Event Type: Non-Residential Programs

Dates: August 26 – December 17, 2022; specific dates below.
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $5000 – $750. Code ML2T22.

Description: This certificate training program is open to and designed for leaders and aspiring leaders in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. We will cultivate mindful and compassionate leadership skills and practices to embody our care for ourselves and others, with a mindset of service to community and the world.

A core pedagogical approach of this program is participating in and co-learning with a supportive community of like-minded peers both in the large group and small monthly pod meetings. Through lectures, group discussion, guided meditations, readings, reflections, experiential exercises, and personal meditation practice, we will cultivate skills and behaviors that can be applied directly to our personal and professional lives. By developing and incorporating these intentional practices, we will strengthen professional relationships and workplace environments, expanding impact beyond our own learning for the broader benefit of our work and organization(s).

This program includes training in three realms: personal, relational, and organizational. Some included themes are:

• Mindful, compassionate, values-aligned leadership
• Cultivating well-being: self-care, rest, and resilience
• Self-awareness and self-management: emotional intelligence and working with difficult emotions
• Transforming professional and personal relationships through embodied, skillful communication
• Courageous conversations
• Empowering and inspiring people and teams
• Coaching and mentoring: compassionate accountability
• Fostering and co-creating belonging

Program Includes:
Monthly large group sessions
Monthly pod sessions
Daily and monthly home practices and readings
Monthly written reflections
Optional monthly Tea and Q&A

Dates:
Program runs August 26 – December 17, 2022. Specific training dates below. All meeting times are: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time.

• Fri-Sat, Aug 26-27 (2 days); Opening Weekend
• Fri, Sept 23
• Fri, Oct 21
• Fri, Nov 18
• Fri & Sat, Dec 16-17 (2 days); Closing Weekend

Participation Commitment:

• Must attend at least 5 of 7 days
• Meditation: 20-30 min/day recommended
• Reading/Journaling: 4-8 hr/month
• Pod meetings: 1 hr/month
• Tea and Q&A: 1 hr/month (highly recommended but not required, and will be recorded)
• Attend ONE program orientation (highly recommended, especially if you have not used LearnDash before)
  • Friday, August 19; 12:00 – 1:00pm. US Pacific Time
  • Wednesday, August 24; 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. US Pacific Time

Financial Information:

Sliding Scale: $5000 – $750. Please consider paying at the highest rate that you can afford: your generosity supports Spirit Rock, staff, and your fellow practitioners. Any amount offered above the Base rate of $2500 is a tax deductible donation to Spirit Rock, and your generosity will enable and support the participation of others.

• Benefactor – $5000
• Sustainer – $3000
• Base – $2500

The following rates are available for those needing financial support:

• Supported – $2000
• Mudita/Karuna Scholarship – $1650*
• BIPOC Scholarship – $750*

*Both the Mudita/Karuna Scholarship and BIPOC Scholarship rates are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Both are limited and reserved for those truly experiencing financial hardship.

Have a group or team of 4+? Please email us for group rate information.

Cancellation Policy for this Dharma Training Program:

• $100 cancellation fee** – On or before August 24, by 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time (**fees reduced for scholarship participants)
• $500 cancellation fee** – August 25 until Sept 23
• No refunds – Sept 24 and beyond

Date & Time: Saturday, May 21, 2022; 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code PM1D22.

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 this 21st offering of Poetry Day, our usual sitting and walking practices will be informed by periods of reading poetry to each other. Each poem is carefully selected by Phillip Moffitt with an eye toward selections that point us to dharma insights.

Poems of this nature comfort us and inspire us to take our meditation understandings into our daily life such that we see the world through dharma eyes and respond from the dharma heart. This is a day of fun and lightheartedness and if you haven’t ever read a poem in front of others, don’t miss this opportunity to free your voice and find a new form of expression.

Tentative Schedule:
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Morning Session
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 – 4:30 p.m. Afternoon Session

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Date & Time: Sunday, May 22, 2022; 10:00am-5:00pm US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code KG1D22.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 6 CE credits for $60 for licensed psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, and nurses.

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: Many of us carry old and new wounds related to our addictive behavior. Over time, uncared for, these wounds become triggers for more unhealthy thoughts and actions.

