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  • Jul 18, 2025
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  • Jul 21, 2025
  • Trent Walker, Chenxing Han

Cambodian Dharma Songs: A Khmer Affinity Retreat

  • Connect with your Cambodian heritage through chant and song! Join this 4-day program of chanting, meditation, and community, exploring expressive Dharma songs in Khmer, Pali, and English—no experience needed!
  • Residential
  • Aug 1, 2025
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  • Aug 6, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Peace Twesigye

Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue Retreat For People of Color

  • Cultivate embodied presence, inner strength, and the strength of interdependence in order to stand with equanimity in a tumultuous world.
  • Residential
  • Aug 1, 2025
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  • Aug 3, 2025
  • devon hase, Rachel Hammerman

Heart to Heart Retreat: Cultivating the Brahma Viharas in Relationship

  • Cultivate a boundless heart with devon hase and Rachel Hammerman. Explore loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity through Brahma Vihara practices, meditation, and relational inquiry.
  • Online
  • Aug 8, 2025
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  • Aug 13, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Yahel Avigur

Emptiness: Seeing That Frees – A Hybrid Retreat

  • Join us in this hybrid program as we delve deeper into Rob Burbea's Seeing That Frees, exploring dependent origination and emptiness, with a focus on the balance of wisdom and mettā. Open to year-long BCBS Seeing That Frees participants.
  • Residential
  • Aug 8, 2025
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  • Aug 13, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Yahel Avigur

Emptiness: Seeing That Frees – A Hybrid Retreat

  • Join us in this hybrid program as we delve deeper into Rob Burbea's Seeing That Frees, exploring dependent origination and emptiness, with a focus on the balance of wisdom and mettā. Open to year-long BCBS Seeing That Frees participants.
  • Online
  • Aug 15, 2025
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  • Aug 24, 2025
  • Tuere Sala

Nine Bodies Insight Retreat: Exploring Natural Capacities of Consciousness

  • Experience a new style of Insight Meditation that employs the “Nine Bodies of Consciousness” map.
  • Residential
  • Sep 19, 2025
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  • Sep 24, 2025
  • David Chernikoff

Intimacy With All Things: Body, Heart, Mind, World

  • Dōgen taught that “enlightenment is intimacy with all things.” Explore what this means and how we can apply this teaching in our lives.
  • Residential
  • Nov 20, 2025
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  • Nov 23, 2025
  • Dhammadīpā

Seeing Yourself on the Path: Exploring Buddhist Art and the Art of Seeing

  • Engage with a variety of Buddhist artistic expressions in visual and tactile ways, and reflect on how these portrayals relate to what you have experienced on the Path.
  • Residential
  • Dec 2, 2025
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  • Dec 7, 2025
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

Embodying Mindfulness

  • Explore grounding into the body to support practice, working with and mindfully inhabiting this unique body.
  • Residential
  • Dec 8, 2025
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  • Dec 14, 2025
  • GuoGu

Silent Illumination and Investigating a Critical Phrase: A Chan Retreat

  • Deepen your practice in this Chan-style retreat, engaging in a sustained, focused way within a protected environment with a teacher.
  • Residential

Deepening Practice,
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Deepening Practice,
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