Event Type Multiday Retreats
February
Event Details
Dates: 3 Saturdays; February 13, 20 & 27, 2021. Time: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.; class time is the same for all 3 Saturdays. Sliding Scale: $75-$1008. Code: RM1C21. Description: As we
Event Details
Dates: 3 Saturdays; February 13, 20 & 27, 2021.
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.; class time is the same for all 3 Saturdays.
Sliding Scale: $75-$1008. Code: RM1C21.
Description:
As we grapple with racism and the inequalities magnified during the pandemic, how do Buddhist practices and the ethics of care sustain and strengthen us? Bring you story and explore socially engaged, compassion-based mindfulness practices for creating refuges for healing self-care, community-building, and social justice. We’ll form a community of learning and practice, exploring ways of bringing presence-based and place-based awareness for self and for others. Together, we’ll reflect on the difficulties and opportunities presented by these times on personal, interpersonal, and systemic levels, and create space for inclusive, equitable, and community-based work to address and repair harm as the need arises. Regardless of experience or background, you are welcome in this class. The series will assist you in beginning or deepening an embodied mindfulness practice, supported by gentle movement, guided and walking meditations, reflective writing/journaling, inquiry and discussion.
For more information on the teacher of this class, go to: https://www.rhondavmagee.com/
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Rhonda V. Magee
Rhonda V. Magee
Rhonda V. Magee is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, and has spent more than 20 years exploring the intersections of anti-racist education, social justice, and contemplative practices. She is an internationally recognized thought and practice leader on integrating mindfulness into higher education, law and social justice. A Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, she has served as an advisor to a range of leading professional development organizations and is currently serving as Chair of the Board of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. A prolific author, Professor Magee most recently published The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness (Penguin Random House TarcherPerigee: 2019).
March
Event Details
Date & Time: 5 Thursdays (every other Thursday); March 4, 18, April 1, 15, 29; 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Pacific Time Sliding Scale: Dana Day (By Donation) $0-$108. Code SF1G21. Please Note: This
Event Details
Date & Time: 5 Thursdays (every other Thursday); March 4, 18, April 1, 15, 29; 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: Dana Day (By Donation) $0-$108. Code SF1G21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
The discourses of the Buddha, called suttas, are one of the world’s most majestic collections of spiritual teaching. They record many styles of teaching, from inspiring poetry to psychological guidance, social theory, and philosophical masterpieces that address the deepest human fears, hopes, and potential.
In this study and practice series we dive into the beauty and richness of the Buddha’s teachings, reading texts from the Pāli Canon, the body of ancient texts preserved by Theravāda Buddhist cultures in South and Southeast Asia, in accessible English translations.
You will hear the voice of the Buddha, building his community and laying out a path of practice that leads to liberation from all forms of suffering. You will find advice for the most stubborn challenges in meditation and ordinary life. And you will be invited to realize for yourself the profound liberation he called “the heartwood of the holy life.”
Please Note: Though the classes in the series will build on each other, attendance at all classes is not required.
Teacher(s)
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Sean Feit Oakes, PhD, E-RYT, SEP
Sean Feit Oakes, PhD, E-RYT, SEP
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Event Details
Dates: Thursday to Monday, March 4 - 15, 2021 (12 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $480-$3,600, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Thursday to Monday, March 4 – 15, 2021 (12 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $480-$3,600, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 240R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Prerequisite: Before registering you must have already completed one 5-day silent residential retreat to qualify for this retreat.
These retreats should have been silent meditation retreats led by Spirit Rock, IMS, or IRC teachers, or other recognized Insight Meditation teachers. The retreats should have had a similar format to this retreat, with instructions, practices and talks focused on Insight Meditation.
Description:
Instead of the annual month-long, the March teaching team will lead a 12-day online retreat. We will devote ourselves to the practice of Vipassana utilizing stillness and movement meditation, including 24/7 practice.
