Quiet Mind, Open Heart: Cultivating Loving Kindness
July 18–25, 2025
On Land Retreats, The Natural World, Yoga & Wellness
Come home to yourself. Say YES to a spacious retreat designed to nurture your body, heart, and mind.
This retreat will offer opportunities to explore Buddhist teachings on six fundamental practices that can help us to awaken our hearts and invite more loving kindness, compassion, and joy into our everyday lives.
The daily schedule will include guided meditation, yoga, bodywork, and time in nature, while being held in community. Throughout the week, you will be invited to deepen your relationship with yourself and the natural world. You will leave this retreat feeling grounded, resourced, and ready to move through your life with greater kindness and care.
Daily Schedule
July 18th
2:00 – 5:00 pm – Registration
5:30 pm – Program Orientation
6:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 pm – Opening Session
July 19th through 24th
7:30 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – Meditation, Contemplation, and Yoga
12:30 pm – Lunch
2:00 pm – Stupa Tour, Guided Hike, BodyWork Sessions, Rest
6:00 pm – Dinner
8:00 pm – Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra
July 25th
7:30 am – Breakfast
9:00 am – Meditation, Contemplation, and Yoga
12:30 pm – Lunch
Bodywork
These offerings will be available for an additional fee. You may sign up during the retreat.
Therapeutic Massage and Body Wisdom Sessions with Brooke
- 60 minute therapeutic massage — $150
- 90 minute therapeutic massage — $185
Body Wisdom Session: The body and mind are intricately connected. In this 2 hour session, get to know yourself more deeply. Experience an array of body-centered modalities steeped in self-compassion. Carry these tools with you into your everyday life so that you may embody a greater state of calm. – $275
Testimonials
“I’ve been coming to Quiet Mind, Open Heart retreats for over a decade; they encompass very approachable dharmic teachings. All three teachers — Kelly, Marissa and Brooke — are sensitive and accommodating to the students, allowing space for growth and connection, as well as self reflection and silence. They teach that everything on your path, is your path: challenge is opportunity, and vulnerability is strength. I highly recommend this retreat for nourishment and spiritual evolution.” —Dana Wills
“Amidst the majesty of nature, nestled in the warmth of community, I connected with some of the kindest and most generous people I will ever meet. The Quiet Mind, Open Heart” program inspired me to connect with my true purpose with self-compassion. As Marissa Knox said, “The future needs you to be your authentic self.” —Greg M.
Presenters
(from left) Brooke Binstock, Marissa Knox, Kelly Lindsey
Retreat Faculty
Brooke Binstock
Brooke Binstock is a Relational Therapist, Body Worker and Restorative Yoga Teacher. She is also the founder of Open Circle Healing, a wellness initiative rooted in body based self-care practices. Through her work, she is dedicated to cultivating a nonjudgmental approach to being human. Her teaching style is warm, grounded, compassionate, intuitive and trauma informed. […]
Marissa Knox
Marissa C. Knox, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Purdue University and teaches courses that offer mindfulness and compassion skills to help students cultivate healthy relationships and resilience. Marissa has also facilitated self-compassion programs for educators, healthcare professionals, therapists, and parents. She writes poetry and shares practices on her Substack, The Poppy Garden. In […]
Kelly Lindsey
Kelly Lindsey is a Meditation Teacher, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Safe and Sound Protocol Provider living in Austin, TX. Kelly’s meditative journey began more than 25 years ago and has woven together many different healing modalities and spiritual practices. Having received extensive training in Counseling Psychology, Somatic Experiencing, Tibetan Buddhism, and Classical Indian Yoga, Kelly […]
