Cultivating a joyous mind in troubled times requires strength, determination, and clarity. It’s not easy. Drawing on the teachings of the Buddha, we’ll focus on developing the capacity to skillfully navigate our everyday lives, even in the face of difficulty, with loving awareness and appreciative joy born from the steady, receptive mind, and the courageous wise heart.

Held in the peaceful space of noble silence, our practices will include lovingkindness (metta) and mindfulness meditation, the gentle movement practice of qigong, small group practice discussions, daily dharma talks, and time for personal relaxation.

Everyone is welcome to attend this intimate retreat, both beginning and seasoned practitioners.

Details & Registration: info@pacificmindfulness.com or
https://pacificmindfulness.com/cultivating-joyous-mind-troubled-times

Spring is a significant time of transition, rebirth and regeneration, providing the opportunity to seek harmony and balance within. During this tranquil weekend retreat there will be ample time for self care, relaxation, and renewal. Join Estee Fletter and Cindy Meiri for a relaxing and centering retreat celebrating spring’s awakening in the heart of Anderson Valley.

Practice daily Mindful Vinyasa Yoga with meditation, Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga with live sound healing to balance your entire being. Be nourished with delicious, organic healthy meals and sacred time in community. There will be plenty of free time to enjoy optional activities such as hiking to the fresh-water pond, lounging in the hot tub, massage, and local wine tasting.

Details and registration: www.esteeyoga.com/mendocino-march-2023

Gather with a group of women for a week-long retreat during the summer solstice, a beautiful and nourishing time of expanded light and long days. Join us as we renew and reclaim our own innate strength to inhabit our lives with confidence, trust, compassion and wisdom.

Enjoy gorgeous accommodations, a swimming pond, and six miles of trails on 650-acres weave through the beauty and solitude of rolling oak hills and open meadows.

Drawing on the perspectives of Buddhist practice, secular mindfulness, and the wisdom of the natural world, we’ll discover our innate capacity to fully open to our lives just as they are.

Supported by extensive periods of silence, our retreat includes meditation throughout the day, mindful movement, small group practice discussions, and daily dharma talks.

Everyone is welcome. The week-long Women’s Summer Solstice Meditation Retreat is suitable for both beginning and seasoned practitioners.

Information & Registration: https://pacificmindfulness.com/6th-annual-womens-summer-solstice-meditation-retreat

Come rebalance from the bustle of daily life with mindful movement (yoga, strength, dance), nourishing meals, connection with phenomenal women, and the space you need to fully exhale and recenter.

For details & registration:

email heatheralainemeyer@gmail.com

Join us for our annual 5 day/4 night Autumn Insight Meditation Retreat.

Drawing on the teachings of the Buddha, we’ll focus on cultivating the capacity to skillfully navigate our everyday lives with loving awareness born from the steady receptive mind, and the courageous wise heart. Settle into the serenity of the natural world as we explore what it means to inhabit our lives with a friendliness, compassion, joy and equanimity.

Our practices will include formal lovingkindness (metta) and mindfulness meditation, the gentle movement practice of qigong, small group practice discussions, time for personal relaxation, daily dharma talks, all within the peace of extensive periods of silence.

Depending on conditions, we’ll have the option of meeting outside at the expansive outdoor amphitheater or in the light-filled open barn for movement, meditation and dharma talks. There will be ample time for swimming in the pond, enjoying a hot tub, taking a hike, and space for relaxation and connection.

Everyone is welcome. This retreat is suitable for both beginning and seasoned practitioners. We hope you’ll join us!

Details & Registration: https://pacificmindfulness.com/awakening-heart-love-autumn-metta-retreat-everyone

In the presence of timeless dharma wisdom, a sangha to share the path, and your own awakened nature, you will lift yourself out of habit and touch the preciousness of life.  

This weekend offers you space to breathe deeply and recommit to all you hold dear.

When you come on a DharmaBridge LIVE retreat, you’ll experience a hand-picked selection of teachings and techniques from the lineages of Buddhism, Śaiva & Śakta Tantra, & modern psychology.  You’ll open up the dense structures of mind, shift perspective, and generate compassionate attitudes and actions.

Our practices will emphasize meditation and interactive (“antenna”) listening, but may also include writing inquiry, creativity, breath work, mantra, movement, and asana.

You’ll see how these transformative approaches can weave into daily life, keeping your awareness fresh and your heart clear as you move through a living world.  

For details & registration, email kellyblaser@gmail.com https://www.somapsychotherapy.com/dharmabridge

Come learn about Ecotherapy and deepen your nature-connection skills with Holos Institute director, Jan Edl Stein, MFT.

This 4 night/5 day intensive workshop is designed for licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals and anyone sincerely working in the helping professions.

We will explore techniques and various processes of holding a clinical container outdoors, facilitating a deeper connection with the natural world and develop the skills and confidence to lead nature-based healing work. The program is designed for psychotherapists and facilitators of deep learning who are seeking to learn more skills and experience as they move their clinical work outdoors, expand into an ecologically based framework and develop nature-based programs. The learning style is highly experiential and immersive. The workshop will fill you with new ideas, skills and approaches for your work but will also be very personally transformative.

Topics included are:
• Ecotherapy practice basics
• Orienting to landscape for practitioners
• Considerations of personality, culture and personal history for ecotherapy
• Ecotherapy and the nervous system/traumawork
• A model for conducting safe and effective ecotherapy
• Interventions that deepen connection
• Working with liminal states in nature
• Addressing eco-anxiety and environmental grief
• Fostering resilience and reciprocity

Contact jan.edl.stein@gmail.com

There is a tremendous sense of possibility that arises when a group of serious yogis and teachers come together for deep practice, quiet and sangha.  In this annual retreat, we will once again enjoy nourishing vegetarian food, hikes, hang out at the pond or hot tub, listen to those rooted in the local ecosphere, share with a delightful group of yogis committed to this time together, and rest in the support of the natural world and our practice.  Each day there will be long asana sessions – active and passive, along with breath-work, meditation, and a mandala workshop (optional). 

”Simplify and slow down in elegance. Rest and reconnect to home”
Gia Bedell
“Mary’s annual summer solstice retreat is truly something I look forward to all year. While there is an abundance of yoga retreats one might attend, this is a special and one of a kind opportunity to study with a seasoned veteran of deep, internal practice and the broader, modern applications of yoga as social activism. The group is a lovely blend of ages and abilities that melds into a kind, generous, group of dedicated and game yogis.”
Traci Joy Burleigh  

For details email Mary@maryyoga.com

Yoga and Pilates Retreat with Amy DeLong-Martin
Nov 19-22, 2021

Join Amy DeLong-Martin to “Gather in Beauty” at the 3rd annual Pilates and Wellness Retreat at Bell Valley. In these gorgeous surroundings and comfortable accommodations, we will playfully stretch our body, mind and spirit while enjoying the collective camaraderie that inevitably ensues.  

Paul Bogle offers creative and inspirational activities as co-facilitator, complementing Amy’s masterful and engaging movement offerings.  Dinnertime caps off the days with delicious and healthy feasts for the senses, eating and sharing together in the historic Toll House.

This retreat includes two Pilates based movement classes per day, guided meditation, mindfulness classes, meals, and accommodations. Contact admpilates@gmail.com for more info or to register!