Spirit Rock Newsletter Booklet — 2025 Winter-Spring Issue
This new year brings wonderful opportunities to collectively strengthen and ground ourselves in our practice as we navigate these times. At Spirit Rock, we look forward to offering numerous residential retreats, daylongs, drop-in programs, classes, and trainings both on the land and online. We are pleased to expand our onsite programming, now including daylongs held in our Community Meditation Center (CMC).
Spirit Rock recognizes the diverse needs of our Saṅgha and your desire to connect meaningfully with others, whether through larger group settings or smaller affinity groups. To support this, we offer programming open to all practitioners, along with offerings specifically designed for our BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities.
The year begins with four residential retreats in January: Winter Insight; Mettā Retreat: Teachings and Practices to Cultivate a Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart; Cultivating the Beautiful Factors of Mind; and True Happiness: The Heart of Awakening. These retreats are open to all levels and are followed by our February and March Monthlong retreats, offering experienced practitioners extended retreat time.
Join us for teachings online and at the Community Meditation Center, led by some of our founding and long-time Spirit Rock teachers. Our “next gen” teachers bring fresh perspectives, and guest teachers offer programs that support mindfulness in everyday life. Additionally, I invite you to explore our Dharma Trainings and Intensives through the newly formed Dharma Institute, with live and recorded teachings available in our On-demand Course Library.
We hope our 2025 programming reflects your interests, and we welcome your suggestions. May you find benefit in our offerings. Together we will continue to honor the Three Jewels—the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha—and we are grateful that you are part of the Spirit Rock community.
Anne Roise Director of Programs
and Online Operations
Opportunities to Visit Spirit Rock
We are excited to now welcome visitors on our campus and bookstore from 10am-2pm on all residential retreat closing days and during daylong events in the CMC. This reflects our commitment to inclusivity, offering more opportunities to enjoy our serene environment and connect with community. For more details and a complete list of open campus dates, please visit spiritrock.org/about/plan-your-visit.
The Buddha’s teachings and meditation practices remind us of the ever-present possibility of waking up to a sense of well-being, presence, and true nature that does not depend on circumstances. This silent Insight Meditation (vipassanā retreat welcomes new and experienced meditators and includes instructions in vipassanā meditation following the four foundations of mindfulness. The retreat will also include lovingkindness meditation, meetings with teachers, and evening talks highlighting the central teachings of the Buddha and their practical application to our lives.
Mettā Retreat: Teachings and Practices to Cultivate a Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart
7 Nights
16.5 CECs
5 Nights
DONALD ROTHBERG, GULLU SINGH, BETH STERNLIEB, DIANA WINSTON, SYLVIA BOORSTEIN (VISITING), JONATHAN RELUCIO (MOVEMENT)
Mettā, or lovingkindness, practice is the cultivation of the intention of benevolence as the orientation of our heart and mind. It is also a path to wisdom. We develop our capacity for mettā through meditation in order for it to manifest in our daily lives. Mettā practice strengthens self-confidence, self-acceptance, and steadiness of mind and heart, revealing our fundamental disposition toward kindness. We’ll be joined on one day of the retreat by Sylvia Boorstein, a beloved long-time teacher of mettā.
Cultivating the Beautiful Factors of Mind
VICTORIA CARY, TARA MULAY, DEVIN BERRY, MONICA MAGTOTO (MOVEMENT)
The Buddha taught that whatever we incline our mind towards will arise more in the future. In this retreat, we will consider how we can develop beautiful factors of mind that support our access to mind states such as faith, courage, and mindfulness. Held in noble silence, our practice together will unfold through the sincere exploration of these mind states that influence the quality of our lives and lay the foundation for the arising of wisdom.
True Happiness: The Heart of Awakening
ERIN
TREAT, PAMELA WEISS, MONICA MAGTOTO (MOVEMENT)
5 Nights
The nature of awareness lies at the heart of awakening and the experience of true happiness. During this retreat we will explore the nature of mind and awareness and inquire into what supports and what obscures our experience of freedom. Together we will foster steadiness of mind, ease of body, and confidence of heart. By stabilizing our attention in the present moment, we will expand our trust in loving awareness and learn to rest in our innate capacity to awaken.
