About the Retreat
How do we navigate with wisdom, compassion, and fierce courage in an age of spiritual crisis?
Please join Buddhist teachers Michael Carroll and Susan Piver for a week of meditation, community, and real talk about how to take our practice off the cushion and into the beauty and confusion of our world.
We Will Discuss:
Expressing the 6 paramitas (transcendent actions) that inspire beneficial activity in the world
Distinguishing between true compassion vs idiot compassion
Avoiding “compassion fatigue”
Maintaining agency over our attention as a fundamental gesture of sanity. Remaining vital, wise, and confident while attending to suffering (our own and others’).
Unleashing sources of indestructible resilience and joy through mindfulness-awareness meditation.
What to Expect:
This program includes lengthy periods of sitting meditation, daily yoga and Qi Gong, and an exploration of what it means to move in the world with an awakened heart. Refuge and bodhisattva vows will be offered.
Retreat Faculty
Susan Piver
Susan Piver is the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including The Wisdom of a Broken Heart; Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation; The Four Noble Truths of Love: Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Relationships; and The Buddhist Enneagram: Nine Paths to Warriorship. Her latest is Inexplicable [...]
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll is the co-founder of The Wisdom Seat and a teacher in the Kagyu-Nyingma lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism. He is the author of Awake at Work (2004), The Mindful Leader (2007), Fearless at Work (2012) & Mindful Leadership Training (2016). In his professional career, he worked on Wall Street and in the publishing industry, holding [...]Why Attend this Retreat?
Together, we will gently release everyday concerns, turn inward amidst a vast, natural mountain setting, and revitalize our inherent brilliance in order to return home refreshed, open, and confident
Daily Schedule:
7:00 a.m. Practice session
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Yoga
9:45 a.m Practice session
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. Practice session
4:00 p.m. Tea
4:30 p.m. Practice session
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:30 p.m. Practice session
8:30 p.m. Conclude
10:00 p.m. Lights Out
Accommodation Options
We have different accommodations to choose from during checkout.
All options include our healthy meals and drinks. Inc V, VG, GF.
Please note: If you choose a Dorm, Monk Room, Lodge Double, or Single Room, you will be in our downtown area, you’ll be 10-15 minutes away from your program space (walking distance).
Off-Land
Participants who wish to commute from home or arrange their own accommodations off-campus (for example, a bed and breakfast, camping nearby) pay tuition, plus $54/night for meals (3 meals per day) and use of our facilities.
Car Camping
We have 5 primitive parking spots in the Rigden parking lot, for simply parking and sleeping. This includes food and access our bathhouses in Rigden Lodge
Note: We don’t have any water or electric hook ups for RV’s
Tents
12′ x 14′ tents have two twin beds, two bookcases and a hanging clothes rack. Each campground offers a shared bathhouse. Summer platform tents are available from late May through early September. A tent can be rented as a single (without a roommate) or a double (with a roommate).
Maitri Village Single and Double Rooms
In our Maitri Village Campus, a short walk from downtown, we have 3 rustic cabins (Flame, Wind, Water) These each contain five double rooms, outfitted with two twin beds. The cabins have electricity and heat, bedding is provided. Guests make use of gendered bathhouses in a nearby, separate building.
If you are traveling alone and reserve a bed in a double room, we will assign you a roommate.
Dormitories
Rooms with beds for up to 7-8 people. Gender-segregated with men in their own dorm and women in another. The dorms use a shared bathroom down the hall, which is also equipped with shower stalls.
Monk Rooms
A cost-effective option for participants looking for indoor, solitary lodging, but who don’t mind using a shared bathroom or are looking for a more affordable retreat solution. These rooms are in the same hall as the Ridgen Dormitories, but offer more privacy than the dorms. In addition to a bed, bedding, a private room and closet, the monk rooms also have a large window and a desk and desk chair for added comfort.
Single and Double Rooms
The perfect choice for a retreat where you want both your own space and your own bathroom. Each room offers a little more space, a dresser and closet, and a 3/4s bathroom (toilet, sink, and shower, no bathtub) attached to each room.
