Dates: Saturday, February 1, 3:00pm – Saturday, February 29, 11:30am; 28 nights
Sliding Scale: $6200- $2800, PLUS a donation to the teachers and retreat staff. Code 334R20.
The lottery closed at midnight on August 31, 2019.
All applications are now being processed for the wait list.

Prerequisites: BEFORE applying for this 28-night retreat (either February or March retreat), you must have completed at least 15 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time must include a minimum of two (2) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer. Please note that the 2-Month retreat (56-night retreat) requires 21 nights of silent retreat time with the same criteria. These retreats must have been led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. For your retreats to qualify, these previous retreats must be silent retreats and have a similar format to this retreat, with instructions, practices and talks focused on Insight Meditation. You will need to provide the teachers’ names, dates, location, length (# of nights), and style of the retreats when applying.

Retreat Description:
An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, combined with training in loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers.

These extended retreats (and all retreats at Spirit Rock) are not open for “self-retreats”.

Scholarships:
Special Offering for the month-long retreats only: Spirit Rock is extending the upper age limit of the Young Adult scholarship rate to individuals 18-32 years of age. This special rate is $40 per night. A limited number of special rates will be available.

Additional scholarship funding has been offered once again to support practitioners who self-identify as people of color. Scholarship rates are $40 per night.

Lottery/Application Information:
Our one-month and two-month retreats are extremely popular and in order to create more ease and fairness, we use a lottery process. The lottery is now closed (midnight Saturday, August 31, 2019). We will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis; however, you will be put on a waiting list. If you need scholarship funds to attend, please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application; however, please know that funding may likely not be available after the lottery close date.

People of Color and Young Adult applicants (whether scholarship applicants or not) are given high priority. Applicants who were on the waiting list the last two years in a row and did not get into our month-long retreats will also be given a higher priority. All others will go into the lottery system and be selected at random.

After the lottery closes and selections have been made, lottery applicants will be notified by email of their status no later than the second week in October; please refrain from calling before this deadline. We will need this time to process all the applications, pull the lottery, and allocate scholarship funding. If you are selected in the lottery pull, you will be sent an email with a special link to register and pay your retreat fees online. If you end up on a waiting list, you will be notified of your position on the list.

Work Retreatant (WR) Information for Monthlongs:
If you are interested in a work exchange for one of the month long retreats you must meet the following:
• You must have sat a month long retreat at Spirit Rock prior to this application; which includes meeting the retreat prerequisite: completion of at least 15 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time should include a minimum of two (2) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer.
• You must have completed a WR position at Spirit Rock on at least a 5-night retreat prior to this application.

We will have a lottery pull for the WR positions should more than four (4) apply for these month long positions. Everyone who applies for a WR position, is also required to fill out the month long retreat application. Please indicate on the retreat application that you have also applied for the Work Retreatant position. If you are not interested in attending the retreat unless you get the WR position, please indicate that as well. We will have two WRs for February and two WRs for March, so please indicate the retreat you are interested in. We do not have a WR role for the full two-month retreat. Work Retreatant Details

Dates: Saturday, February 1, 3:00pm – Saturday, March 28, 11:30am; 56 nights
Sliding Scale: $12400- $5600, PLUS a donation to the teachers and retreat staff. Code 336R20.
The lottery closed at midnight on August 31, 2019.
All applications are now being processed for the wait list.

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

Prerequisites: BEFORE applying for this 56-night retreat (the 2-Month retreat), you must have completed at least 21 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time must include a minimum of three (3) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer. These retreats must have been led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. For your retreats to qualify, these previous retreats must be silent retreats, and have a similar format to this retreat, with instructions, practices and talks focused on Insight Meditation. You will need to provide the teachers’ names, dates, location, length (# of nights), and style of the retreats when applying.

Retreat Description:
An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, combined with training in loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers.
These extended retreats (and all retreats at Spirit Rock) are not open for “self-retreats”.

Scholarships:
Special Offering for the month-long retreats only: Spirit Rock is extending the upper age limit of the Young Adult scholarship rate to individuals 18-32 years of age. This special rate is $40 per night. A limited number of special rates will be available.

Additional scholarship funding has been offered once again to support practitioners who self-identify as people of color. Scholarship rates are $40 per night.

Lottery/Application Information:
Our one-month and two-month retreats are extremely popular and in order to create more ease and fairness, we use a lottery process. The lottery is now closed (midnight Saturday, August 31, 2019). We will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis; however, you will be put on a waiting list. If you need scholarship funds to attend, please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application; however, please know that funding may likely not be available after the lottery close date.

People of Color and Young Adult applicants (whether scholarship applicants or not) are given high priority. Applicants who were on the waiting list the last two years in a row and did not get into our month-long retreats will also be given a higher priority. All others will go into the lottery system and be selected at random.

After the lottery closes and selections have been made, lottery applicants will be notified by email of their status no later than the second week in October; please refrain from calling before this deadline. We will need this time to process all the applications, pull the lottery, and allocate scholarship funding. If you are selected in the lottery pull, you will be sent an email with a special link to register and pay your retreat fees online. If you end up on a waiting list, you will be notified of your position on the list.

