18-night Retreat: Summer LovingKindness & Insight Retreats (245R27) - On Land

Registration opens at 9:00am (Pacific Time) on September 2, 2026, and closes at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) on July 6, 2027. A waiting list will be created if the retreat fills early.

Applying for a residential scholarship? – see our Financial Support FAQs.
Interested in Commuting to the retreat? – learn more below.

Description

A Special Opportunity for Deep, Integrated Practice: 18-Night Summer Retreat

For those seeking an extended retreat experience this summer, we encourage you to consider attending both the Summer Lovingkindness Retreat (July 7–16) and the Summer Insight Retreat (July 16–25) as one continuous 18-night retreat. These two retreats are intentionally designed to complement one another, offering a rare opportunity to deepen in both heart and wisdom practices.

This combined retreat supports a natural progression in the meditative path: cultivating lovingkindness (mettā), the brahmavihāras, and samādhi as a foundation, followed by insight practices (vipassanā) grounded in that settled, compassionate presence. Teachers see this integration as essential. Uniting these practices brings enhanced clarity and depth to both. While each retreat may be attended on its own, we strongly recommend that practitioners who are ready for a longer commitment join both as one cohesive training.

BOTH retreats are silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups meetings, or other practice meetings.

Lovingkindness Retreat Description & Teaching Team: The Buddha’s liberating teachings on the four divine sanctuaries (brahmavihāras) include meditations on universal friendliness (mettā), compassion (karunā), altruistic joy (muditā), and equanimity (upekkhā). Aimed at purifying our hearts and developing concentration (samādhi), these divine sanctuaries aid our ability to both find inner peace and powerfully engage with the world. Together, we will deepen our understanding of selfless love and its role in ending suffering.

Teaching Team: Tempel Smith, Anushka Fernandopulle, John Martin, bruni davila, and Marcy Reynolds (movement).

Insight Meditation Retreat Description & Teaching Team: The Buddha’s unique Insight Meditation techniques open a direct experience with our human mind and body, allowing us to deeply see into the nature of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self. Having these direct insights uproots the ignorance that keeps us trapped in cycles of suffering.

Teaching Team: Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, Anushka Fernandopulle, bruni davila, Marcy Reynolds (movement).

Financial Details

Sliding Scale fees are for 18 nights including food and lodging. Please consider paying at the highest rate that you can afford: your generosity supports Spirit Rock’s efforts in offering lower sliding scale rates and supporting the large number of scholarship requests.

Registration fees DO NOT include teacher dana. At the end of the retreat, there will be an invitation to offer dana to the teachers and to Spirit Rock.

Supporter Rate w/guaranteed single room – $11,250
Benefactor Rate – $9,000
Sustainer Rate – $6,750
Basic Rate – $4,500
Scholarship Rate (BIPOC, Mudita/Karuna, or Young Adult [ages 18-26 yrs]) – $1,710

Pay in full or Payment plan: You can either pay in full or pay a minimum 30% deposit when you register. Payment plans are available to everyone! If you choose the deposit option, the remaining balance will be automatically set up and charged to your payment card in equal installments on a monthly basis. Full payment is due two weeks prior to the retreat start.

Cancellation Policy (Residential Retreats):*
Standard Cancellation Fees:

• $50: On or before 12 weeks (April 14)
• $100: 8-12 weeks before (April 15 – May 12)
• $175: 4-8 weeks before (May 13 – June 9)
• $300: 2-4 weeks before (June 10 – June 23)
• No refunds as of 2 weeks before

Scholarship and Commuter Rate Cancellation Fees:

• Full refund: On or before 12 weeks (April 14)
• $75: 8-12 weeks before (April 15 – May 12)
• $100: 4-8 weeks before (May 13 – June 9)
• $200: 2-4 weeks before (June 10 – June 23)
• No refunds as of 2 weeks before

*Fees reduced for serious illness or death in family

Retreat Commuter Option

What is a Retreat Commuter?
A retreat commuter is a practitioner who attends a full residential retreat, including all meals, but they are not provided with overnight accommodations. Instead practitioners stay in their own home or find local accommodation at their own expense. A communal resting area is provided during the day while on campus for the retreat. The retreat commuter is expected to attend the entire retreat just like residential retreatants. Special reduced rates are listed below for retreat commuters.

The retreat commuter option will only become available once the retreat is FULL with a waitlist. However, if your personal circumstances preclude you from attending a residential retreat (e.g. staying overnight), please reach out to us as we may be able to offer you a commuter spot sooner and we would be happy to have a conversation with you. (“Personal circumstances” could be situations like if you are a sole caregiver, or parent w/young children where you need to be home each night, for example.)

Prerequisite for Commuters:
You must have attended at least one weeklong silent residential retreat (5-7 nights) in Insight (vipassanā) meditation PRIOR to attending this retreat. IMPORTANT NOTE!! If this retreat has a stronger prerequisite requirement than the minimum commuter prerequisite above, the retreat requirement OVERRIDES the commuter requirement.

If you have questions about being a retreat commuter, please email Registration@spiritrock.org

Commuter Sliding Scale:
Sustainer-Commuter – $3,420
Basic-Commuter – $2,250

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