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With Devin Berry, Tara Mulay, Victoria Cary

What does it mean to meet our lives without turning away? In this retreat, we explore the Four Noble Truths as a direct and practical path of freedom. We’ll look closely at how suffering and dissatisfaction show up in everyday experience, how habits of reactivity and grasping take hold, and what becomes possible when they are understood rather than followed.

Grounded in the heart practices of lovingkindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity, this is a training in how we meet each moment. Through meditation, reflection, and gentle guidance, we cultivate the conditions for letting go, greater ease, and the possibility of freedom. No prior experience is required, only a willingness to be present and begin again.

The retreat includes sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talks, movement practice, and group meetings with the teachers. This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings.

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With Victoria Cary, Erin Treat, and Brian Lesage

The Buddha taught that the mind is easily swept up in distraction and habit, and that freedom comes from training the heart and mind in a wise and steady way. A meditation retreat supports this training, helping us reconnect with the capacities for understanding, kindness, and inner balance that can so easily be forgotten in daily life.

At first, we may feel hesitant to turn inward, unsure of what we will meet. Yet as we learn to investigate our experience with a relaxed, continuous attention, it becomes possible to know each moment more clearly, without needing to judge or fix it. As fear and other unskillful patterns soften, we begin to recognize what is wholesome and reliable—a heart that can meet life with courage, and a mind that can settle into greater clarity and peace.

Throughout this retreat, we will practice meditation together within the refuge of a 2,600-year-old Buddhist tradition of wisdom and kindness. Held by silence and simplicity, we can come to sense the preciousness of this life and the poignancy of the human condition, with honesty and tenderness. From this steadiness of heart, goodness naturally unfolds, not as a mood we force, but as the fruit of practice.

The retreat format will include alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talks, meetings with the teachers, and opportunities for questions. All are welcome.

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With Will Kabat-Zinn, Lienchi Tran, Victoria Cary

Mindfulness is often spoken of as "the heart of Buddhist meditation." However, its essence is universal. In this retreat, we will be following the Buddha's powerful recipe for liberation as outlined in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the discourse on the foundations of mindfulness. The Buddha called this method the "direct path."

While walking, standing, sitting, and lying down, we will cultivate mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and the tendencies of mind that lead to stress and well-being. This is a powerful practice framework for cultivating openhearted awareness with the full dimensionality of our human experience and liberating insight into the nature of our own minds. All experience levels are welcome.

This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings.

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With Tara Mulay, Greg Sharf, Deborah Halzer, and Victoria Cary

This insight meditation retreat offers a unique opportunity to deeply explore the benefits of mindfulness and momentary concentration developed over the course of two weeks. The meditation instructions will touch on all four foundations of mindfulness, with emphasis on the noting technique and continuity of mindfulness in sitting, walking, and daily activities taught by the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw.

This length of retreat can open a space for profound transformations of the heart and mind, more closely revealing the truth that all conditioned experience is marked by the three universal characteristics of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self.

Held in noble silence, this course will also include dharma talks, guided brahmavihara meditations, Q&A, and group and individual practice discussions. We will invite integration of wholesome qualities of mind, including patience, curiosity, mindfulness, wise effort, lovingkindness, joy, compassion, and equanimity.

Optional mindful movement sessions will be offered by Monica Williams to support vitality, whole body awareness, concentration, and relaxation.

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With Victoria Cary, Cara Lai, Marvin Belzer, and Jean Esther

This retreat is especially designed for young adults, aged 15-19 who, as of June 26, 2027, will be at least 15 years of age. The course offers a silent morning practice each day, including 1/2 hour periods of sitting and walking meditation with ample instruction.

There will be two daily facilitated small groups where students will have an opportunity to foster connection, play games, and express themselves. Daily workshops include creative writing, art, sports, music, nature walks, and other focused topics relevant to teens. Free time for socializing or rest are also included each day.

This retreat allows young adults to develop and value their natural spirituality and their authentic selves within a supportive community committed to inclusivity. Along with the teaching team, a group of trained and dedicated adult mentors will support the teens’ experience. Extensive supervision is provided. Bonus: there's a dance party at the end (a mindful one, of course).

The daily schedule will include mindful movement offered by Monica Williams.