Work Retreatant (WR) Information for Monthlongs:
We do not have a WR role for the full two-month retreat. If you are interested in a work exchange for one of the month long retreats you must meet the following:
• You must have sat a month long retreat at Spirit Rock prior to this application; which includes meeting the retreat prerequisite: completion of at least 15 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time should include a minimum of two (2) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer.
• You must have completed a WR position at Spirit Rock on at least a 5-night retreat prior to this application.

We will have a lottery pull for the WR positions should more than four (4) apply for these month long positions. Everyone who applies for a WR position, is also required to fill out the month long retreat application. Please indicate on the retreat application that you have also applied for the Work Retreatant position. If you are not interested in attending the retreat unless you get the WR position, please indicate that as well. We will have two WRs for February and two WRs for March, so please indicate the retreat you are interested in. Work Retreatant Details

Dates: Saturday, February 1, 3:00pm – Saturday, March 28, 11:30am; 56 nights
Sliding Scale: $12400- $5600, PLUS a donation to the teachers and retreat staff. Code 336R20.
The lottery closed at midnight on August 31, 2019.
All applications are now being processed for the wait list.

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

Prerequisites: BEFORE applying for this 56-night retreat (the 2-Month retreat), you must have completed at least 21 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time must include a minimum of three (3) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer. These retreats must have been led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. For your retreats to qualify, these previous retreats must be silent retreats, and have a similar format to this retreat, with instructions, practices and talks focused on Insight Meditation. You will need to provide the teachers’ names, dates, location, length (# of nights), and style of the retreats when applying.

Retreat Description:
An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, combined with training in loving-kindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, dharma talks and practice meetings with teachers.
These extended retreats (and all retreats at Spirit Rock) are not open for “self-retreats”.

Scholarships:
Special Offering for the month-long retreats only: Spirit Rock is extending the upper age limit of the Young Adult scholarship rate to individuals 18-32 years of age. This special rate is $40 per night. A limited number of special rates will be available.

Additional scholarship funding has been offered once again to support practitioners who self-identify as people of color. Scholarship rates are $40 per night.

Lottery/Application Information:
Our one-month and two-month retreats are extremely popular and in order to create more ease and fairness, we use a lottery process. The lottery is now closed (midnight Saturday, August 31, 2019). We will continue to accept applications on a rolling basis; however, you will be put on a waiting list. If you need scholarship funds to attend, please fill out the Scholarship Section in the application; however, please know that funding may likely not be available after the lottery close date.

People of Color and Young Adult applicants (whether scholarship applicants or not) are given high priority. Applicants who were on the waiting list the last two years in a row and did not get into our month-long retreats will also be given a higher priority. All others will go into the lottery system and be selected at random.

After the lottery closes and selections have been made, lottery applicants will be notified by email of their status no later than the second week in October; please refrain from calling before this deadline. We will need this time to process all the applications, pull the lottery, and allocate scholarship funding. If you are selected in the lottery pull, you will be sent an email with a special link to register and pay your retreat fees online. If you end up on a waiting list, you will be notified of your position on the list.

Work Retreatant (WR) Information for Monthlongs:
We do not have a WR role for the full two-month retreat. If you are interested in a work exchange for one of the month long retreats you must meet the following:
• You must have sat a month long retreat at Spirit Rock prior to this application; which includes meeting the retreat prerequisite: completion of at least 15 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time should include a minimum of two (2) silent retreats and each of these must be five (5) nights or longer.
• You must have completed a WR position at Spirit Rock on at least a 5-night retreat prior to this application.

We will have a lottery pull for the WR positions should more than four (4) apply for these month long positions. Everyone who applies for a WR position, is also required to fill out the month long retreat application. Please indicate on the retreat application that you have also applied for the Work Retreatant position. If you are not interested in attending the retreat unless you get the WR position, please indicate that as well. We will have two WRs for February and two WRs for March, so please indicate the retreat you are interested in. Work Retreatant Details

Dates: Monday, May 4, 3:00pm – Sunday, May 10, 11:30am; 6 nights
Sliding Scale: $1700-$750, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 350R20.

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

All scholarships, including Young Adult rates, have been allocated for this retreat.

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

Retreat Description:
Often, we are drawn to meditation practice because of our heartfelt wish to calm our minds and open our hearts. But in our lives and when we sit down to meditate, we often find ourselves reacting to thoughts of the past with regret, shame, or anger, and to the future with anxiety and fear, often feeling overwhelmed.

In this retreat, we will develop the practice of equanimity, which allows us to be with challenging situations in our lives with balance, acceptance and more clarity.  As this capacity deepens, we are able to be more fully present for both the joys and the sorrows of life, meeting each situation with kindness and compassion. Equanimity is one of the four Brahma Viharas (Divine Abidings), or beautiful qualities of heart, we can develop through practice and meditation. The other Brahma Viharas of loving-kindness, compassion and joy will be introduced as a complement to the equanimity practice.