This extended retreat offers a rare opportunity for sustained and dedicated practice. Emphasis will be on quieting the mind, opening the heart and developing profound clarity and depth of insight practice. Instructions will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, combined with training in lovingkindness and compassion, through a daily schedule of silent stillness and movement meditation, Dharma talks, and practice meetings with teachers.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds, as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Eugene Cash
Eugene Cash
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Greg Scharf
Greg Scharf
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Martha Link
Martha Link
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Tuere Sala
Tuere Sala
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Winnie Nazarko
Winnie Nazarko
Winnie Nazarko has been a student and practitioner of Buddhism since 1981. She has a background in community organizing and human services leadership, and has a special interest in how meditative practices can strengthen human capacity to address social, political, and environmental issues. She was the project director for IMS' development of the Forest Refuge, a retreat center for experienced meditators doing extended self-retreat.
Event Details
Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, March 13 - 14, 2021; 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $75-$600. Code TJ1M21. Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We
Event Details
Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, March 13 – 14, 2021; 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $75-$600. Code TJ1M21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
Embodiment has always been essential in Dharma practice. The deeper traditions of embodiment practice (qigong/neigong) have always integrated meditation and ethics as essential to authentic growth and development in these arts. Join us and explore the foundations of cultivation of energy and natural concentration thru the life-affirming practices of Radiant Heart Qigong.
Practices will include standing, sitting, and supine qigong postures, as well as energy alignment. Each day will include periods of guided and silent meditation practice, integrated movement, Dharma teachings, and opportunities for in-depth instruction in a non-judgmental, supportive environment.
All abilities and levels of meditation and qigong experience warmly welcome!
Teacher(s)
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Teja Bell
Teja Bell
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Event Details
Dates: Thursday to Monday, March 18 - 22, 2021 (5 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: 225-$1500, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Thursday to Monday, March 18 – 22, 2021 (5 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: 225-$1500, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 242R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Retreat Description:
The Buddha encouraged Maranasati practice to live an awakened life. This practice supports our appreciation of the preciousness of human birth and the development of equanimity with the difficulties of human existence. It helps us gain freedom from rigidity and clinging through a more expansive perspective of the inevitable and natural letting go. Maranasati matures our insight into impermanence and change, nourishing a skillful orientation to both life and death. In the retreat we will utilize the skills of loving awareness, compassion and investigation in our sitting practice, with some guided visualization and a period of contemplative inquiry each day.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Alisa L. Dennis, PhD
Alisa L. Dennis, PhD
Alisa Dennis, Ph.D., discovered meditation through her study of metaphysics and ancient Christian mystical traditions. She's explored many spiritual traditions since then, including indigenous shamanism, which has broadened the matrices through which she understands the nature of human existence. Within Buddhism, Alisa practiced within the S.N. Goenka tradition of Vipassana and the Zen Soto tradition. She studied mindfulness through the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at UCLA and completed a multi-year training related to integrating contemplative practices into psychotherapy. Alisa is also a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s 2017-2020 Teacher Training Program. Alisa has gravitated toward Insight meditation because of its emphasis on liberatory heart-opening practices and its growing community of practitioners committed to embodied awakening and transformative justice. Alisa is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in the Los Angeles area. She specializes in somatic oriented trauma release and integration work. In addition to drawing from contemplative wisdom traditions, Alisa practices depth psychology and dreamwork. She is passionate about the creative arts and exploring multi-dimensionality.
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Eugene Cash
Eugene Cash
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Hakim Tafari
Hakim Tafari
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Victoria Cary
Victoria Cary
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Event Details
Dates: Friday to Sunday, March 26 - 28, 2021 (3 days). Daily schedule: Friday 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.; Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Sliding Scale: $395-$795,
Event Details
Dates: Friday to Sunday, March 26 – 28, 2021 (3 days). Daily schedule: Friday 1:30 – 5:30 p.m.; Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $395-$795, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code PM2M21.
Please Note: This is a special event and scholarships will not be available. This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Retreat Description:
This is a tumultuous time full of change as we navigate the pandemic, the need for social justice, along with political, environmental, and economic challenges. As a result of these challenges, you may have experienced a change that’s beyond your control or perhaps you’re recognizing the need for personal change. Change brings up anxiety and uncertainty and it can also be exciting to connect with bigger visions for ourselves and our world.