On this daylong retreat we will focus on bringing lovingkindness and compassion to the addictive wounds of the past and present. We will look at how our addictive behavior tried to cover our wounds and learn to be more compassionate with our own pain. We discover that there is wisdom we can draw out of this compassionate looking.

Using mindfulness of the body, we apply somatic awareness to the living wounds. This opens us to healing painful emotional habits and patterns of thought through understanding 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.

Date & Time: Saturday – Sunday, May 28-29, 2022; 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
In-Person Sliding Scale: $108-$1008

*Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers and Spirit Rock. Code SB1S22 .

Please Note: This program will be offered as a hybrid: on-land and online. This is the registration page for the on-land program to be held in the Community Meditation Center.

Description:

In this two day retreat, we will explore and practice the Brahmavihāras—impartial good will, compassion, empathic joy, and equanimity—also known as “divine abodes” of the heart and mind. We will alternate between sessions of didactic explanation and sessions of contemplative practice specially formulated to cultivate these liberating mind states. We will be using the Mettā Sutta as our guide throughout the retreat. Our time together will include Dharma talks, guided meditations, discussion, Q&A, and short mindful movement practice sessions led by senior Kripalu teachers.

All experience levels are warmly welcome!

Space is very limited due to COVID protocols in place, please register here only if you can join us on the land. If you can only join us remotely online, please register for the Online version and you can participate by Zoom or watch the program later.

Dates: August 26 – December 17, 2022; specific dates below.
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $5000 – $750. Code ML2T22.

Description: This certificate training program is open to and designed for leaders and aspiring leaders in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. We will cultivate mindful and compassionate leadership skills and practices to embody our care for ourselves and others, with a mindset of service to community and the world.

A core pedagogical approach of this program is participating in and co-learning with a supportive community of like-minded peers both in the large group and small monthly pod meetings. Through lectures, group discussion, guided meditations, readings, reflections, experiential exercises, and personal meditation practice, we will cultivate skills and behaviors that can be applied directly to our personal and professional lives. By developing and incorporating these intentional practices, we will strengthen professional relationships and workplace environments, expanding impact beyond our own learning for the broader benefit of our work and organization(s).

This program includes training in three realms: personal, relational, and organizational. Some included themes are:

• Mindful, compassionate, values-aligned leadership
• Cultivating well-being: self-care, rest, and resilience
• Self-awareness and self-management: emotional intelligence and working with difficult emotions
• Transforming professional and personal relationships through embodied, skillful communication
• Courageous conversations
• Empowering and inspiring people and teams
• Coaching and mentoring: compassionate accountability
• Fostering and co-creating belonging

Program Includes:
Monthly large group sessions
Monthly pod sessions
Daily and monthly home practices and readings
Monthly written reflections
Optional monthly Tea and Q&A

Dates:
Program runs August 26 – December 17, 2022. Specific training dates below. All meeting times are: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time.

• Fri-Sat, Aug 26-27 (2 days); Opening Weekend
• Fri, Sept 23
• Fri, Oct 21
• Fri, Nov 18
• Fri & Sat, Dec 16-17 (2 days); Closing Weekend

Participation Commitment:

• Must attend at least 5 of 7 days
• Meditation: 20-30 min/day recommended
• Reading/Journaling: 4-8 hr/month
• Pod meetings: 1 hr/month
• Tea and Q&A: 1 hr/month (highly recommended but not required, and will be recorded)
• Attend ONE program orientation (highly recommended, especially if you have not used LearnDash before)
  • Friday, August 19; 12:00 – 1:00pm. US Pacific Time
  • Wednesday, August 24; 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. US Pacific Time

Financial Information:

Sliding Scale: $5000 – $750. Please consider paying at the highest rate that you can afford: your generosity supports Spirit Rock, staff, and your fellow practitioners. Any amount offered above the Base rate of $2500 is a tax deductible donation to Spirit Rock, and your generosity will enable and support the participation of others.

• Benefactor – $5000
• Sustainer – $3000
• Base – $2500

The following rates are available for those needing financial support:

• Supported – $2000
• Mudita/Karuna Scholarship – $1650*
• BIPOC Scholarship – $750*

*Both the Mudita/Karuna Scholarship and BIPOC Scholarship rates are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Both are limited and reserved for those truly experiencing financial hardship.