Monthlong Retreats
An extended period of retreat offers the rare opportunity for sustained, dedicated practice. With an emphasis on quieting the mind, this setting offers a sacred container for opening the heart and developing profound clarity and depth of Insight practice. Instruction will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness combined with training in lovingkindness and compassion, and practice will be structured around a daily schedule of silent sitting, walking, Dharma talks, and practice meetings with teachers. These retreats have prequisites and a lottery-style application.
February Insight Monthlong Retreat
DAWN SCOTT, VANCE PRYOR, TUERE SALA, BRIAN LESAGE, DEVON HASE, JD DOYLE, RASIKA LINK (MOVEMENT)
Nights
March Insight Monthlong Retreat
TARA MULAY, TEMPEL SMITH, TUERE SALA, DEVIN BERRY, ANUSHKA FERNANDOPULLE, KRISTINA BARÉ, RASIKA LINK (MOVEMENT)
Insight 2-Month Retreat
By participating in both February and March Insight Retreats consecutively, you can engage in a two-month, immersive practice journey. This combined retreat offers a continuity of themes and teachings, and allows you to explore the depths of both Insight and awareness practices under the guidance of a range of skilled teachers.
Single rooms guaranteed at several pricing options!
Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States
OREN JAY SOFER, CARA LAI, YONG OH, JESSICA MOREY, GULLU SINGH (ONLINE)
The Buddhist path cultivates four transformative qualities that can be developed into steadfast dwelling places for the heart: kindness, compassion, joy, and balance. Known as the brahmavihāras, these states can be powerful supports for deepening concentration and insight on the contemplative path and responding to suffering. Throughout this retreat, we will explore techniques to develop each of these states and release the obstacles that hinder us from living a full life and responding meaningfully to the needs of our world.
Insight Meditation Retreat
GIL FRONSDAL, TUERE SALA, DARA WILLIAMS, KAIRA JEWEL LINGO
7 Nights
7 Nights 4 Nights
7.5 CECs
This is a silent retreat suitable to those new and experienced in the practices of Insight Meditation (vipassanā ). The retreat includes systematic instructions on vipassanā meditation—both in stillness and movement—as well as lovingkindness practices, meetings with teachers, and evening talks highlighting the central teachings of the Buddha and their practical application in our lives. This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings.
Retreat as Ceremony: Mindfulness and Indigenous Presence for Wellness and Healing
BONNIE
DURAN, CAROL CANO
9 Nights
Indigenous Presence blends aspects of Indigenous ceremony with the methods and outcomes of another ancient expression of wholesome presence: mindfulness and lovingkindness. This retreat is open to Indigenous and non-Indigenous people from around the world. Together, we will explore the intersection of Buddhist practices from the Insight tradition such as mindfulness and mettā (lovingkindness) meditation, and Indigenous knowledge systems such as Intuitive Awareness. Both traditions are anchored in a meaningful relationship with nature, ancestors, and the sweet territory of silence.
The emphasis during this retreat will be on the continuity of awareness in all activities, which stabilizes and balances the mind. Relaxed acceptance of our moment-to-moment experience will become the platform for investigation and wisdom. Particular attention will be paid to the attitudes in the mind that condition our understanding. This retreat is suitable for both beginner and experienced meditators, and we welcome people from all life experiences, backgrounds, and communities.
Naturally Arising Ease, Awareness, and Insight
DANA DEPALMA, PHILLIP MOFFITT, TUERE SALA, ALEX HALEY, YING CHEN
This retreat offers a potent new approach to Insight Meditation in which we open to enhanced capacities of knowing. After engaging in detailed preliminary practices to help us shift out of reactive tendencies of mind and establish genuine availability and embodiment, we’ll then utilize components of the “Nine Bodies of Consciousness” map to access multiple distinct knowing capacities, including intuitive awareness. This practice method fosters the natural arising of ease, awareness, and insight.
Spring Insight Retreat
All the time before you were born plus all the time after you die is almost exactly all the time there is. Yet we find ourselves alive, with a question: how should I live? We begin by listening deeply. Throughout this retreat, we'll sit together in the refuge provided by a 2,600-year legacy of wisdom and kindness. In the silence, we come to know the preciousness of life and the poignancy of the human condition.