Research shows that meeting change with mindfulness and being empowered to navigate uncertainty allows us to experience a deep sense of well-being even when life is difficult.
Some of the tools we offer in this workshop are:
• Reflecting on your life and assessing what’s out of balance.
• Using our “Journey through Change Map” to orient yourself in your change.
• Recognizing habits of mind that undermine you and learning to disengage from them.
• Creating a plan for skillfully navigating your change.
Expect a weekend of dynamic inquiry and learn to meet change with confidence and clarity.
Teacher(s)
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Alison Teal, MFT
Alison Teal, MFT
Alison is a licensed Psychotherapist since 1986 and an Internationally Certified EMDR Consultant and Therapist. She is skilled in a variety of modalities including expressive arts, dream work, play therapy, psychodrama and somatic psychology. She taught graduate school psychology for 17 years and has led numerous workshops and conference presentations. As a Certified Life Balance Change Strategist, Alison guides individuals and groups through personal and professional transitions. She believes in the indomitability of the human spirit; we are all capable of transforming old patterns and self-limiting beliefs in order to live with authenticity and purpose and to more fully embody the life we wish for ourselves. Currently, Alison is a student in Phillip Moffitt’s and Dana DePalma’s teacher training program for Awakening Through the Nine Bodies of Consciousness. She offers classes in this lineage teaching as well as individual consultation in which personal concerns and challenges are explored through the lens of the Nine Bodies. As a long-term Vipassana meditator, her work is informed by Dharma and mindfulness practices. She is an accomplished artist and approaches her life and work creatively.
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Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP
Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP
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Event Details
Dates: Sunday to Wednesday, March 28 - 31, 2021 (4 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $155-$1200, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Sunday to Wednesday, March 28 – 31, 2021 (4 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $155-$1200, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 244R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
In response to the ongoing challenging conditions of the pandemic, on this Vipassana/Insight meditation retreat we will cultivate the beautiful quality of mindfulness. This mindful awareness nurtures a clarity, wisdom and well-being, qualities so essential at this time. Through “at-home” mindfulness practices, we’ll explore understanding the root causes of stress and suffering and develop the causes for a genuine happiness. These foundational Buddhist practices help you live with a profound ease and freedom wherever you are—the innate peace we all seek.
As well as sitting and walking Insight meditation practice, lovingkindness and compassion teachings will be integrated into the day so that we learn to live with a loving awareness. There will be periods of meditation, talks, questions and discussion. It’s a wonderful retreat to truly integrate these teachings more fully into our lives and practice. We will do so with the supportive community of like-minded meditators.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Diana Winston
Diana Winston
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Mark Coleman, MA
Mark Coleman, MA
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April
Event Details
Date & Time: 5 Thursdays (every other Thursday); March 4, 18, April 1, 15, 29; 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Pacific Time Sliding Scale: Dana Day (By Donation) $0-$108. Code SF1G21. Please Note: This
Event Details
Date & Time: 5 Thursdays (every other Thursday); March 4, 18, April 1, 15, 29; 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: Dana Day (By Donation) $0-$108. Code SF1G21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
The discourses of the Buddha, called suttas, are one of the world’s most majestic collections of spiritual teaching. They record many styles of teaching, from inspiring poetry to psychological guidance, social theory, and philosophical masterpieces that address the deepest human fears, hopes, and potential.
In this study and practice series we dive into the beauty and richness of the Buddha’s teachings, reading texts from the Pāli Canon, the body of ancient texts preserved by Theravāda Buddhist cultures in South and Southeast Asia, in accessible English translations.
You will hear the voice of the Buddha, building his community and laying out a path of practice that leads to liberation from all forms of suffering. You will find advice for the most stubborn challenges in meditation and ordinary life. And you will be invited to realize for yourself the profound liberation he called “the heartwood of the holy life.”
Please Note: Though the classes in the series will build on each other, attendance at all classes is not required.
