August 2022
Annual-5 Night-Summer-Residential Retreat at Lake Tahoe with John Travis – One Spot, Camping
We are happy to announce that our beloved guiding teacher John Travis will return to Lake Tahoe for our annual retreat. The retreat will be an in-person retreat. Prerequisite for this retreat is a Covid 19 vaccination and one booster shot and a negative Covid 19 test at the beginning of the retreat. You may test yourself the evening before arrival or test kits will be provided at registration. Free test kids are available at usps.com Title: Awareness: Shinning Clarity…
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Join us for a day in our own beautiful forests and mountains. We will gather at a meeting place on the Blue Lakes Road near Hope Valley, CA, then walk to the retreat site, a meadow approximately ½ mile from the road on level terrain. Once settled in the meadow, we will spend the day in walking and sitting meditation. Meditations will center on the “six senses:” seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, thinking; and the four elements: earth air fire…
Find out more »October 2022
Mindfulness of Death: An Online Weekend Retreat via Zoom with Shaila Catherine
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 rarely see corpses up close or witness the process of dying. It may seem that we have lost access to the spiritual insights that a closer connection with…
Find out more »November 2022
A Retreat with Sound and Silence, Movement and Stillness, Introspection and Self-Expression at Camp Galilee with Denise Barclay!
Dhamma is all things all the time so on this retreat while engaging in gentle yoga and QiGong practices, walking and sitting meditations, an art project and immersion into sound with conscious movement we will be weaving the thread of mindfulness and noticing our attitudes in relationship to all of them. All while relaxing in the beauty of Lake Tahoe and savoring the nutritious and delicious meals offered at Camp Galilee. All levels of Yoga/Meditation practitioners are welcome. The retreat…
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