Quiet Mind, Open Heart: The Body as Refuge

June 14th - 19th, 2026

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Arrival: June 14th, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Departure: June 19th, 12:30 PM

Tuition:
$450 + 5 nights lodging
Combined at checkout

Meals & drinks included
Inc. V, VG, GF

Add extra nights at 50% off

Tuition:
$450 + 5 nights lodging
Combined at checkout

Meals & drinks included
Inc. V, VG, GF

Add extra nights at 50% off

About the Retreat

Come home to yourself.

In a world that often pulls us away from our own inner ground, this retreat invites you to rediscover the body as a place of safety, wisdom, and refuge. The Body as Refuge is a spacious meditation retreat designed to nurture your body, heart, and mind through embodied awareness and gentle healing practices.

Drawing from contemplative wisdom traditions and somatic approaches, we will explore awakening through the body, learning to listen, soften, and trust the body’s innate intelligence. Each day will include guided meditation, yoga, somatic practices, time in nature, and periods of rest and reflection, all held within a warm and supportive community.

What Will Participants Get Out of This Retreat?

Throughout the retreat, you’ll be invited to release striving, honor your inner wisdom, and allow presence to settle naturally in the body. Rather than pushing toward insight, we cultivate refuge, learning to meet our experience with kindness, curiosity, and care.

You will leave feeling grounded, nourished, and more at home in yourself, carrying an embodied sense of refuge that you can return to in daily life.

Bodywork with Brooke Binstock

Brooke’s therapeutic massage sessions are grounded in attentive presence and deep listening to the body. Each session is tailored to your unique needs.

Therapeutic Massage and Body Wisdom Sessions with Brooke

  1. 60 minute therapeutic massage — $160
  2. 90 minute therapeutic massage — $195

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. – $300

Somatic Experiencing® Sessions with Kelly Lindsey

  1. 60 minute Somatic Experiencing® Session — $150

Somatic Experiencing® is a gentle, body-based approach to healing that supports the nervous system in releasing stress, overwhelm, and unresolved activation. Sessions focus on present-moment sensations, resourcing, and the body’s natural capacity for regulation and repair.

In the context of the retreat, these sessions offer a supportive space to deepen embodied awareness, restore a sense of safety, and experience the body as a place of refuge. Each session is guided at your own pace, honoring your innate wisdom and capacity for healing.

Retreat Faculty

Brooke Binstock

Brooke Binstock is a Relational Therapist, Body Worker and Restorative Yoga Teacher. 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. She encourages her clients and students to come home to themselves in a gentle, spacious and loving way [...]

Kelly Lindsey

Kelly Lindsey is a meditation teacher, Somatic Experiencing® practitioner, and Safe and Sound Protocol provider living in Austin, Texas. Her contemplative path began over 25 years ago and has woven together meditation, somatic healing, psychology, and embodied spiritual practice. With extensive training in counseling psychology, Somatic Experiencing, Tibetan Buddhism, and classical Indian yoga, Kelly’s teaching [...]

Brooke and Kelly have been teaching together for more than a decade, united by a shared commitment to embodied awareness, trauma-informed practice, and compassionate presence. Their collaboration is rooted in deep listening to the subtle wisdom of the body. Together, they create a field of safety, warmth, and spaciousness that allows participants to soften, slow down, and trust their own inner experience. Their teaching styles are distinct yet deeply complementary, weaving meditation, movement, and somatic inquiry into an integrated and relational retreat experience where the body is honored as a place of refuge and healing.

Why Did Past Participants Love this
Retreat?

“I’ve been coming to Quiet Mind, Open Heart retreats for over a decade; they encompass very approachable dharmic teachings.  The teachers 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.

Program Schedule

Day 1

Sunday, June 14th – Welcome to the Land

2:00 – 5:00 pm – Registration
5:30 – 6:00 pm – Program Orientation
6:00 – 7:00 pm – Dinner
7:00 pm – Opening Circle

Days 2-4

Monday-Thursday, June 15th – 18th – Welcome to the Retreat

7:30 – 9:00 am– Breakfast
9:00 – 12:30 pm – Meditation, Contemplation, and Yoga
12:30 – 2:00 pm – Lunch
2:00 – 6:00 pm – Stupa Tour, BodyWork or Somatic Experiencing Sessions, Rest
6:00 – 8:00 pm – Dinner
8:00 pm – Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra

Day 5

Friday, June 19th – Last Day

7:30 – 9:00 am – Breakfast
9:00 – 12:30 pm – Meditation, Closing Circle
12:30 pm – Lunch / Departure

Lodging

We have several accommodations to choose from during checkout.
All options include our healthy meals and drinks. Inc V, VG, GF.

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.

Single and Double Tents

Located in campgrounds throughout the property, these 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).

Some of our campgrounds were impacted by a recent wildfire and the affects may still be visible this summer, however, they are safe to use.

Bedding is not provided. Please bring your own twin sheets, blanket or sleeping bag, a pillow and towels.

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.

Junior Suite
Our Lodge Junior Suites include a queen-size bed topped by a cozy comforter, a desk, dresser, closet and private bath with bathtub, plus a sitting area.

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