Teacher(s)
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Sean Feit Oakes, PhD, E-RYT, SEP
Sean Feit Oakes, PhD, E-RYT, SEP
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Event Details
Dates: Thursday to Sunday, April 8 - 11, 2021 (4 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $155-$1200, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Thursday to Sunday, April 8 – 11, 2021 (4 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $155-$1200, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 246R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
At its core, the Dharma is practical, and the teachings on emptiness (Suññatā) are no exception. This important teaching, however, can often feel conceptual and illusory. This online retreat is an invitation to open to the accessible and practical teachings on emptiness, to be witnessed internally and externally, both during formal practice and in our daily lives. Seeing experience through this lens offers freedom from the prison of our limited conceptual framework, the contraction of which can lead to greed and grasping or hatred and aversion, and the whole entangled web of suffering. Far from being bleak and nihilistic, emptiness practice liberates experience to be appreciated in richer fullness, and serves as the womb of love and compassion.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Nikki Mirghafori, PhD
Nikki Mirghafori, PhD
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Sayadaw U Jagara
Sayadaw U Jagara
Event Details
Dates: Wednesday to Friday, April 14 - 16, 2021 (3 half days). Sliding Scale: $75-$325. Code LW1D21. Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative
Event Details
Dates: Wednesday to Friday, April 14 – 16, 2021 (3 half days).
Sliding Scale: $75-$325. Code LW1D21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Retreat Description:
Core Dharma teachings are methods to work directly with the suffering that arises in the bodies, and minds, of all beings. During this retreat we will offer fruitful, realistic approaches and skills that can bring ease, even liberation. Those currently suffering from chronic illnesses, those currently in caregiving roles, and anyone who is interested in coming to grips with suffering are welcome. All of us have been or will be sick and/or a caregiver, for others our ourselves.
Mindfulness and compassion practices, guided meditations and group discussions will invite us to develop more gentleness, and letting go. Lying-down meditation will be encouraged at any time.
A gentle, optional movement practice will also be offered, with special attention to language that does not exclude any body.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Katy Wiss
Katy Wiss
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Lila Kate Wheeler
Lila Kate Wheeler
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Pawan Bareja, PhD, SEP
Pawan Bareja, PhD, SEP
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Event Details
Date & Time: Thursday to Sunday, April 15 - 18, 2021; 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $155-$1200. Code ES1M21. Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We
Event Details
Date & Time: Thursday to Sunday, April 15 – 18, 2021; 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $155-$1200. Code ES1M21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
In your investigation of the world, never allow the mind to desert the body. Examine its nature, see the elements that comprise it. When its true nature is seen fully and lucidly by the heart, the wonders of the world will become clear.
– Ajahn Mun
Over a year into this global pandemic, many of our bodies are carrying more tension than ever. This process of collecting tension can cause chronic pain, emotional imbalance and contribute towards relational distress, or it can lead to compassion and insight. Buddhist teachings point directly to the body as a vehicle of liberating wisdom.
This retreat will focus on lovingkindness for the physical body and meditation on the elements as a path to well-being, liberating wisdom and love for self, others and world.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Erin Selover, MFT
Erin Selover, MFT
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Event Details
Dates: Monday to Friday, April 19 - 23, 2021 (5 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $225-$1500, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Monday to Friday, April 19 – 23, 2021 (5 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $225-$1500, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 250R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
The great Webu Sayadaw challenged his students, “Some of you may have been practicing for twenty or thirty years and some even longer. But just examine yourselves. Have you really, having established yourselves in complete effort, fulfilled one single day in practice? Have you?”
Retreat is a precious opportunity to cultivate mindfulness in an uninterrupted manner, taking every moment of the day and every arising experience as the very path of practice. In this online, home retreat we will cultivate mindfulness of body, feeling tone, mind, and mind-objects while walking, standing, sitting, lying down, while talking with others, remaining silent, and attending to our home duties. Let’s see what happens when we give ourselves over wholeheartedly to the simple practice that the Buddha called, “The direct path for the purification of beings… for attainment of the true way, for the realization of Nibanna.”
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Neesha Patel
Neesha Patel
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Victoria Cary
Victoria Cary
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Will Kabat-Zinn
Will Kabat-Zinn
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Event Details
Dates: Sunday to Saturday, April 25 - May 1, 2021 (7 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $280-$2100, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s).
