Gatherings
Retreats, satsangs, and gatherings with non-dual teachers around the world in 2026. Time spent in the presence of those who have recognized their true nature can be profoundly clarifying.
with Devon Hase, Joseph Goldstein, Rachel Lewis, Tuere Sala, Yong Oh
A month-long daily practice program based on Joseph Goldstein’s book, with short guided sessions and reflections. It’s designed to build continuity of mindfulness, so insight can mature in the middle of ordinary days.
with Ajahn Sucitto, Ayya Anandabodhi, Ethan Nichtern, Gil Fronsdal, Kittisaro, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Thanissara
A silent, residential Insight Meditation retreat at Spirit Rock offering extended periods of sitting and walking practice, Dharma talks, and teacher guidance. The emphasis is on steady attention, direct seeing, and the kind of clarity that makes separation feel less convincing.
with Chris Senko Perez, Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma, Sensei Monshin Nannette Overley, Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer
A guided practice period exploring Zen teachings with live online sessions, home practice structure, and community support. Zen training is often a direct doorway into non-separation: ordinary moments, clearly met, as the whole path.
with Upaya Zen Center Teachers
A daylong Zen sitting at Upaya that combines zazen, short teachings, and a retreat-like rhythm. One-day intensives are a clean entry point: fewer storylines, more immediate contact with awareness.
with Don Oakley, Patty Bottari
A weekend of nondual exploration with Don Oakley and Patty Bottari, combining teaching, inquiry, and contemplative practice in a small-retreat setting. Offered with in-person registration and a livestream option, it’s aimed at sincere seekers who want a clear, practical invitation into awakening and integration.
with Kaira Jewel Lingo
An online weekend retreat weaving mindfulness and compassion with the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Thích Nhất Hạnh. The emphasis is on embodied practice: love as something you do, not just something you feel.
with Upaya Zen Center Teachers
A second daylong zazenkai within Upaya’s Winter Practice Period. The form is simple and strong: sitting, walking, and letting life stop shouting long enough for reality to whisper.
with Rupert Spira
A live online session with Rupert Spira featuring guided contemplation and Q&A, geared toward clarifying nondual understanding and returning to the simplicity of awareness. Webinars are a shorter-format entry point for seekers who want direct contact without traveling.
with Upaya Zen Center Teachers
A weeklong Zen sesshin centered on zazen and wholehearted practice in silence. Extended sesshin practice can be a pressure cooker for insight, revealing how the sense of separateness is assembled and how it can relax.
with Arinna Weisman, Eugene Cash, Nikki Mirghafori, Pascal Auclair
A month-long container for deepening vipassana through sustained silence and structured practice. Long retreats like this often tilt attention toward the simplicity beneath storylines, where non-dual insight can ripen naturally rather than being forced.
with Plum Village monastics
A multi-stop pilgrimage in Vietnam guided by the Plum Village tradition, blending mindfulness practice with sacred sites and community. Pilgrimage tends to dissolve the usual boundary between 'practice time' and 'life time' by making every step the meditation.
with Gangaji
A small-group retreat held online, designed to preserve the intimacy of inquiry while making participation accessible from anywhere. Sessions typically include guided exploration, dialogue, and space for questions in a contained group environment.
with Plum Village monastics
A gentle Plum Village style retreat focusing on basic mindfulness, community practice, and steadying the heart through simple forms. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Ofosu Jones-Quartey
A two-session series where mindfulness meets music and creative practice. The frame is practical: use rhythm, attention, and self-expression as anchors for presence.
with Bart van Melik, Devin Berry, Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
A hybrid retreat that emphasizes relaxed awareness, silence, and the classic Buddhist framing of suffering and freedom. The practice is meant to be kind but not soft: steady attention that opens into clarity.
with Rupert Spira
An online webinar with Rupert Spira focused on experiential inquiry into awareness and the nature of self. Typically includes guided meditation and dialogue, offering a compact but potent way to deepen recognition from home.