Have a group or team of 4+? Please email us for group rate information.

Cancellation Policy for this Dharma Training Program:

• $100 cancellation fee** – On or before August 24, by 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time (**fees reduced for scholarship participants)
• $500 cancellation fee** – August 25 until Sept 23
• No refunds – Sept 24 and beyond

Dates: Friday to Sunday, June 03 – 05, 2022
Times (Pacific Time):
Friday: 1:30 – 5:30 pm
Saturday: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm and 1:45 – 5:30 pm
Sunday: 9:30 am – 1:00 pm

Sliding Scale: $395-$795. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code PM2M22.

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:

Change is normal and necessary, but often we are unprepared to manage it skillfully. Research shows that meeting change with mindfulness and having specific tools to navigate uncertainty allows us to experience well-being even when life is challenging.

Change naturally brings up concerns, fears, and questions that can lead to confusion, lack of motivation, or poor decisions. To help you effectively respond to these challenges, during this workshop you will have the opportunity to:

• Use our “Journey through Change Map” to orient yourself in your change.
• Recognize mind habits that undermine you and learn practices to disengage from them.
• Identify your values and intentions so you have a basis for making wise decisions.
• Create a plan for navigating your change.

Expect a weekend full of dynamic inquiry and the opportunity to learn essential life skills for meeting your changes and transitions with authenticity, confidence, and clarity.

Date & Time: Saturday, June 11, 2022; 10:00am -12:00pm and 2:00-4:00pm PT US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $55-$275 ($55/75/125/160/275). Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code JK2D22.

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 awakened heart has immense capacities for tender compassion, profound love, and renewed joy. We need all of these as we navigate the challenges of this moment, from the pandemic and other global crises to the ongoing struggles around civil rights and the climate emergency. Come together to enhance skillful ways to hold our collective fears and losses, and to build a sense of hope and beauty even amidst these difficult times. These gifts of the heart can be practiced, activated, developed, and opened.

Join in this day of meditations, stories, and dialogue, illuminating your own inner gifts, held by teachings on love, gratitude, forgiveness, and the true nature of the heart. This will be a day of virtual community, sharing visionary perspectives, training, and blessings. All are welcome!

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Date & Time: Sunday, June 12, 2022; 9:00am – 3:00pm US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $20-$108. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code GS1D22.

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:

Open to: Self-identified South Asian descent

The opportunity to retreat from our busy lives, to slow down, unplug, and allow the mind to settle and gather can be profoundly beneficial in allowing us to look more deeply within ourselves. Join us for a day of silent meditation practice in community with other self-identified folks of South Asian descent.* We will devote this day to the practice of loving awareness in noble silence, and offer guidance rooted in the Buddhadhamma—including instructions for sitting/stationary meditation, and walking/movement meditation. We will cycle between the two forms of meditation for the bulk of the day. Some opportunity for relational mindfulness practice in groups will take place at the beginning and end of the day.

* One way to define “South Asian” is as people who trace their ethnicities to one of the following places: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar/Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet.

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Date & Time: Saturday, June 18, 2022; 10:00am – 5:00pm US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code RH1D22.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 6 CE credits for $60 for licensed psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

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:
Throughout history, people have sought the heights of human potential—to become as wise, strong, happy, and loving as a person can be. Now, thanks to recent science, we’re finding how these remarkable ways of being are based on equally remarkable changes in our own nervous system. In this experiential workshop, we will explore how to strengthen the neural circuitry of deep contentment, lasting love, and profound inner peace.

No background in brain science or meditation is needed. In addition to the personal value of these practices, this material has practical implications and benefits for therapists and others in the helping professions.

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Date & Time: Sunday, June 19, 2022; 10:00am – 5:00pm US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code PB2D22.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 6 CE credits for $60 for licensed psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

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: Thich Nhat Hanh said, “Compassion does not see the world’s pain and sorrow as other; it is shared and it is ours.” When you wince as you watch a child skin her knee, or when you witness a loved one’s intense grief, you know how visceral empathy can feel. When you give in to the urge to comfort the child or envelope your loved one in your arms, you are compassion in action.