Event Details
Dates: Sunday to Saturday, April 25 – May 1, 2021 (7 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $280-$2100, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 254R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Retreat Description:
This is a silent retreat designed especially for those relatively new to the practices of Insight Meditation (Vipassana). The retreat includes systematic instructions in Vipassana meditation—both sitting and walking—as well as lovingkindness practice, meetings with teachers, and evening talks highlighting the central teachings of the Buddha and their practical application to our lives.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Amana Brembry Johnson
Amana Brembry Johnson
Amana Brembry Johnson teaches meditation and compassionate movement at community and retreat centers internationally. She is currently a participant in the Spirit Rock Retreat Teacher Training Program. Her home base of practice is the East Bay Meditation Center located in Oakland, California. Rooted in the ethics of social justice, she offers guidance designed to embrace a diverse range of access to practice, and has developed a form of contemplative movement that interweaves the wisdom of Dharma with yoga, Qigong, and other embodiment practices. An accomplished visual artist, Amana creates imagery that exposes emotional and spiritual barriers of the heart as gateways into kindness, compassion, and self love.
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Gil Fronsdal
Gil Fronsdal
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Jozen Tamori Gibson
Jozen Tamori Gibson
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Tuere Sala
Tuere Sala
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May
Event Details
Dates: Sunday to Saturday, April 25 - May 1, 2021 (7 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $280-$2100, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s).
Event Details
Dates: Sunday to Saturday, April 25 – May 1, 2021 (7 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $280-$2100, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 254R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Retreat Description:
This is a silent retreat designed especially for those relatively new to the practices of Insight Meditation (Vipassana). The retreat includes systematic instructions in Vipassana meditation—both sitting and walking—as well as lovingkindness practice, meetings with teachers, and evening talks highlighting the central teachings of the Buddha and their practical application to our lives.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Amana Brembry Johnson
Amana Brembry Johnson
Amana Brembry Johnson teaches meditation and compassionate movement at community and retreat centers internationally. She is currently a participant in the Spirit Rock Retreat Teacher Training Program. Her home base of practice is the East Bay Meditation Center located in Oakland, California. Rooted in the ethics of social justice, she offers guidance designed to embrace a diverse range of access to practice, and has developed a form of contemplative movement that interweaves the wisdom of Dharma with yoga, Qigong, and other embodiment practices. An accomplished visual artist, Amana creates imagery that exposes emotional and spiritual barriers of the heart as gateways into kindness, compassion, and self love.
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Gil Fronsdal
Gil Fronsdal
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Jozen Tamori Gibson
Jozen Tamori Gibson
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Tuere Sala
Tuere Sala
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Event Details
Dates: Monday to Friday, May 3 - 7, 2021 (5 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $25-$500, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Monday to Friday, May 3 – 7, 2021 (5 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $25-$500, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 256R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Retreat Description:
This retreat brings together practices that brighten the mind and open it to our highest aspiration, while grounding us in our immediate experience of change.
The four meditations are:
- recollection of the Buddha
- metta meditation
- contemplation of the body
- reflection on death
By nourishing and strengthening the heart and mind, and giving us courage to explore the true nature of embodied life, these meditations protect us from getting lost in hopes and fears, guiding us toward awakening.
Teacher(s)
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Ayya Anandabodhi
Ayya Anandabodhi
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Ayya Dhammadipa
Ayya Dhammadipa
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Ayya Santacitta
Ayya Santacitta
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Event Details
Date: Friday to Sunday, May 7 - 9, 2021. Time: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sliding Scale: $125-$1008. Code: DR1M21. Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 12 CE credits for $120 for psychologists
Event Details
Date: Friday to Sunday, May 7 – 9, 2021.
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $125-$1008. Code: DR1M21.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 12 CE credits for $120 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, and nurses, licensed by the APA, California BBS, or BRN.
Description:
Differences with others about views and strategies can be challenging, whether in close relationships, the workplace, political polarization, or relationships between ethnic groups. Such differences may lead to frustration, despair, anger, and even violence.
