ReTreat from the Holidays 2023 in Carson City

Offer yourself a day of silence! Return to your body, relax, and breathe after the busy-ness of the holidays. We will offer techniques to use throughout the day (and the coming year) to center, calm and ground yourself. The day will be in silence except for instructions in sitting and walking meditation,…

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The Jhanas and Insight: A 10-day (9-Night) Residential Retreat with Leigh Brasington at Lake Tahoe

The jhanas are eight progressive altered states of consciousness that can be identified with the aspect of the Buddha’s Eightfold Path called right concentration. Training in concentration leads to these states, each of which yields a deeper and subtler state of awareness than the previous one. The jhanas are not…

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Mindfulness of Death: An Online Weekend Retreat via Zoom with Shaila Catherine

“Mindfulness of death, when developed and cultivated, is of great fruit and benefit, culminating in the deathless, having the deathless as its consummation.” – Anguttara Nikaya 8.7 Western societies are adept at hiding death. It occurs behind closed doors or in “sanitized” locations like hospitals and nursing homes. Most people…

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– This Retreat is Full – “There’s More Than One Way to Skin an Ego: The Multiplicity of Meditations”: A 3-Night Residential Retreat with Santikaro at Lake Tahoe

Flyer: Santikaro 2019 flyer REGISTRATION OPTIONS QUESTIONS? Contact Tom Gray at tom@dharmazephyr.org or 775-846-4658 Photos by Tom Gray and Mark Breedon, respectively

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“The Jhanas and Insight”: A 10 Day-9 Night Residential Retreat with Leigh Brasington at Lake Tahoe

UPDATE: As of 8/6/2018, this retreat is full and no longer accepting additional registrations. If you wish to add your name to the waiting list you may do so by replying to Tom@dharmazephyr.org, but please do not attempt to make any payments unless you are notified that a spot has…

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Daylong Meditation and Benefit for Vipassana Metta Foundation

The Dharma Zephyr Sangha Retreat Committee announces a change to our schedule for September 15-16.  Steve Armstrong, the scheduled teacher, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and has canceled his autumn schedule while receiving treatment.  (See the Caring Bridge website https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/stevenkarmstrong for further information and updates on Steve’s treatment.)…

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