with Rupert Spira
A weekend retreat in online format designed to approximate the rhythm of an in-person retreat, with multiple sessions of meditation and dialogue. The theme centers on consciousness and direct recognition, making it a good fit for serious practitioners who want deeper immersion without travel.
with Alaya Dickinson, Corrine Champigny
A three-night retreat that blends nondual satsang, yoga, and devotional elements in a warm, relational atmosphere. Designed to support settling, heart opening, and recognition of what is already here, with follow-up community support after the in-person gathering.
with Rupert Spira
A week-long residential retreat with Rupert Spira at the San Damiano retreat center in Danville, California. The schedule emphasizes guided meditation and dialogue, creating extended time and space for self-abidance, inquiry, and integration in a quiet, contemplative setting.
with Gangaji
An intimate, small-group retreat weekend with Gangaji in Ashland, Oregon. These gatherings are structured to allow sustained inquiry and direct transmission in a smaller setting than large public events, with significant space for dialogue and quiet recognition.
with Wayne Liquorman
An in-person weekend of satsang-style talks with Wayne Liquorman in Paris. Events typically revolve around direct inquiry, Q&A, and clear Advaita pointing, suitable for seekers who appreciate traditional nondual framing with practical, conversational teaching.
with Rupert Spira
A seven-day retreat at Mandali Retreat Center in northern Italy, offering extended periods of meditation, dialogue, and quiet time supported by a residential retreat environment. Part of a back-to-back retreat window at Mandali for those who want deeper immersion.
with Wayne Liquorman
A Madrid gathering with Wayne Liquorman offering satsang-style dialogue and Advaita inquiry. The emphasis is typically on direct recognition and clearing conceptual obstacles, with ample space for questions and community connection.
with Gangaji
A second small-group retreat weekend with Gangaji in Ashland, Oregon, offering a focused container for inquiry and deep listening. The format supports a slower pace and more personal engagement than a typical satsang.
with Rupert Spira
A week-long retreat themed around Awḥad al-Dīn Balyānī and the “oneness of being,” combining Rupert Spira’s guided meditations and dialogues with a Sufi-inflected lens on self-knowledge and unity. Designed for practitioners who enjoy sustained inquiry and a deep retreat cadence.
with Dawn Scott, Jessica Morey, Oren Jay Sofer, Yong Oh
A silent, intensive lovingkindness retreat offered as a hybrid experience. Metta practice trains the heart toward unconditional goodwill, which often dissolves the hard edges of a separate self-story.
with Wayne Liquorman
A week-long retreat with Wayne Liquorman in Lanzarote, offering a longer-form container for Advaita inquiry and integration. Retreat format typically supports deeper continuity than weekend talks, balancing formal sessions with spaciousness for reflection.
with Anushka Fernandopulle, Ethan Nichtern, Khanyisa Wise, Pascal Auclair
A multi-day Insight Meditation retreat focused on mindfulness, concentration, and liberating insight. Expect noble silence, guided practice, and talks that point toward seeing experience as it is, before the mind draws its boundaries.
with Gangaji
A four-day retreat emphasizing silence as the primary support for recognition and integration. Intended for practitioners who benefit from fewer words and more direct immersion, with facilitation by Gangaji and the retreat team.
with Jim Newman
A four-night nondual meeting with Jim Newman, oriented around direct pointing and uncompromising conversation about what is and is not “happening.” The schedule includes arrival on May 21 and closing after lunch on May 25, with on-site lodging and meals as part of registration.
with Plum Village monastics
A four-week immersion in Plum Village practice: mindful living, seated meditation, walking meditation, and communal routines. Long retreats like this can rewire the default sense of separation by letting awareness soak into ordinary life until it becomes the baseline.