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The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students
GUY ARMSTRONG, SALLY ARMSTRONG, DAWN SCOTT, SUSIE HARRINGTON, DEVON HASE, RASIKA LINK (MOVEMENT)
In this retreat we will explore the nature of awareness, or consciousness, which is at the heart of sentient life. Awareness is always with us, revealing the phenomena of our experience, yet we may not have learned how to use it as a focus in meditation. As we deepen our connection to this mysterious capacity for knowing, it becomes a powerful pathway to inner freedom and liberation.
Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
Working with the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, we will explore how we create entanglements and therefore can free ourselves from these recurring patterns. Turning towards these tangles with kindness and understanding allows the metabolizing and releasing of old habits. In keeping with the 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastic tradition, this retreat will include daily periods of devotional chanting and an adherence to the Eight Precepts. This retreat also includes sitting and walking meditation, practice meetings with teachers, and Dharma talks.
Cultivating Citta: Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love ERIN SELOVER
This retreat will focus on cultivating relaxed and kind attention in all activities to support stability of mind, body, and heart. As we move through our moment-to-moment activities and meditation practice, we will then turn towards the investigation of suffering and the end of suffering. Particular attention will be paid to attitudes of mind—such as pushing away, leaning in, or spacing out—and the impacts of those mind states on one’s sense of peace and freedom in relation to experience.
Cultivating Awakening Emotions
Emotions are a natural part of this human body. We live with the impact of emotional triggers daily, which can turn our lives into a roller coaster ride of reactivity. It is possible, however, to engage our meditative practice in a more proactive way by cultivating several awakening emotions which, when present, can bring clarity and wisdom. During this traditional vipassanā retreat, we will use the Satipaṭṭhāna to explore and recognize the impact of these emotions upon our practice.
Mindfulness for Everyone
CAROL CANO, GULLU SINGH, DAWN MAURICIO, KIMBER
SIMPKINS-NUCCIO (MOVEMENT)
Mindfulness offers us tools to develop our capacity to pay attention, regulate emotions, and cultivate states of lovingkindness, compassion, and even-mindedness. In this retreat we will practice mindfulness through sitting and walking meditation, as well as through lectures and the opportunity to meet with teachers who will guide our practice. While rooted in the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, this retreat will also focus on the practical applications of mindfulness and the range of ways to practice it.
This is How Civilizations Heal:
The Alchemy of the 3 Poisons - BIPOC Retreat
LESLIE BOOKER, AMANA BREMBRY JOHNSON, GULLU SINGH, JONATHAN RELUCIO (MOVEMENT)
The Buddha’s teachings on the four divine sanctuaries (brahmavihāras) include meditations on universal friendliness (mettā), compassion (karuṇā), altruistic joy (muditā), and equanimity (upekkhā). Aimed at purifying our hearts and developing concentration, these divine sanctuaries help us find inner peace and powerfully engage with the world. This retreat will deepen our understanding of selfless love and its role in ending suffering. Retreatants are encouraged to combine this retreat with the Insight Meditation retreat to further develop concentration and purify the heart. 6
The three poisons—greed, aversion, and delusion—are mind states that cloud the heart and mind. However, by clearly recognizing the three poisons, we can meet them with their antidotes of generosity, mettā, and wisdom. Generosity expands our ability to feel connected and reminds us that we belong to each other. Mettā opens the heart, protecting us from both inner and outer harm, while wisdom allows us to see things right sized as we move through the world.
Moving into Meditation: Mindful Yoga and Embodied Dharma
ANNE CUSHMAN, LESLIE BOOKER, TINA CLAY (MOVEMENT)
Nourish your body, mind, and heart and reconnect with what matters most to you. Through gentle, mindful yoga—suitable for all levels of physical ability— you’ll calm and balance your nervous system, unwinding the physical and emotional knots that can block your connection to open-hearted presence. You’ll also practice meditation seated, standing, walking, and lying down, learning skills that can help you stay grounded, centered, and open-hearted as you take your practice off the mat and cushion and back into the world.