We are wired for compassion. Not only does our heart quiver with empathy and compassion, but certain parts of our brain light up. Compassion in action is an antidote to our many fears, from eco-anxiety and racial injustice to sickness and loss. With compassion, we meet the world with shared vulnerability and humanness, feel wonder and connection to the earth and all beings, and find the energy to transform ourselves and do what is needed.

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Date & Time: Saturday, June 25, 2022; 10:00am-3:00pm US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code HC2D22.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 3 CE credits for $30 for psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

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:

This day of Insight Meditation is an invitation to reawaken in ourselves the noble qualities of mindfulness and friendliness. Cultivating a relaxed, kind, and curious attention to our moment to moment experience, we can recover our natural peace, clarity, wisdom, and compassion. This capacity to pay attention in the present moment enables us to connect with ourselves more intimately and directly, understand the causes of both suffering and happiness, and discover our natural freedom and ease. Instructions for both sitting and walking meditation will be offered along with time for questions. All levels of experience are invited.

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Date & Time: Sunday, June 26, 2022; 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $20-$108. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code WD1D22.

Open to: LGBT*QI2 and GNC Communities
Description: We will explore and call into being a heart free of preference, reactivity and opposition by first befriending ourselves as we find ourselves. In this field of caring we find a greater capacity to discern and relinquish what brings us suffering. Moment after moment during this day together we will strengthen our capacity to be able to open to whatever life brings us.

From the Theragāthā (2.36)
If your mind becomes firm like a rock and no longer shakes
In a world where everything is shaking
Your mind will be your greatest friend
and suffering will not come your way.

No one will be turned away for lack of funds, as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Dates: August 26 – December 17, 2022; specific dates below.
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $5000 – $750. Code ML2T22.

Description: This certificate training program is open to and designed for leaders and aspiring leaders in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. We will cultivate mindful and compassionate leadership skills and practices to embody our care for ourselves and others, with a mindset of service to community and the world.

A core pedagogical approach of this program is participating in and co-learning with a supportive community of like-minded peers both in the large group and small monthly pod meetings. Through lectures, group discussion, guided meditations, readings, reflections, experiential exercises, and personal meditation practice, we will cultivate skills and behaviors that can be applied directly to our personal and professional lives. By developing and incorporating these intentional practices, we will strengthen professional relationships and workplace environments, expanding impact beyond our own learning for the broader benefit of our work and organization(s).

This program includes training in three realms: personal, relational, and organizational. Some included themes are:

• Mindful, compassionate, values-aligned leadership
• Cultivating well-being: self-care, rest, and resilience
• Self-awareness and self-management: emotional intelligence and working with difficult emotions
• Transforming professional and personal relationships through embodied, skillful communication
• Courageous conversations
• Empowering and inspiring people and teams
• Coaching and mentoring: compassionate accountability
• Fostering and co-creating belonging

Program Includes:
Monthly large group sessions
Monthly pod sessions
Daily and monthly home practices and readings
Monthly written reflections
Optional monthly Tea and Q&A

Dates:
Program runs August 26 – December 17, 2022. Specific training dates below. All meeting times are: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time.

• Fri-Sat, Aug 26-27 (2 days); Opening Weekend
• Fri, Sept 23
• Fri, Oct 21
• Fri, Nov 18
• Fri & Sat, Dec 16-17 (2 days); Closing Weekend

Participation Commitment:

• Must attend at least 5 of 7 days
• Meditation: 20-30 min/day recommended
• Reading/Journaling: 4-8 hr/month
• Pod meetings: 1 hr/month
• Tea and Q&A: 1 hr/month (highly recommended but not required, and will be recorded)
• Attend ONE program orientation (highly recommended, especially if you have not used LearnDash before)
  • Friday, August 19; 12:00 – 1:00pm. US Pacific Time
  • Wednesday, August 24; 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. US Pacific Time

Financial Information:

Sliding Scale: $5000 – $750. Please consider paying at the highest rate that you can afford: your generosity supports Spirit Rock, staff, and your fellow practitioners. Any amount offered above the Base rate of $2500 is a tax deductible donation to Spirit Rock, and your generosity will enable and support the participation of others.