In this retreat, we will offer core principles and practices for working with differences, through talks, meditations, and exercises. Rooted in the Buddha’s Middle Way and his understanding of views, the contemporary work of peacemakers and a vision of non-dual “conflict transformation,” and wise speech practice (including resources from Nonviolent Communication), we will approach differences as opportunities for empathy, learning, reconciliation, steadiness, trust, and compassion.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 12 CE credits for $120 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, and nurses, licensed by the APA, California BBS, or BRN.*
Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will better able to:
- Demonstrate to clients a model of working with differences to clarify the dynamics of repetitive conflicts about differences;
- Describe how mindfulness of dynamics about differences is key to working skillfully with differences;
- Describe how skill in working with difficult emotions, such as fear and anger, is key to skill in working with differences and transforming conflicts;
- Describe how compassion practices may be used when working with challenging people or situations;
- Describe how working through attachments to one’s views is key to skillful work with differences;
- Describe how differences between people and/or groups can be opportunities for learning and transformation;
- Describe how conflicts can helpfully be defined in terms of differences of intentions, goals, and values, rather than necessarily involving hostility or aggression;
- Describe some of the reasons why being with differences and conflicts are hard for many people, and how knowing this is a step towards resolving discord..
Continuing Education content level: Intermediate
Teacher(s)
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Donald Rothberg, PhD
Donald Rothberg, PhD
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Event Details
Dates: Monday to Thursday, May 10 - 13, 2021 (4 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $155-$1200, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Monday to Thursday, May 10 – 13, 2021 (4 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $155-$1200, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 258R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Retreat Description:
In this four-day retreat, the emphasis will be on cultivating a relaxed awareness, opening the heart, and bringing a peaceful acceptance to our experience. The retreat will include instructions, guided meditations, and Dharma talks to support the development of mindfulness, lovingkindness and compassion. The retreat will offer practical tools to support bringing the practice home and to the whole of our lives. This is a great retreat for beginners, for those newer to practice, and for those looking to strengthen the foundation for their practice.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Anushka Fernandopulle
Anushka Fernandopulle
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John Martin
John Martin
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Event Details
Date & Time: 5 Thursdays (every other Thursday); May 13, 27, June 10, 24, July 8; 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Pacific Time Sliding Scale: Dana Day (By Donation) $0-$108. Code SF2G21. Please Note:
Event Details
Date & Time: 5 Thursdays (every other Thursday); May 13, 27, June 10, 24, July 8; 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: Dana Day (By Donation) $0-$108. Code SF2G21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
The discourses of the Buddha, called suttas, are one of the world’s most majestic collections of spiritual teaching. They record many styles of teaching, from inspiring poetry to psychological guidance, social theory, and philosophical masterpieces that address the deepest human fears, hopes, and potential.
In this study and practice series we dive into the beauty and richness of the Buddha’s teachings, reading texts from the Pāli Canon, the body of ancient texts preserved by Theravāda Buddhist cultures in South and Southeast Asia, in accessible English translations.
You will hear the voice of the Buddha, building his community and laying out a path of practice that leads to liberation from all forms of suffering. You will find advice for the most stubborn challenges in meditation and ordinary life. And you will be invited to realize for yourself the profound liberation he called “the heartwood of the holy life.”
Please Note: Though the classes in the series will build on each other, attendance at all classes is not required.
Teacher(s)
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Sean Feit Oakes, PhD, E-RYT, SEP
Sean Feit Oakes, PhD, E-RYT, SEP
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Event Details
Dates: Tuesday to Sunday, May 18 - 23, 2021 (6 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $245-$1800, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Tuesday to Sunday, May 18 – 23, 2021 (6 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $245-$1800, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 262R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
Nobody tells us this when we’re growing up, but being human is a big deal. It feels great, it hurts, it’s intense. We know it won’t go on forever. Given this, what kind of happiness is possible? The Buddha suggested that we have underestimated the capacity of our heart. Retreat helps us to remember. In mindfulness meditation, we practice resting, looking deeply, knowing moment-by-moment what it’s like to be human. The more deeply we look, the more reason we have to love.