Summer Lovingkindness Retreat
TEMPEL SMITH, REBECCA BRADSHAW, ANUSHKA FERNANDOPULLE, BONNIE DURAN, JOHN MARTIN, RASIKA LINK (MOVEMENT)
9 Nights
Summer Insight Retreat
TEMPEL SMITH, ANUSHKA FERNANDOPULLE, JOHN MARTIN, BONNIE DURAN, REBECCA BRADSHAW, RASIKA LINK (MOVEMENT)
This retreat will emphasize continuity of awareness in all activities, stabilizing the mind, and cultivating insight. Combining relaxation with clarity, we will explore the liberating teachings of the Buddha, including the foundations of mindfulness, the radical nature of impermanence, and the cessation of craving. Practitioners are encouraged to combine the Summer Insight Retreat with the Summer Lovingkindness (mettā) Retreat, although this is not required. For those attending both retreats, the teachers will guide and integrate the retreats as one offering.
The Family Retreat
DIANA WINSTON, CARA LAI, OFOSU JONES-QUARTEY, MONASTICS
4 Nights Lottery Application
Find joy in a retreat for the whole family and take time together to rest, reconnect, play, and enjoy! This four-night residential retreat for adults and children ages 7-15 years old will combine meditation and Dharma teachings, games, arts and crafts, nature time, and more. Kids and teens will have organized time each day to be with peers, fully supervised by our mindful leaders, and adults will also have time to practice, relax, and receive Dharma from the teachers.
Young Adult Retreat
MATTHEW BRENSILVER, CARA LAI, VINNY FERRARO, HAKIM TAFARI (MOVEMENT)
5 Nights
5 Nights
Open to young adults ages 18–32 years. Join a kind community to practice mindfulness and compassion. Give yourself a break from overstimulation and come home to the simple experience of being alive. In mindfulness meditation, we practice resting, looking deeply, knowing moment-bymoment what it’s like to be human. Some of us are hesitant to look because we’re concerned what we’ll find. But our practice shows us that the more deeply we look into experience, the more reason we have to love.
Nature is Our Body: Dharma and Connection to the Earth
ANUSHKA FERNANDOPULLE, JOZEN GIBSON, DAWN SCOTT
Our body can be a vehicle for liberation in this life, containing all that we need to wake up. Yet we may not know how to relate to the body to support this kind of freedom. Together we will practice connecting to our body with loving awareness while recognizing ourselves as part of nature, which includes developing awareness of our mortality.
Generosity for the Benefit of All Beings
All of our Dharma offerings are made possible by the generosity of our donors. Please consider making a gift to our scholarship fund today. Your expression of dāna (generosity) will help people who are experiencing financial hardship to begin, deepen, or reignite their practice and study. To make a donation, please visit: spiritrock.org/donate
4 Nights
Parallel
AUG 17 SUN AUG 21 THU
4 Nights
Parallel
Five Spiritual Powers: Cultivating Resilience, Balance, and Love
JD DOYLE, AMANA BREMBRY JOHNSON, CAROL CANO, JONATHAN RELUCIO (MOVEMENT)
The Buddha’s teaching on the five spiritual powers (confidence, effort, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom) offers a path to cultivate these capacities of the heart and transform habits that no longer serve us. Grounded in these teachings, together we will learn powerful and sustainable ways to restore our humanity and bring freedom to all beings. This retreat offers silent meditation, opportunities for movement meditation, Dharma talks, and time to be in nature and honor the natural rhythms of your own practice.
Clarity, Connection, and Compassion: The Liberating Path of Mindfulness
TARA MULAY, SHELLY GRAF
During this retreat, we will cultivate the capacity to connect intimately with the felt sense of the body, heart, and mind, developing a clarity of perception that unclouds our attention. As we let go of a mistaken sense of ownership of our passing experience, we open to a deeper understanding of the truth of the way things are. From here, we can begin to free ourselves from false notions of separateness and infuse our lives with greater joy and wisdom.