This silent retreat will offer support for the steady development of equanimity, with guided meditations, evening talks, question-and-answer periods, and practice meetings with the teachers.

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: Tuesday, July 7, 3:00pm – Friday, July 17, 11:30am; 10 nights.
Sliding Scale: $2900-$1300, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 366R20.
15 CE credits available for $150, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.
Will open for registration on 2/4/2020 approximately 9:00 a.m. PT.

Are you interested in and eligible for a 19-Night Extended Retreat? Please read details below.

Retreat Description:
Metta is the Pali term for friendship, goodwill or loving-kindness. In this retreat, we will develop metta as a meditation practice, which cultivates our natural capacity for an open and loving heart towards ourselves and all other beings. We will also develop the practices of compassion, joy, and equanimity. Metta practice leads to greater acceptance of ourselves and others, revealing our fundamental connectedness to all life.

The schedule will include regular periods of mindful movement, as we find this is a helpful complement to the loving-kindness meditation.

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).

Special Opportunity for a 19-Night Extended Retreat:
Pre-requisite: Completion of one (or more) 9-night (or longer) silent, residential, insight meditation retreat(s). You will be required to list retreat experience during the registration process: the teachers’ names, dates, location/center, length (# of nights), and style of the retreat(s).

If you would like a longer retreat period (19 nights), you could attend BOTH the July Metta (July 7–17) and the July Insight (July 17-26) retreats back-to-back. We will reserve 30 spaces for this extended retreat opportunity. If you are awarded one of these spaces, you will be able to bypass the lottery for the July Insight retreat.

HOW TO APPLY: Spaces are limited for these “bypass spots” so we strongly suggest you register for the Metta retreat as early as possible on opening day. Registration will open at 9:00 a.m. PT. During the registration process for the Metta retreat, you should select the “19-night retreat” option and indicate how you meet the pre-requisite; this should include details of the teachers’ names, dates, location/center, length (# of nights), and style of the retreat(s).

We will let you know of your status within the following 48 hours of registering for the Metta retreat. Please do not call us prior to that time as we are busily processing registrations. If you are awarded a “lottery bypass spot”, you will be required to pay a minimum deposit for the July Insight retreat within 48 hours of receiving the notification of acceptance. If you need scholarship funding to attend the July Insight retreat, please indicate that during registration for the Metta retreat. Please know that scholarship funding is very limited for these bypass spots.

If you do not receive a bypass spot, then we suggest that you still register in the July Insight lottery to have a chance to get into that retreat. No preference is given based on your status on the lottery bypass waiting list. See lottery details below.

Lottery Details for the July Insight Retreat:
The lottery will also open on February 4, 2020, and will close approximately one month from this date. No preference is given to when you apply within this period even if you need scholarship funding. Be sure to select a scholarship option during the application process, if you will need financial support to attend.

All applicants must apply online. Please call us if you do not have access to a computer. No retreat fees will be collected at this time, it is purely registration for the lottery portion of the process.

After the lottery closes, applicants will be notified by email of their status no later than two weeks after the lottery closes; please refrain from calling before this deadline. If you are selected in the lottery, you will be sent an email with a special link to register and pay your retreat fees online within 2 business days. If you end up on a waiting list, you will be notified of your position on the list. ~Thank you for your practice of patience!

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:
• Describe the cognitive and emotional aspects of self-regulation.;
• Describe the physiological aspects of self-regulation;
• Describe a practice that may be useful to support self-acceptance and orientation when temporarily dysregulated;
• Describe the process of identifying difficult and restorative areas of attention;
• Describe the process of pendulating one’s attention between difficult and restorative areas;
• Describe the process of titrating the depth and length of contact between difficult and restorative areas of attention;
• Contrast the consequences of rigidity and attachment in bonding relationships;
• Describe the importance of practicing fluidity and adaptability in the sense of self as a basis for an honest and healthy form of love;
• Incorporate mindfulness practices that may be utilized in a professional setting to recover from burnout;
• Describe how to use mindfulness to work through habitual patterns that cause pain and suffering;
• Describe how to use mindfulness to work through habitual patterns causing ease and well being.

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

Dates: Monday, August 10, 3:00pm – Wednesday, August 19, 11:30am; 9 nights.
Sliding Scale: $2600-$1150, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s) and retreat staff. Code 374R20.
Will open for registration on 4/7/2020.

Pre-requisite: Completion of at least two 7-night or three 5-night silent insight meditation retreats.

Retreat Description:
Concentration, (samadhi), the collection and unification of the mind, was emphasized by the Buddha as one of the aspects of the Eightfold Path. It can bring joy to your practice and lead to the skillful use of pleasure in the meditative process. Whatever your level of practice, you can improve your Insight Meditation (Vipassana) by strengthening your concentration skills. Your ability to concentrate will develop in response to the attention you give it.

This retreat offers a series of techniques for staying on the meditation object for extended periods of time. We will explore the factors of concentration that lead to the deep absorption states known as jhana. Teachers will also give instruction for utilizing concentration during insight 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).