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 […]
FREE ONLINE EVENT: Exactly How to Love Yourself, Dissolve Self-Doubt & Train Your Mind
Blake D. Bauer
Program Start Date & Time: June 12th | 6:30 pm MT Program End Date & Time: June 12th | 8:00 pm MT Join international bestselling author and wisdom teacher Blake D. Bauer for a free evening talk, meditation and energetic reset that will support you to create an optimal, kind and healthy relationship to yourself […]
The Heart of Mindfulness: A Silent Meditation Retreat
Janet Solyntjes and Gaylon Ferguson
The Heart of Mindfulness Retreat is a 7-day silent meditation retreat emphasizing mindfulness’s deep understanding and practice in its most universal expression while respecting and acknowledging its contemplative and spiritual roots. The retreat is open to all experienced meditators who are looking for an enriching silent retreat experience. It suits mindfulness teachers or aspiring teachers […]
Soundembodiment: Tibetan Bowl & Gong Sound Meditation Evening Retreat
Jonathan De Leon
Program Start Date & Time: June 15th | 4:30 pm Program End Date & Time: June 15th | 6:00 pm Looking for a unique and meaningful way to celebrate Father’s Day? This year, skip the usual gifts and offer an experience that feeds the soul. Join us for a transformative Evening Retreat at Drala Mountain Center, […]
Mindfulness Retreat for Educators
Andra Brill and Lisa Vratny-Smith
Arrival Date & Time: June 22, 2:00 – 5:00 pm Start Date & Time: June 22, 7:00 pm Orientation End Date & Time: June 26, 12:30 pm Join us for an end of school year retreat to help you replenish and rejuvenate. We have designed the experience to nurture you and cultivate skills you can […]
ONLINE: Mindful Self-Compassion 8-Week Program
Megan Prager
Program Start Date: August 6th Sessions Will Be Once a Week, Every Wednesday 5-8 pm MT ONLINE + a 3-hour online retreat on Saturday Sept 13th from 10-1 pm MT Program End Date & Time: September 24th | 8 pm Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Program is a highly experiential, internationally recognized, eight-session training developed by Dr. […]
Mindful Living: Teachings and Practices from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Janet Solyntjes
Inspired by the human yearning to wake up to our lives, and based on the principles and practices of the evidence-based program Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), this retreat offers an in-depth look at mindfulness tools for engaging the demands of our lives and for deepening our inquiry into fundamental health and wholeness. Through sitting, walking, […]
Silent Meditation Intensive: Cradle of Loving Kindness
Loden Nyima
In today’s speedy world, we are all in need of kindness to ourselves. This two-day practice intensive is designed for meditators looking to take a deep dive into their practice. This weekend is spent in silence to offer ourselves space to settle, on the sacred land of Drala Mountain Center and with an experienced instructor. […]
Celebrating Blessings: Awareness, Lineage and Devotion
Judith Simmer-Brown and Gaylon Ferguson
Program Start Date & Time: September 11th | Orientation at 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: September 14th | 1:30 pm Whatever your connection is to the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya and Drala Mountain Center, we invite you to come together to practice and deepen connection to the community. The land is full of […]
Do Nothing: Learning to Live Your Life with Genuine Care
Janet Solyntjes and Rob Dube
Co-sponsored with the Do Nothing Retreat The Do Nothing Retreat will be the most rewarding challenge you may ever take—an opportunity to slow down, unplug, and look within. You’ll begin to understand and embody why presence and awareness are the greatest gifts we can offer ourselves and others. You will discover or enhance meditation and […]
ONLINE: Being Resourced in These Times
Caverly Morgan
Program Start/End Date & Times: November 1st | 11:00 am – 2:00 pm MT Being Resourced for These Times A Workshop with Caverly Online via Zoom “In the darkest times, one light can make a magnificent difference. When we come together in beloved community—rooted in truth, remembering our essence—we create a collective light far brighter […]
ONLINE: Samatha Meditation to Develop Concentration and Serenity for a Chaotic World
Tina Rasmussen
Program Start/End Date & Time: November 15, 2025 | 10:00 am – 3:00 pm MT In Samatha / Focused Attention Meditation, we are cultivating both concentration and serenity. We do this by returning awareness to one object of meditation to the exclusion of everything else, unifying the mind stream and counteracting the neurologically overstimulating world […]
Learn to Meditate: An Introduction and Retreat for Everyone
Loden Nyima and [LTM1125] Learn to Meditate: An Introduction and Retreat for Everyone
Why Learn to Meditate? Meditation is a simple, natural, healthy activity that absolutely anyone can do. You do not need to be interested in a religious path in order to learn and benefit from meditation. Meditation has survived for thousands of years because it works. Your own peace of mind is your birthright, and everyone has […]
The Heart of Mindfulness: A Silent Meditation Retreat
Janet Solyntjes and Gaylon Ferguson
Program Start Date & Time: December 5th | 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: December 12th | 1:30 pm The Heart of Mindfulness Retreat is a 7-day silent meditation retreat emphasizing mindfulness’s deep understanding and practice in its most universal expression while respecting and acknowledging its contemplative and spiritual roots. The retreat is open […]
Peace and Freedom: A Weeklong Meditation Retreat
Loden Nyima
Program Start Date & Time: December 7th | 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: December 14th | 12:30 pm Peace and freedom are our birthright, innate to the nature of our minds. Yet they’ve often been overrun by stress, speed, emotional injuries, and the habitual patterns of turmoil that become the state of our […]
Silent Meditation Intensive: The Cradle of Loving-Kindness
Loden Nyima
Program Start Date & Time: January 2nd | 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: January 4th | 6:00 pm (optional for 8:15 pm) In today’s speedy world, we are all in need of kindness to ourselves. This two-day practice intensive is designed for meditators looking to take a deep dive into their practice. This […]
Mindfulness Insight Meditation Retreat: Cultivating Wisdom and Compassion
Bob Stahl, PhD
Program Start Date & Time: July 10th | 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: July 17th | 12:30 pm This traditional mindfulness insight meditation retreat will offer silent periods of sitting and walking meditation as well as times for practice discussions. Each day there will be a talk and systematic meditation instructions on the […]