Finding Refuge, Finding Home: A Retreat in Nature
SUSIE HARRINGTON, YONG OH, KIRSTEN RUDESTAM
5 Nights
5 Nights
In the storms of our lives, we need refuge—a place of nourishment and support where we can replenish our tired bodies and troubled hearts. When the Buddha taught meditation, his first instruction was to go sit under a tree. We will practice together in the age-old tradition of being outside in the company of the natural world. Together, we will tap into the natural stillness and dynamism that surrounds us and teaches us balance.
Labor Day Insight Retreat
JAMES BARAZ, HOWIE COHN, TUERE SALA, TERRY VANDIVER (MOVEMENT)
This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing clarity and depth of practice. Traditional instructions will be combined with a spirit of lovingkindness, and our time together will include a schedule of silent sitting and walking periods, guided Yoga/ movement sessions, as well as practice meetings with teachers and daily Dharma talks. This retreat is for experienced as well as new students.
The Dharma Institute offers in-depth study of the teachings and practices of the Buddha and the Insight Meditation lineage, professional trainings, and continuing education, both online and on-land at the Spirit Rock campus. It brings together existing class series, multi-day intensives, training programs, and our new library of on-demand online courses.
On-Demand Courses
Essential Buddhist Teachings
MARK COLEMAN
Equanimity (5 CECs)
JAMES BARAZ
The Joy of Samādhi (5 CECs)
NIKKI MIRGHAFORI
Embodying Mettā & the Four Elements
DAWN MAURICIO
White Awakening: Mindfulness Practices for Exploring & Disrupting the Impact of White Conditioning (10 CECs)
CRYSTAL JOHNSON
World as Lover, World as Self
JOANNA MACY
The Refuge of Dhamma: Exploring the Buddha’s Discourses
SEAN OAKES
Dancing with Life: The 12 Insight Practices of the 4 Noble Truths
PHILLIP MOFFITT & DANA DEPALMA
Embodiment & Awareness: Mindfulness, Somatics, & the Subtle Body
JILL SATTERFIELD
Next Step Dharma: Integrate Your Retreat into Daily Life
OREN JAY SOFER & JAYA RUDGARD
Online Class Series
Dharma Institute classes address a wide range of topics, from the study of Buddhist texts to applications of the Dharma for social action, psychology, and professional development. Many series offer Continuing Education Credits. Series are an accessible way to deepen your understanding of the Buddha’s teachings, prepare you for the immersive experience of a retreat or Dharma Training Program, or help to sustain the momentum of practice between retreats.
Awareness & Interconnection: Community as a Sanctuary of Shared Values
REV. LIÊN SHUTT
Celebrate and connect in sacred community while exploring the fundamental values that form the basis of an awakened life.
Men in the Dharma: Healing, Power, and Liberation
SEAN OAKES & ENRIQUE COLLAZO
Dāna-based program. Open to all self-identified men. Work with your mind and heart, deepen in relational mindfulness, and connect with Dharma brothers on the path of liberation.
Finding the Middle Way: The Life & Teachings of the Buddha
GULLU SINGH
Dāna-based program. Embark on a journey through the life of the Buddha as depicted in the Pāli Canon.
Learn to face trauma and life stressors with a grounded heart and mind, using scientific and Dharma-based resiliency practices.
The Buddha's Profound Teaching of Dependent Origination
JD DOYLE
Dāna-based program. Dive deep into the Buddha’s teaching of Dependent Origination to deepen your spiritual journey on the path of liberation.
Anxiety: It's Not All in Your Mind (Skillful Means to Approach the Mind and Body)
JILL SATTERFIELD
Practice sensing anxiety in the body in order to calm thinking and clear the body of tension and contraction.
Trainings & Intensives
VINNY FERRARO, FRANK OSTASESKI, PAM DUNN
In this year-long program, based on the book A Year to Live by Stephen Levine, we will focus on waking up and living life more fully through the exploration of death as spiritual practice. The Buddha recommended that we contemplate the inevitability of our death in order to help us awaken to the fragile, fleeting, and precious nature of our lives. All are welcome as we join in community for this year-long practice in forgiveness, gratitude, and letting go.
NIKKI MIRGHAFORI, MARC LESSER
This certificate training program is open to and designed for leaders and aspiring leaders in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. With a mindset of service to community and the world, together we will cultivate mindful leadership skills and practices to embody our care for ourselves and others. 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.
