Take advantage of this opportunity to deepen your meditation practice in a community rooted in the Rinzai Zen Buddhist lineage, with a trauma-informed approach to healing and teachings inspired by Kingian and Gandhian Nonviolence.

This retreat is designed for a diverse, intergenerational community united by the desire for a better world. We welcome individuals seeking deep connection to Nature, and leaders, negotiators, activists, and youth changemakers looking to bring solutions to the world’s problems by showing up with a peaceful, embodied energy.

In this program with Dr. Melanie Harris, Joshuah Brian Campbell we will explore the Social Protest songs of the Civil Rights Movement, songs of suffering, joy, and liberation, as dharma gates.

Together, we will tap into the natural stillness and dynamism that surrounds us and teaches us balance. As we integrate stillness and movement, we move toward being active participants in the world while maintaining balance and ease in our hearts and minds.

This is a powerful and close time with the earth, sangha, and our cherished Planting Life faculty, guided by a renowned team of Indigenous activist-scholars, artists, and Native farmers. Planting Life is grounded in daily meditation and socially engaged Buddhist perspectives, infused with the dynamic teachings of Native seedways and Traditional Ecological Knowledges.

The Buddhist Peace and Conflict Chaplaincy program (PACC; pronounced like pax) draws on foundational Buddhist teachings and practices to uncover the innate potential of the human heart to foster peace within and without. Participants will intimately explore the role of a Buddhist Peace Chaplain – a spiritual caregiver who is dedicated to the flourishing of peace and supports those enmeshed in conflict with clarity, kindness, and impartiality. Applications open until March 15.

Join Kritee Kanko, Imtiaz Rangwala and Ramon Parish for a retreat designed for empowering anyone who cares about the healing and belonging in these wild times of polycrisis (climate, genocidal wars, xenophobia, pollution, rise of fascism and mental health crisis).

Touching the Earth is a three-week immersion for young adults on a Vermont homestead to cultivate self-awareness and deepen relationships with others and the living Earth. Application Deadline: March 15

In interdependent intimacy with the land, and with the elements as our queer teachers, elders, and kin, we will reconnect to knowing our own inherent nature as already free, and our queerness itself as an awakening.