2025 Summer Special Self-Guided Silent Retreat

Self-guided silent meditation retreats offer individuals the freedom to structure their own retreat experience within a container that supports all their material needs. Held in the secluded and peaceful environment of Seven Oaks Retreat Center, these retreats allow participants to design their own routines of meditation, mindfulness, and rest, while maintaining complete silence throughout. This approach encourages deep personal reflection, self-discipline, and a direct engagement with one's inner experience, making it a profoundly introspective and customizable path to mental clarity and emotional balance.

2025 Summer Special Self-Guided Silent Retreat

Self-guided silent meditation retreats offer individuals the freedom to structure their own retreat experience within a container that supports all their material needs. Held in the secluded and peaceful environment of Seven Oaks Retreat Center, these retreats allow participants to design their own routines of meditation, mindfulness, and rest, while maintaining complete silence throughout. This approach encourages deep personal reflection, self-discipline, and a direct engagement with one's inner experience, making it a profoundly introspective and customizable path to mental clarity and emotional balance.

2025 Summer Special

Self-Guided Silent Retreat

Self-guided silent meditation retreats offer individuals the freedom to structure their own retreat experience within a container that supports all their material needs. Held in the secluded and peaceful environment of Seven Oaks Retreat Center, these retreats allow participants to design their own routines of meditation, mindfulness, and rest, while maintaining complete silence throughout. This approach encourages deep personal reflection, self-discipline, and a direct engagement with one's inner experience, making it a profoundly introspective and customizable path to mental clarity and emotional balance.

2025 Summer Special

Self-Guided Silent Retreat

Self-guided silent meditation retreats offer individuals the freedom to structure their own retreat experience within a container that supports all their material needs. Held in the secluded and peaceful environment of Seven Oaks Retreat Center, these retreats allow participants to design their own routines of meditation, mindfulness, and rest, while maintaining complete silence throughout. This approach encourages deep personal reflection, self-discipline, and a direct engagement with one's inner experience, making it a profoundly introspective and customizable path to mental clarity and emotional balance.

2025 Summer Special

Self-Guided Silent Retreat

Self-guided silent meditation retreats offer individuals the freedom to structure their own retreat experience within a container that supports all their material needs. Held in the secluded and peaceful environment of Seven Oaks Retreat Center, these retreats allow participants to design their own routines of meditation, mindfulness, and rest, while maintaining complete silence throughout. This approach encourages deep personal reflection, self-discipline, and a direct engagement with one's inner experience, making it a profoundly introspective and customizable path to mental clarity and emotional balance.

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 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 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.

IMCW Fall Retreat with Ruth King and Trisha Stotler

Rowing Your Boat: Dharma Teachings on Living Lightly with Purpose

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….