Dharma Institute trainings and intensives offer in-depth study of the teachings and practices of the Buddha, as well as opportunities for professional development and continuing education.
Sanctuaries of Heart
TEMPEL SMITH, TUERE SALA, DAWN SCOTT
Make each day count as a sacred day on the path, and bring lovingkindness into our everyday lives in this intensive practice series focused on cultivating the four brahmavihāras. These four sanctuaries are Lovingkindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity. These aspects of the awakened heart strengthen our ability to relate to ourselves and others with wisdom, and cultivate a balanced heart in all conditions, so we can let go of old relational habits based on greed, hatred, and confusion.
Awake in the Wild
In these uncertain times, with much of life lived virtually, it is essential that we stay connected to our bodies, our senses, and the earth to access wisdom and perspective. Throughout this program, we will explore nature-based awareness and heart-based meditations that open us to joy, insight, and peace. Immersing ourselves in the beautiful landscapes of Spirit Rock, we will cultivate mindful attention, opening our hearts to receive nature’s wisdom teachings about impermanence, selflessness, and the inter-connection of all life. (12 CECs)
MARK COLEMAN
PROGRAMS
Jan 1
Wednesday 10am–1pm
On-land/Online
Jan 4
Saturday 10am–3pm
Jan 5
Sunday 10am–4pm
On-land/Online
Jan 18
Saturday 10am–4pm
Jan 19
Sunday 10am–4pm
Jan 25
Saturday 10am–1pm
Welcome the New Year with Intention, Determination, and Joy SYLVIA BOORSTEIN & FRIENDS
Celebrate the arrival of 2025 as we reflect, practice together, and move into the future with confidence.
Renew Your Practice: Begin the Year with Clarity and Calm
NIKKI MIRGHAFORI
Step into the new year with a heart rooted in peace, clarity, and dedication to the path of mindfulness practice.
The Dharma of Money
SPENCER SHERMAN
Learn to access your innate money wisdom and discover how letting go offers a path towards abundance.
In The Footsteps of Peace: Breath, Body, and Heart
DEVIN BERRY
Cultivate peace through meditation, heart practices, and reflections on Dr. King’s legacy.
Nourishing Our Roots: Healing Ancestral Trauma
PAWAN BAREJA
Learn to recognize and release ancestral trauma in order to interrupt its transmission to the next generation. (5 CECs)
Meeting New Beginnings Together: Insight Meditation for Our Beloved LGBTQIA2S+ Community bruni dávila
Open to our LGBTQIA2S+ community. Join in the support of the LGBTQIA2S+ community as we practice together and reflect on new beginnings and wholesome intentions.
Jan 26
Sunday 10am–4pm
Feb 1
Saturday 11am–1pm
Anxiety as Teacher: A Dharma and Yoga Daylong
DJUNA DEVEREAUX
Embrace anxiety as a teacher through embodied Dharma, mindful movement, and mettā meditation.
Down to Earth Dharma: Receptive Meditation and Reflections
REBECCA BRADSHAW
Dive deep into the Buddhist teachings on suffering and happiness while exploring the themes outlined in Down to Earth Dharma.
Explore our diverse short-format programs, both online and on-land, designed to deepen your practice and understanding of Insight Meditation. Join us for transformative experiences rooted in mindfulness, compassion, and community. Learn more at spiritrock.org/calendar
Feb 2
Sunday 10am–3pm
Feb 7–Mar 7
5 Fridays Class Series
On-land/Online
Feb 8
Saturday 10am–5pm
Calming the Restless Mind, Body, and Heart
HOWARD COHN
Learn to relate to your thoughts kindly and skillfully rather than being so easily carried away by them. (4 CECs)
Write to Wake Up: Creative Writing and Meditation
ANNE CUSHMAN
Unleash your stories, stir your imagination, and reclaim your voice through immersive weekly sessions of creative writing and meditation.
