Single rooms are issued based on availability, and are on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Self-Directed and Long-Term Retreats
Open Dates
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
Make time for yourself and your practice in a supportive and peaceful contemplative environment. Entering into a self-directed or long-term retreat allows you to design a program that best meets your needs and schedule. This could be an intensive silent meditation retreat, or it could be a more gentle meditation […]
Twin Streams: Blending the Wisdom of Buddhism and Yoga
With Satima
June 29 - July 1, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
Westerners generally consider Buddhism an intellectual discipline and Yoga a physical one, thereby never actualizing the true transformative power of either. Yet, Yoga’s ancient wisdom is one of the best complements to Buddhist spirituality; and when woven together, these approaches create a richer, fuller spiritual life fully developing this mind-body. The ancient yogic methods create a […]
Exploring Noble Friendship (Kalyanamitta) with Meditation, Exploration, Dialogue and Sutta Study
With Bhikkhu Sukhacitto and Venerable Pannavati
July 6 - 8, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
This weekend we explore together what it means to be and live as a "Noble Friend". We practice silent meditation, engage in dialogue and study, investigate individually and together this important topic of which the Buddha declared: „"Noble Friendship is the whole […]
“Letting Go” The Practice of Compassionate Effort
With John Orr
July 12 - 15, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
A wise teacher once suggested that we can not let go of that which we haven’t accepted. We use compassionate awareness to be present with whatever arises in our everyday experience, no matter how challenging that may be. By resting in the open heart and being mindful of when we may be contracting around difficult […]
Unconditional Happiness
With Bhante Sudhasso
July 25 - 29, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
Single rooms are issued based on availability, and are on a first-come-first-serve basis. Buddhist practice is the process of identifying the numerous ways that we fill our minds with discontent and confusion - and replacing them with mental clarity and joy. Bhante Suddhāso, a monk trained in both Theravāda and Soto Zen, will be coming […]
An Awake and Responsive Heart – The Dharma Approach to Working with Political and Emotional Unease in Chaotic Times
With Lisa Ernst
August 8 - 12, 2018
Heartwood Refuge
The Dharma Approach to Working with Political and Emotional Unease in Chaotic Times During these challenging and chaotic times, how do we best utilize meditation and mindfulness to prepare for and meet these challenges skillfully? Can practice help us to stay engaged with a compassionate heart while also offering a respite from the nearly daily […]
Restorative Practices: Cultivating and Sustaining Sangha Through Community Building
With Jenn Biehn and Joan Lohman
August 24 - 26, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
This is an excellent opportunity to invite your entire sangha or practice group. As leaders and engaged practitioners in the Dharma, how do we create, deepen and maintain enlivening, healthy and wholesome connections as we help to hold space within our Sanghas? Fostering an atmosphere of mutual appreciation and respect, Restorative Practices offers a transformative approach for people to recognize their mutual interdependence in the struggle to work and live collectively.
Exploring Dependent Co-arising as Presented in “Under the Bodhi Tree”
With Santikaro
August 29 - September 2, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
Dependent co-arising is the heart of Buddha's awakening experience. We, too, can use this teaching for our own awakening, day by day. Drawing on Buddhadasa Bhikkhu's teachings in Under the Bodhi Tree, along with Pali suttas on which it is based, Santikaro will guide explorations of these teachings through meditations, talks, and discussions.
Awareness in Sitting Meditation, Movement, and Yoga
With Jeff Collins and Gisela Konrad
September 12 - 16, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
This silent retreat will flow from periods of sitting meditation (on cushions or chairs) to walking meditation to several periods of yoga practice each day. The yoga is grounded in the tradition of viniyoga, a style that is in turn grounded in awareness of breath and the physical movement that flows out of that breath […]
Dharma In Everyday Life
With John Orr
September 20 - 23, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
Do you desire to have a more regular meditation practice? Are there times when your practice seems to take a back seat amongst the busy-ness of everyday life? We all seek to live wisely and with loving-kindness and we all experience fear, anger, confusion, grasping, body pain and mental agitation. We want to shine out […]
Mindful Parenting
With Acharya Dr. Maureen Hall
September 22 - October 20, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
The joys of parenting are sometimes dimmed by unpleasant interactions with our kids. In the heat of the moment, we may find ourselves snapping at them or arguing with them. Upon reflection, we may find that we are actually reacting more to our own stress, frustrations and fears, and less to the needs of the child. Reacting from our own emotions [...]
Cultivating an Open Heart in a Chaotic World
With Acharya Dr. Maureen Hall and John Cunningham
October 5 - 7, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
Recent events in our world may give us the sense that things are more chaotic than ever. We are faced with news and events on a weekly basis that awaken our frustration, anger, and fear. If we are not careful, we can easily slip into thought patterns and behaviors […]
Entering the Ranks of the Noble Warriors: Embracing & Embodying the Bodhisattva Way of Life
With Dorjé Lopön Dr. Hun Lye
October 5 - 7, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
In the Tibetan tradition, taking the Bodhisattva Vow is the beginning of the path to achieving the completely awakened state of Buddha and is the essence of the Buddha’s teachings.
Mental Purification on the Buddhist Path
With Ronya Banks
October 24 - 28, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
During this retreat, you will learn step-by-step instructions on how to use Vipassana (Mindfulness) meditation and related Buddhist principles to purify your mind of the mental defilements that mar its naturally spacious, illumined beauty.
Introduction to Insight Dialogue
With Bhikkhu Sukhacitto
November 9 - 11, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice grown from the Vipassana tradition. Through dialogue the mindfulness and tranquility of traditional silent meditation is introduced into interaction with others. This enables us to perceive, understand, and apply an acceptance of others and ourselves in the busyness of our lives. As humans, we are creatures that are […]
Right Meditation: Anapanasati, the Buddha’s Liberation Hack
With Venerable Pannavati and Venerable Pannadipa
November 22 - 29, 2018
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
The Buddha explained that the quickest way to enlightenment is mindfulness of breathing, because this profound practice brings us to the complete stilling of thought, which allows insight to arise and uproot the erroneous view of self.This retreat will explore...
Calm and Insight – 12 Day Meditation Retreat
With Bhikkhu Samāhita
December 20, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center
This is not a typical western retreat. Over 12 days we will examine the 40 meditation subjects/objects carried down through the Theravadan lineage and learn how to use them. All can suppress the five hindrances allowing one to pursue wisdom, some can be used as antidotes to abandon discursive thought, some lead to access concentration or one of the four jhanas...