Together, we’ll sit in the refuge provided by a 2,600-year legacy of wisdom and kindness. In the silence, we come to know the preciousness of our life and the poignancy of the human condition. From this openness, so much goodness unfolds. In this silent retreat, we’ll offer systematic instructions in mindfulness and lovingkindness practice. Throughout the retreat there are meetings with teachers to support you in your practice.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Brian Lesage
Brian Lesage
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Matthew Brensilver, PhD
Matthew Brensilver, PhD
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Tuere Sala
Tuere Sala
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Event Details
Dates: Wednesday to Sunday, May 26 - 30, 2021 (5 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $225-$1500, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Wednesday to Sunday, May 26 – 30, 2021 (5 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $225-$1500, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 264R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Open to folks age 55 and older.
Retreat Description:
Living life fully includes aging and dying. It’s a natural process and ripe with spiritual possibilities. Aging brings loss; what we once assumed to be “ours” slips away, revealing the pervasive truth of impermanence. But even as our memory slides, our cognitive speed slows down, our bodies become more fragile, and qualities of the heart reveal themselves. We see that the potential for wisdom and compassion does not depend on the state of the body or on our age, but rather on the training of the mind to abide in timeless awareness. It is best to begin this training before you are ill or dying. Then, like a treasured friend, your own mind can accompany you through the challenges of aging, loss, illness and dying. Right now, we know we will die but we do not know when or how. Through engaging in a variety of contemplations on death in the communal space of retreat, our confidence in our capacity to meet death peacefully increases.
Join a group of your peers who are interested in life after 55 as a new stage of life, one which offers opportunities for deepening in wisdom and compassion, and loosening our fears around dying. Teachings will offer a blend of the traditional ancient wisdom of the Buddhadharma with more contemporary views and resources for helping us prepare for death. This is a silent retreat with one period a day of interactive contemplative inquiry in dyads or small groups. In addition, there will be daily instructions in mindfulness, meetings with the teachers, dharma talks and qigong.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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DaRa Williams
DaRa Williams
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Eugene Cash
Eugene Cash
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Event Details
Date & Time: Thursday to Sunday, May 27 - 30, 2021; 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time Sliding Scale: $155-$1200. Code PM3M21. Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We
Event Details
Date & Time: Thursday to Sunday, May 27 – 30, 2021; 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $155-$1200. Code PM3M21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
The Four Noble Truths are the Buddha’s first teaching, which is said to contain the sum of all of his teachings. Based on one of the oldest Theravada texts, there is a rarely taught practice of utilizing the Four Noble Truths to attain Twelve Insights that bring freedom and well-being. These insights prescribe a radically different way for us, with all of our vulnerability and fear, to engage with life just as it is and find joy even in the midst of suffering.
In this four-day, silent retreat, we will explore each of the Four Noble Truths in depth and learn how we can apply the insights of this teaching to our daily lives. The goal of this retreat is to discover how the Four Noble Truths become the Four “Ennobling”
Truths.
Each day will have periods of sitting and walking meditation along with Dharma talks, discussion, and Q&A.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Dana DePalma, MA, MFT
Dana DePalma, MA, MFT
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Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP
Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP
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June
Event Details
Date & Time: 5 Thursdays (every other Thursday); May 13, 27, June 10, 24, July 8; 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Pacific Time Sliding Scale: Dana Day (By Donation) $0-$108. Code SF2G21. Please Note:
Event Details
Date & Time: 5 Thursdays (every other Thursday); May 13, 27, June 10, 24, July 8; 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: Dana Day (By Donation) $0-$108. Code SF2G21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Description:
The discourses of the Buddha, called suttas, are one of the world’s most majestic collections of spiritual teaching. They record many styles of teaching, from inspiring poetry to psychological guidance, social theory, and philosophical masterpieces that address the deepest human fears, hopes, and potential.
In this study and practice series we dive into the beauty and richness of the Buddha’s teachings, reading texts from the Pāli Canon, the body of ancient texts preserved by Theravāda Buddhist cultures in South and Southeast Asia, in accessible English translations.
You will hear the voice of the Buddha, building his community and laying out a path of practice that leads to liberation from all forms of suffering. You will find advice for the most stubborn challenges in meditation and ordinary life. And you will be invited to realize for yourself the profound liberation he called “the heartwood of the holy life.”