Cultivating Wise Speech: Becoming More Skillful in Your Speech Practice
DONALD ROTHBERG
Learn to carry your spiritual values into everyday life by connecting your meditation practice with wise and compassionate speech. (6 CECs)
Feb 9
Sunday 10am–3pm
Feb 15
Saturday 10am–3:30pm Feb 16
Sunday 10am-3pm Feb 22
Saturday 9:30am–4pm Feb 23
Sunday 10am–4:30pm
The Ultimate Refuge
MARGARITA LOINAZ
Discover the deep refuge that unfolds through the recognition of our essential nature, freeing our hearts and minds.
Heart Practices for Couples: Enhancing Intimacy and Mindful Presence
DEBRA CHAMBERLIN-TAYLOR & GEORGE TAYLOR
Spend the day in partner practice, explore the art of intimacy, and awaken the heart of joy and love together. (4.5 CECs)
The Liberating Path of Mindful Eating
ANDREA LIEBERSTEIN
Tune into your inner wisdom and discover the liberating potential of mindful eating practices.
The Power of Loving Awareness: Meeting Adversity with Compassion and Clarity
MARK COLEMAN
Investigate how loving awareness allows us to embrace the inevitable struggles that arise in ourselves, each other, and the world. (5.5 CECs)
On Joy & Sorrow: Feeling Grounded in Your Depth
LESLIE BOOKER
Don’t get lost in despair, but remember that the depth of your sorrow is balanced by the depth of your joy.
Mar 1
Mindful Loving Awareness: A Day for New and Experienced Meditators
JACK KORNFIELD
Practice quieting the mind and steadying the heart to cultivate greater care and compassion for ourselves and the world.
Mar 2
Sunday 10am–4pm
Saturday 10am–4pm Online Online
Mar 8–9
Sat–Sun 10am–4pm
On-land
Mar 16 Sun
10am-4pm
On-land/Online
Mar 22-23
Sat–Sun 10am-3:30pm
On-land/Online
Mar 29
Saturday 10am-1pm
Coming Home to the Body: A Daylong Insight Retreat for the Asian Diaspora
LOUIJE KIM, GULLU SINGH & DAWN MAURICIO
Open to our Asian diaspora community. Pause and reconnect to the wisdom of your body during this special retreat for people of Asian heritage.
Freeing the Hindered Mind: The Dharma of Working with Challenging Emotions and Mind States
KATE MUNDING & ANTONIA FOKKEN
Open to self-identified women. Meditate and move in community to build courage, resilience, and clarity in the face of difficult emotions.
Ancient Wisdom, Present Freedom: Insight Meditation and the Direct Path to Liberation
WILL KABAT-ZINN
Discover and follow the “direct path to liberation”—a powerful method mapped out by the Buddha in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta Sutta.
Qigong and Meditation: Cultivating Well-being and Centeredness
TEJA BELL
Learn how the integration of meditation and qigong supports our practice and opens gateways to insight and wisdom.
Rainbow Day: Cultivating Equanimity with a Peaceful and Loving Heart
JOHN MARTIN
Free: Dana-based program. Open to our LGBTQIA & GE community. Join in the beauty of our community to cultivate and explore equanimity.
Mar 30
Sunday 10am-4pm
On-land/Online
Apr 6
Sunday 11am-2pm Online Online
Apr 12
Saturday 10am–4pm
On-land
Stepping out of Comparison: Developing Psychological Flexibility Around Self-View
DANA DEPALMA & MATTHEW BRENSILVER
Practice letting go of comparison and learn to infuse the places of measurement with relaxation and love. (5 CECs)
Healing Our Way Home: Ancestral Wisdom for Joy and Liberation
KAIRA JEWEL LINGO
Reconnect with your roots and explore how mindfulness invites us to connect with ancestors, deepen joy, and touch liberation.
Taking the Sacred Journey through Grief to Heal the Heart: Practices for Transformation and Resilience
CAROL CANO, AMANA BREMBRY JOHNSON & RENDA DIONNE MADRIGAL Journey into grief to extract the hidden jewels of sorrow and arouse the heart to recover joy. (5 CECs)
Apr 13
Sunday 10am–3pm On-land
Apr 19–20 Sat–Sun 10am–5pm
On-land/Online
Apr 26-27
Sat–Sun 10am–5pm
On-land/Online
Spring Family Day
KATE MUNDING & EVE DECKER
Open to families with children aged 4-12. Spend the day practicing and connecting with your children, yourself, and a supportive community.
