Cultivating Tranquility Silent Weekend Retreat

Stan Eisenstein

This is a hybrid event. The deadline for in-person registration is August 15, 2025, and the deadline for online registration is August 27, 2025.

Tranquility is essential to wise discernment and freedom. When our minds and bodies are caught in activation we cannot see clearly. Only when the mind is calmed do we have the capacity to untangle from the ways we get stuck in life.

Tranquility is one of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment, and it leads to deepened focus and concentration. This cultivation of tranquility helps us not only in our own lives but also influences those around us. During this silent retreat, through dharma talks, group meetings with the teacher, meditation instruction, personal meditation, and gentle movement practices, you will be guided to practice cultivating direct experiences of tranquility.

Calm Abiding & Insight: A Weekend Retreat

Trisha Stotler, Jeff Rosenberg and Jon Waterman

Join us for this immersive silent weekend retreat, where we'll develop the qualities of calm abiding - a focused, stable, and peaceful mind - that is the fertile soil for the natural arising of Insight. These practices form the foundation of our Insight meditation tradition. We welcome the opportunity to come together in community this weekend to reaffirm our aspiration to cultivate inner peace and wisdom, which are the only places of true stability among the unpredictable storms of life.

Down to Earth Dharma: Healing Our Relationship with Ourselves and the Earth

Rebecca Bradshaw and Chas DiCapua

With support and inspiration from the beauty of nature surrounding us, we will explore the Buddha Dharma from the paradigm of receptivity, allowing ourselves to be touched by life and recognizing our deep belonging in this world. By practicing dropping out of our usual mind-oriented relationship with the world and down into the body, we will establish a relationship of heartfelt intimacy and respect both with our own experience and in connection with the natural world around us. This retreat will include sitting meditation, qi gong and walking meditation practice, guided and solitary outdoor practice, talks explaining the teachings, and question and response inquiry sessions.

Rowing Your Boat: Dharma Teachings on Living Lightly with Purpose

Ruth King and Trisha Stotler

In difficult times, it’s even more important to lean purposefully into the fundamental elements of the practice. Following the familiar nursery rhyme as our guide, this silent retreat will dive deep into themes of wise effort, grasping and aversion, ever-present joys, and impermanence. Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily. Life is but a dream. Of course, with Ruth and Trisha, you know there will also be a focus on embodiment, our innate creativity, and resilience. And maybe some singing….

Meditative Reparenting Silent 5-Day Retreat

Stan Eisenstein

In the process of reparenting, we learn to use meditative imagery and body sensations to bring our wisest adult selves to our stored younger versions of ourselves. We form a relationship with these younger versions. We learn to care for them, and they learn to trust us. Once a relationship is established, we learn how to guide them through the old situations they encountered in a way that releases the psychic thorns. Each thorn removed brings a sense of relief or ease that has a direct through line to your current self.

This retreat consists of talks about reparenting and how to safely work with the process, guided meditations, unguided sitting and walking, meditation, and group meetings with the teacher.

Ringing in the New Year with Love, Compassion, Joy, and Balance

Luisa Montero-Diaz and Mary Aubry

During this six-day silent meditation retreat, we will practice the Brahmaviharas of Loving-kindess, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity and explore how they can become more a part of our daily lives. Our time together will include dharma talks, meditation instructions, and group interviews. Each day, we will sit and walk in silence together. Additionally, there will be guided metta meditations in the evenings and a simple ceremony on the last evening to bring in the New Year. All meditation experience levels are welcome.