Meditation & Mindfulness
Meditation and mindfulness skills can be powerful ways to transform your life and viewpoint. These retreats offer opportunities to learn to meditate, expand your mindfulness skillset, or engage in deeper practices with both skills. Some retreats will focus more on either Meditation or Mindfulness, while others incorporate both.
Retreats in this category are drawn from many wisdom traditions and are not necessarily Buddhist in nature.
Foundations of Meditation
Whether you’re brand new to meditation or looking to return to the basics, Foundations of Meditation offers a supportive and accessible entry point into contemplative practice. In the serene natural setting of Drala Mountain Center’s 600-acres of forest land, participants will be guided through the essential principles of mindfulness and awareness meditation, learning simple techniques for calming the […]
Back to the Cushion | 2026
Whether you’ve stepped away from your meditation practice or simply feel like it’s grown a little stale, this retreat offers a gentle and supportive space to begin again. Back to the Cushion is a meditation reboot for anyone who’s looking to reconnect with the heart of their practice. Over the course of this retreat, we’ll revisit foundational techniques, […]
Write to the Heart of Motherhood: Rest, Connection, and Creativity for Mother’s Day
Brooke McNamara, MFA
Tent Setup – Help Drala Mountain Center Prepare for the Summer Season
Meditation and Embodiment: Inherent Presence and Peace
Larry Welsh and Susan Aposhyan
Meditation and Embodiment: Inherent Presence and Peace (Special Price)
Larry Welsh and Susan Aposhyan
Unplug & Reconnect: A Mindfulness Retreat for Teens and Their Caregivers
Hilda Cruz Guiao and Maggie Steele
Grief, Joy and Awakening: An Insight Meditation Retreat with David Chernikoff
David Chernikoff
Fully Being — A Path of Awareness, Healing and Insight: A weekend retreat with Adam Kane
Adam Kane
ONLINE: Fully Being — A Path of Awareness, Healing and Insight: A weekend retreat with Adam Kane
Adam Kane
Wild Rest: An Embodied Devotional Retreat in Nature
Devon Hase, Djuna Devereaux and Yong Oh
The Heart of Mindfulness: A Silent Meditation Retreat
Janet Solyntjes and Gaylon Ferguson
One Buddhism: Practicing Peace in Times of Turmoil
Monk Peter and Michael Santi Keezing
Entering the Vajra World: A Three-Yana Retreat
Larry Mermelstein, Andy Karr and Adrienne Chang
Family Camp: Skillful Compassion in Family Life
Judith Simmer-Brown and Richard Brown, Kelly Lindsey, Rachel Steele and Tessa Ladendorf
HOSTED: Shamatha-Mindfulness Practice in the Mahamudra Tradition with Khenpo Karma Tenkyong
Khenpo Karma Tenkyong
The Great Silence: Mindfulness and Non-Duality in Nature
Johann Robbins and Alice Robbins
Back to the Cushion
Program is Cancelled Program Start Date & Time: September 25th | 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: September 27th | 12:30 pm Whether you’ve stepped away from your meditation practice or simply feel like it’s grown a little stale, this retreat offers a gentle and supportive space to begin again. Back to the Cushion is a meditation […]
Do Nothing: Learning to Live Your Life with Genuine Care
Janet Solyntjes and Rob Dube
The Heart of Mindfulness: A Silent Meditation Retreat
Janet Solyntjes and Gaylon Ferguson
The Heart of Mindfulness: A Silent Meditation Retreat
Janet Solyntjes and Gaylon Ferguson
