Retreats

Volunteer Weekend: Reciprocity with our Refuge (Residential)

June 28 - 29, 2025

Registration is open.

The Spark of Freedom: A Silent Meditation Retreat (Hybrid)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Gursam

July 14 - 20, 2025

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Spark of Freedom: A Silent Meditation Retreat (Residential)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Gursam

July 14 - 20, 2025

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Spark of Freedom: A Silent Meditation Retreat (Online)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Gursam

July 14 - 20, 2025

  This is the ONLINE component of the retreat. If you’d like to register for the RESIDENTIAL component, please click here. Dive into the deep waters of awareness this summer as we explore and recognize the nature of the heart/mind. This retreat focuses on the Mahamudra techniques of Vipashyana – practices designed to enhance our […]

Register for Spark of Freedom: A Silent Meditation Retreat (Residential)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Gursam

July 14 - 20, 2025

Registration is open

Loving Awareness (Hybrid)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Liz Monson

July 25 - 31, 2025

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Loving Awareness (Residential)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Liz Monson

July 25 - 31, 2025

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Loving Awareness (Online)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Liz Monson

July 25 - 31, 2025

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Exploring Spiritual Bypass: Navigating Our Blind Spots (Hybrid)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Bill Morgan and Susan Morgan

August 7 - 10, 2025

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Exploring Spiritual Bypass: Navigating Our Blind Spots (Residential)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Bill Morgan and Susan Morgan

August 7 - 10, 2025

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Exploring Spiritual Bypass: Navigating Our Blind Spots (Online)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Bill Morgan and Susan Morgan

August 7 - 10, 2025

Live online!

Earth in Mind: Dharma, Deep Ecology, and Land (Residential Only)

With Rupert Marques

August 20 - 24, 2025

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Natural Freedom: Deepening in the Path of Dzogchen (Residential)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Liz Monson

September 4 - 9, 2025

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Natural Freedom: Deepening in the Path of Dzogchen (Online)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Liz Monson

September 4 - 9, 2025

Registration is open. This is the ONLINE component of the retreat. If you’d like to register for the RESIDENTIAL component, please click here Join our annual gathering of the Natural Freedom Sangha live online as we explore how to sustain Dzogchen in daily life by deepening into the practice of radical presence within the primordial […]

Living with Dying (Residential)

With Lama Liz Monson, Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Susan Bauer-Wu

September 18 - 21, 2025

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Living with Dying (Hybrid)

With Lama Liz Monson, Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Susan Bauer-Wu

September 18 - 21, 2025

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Living with Dying (Online)

With Lama Liz Monson, Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Susan Bauer-Wu

September 18 - 21, 2025

This is the ONLINE component of the retreat. If you’d like to register for the RESIDENTIAL component, please click here. By looking directly at death, we access appreciation and joy for this human life and its transformative potential. Join Lama Liz Monson, Lama Willa Blythe Baker, and Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN for a unique retreat […]

Waking Up in the Wild: Retreat in the Temple of Nature (Residential Only)

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Liz Monson

September 30 - October 6, 2025

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Sounds of Silence: The Power of Mindful Music & Chanting with Satigata (Residential Only)

With Chris Berlin

October 17 - 19, 2025

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October Open Practice Weekend: with Lama Liz Monson (Residential Only)

With Lama Liz Monson

October 24 - 26, 2025

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A Beginner- Friendly Meditation Weekend (Residential Only)

With Kathe McKenna and Tracie Palmer

November 21 - 23, 2025

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