• Benefactor – $5000
• Sustainer – $3000
• Base – $2500

The following rates are available for those needing financial support:

• Supported – $2000
• Mudita/Karuna Scholarship – $1650*
• BIPOC Scholarship – $750*

*Both the Mudita/Karuna Scholarship and BIPOC Scholarship rates are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Both are limited and reserved for those truly experiencing financial hardship.

Have a group or team of 4+? Please email us for group rate information.

Cancellation Policy for this Dharma Training Program:

• $100 cancellation fee** – On or before August 24, by 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time (**fees reduced for scholarship participants)
• $500 cancellation fee** – August 25 until Sept 23
• No refunds – Sept 24 and beyond

Date & Time: Sunday, July 10, 2022; 10:00am – 5:00pm US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code DR2D22.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 6 CE credits for $60 for licensed psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

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:

Inquiry, or investigation, is one of the seven factors of awakening, a quality that both leads to and expresses awakening. Inquiry can be a crucial factor in our practice, leading to greater aliveness, energy, interest, and wisdom, yet we may still believe that meditation should be about “not thinking.” In practice, we just initially need to not be ruled by thinking—which makes it possible to then use thinking and questioning fruitfully in the process of inquiry.

We’ll explore five modes of inquiry:

(1) bringing inquiry into our mindfulness practice in several ways

(2) listening deeply, particularly through the body and emotions, when there are repetitive thoughts and narratives, as well as difficult experiences

(3) using a core teaching to guide one’s practice

(4) radical questioning

(5) uncovering and transforming limiting beliefs

The day will combine short talks, guided inquiry practices, and discussion.

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Date & Time: Saturday, July 16, 2022; 10:00am-3:00pm US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code CL1D22.

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 times, Buddhist teachings and meditation practice may feel like an attempt to escape human life. Being born into this world can seem somehow wrong or undesirable. This can lead to a sense of mistrust in our bodies, our impulses, and in nature itself. But what if this path actually led to becoming more fully human, rather than escaping the human condition? What if liberation could be found through embracing our true nature as conscious beings, rather than taming it? With these concepts in mind, this daylong retreat will focus on the joy and beauty of birth, becoming, humanness, interconnection, and nature. Together, we will celebrate life.

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Date & Time: Sunday, July 17, 2022; 10:00am – 1:00pm. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $25-$108. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code JM1D22.

Description: Amidst all the pains in the world and our own lives, how do we allow our hearts to be open and responsive? How do we stay true to our deepest intentions for how we wish to be in the world? The Buddha offered a path of practice to support finding peace within by cultivating an open and responsive heart and mind. In this half day of practice, we will cultivate Wise Intention: intentions of kindness, compassion, and non-clinging. The instructions will emphasize bringing forth a natural balance and ease in both our meditation and in the whole of 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.

Date & Time: Sunday, July 24, 2022; 10:00am – 4:00pm US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code DC2D22.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 5 CE credits for $50 for licensed psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

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:

Health in our body and clarity in our meditation increases as energy flows more freely through the spine. In this daylong we’ll learn five simple Qigong movements that awaken energetic wholeness in the spine and the entire body. We will experience how awakening the spine through Qigong is a valuable support and complement to mindfulness meditation.

These Qigong practices release spinal stagnation and open a profound circulation of energy. This promotes health and wellbeing in body and mind. Qigong and meditation bring a bright wakefulness and a concentrated, embodied presence that help us discover who we are beyond our stories.

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Dates: Thursday to Saturday, July 28-31, 2022
Times: 9:00am – 12:30pm morning session and 2:00pm – 6:00pm afternoon session US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $155-$1200 ($155/325/450/850/1200). Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code DD1M22.

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, said to contain a summary of all of his teachings. Based on one of the oldest Theravāda 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 to 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.

Dates: August 26 – December 17, 2022; specific dates below.
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $5000 – $750. Code ML2T22.

Description: This certificate training program is open to and designed for leaders and aspiring leaders in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. We will cultivate mindful and compassionate leadership skills and practices to embody our care for ourselves and others, with a mindset of service to community and the world.

