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Retreat Calendar

Please note: COVID-19 vaccinations are no longer required. We still require a negative Covid test from within 72 hours of retreat start, and consent to be tested again upon arrival.

Dates Title Experience Level / Format Teacher Details Register
October 6 - 8, 2023 [ONLINE] The Path of Service: An At Home Insight Meditation Retreat All Levels / At-home (online) David Chernikoff View Details Register
October 13 - 20, 2023 Taking Refuge: A Vipassana and Brahma Vihara Retreat All levels / In person DaeJa Napier View Details Join waiting list
October 25 - 28, 2023 [COMMUTER/ASHEVILLE] Redefining Hope in a Darkening World: A Meditation & Yoga Retreat All Levels / In Person (Commuter) Jeff Collins and Gisela Konrad View Details Register
November 2 - 5, 2023 [LGBTQIA+] Belonging and Thriving: Being Your Own Good Friend LGBTQIA+ / All levels / In Person Fresh "Lev" White and Eve Decker View Details Join waiting list
November 10 - 12, 2023 Nature-Based Work Weekend All Levels / In Person View Details Register
November 16 - 19, 2023 A Medicine Buddha Retreat All levels / In Person Dr. Hun Lye View Details Register
November 29, 2023 [DAYLONG] The Heart of Mahamudra: Maitripa’s Mahamudra Sancamitha All Levels / In Person Lama Justin von Bujdoss View Details Register
November 30 - December 3, 2023 Entering the Heart of the Mother: Retreating into the Mandala of Vajravarahi All levels / In Person Lama Justin von Bujdoss View Details Join waiting list
December 5, 2023 [DAYLONG/ASHEVILLE] Opening to the Collective Inner Light in Dark Times All Levels / In Person Lama Justin von Bujdoss and Lama Rod Owens View Details Register
December 6 - 10, 2023 The Winter Heart of the New Saint Experience required, see description / In Person Lama Rod Owens View Details Join waiting list
December 28, 2023 - January 3, 2024 New Year’s Retreat: Non-Duality of Sacred Darkness and Sacred Light Experience Required, see description / In Person John Orr and Ronya Banks View Details Register

 

 

 


[ONLINE] The Path of Service: An At Home Insight Meditation Retreat

David Chernikoff

October 6 - 8, 2023
Compassionate action plays a central role in all of the…

Taking Refuge: A Vipassana and Brahma Vihara Retreat

DaeJa Napier

October 13 - 20, 2023
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there…
Jeff & Gisela

[COMMUTER/ASHEVILLE] Redefining Hope in a Darkening World: A Meditation & Yoga Retreat

Jeff Collins and Gisela Konrad

October 25 - 28, 2023
Land of Sky UCC
You are cordially invited to celebrate the bigness of being…

[DAYLONG/DURHAM] Balance and Self-Compassion: For the Election Season and Everything Else!

Eve Decker and Fresh "Lev" White

October 29, 2023
Avila Center
The Buddha taught that when we can respond to whatever…

[QTPOC SESSION/DURHAM] Balance and Self-Compassion: For the Election Season and Everything Else!

Fresh "Lev" White

October 30, 2023
Avila Center
The Buddha taught that when we can respond to whatever…

[LGBTQIA+] Belonging and Thriving: Being Your Own Good Friend

Fresh "Lev" White and Eve Decker

November 2 - 5, 2023
[embed]https://youtu.be/YE0bOZ1jsIw[/embed] Please join us for a place of refuge, with…

Nature-Based Work Weekend

November 10 - 12, 2023
Help the Southern Dharma staff care for our beautiful property,…

A Medicine Buddha Retreat

Dr. Hun Lye

November 16 - 19, 2023
Medicine Buddha is the vajrayāna embodiment of the healing powers…
Lama Justin von Bujdoss

[DAYLONG] The Heart of Mahamudra: Maitripa’s Mahamudra Sancamitha

Lama Justin von Bujdoss

November 29, 2023
Urban Dharma
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN LOCATION FOR THIS PROGRAM. We…
Lama Justin von Bujdoss

Entering the Heart of the Mother: Retreating into the Mandala of Vajravarahi

Lama Justin von Bujdoss

November 30 - December 3, 2023
Within Vajrayana Buddhism, deity yoga, or yidam practice, is a…

[DAYLONG/ASHEVILLE] Opening to the Collective Inner Light in Dark Times

Lama Justin von Bujdoss and Lama Rod Owens

December 5, 2023
Land of Sky UCC
In these times of great uncertainty and suffering it can…

The Winter Heart of the New Saint

Lama Rod Owens

December 6 - 10, 2023
Winter represents a season when we are called inward to…

New Year’s Retreat: Non-Duality of Sacred Darkness and Sacred Light

John Orr and Ronya Banks

December 28, 2023 - January 3, 2024
Since ancient times, in the Northern Hemisphere, this period at…

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