Please Note: Though the classes in the series will build on each other, attendance at all classes is not required.
Teacher(s)
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Sean Feit Oakes, PhD, E-RYT, SEP
Sean Feit Oakes, PhD, E-RYT, SEP
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Event Details
Dates: Monday to Saturday, June 7 - 12, 2021 (6 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $245-$1800, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Monday to Saturday, June 7 – 12, 2021 (6 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $245-$1800, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 268R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Retreat Description:
“It is that gladness connected with the wholesome that I call an equipment of mind…for developing a mind that is without hostility and without ill will.” ~The Buddha
The Buddha was known as “The Happy One.” However, the teachings often seem to emphasize working with suffering. Joy and happiness can seem frivolous or unspiritual even though joy is one of the Seven Factors of Awakening. In this retreat we will practice with an emphasis on cultivating wholesome states to develop our natural capacity for well-being and happiness. Our own development of well-being and joy then becomes our gift to a troubled world.
The retreat includes silent sitting and walking periods with instructions and practice meetings with teachers, as well as some experiential exercises during the six days. This retreat is appropriate for both experienced as well as new/beginning students.
Practices will include:
- Inclining the mind toward wholesome states;
- The power of wholesome intention;
- Mindfulness as appreciation practice (wonder and gratitude);
- Embracing suffering as a path to joy;
- How letting go leads to true freedom;
- Integrity as a foundation for well-being;
- Metta (loving-kindness) for self and others;
- Mudita (sympathetic joy);
- Compassion—the expression of a wise heart; and
- The joy of simply being.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Event Details
Dates: Tuesday to Saturday, June 15 - 19, 2021 (5 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $225-$1500, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Tuesday to Saturday, June 15 – 19, 2021 (5 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $225-$1500, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 270R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Retreat Description:
Most people practice mindfulness in a focused way—attending to their breathing, and returning to their breath when their attention has wandered. But there are actually many different ways to practice mindfulness.
In this retreat, we will learn about the Spectrum of Awareness Practices, from focused awareness to investigative and choiceless awareness, to natural awareness. Natural awareness is an effortless, radiant, and spacious state of being that includes awareness of awareness.
Over the retreat, through sitting, walking meditations, lectures. exercises, and meetings with teachers, we will practice each type of awareness and explore how these different approaches relate to one another. We will also make each practice relevant to daily life and will practice with them in our families, homes, and daily activities.
The retreat is based on Diana Winston’s book, The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Alex Haley
Alex Haley
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Carol Cano
Carol Cano
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Diana Winston
Diana Winston
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Jill Satterfield
Jill Satterfield
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Event Details
Dates: Sunday to Sunday, June 20 - 27, 2021 (8 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat. Sliding Scale: $320-$2400, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code
Event Details
Dates: Sunday to Sunday, June 20 – 27, 2021 (8 days). A daily schedule will be posted closer to the retreat.
Sliding Scale: $320-$2400, PLUS a donation to the teacher(s). Code 272R21.
Please Note: This retreat is offered online only. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19.
Prerequisite: Completion of one (or more) 6-night (or longer) silent, residential insight meditation retreat(s).
Description:
The Nine Bodies Insight meditations and teachings presented in this online retreat offer a new method of practicing Insight meditation. We start with establishing mindfulness through the practice of arriving and then turn towards the consciousness of the physical body. Through a series of guided meditations, we will explore ever more subtle levels of consciousness. This map offers a means for tracking and classifying meditative experiences which can help you stay present with whatever arises. Moreover, this method of practice may increase the stability and clarity of your mindfulness and enable the arising of insight.
This method integrates the Nine Bodies teachings on the nature of consciousness from Himalayan yoga master Premvarni Balyogi with Insight meditation dharma teachings.
This retreat includes 3-4 detailed guided meditations per day, dharma talks, walking meditations, and small group meetings. Due to the progressive nature of these teachings, please plan to attend all teaching sessions.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
Teacher(s)
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Dana DePalma, MA, MFT
Dana DePalma, MA, MFT
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Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP
Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP
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Tuere Sala
Tuere Sala
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