Earth Day-themed Weekend
ECODHARMA TEAM
Join us to celebrate and honor Earth Day, as we explore EcoDharma, joy, and interconnection with each other and the natural world.
Cultivating Self-Compassion as Loving, Connected Presence
KRISTIN NEFF & CAVERLY MORGAN
Explore self-compassion from a scientific and contemplative lens and learn to respond to difficult moments with greater warmth and ease. (12 CECs)
Online Drop-ins
Dāna / By Donation (pay what you can)
Drop-in groups are a welcoming introduction to Spirit Rock teachings and a source of ongoing inspiration and community connection. All drop-ins are online, with closed captioning available, and include meditation, a Dharma talk, and often discussion.
Monday Night Meditation & Talk
Mondays, 7:15pm - 9:15pm
Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk
Wednesdays, 10am - 12pm
Rainbow Sa ṅ gha
Open to our LGBTQIA+ community
Wednesdays, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Women’s Group
Open to self-identified women
Thursdays, 10am - 12pm
BIPOC Voices
Open to our BIPOC community
Sundays, 9am - 10:30am
Dharma & Recovery
2nd Fridays, 7:15pm - 9:15pm
Family Programs
One of the greatest gifts we can offer youth is a safe space to be themselves, connect, and grow. Spirit Rock’s family programs blend meditation with socialemotional development, authentic connection, and embodiment. Our skilled teachers bring deep Dharma practice and expertise in working with all ages, meeting youth and parents where they are.
Family Retreat
Diana Winston, Cara Lai & Ofosu Jones-Quartey
July 30 – August 3
4 Nights | for children 7-15 years old
Middle School Series
Winter
Vy Le & Gavrila Abramson
January 26 - March 9
6 Sundays | 5:00pm–6:30pm
Spring
TBD
March 30 - May 4
6 Sundays | 5:00pm–6:30pm
Spring Family Day
Kate Munding & Eve Decker Sunday, April 13
10:00am–3:00pm
Mindfulness & SelfCompassion for Parents
Parenting Series
Ofosu Jones-Quartey
February 23 – March 16
4 Sundays | 4:00pm–5:30pm
High School Series
Winter
Sara Oakes & Enrique Collazo
January 26 - March 9
6 Sundays | 5:00pm–6:30pm
Spring
Anthony “T” Maes & Tanzanite Msola
March 30 - May 4
6 Sundays | 5:00pm–6:30pm
Continuing Education
Mindfulness and meditation can be powerful supports for the life and work of healthcare professionals. Spirit Rock offers Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for psychologists, therapists, social workers, counselors, nurses, chiropractors, and others in many of our programs.
1/11–5/3 1/19 2/2 2/8 2/15 2/22
2/20–3/27 3/28–4/25 3/30 4/5–6/28 4/12 4/16–4/20
4/26–4/27 5/9–5/16
6/21–6/26
Buddhist Psychology Training: Scientific Intersections and Clinical Applications of Dharma 18 CECs
Anxiety: It's Not All in Your Mind (Skillful Means to Approach the Mind and Body) 10 CECs
Stepping out of Comparison: Developing Psychological Flexibility Around Self-View 5 CECs
Awake in the Wild Nature Meditation Program: Nature-Based Mindfulness Practices to Enhance Joy, Wisdom, and Well-Being 12 CECs
Taking the Sacred Journey through Grief to Heal the Heart: Practices for Transformation and Resilience 5 CECs
Retreat as Ceremony: Mindfulness and Indigenous Presence for Wellness and Healing 7.5 CECs
Cultivating Self-Compassion as Loving, Connected Presence 12 CECs
Spring Insight: Understand the Mechanisms of the Salutary Effects of Mindfulness 15 CECs
Mindfulness for Everyone 12 CECs
Volunteering at Spirit Rock
Volunteers have helped make Spirit Rock programs a memorable experience for thousands of practitioners. Opportunities to support our programs include event volunteering, retreat greeting, administrative service, landscape care, housekeeping, and more. Service hours can be used to reduce or waive the fees for our online and on-land programs. Learn more at spiritrock.org/volunteer