A core pedagogical approach of this program is participating in and co-learning with a supportive community of like-minded peers both in the large group and small monthly pod meetings. Through lectures, group discussion, guided meditations, readings, reflections, experiential exercises, and personal meditation practice, we will cultivate skills and behaviors that can be applied directly to our personal and professional lives. By developing and incorporating these intentional practices, we will strengthen professional relationships and workplace environments, expanding impact beyond our own learning for the broader benefit of our work and organization(s).

This program includes training in three realms: personal, relational, and organizational. Some included themes are:

• Mindful, compassionate, values-aligned leadership
• Cultivating well-being: self-care, rest, and resilience
• Self-awareness and self-management: emotional intelligence and working with difficult emotions
• Transforming professional and personal relationships through embodied, skillful communication
• Courageous conversations
• Empowering and inspiring people and teams
• Coaching and mentoring: compassionate accountability
• Fostering and co-creating belonging

Program Includes:
Monthly large group sessions
Monthly pod sessions
Daily and monthly home practices and readings
Monthly written reflections
Optional monthly Tea and Q&A

Dates:
Program runs August 26 – December 17, 2022. Specific training dates below. All meeting times are: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time.

• Fri-Sat, Aug 26-27 (2 days); Opening Weekend
• Fri, Sept 23
• Fri, Oct 21
• Fri, Nov 18
• Fri & Sat, Dec 16-17 (2 days); Closing Weekend

Participation Commitment:

• Must attend at least 5 of 7 days
• Meditation: 20-30 min/day recommended
• Reading/Journaling: 4-8 hr/month
• Pod meetings: 1 hr/month
• Tea and Q&A: 1 hr/month (highly recommended but not required, and will be recorded)
• Attend ONE program orientation (highly recommended, especially if you have not used LearnDash before)
  • Friday, August 19; 12:00 – 1:00pm. US Pacific Time
  • Wednesday, August 24; 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. US Pacific Time

Financial Information:

Sliding Scale: $5000 – $750. Please consider paying at the highest rate that you can afford: your generosity supports Spirit Rock, staff, and your fellow practitioners. Any amount offered above the Base rate of $2500 is a tax deductible donation to Spirit Rock, and your generosity will enable and support the participation of others.

• Benefactor – $5000
• Sustainer – $3000
• Base – $2500

The following rates are available for those needing financial support:

• Supported – $2000
• Mudita/Karuna Scholarship – $1650*
• BIPOC Scholarship – $750*

*Both the Mudita/Karuna Scholarship and BIPOC Scholarship rates are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Both are limited and reserved for those truly experiencing financial hardship.

Have a group or team of 4+? Please email us for group rate information.

Cancellation Policy for this Dharma Training Program:

• $100 cancellation fee** – On or before August 24, by 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time (**fees reduced for scholarship participants)
• $500 cancellation fee** – August 25 until Sept 23
• No refunds – Sept 24 and beyond

Date & Time: Saturday, August 13, 2022; 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code TS1D22.

Description: The Buddha asked his students to deepen in awareness of six kinds of experience: sights, sounds, tastes, aromas, body sensations, and mental experiences such as inner images, sounds, concepts, and our inner voice. These are simple momentary experiences in which we can become lost and enchanted, around which we might forever seek an unreachable sense of safety or contentment.

By becoming mindful of our breath and body, of the pleasant and unpleasant nature of these six experiences, and of their impermanent, ever-changing nature, we wake up from being lost in an exhausting dream. In learning to be mindful of these six sense doors, we discover a trustworthy peace and freedom.

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Date & Time: Sunday, August 14, 2022; 10:00am-4:00pm US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code HC1D22.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 5 CE credits for $50 for licensed psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

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: During this retreat we will explore the nature of ego and the enormous stress that comes with trying to be “someone.” With Insight Meditation, we can make peace with our various self views. In sitting and walking meditation, supported by instructions and Dharma talks, we will cultivate embodied presence. We will use the healing tools of mindfulness and lovingkindness to meet the activity of self with balance and openness, perhaps even “loving the house that ego built.”

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Date & Time: Saturday, August 20, 2022; 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: Dana (By Donation) $0-$108. Code AP1G22.

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:

Whether we like it or not, we’re in contact with the world, some of it pleasant and agreeable and some of it unpleasant and disagreeable. Can we be present for this experience, and use it for our own and others’ benefit?