with Plum Village monastics
A teen retreat designed for youth in ethnic minority communities, offering mindfulness practices, connection, and belonging in a supportive container. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Rupert Spira
A seven-day retreat at The Vedanta in Lincolnshire, UK, with a rhythm of guided meditations and daily dialogue. The venue’s contemplative atmosphere supports extended periods of self-abidance and community, with practical guidelines aligned with the venue’s vegetarian, alcohol-free setting.
with Plum Village monastics
A retreat space centered on BIPOC practitioners, combining meditation, community, and healing-oriented practice in the Plum Village lineage. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Plum Village monastics
A Wake Up retreat for young adults emphasizing mindful living, sangha connection, and engaged practice in daily life. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Plum Village monastics
An English-language Wake Up retreat held in Spain, connecting young adults with Plum Village style practice and community. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Plum Village monastics
A family-focused retreat with kid-friendly practices, mindful games, and adult teachings that bring awareness into relationship and home life. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Jaymin Patel, Kathleen Grace, Lama Rod Owens, Leslie Booker
A retreat devoted to metta, the cultivation of goodwill as a stable, embodied practice. Lovingkindness can soften the reflex to contract into a separate self, making unity feel less like an idea and more like lived experience.
with Plum Village monastics
A flagship summer retreat at Plum Village with a full schedule of mindfulness practice in community. The tone is approachable, with an emphasis on bringing presence into meals, walking, listening, and relationship, where non-duality becomes practical.
with Plum Village monastics
A Plum Village tradition retreat conducted in Spanish, blending meditation, mindful walking, and Dharma talks in a community atmosphere. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Anna Douglas, Kittisaro, Thanissara
A mid-summer residential vipassana retreat with silence, steady practice periods, and teacher support. The focus is on direct observation of mind and body, where the sense of 'me in here' versus 'world out there' can begin to loosen.
with Plum Village monastics
A retreat oriented around nourishing seeds of compassion and understanding through mindfulness practice and sangha support. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Plum Village monastics
A second family retreat session, offering accessible mindfulness practices for parents and children in a joyful, structured setting. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Plum Village monastics
A Wake Up retreat in the Plum Village tradition oriented toward young adults, mixing meditation, mindful movement, and deep listening in community. It’s a modern doorway into classic Buddhist insights, including interbeing and the end of inner division.
with Plum Village monastics
A long, residential retreat with sustained practice in the Plum Village tradition, supporting deeper stabilization of mindfulness and insight. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Upaya Zen Center Faculty
A retreat at the intersection of contemplative practice and cognitive science, honoring Francisco Varela’s legacy. Expect meditation, dialogue, and inquiry into mind and experience, where non-dual themes often show up in scientific clothes.
with Rupert Spira
A late-summer seven-day retreat at Mandali Retreat Center, offering a sustained retreat container for meditation and inquiry with Rupert Spira. Often positioned as part of a two-week sequence at Mandali for those wanting a deeper seasonal immersion.
with Chris Senko Perez, Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma, Sensei Monshin Nannette Overley, Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer
A structured online Zen practice period with guidance, talks, and community rhythm. Practice periods are designed to make the path ordinary: the kitchen, the calendar, and the breath as the same field.
with Gangaji
A second four-day silent retreat of 2026 with Gangaji, offering a later-in-the-year opportunity for deep quiet and sustained practice. The retreat format centers on silence, allowing subtle insight to settle without constant conceptual processing.
with Upaya Zen Center Teachers
An in-person sesshin nested inside Upaya’s Fall Practice Period. It’s an immersion in formal Zen training: long sits, silence, and the kind of simplicity that turns non-duality from concept into felt reality.
with Plum Village monastics
A late-year family retreat session focused on mindful living, connection, and strengthening family practice routines. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Rupert Spira
A late-autumn week-long retreat at The Vedanta, structured around guided meditation and dialogue to support stabilization of nondual understanding. Intended as an immersive close-of-year retreat for practitioners who want uninterrupted time for inquiry and integration.
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