations for now. Timing is TBD.

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

Pre-retreat reading: The Tyranny of Expectations by Phillip Moffitt

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).