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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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.
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