Date & Time: Sunday, August 21, 2022; 10:00am-5:00pm US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $45-$200. Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Code PB3D22.
Continuing Education Credits: This program offers 6 CE credits for $60 for psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

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: For over 2500 years, the extraordinarily resilient Buddhist feminine has carried the Dharma. As Maya Angelou said, “Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it.” Buddhist women have overcome barriers of culture, class, race, religion, and gender by following the natural inclination of their hearts to find enlightenment through the Four Noble Truths.

Their stories have the potential to help us find our heart’s liberation in the midst of the pandemic, climate trauma, and protests to bring awareness to issues of race and systemic injustice in our society. Our intention in this daylong is to find joy and freedom through our lived experience embracing our stories. With compassion, we connect to our inner sources of strength, peace, and empowerment, which enable us to both accept and transform what is needed in ourselves and the world around us.

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Dates: August 26 – December 17, 2022; specific dates below.
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Sliding Scale: $5000 – $750. Code ML2T22.

Description: This certificate training program is open to and designed for leaders and aspiring leaders in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. We will cultivate mindful and compassionate leadership skills and practices to embody our care for ourselves and others, with a mindset of service to community and the world.

A core pedagogical approach of this program is participating in and co-learning with a supportive community of like-minded peers both in the large group and small monthly pod meetings. Through lectures, group discussion, guided meditations, readings, reflections, experiential exercises, and personal meditation practice, we will cultivate skills and behaviors that can be applied directly to our personal and professional lives. By developing and incorporating these intentional practices, we will strengthen professional relationships and workplace environments, expanding impact beyond our own learning for the broader benefit of our work and organization(s).

This program includes training in three realms: personal, relational, and organizational. Some included themes are:

• Mindful, compassionate, values-aligned leadership
• Cultivating well-being: self-care, rest, and resilience
• Self-awareness and self-management: emotional intelligence and working with difficult emotions
• Transforming professional and personal relationships through embodied, skillful communication
• Courageous conversations
• Empowering and inspiring people and teams
• Coaching and mentoring: compassionate accountability
• Fostering and co-creating belonging

Program Includes:
Monthly large group sessions
Monthly pod sessions
Daily and monthly home practices and readings
Monthly written reflections
Optional monthly Tea and Q&A

Dates:
Program runs August 26 – December 17, 2022. Specific training dates below. All meeting times are: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. US Pacific Time.

• Fri-Sat, Aug 26-27 (2 days); Opening Weekend
• Fri, Sept 23
• Fri, Oct 21
• Fri, Nov 18
• Fri & Sat, Dec 16-17 (2 days); Closing Weekend

Participation Commitment:

• Must attend at least 5 of 7 days
• Meditation: 20-30 min/day recommended
• Reading/Journaling: 4-8 hr/month
• Pod meetings: 1 hr/month
• Tea and Q&A: 1 hr/month (highly recommended but not required, and will be recorded)
• Attend ONE program orientation (highly recommended, especially if you have not used LearnDash before)
  • Friday, August 19; 12:00 – 1:00pm. US Pacific Time
  • Wednesday, August 24; 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. US Pacific Time

Financial Information:

Sliding Scale: $5000 – $750. Please consider paying at the highest rate that you can afford: your generosity supports Spirit Rock, staff, and your fellow practitioners. Any amount offered above the Base rate of $2500 is a tax deductible donation to Spirit Rock, and your generosity will enable and support the participation of others.

• Benefactor – $5000
• Sustainer – $3000
• Base – $2500

The following rates are available for those needing financial support:

• Supported – $2000
• Mudita/Karuna Scholarship – $1650*
• BIPOC Scholarship – $750*

*Both the Mudita/Karuna Scholarship and BIPOC Scholarship rates are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Both are limited and reserved for those truly experiencing financial hardship.

Have a group or team of 4+? Please email us for group rate information.

Cancellation Policy for this Dharma Training Program:

• $100 cancellation fee** – On or before August 24, by 5:00 p.m. US Pacific Time (**fees reduced for scholarship participants)
• $500 cancellation fee** – August 25 until Sept 23
• No refunds – Sept 24 and beyond