2025 Insight Meditation 2-Month Retreat (208R25)
Dawn Scott, Vance Pryor, Tuere Sala, Brian Lesage, devon hase, JD Doyle, Tara Mulay, Tempel Smith, Devin Berry, Anushka Fernandopulle, Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP and Rasika Link
February 1 - March 29, 2025
Pre-approval is required before registering for this extended retreat. DO NOT continue with payment if you have not completed an application first and been accepted into this retreat. Please Go Here to Apply. You will be added to the wait list until your application has been reviewed.
RETREAT TO BE HELD ON THE LAND!
PREREQUISITE:
Prerequisites for Two-Month Retreat (56-night retreat): BEFORE applying you must have already completed at least 21 nights of silent residential retreat time. This retreat time must include a minimum of three (3) silent residential retreats with each of these six (6) nights or longer.
RETREAT DESCRIPTION:
An extended retreat period offers the rare opportunity for sustained, dedicated practice. This retreat emphasizes quieting the mind, opening the heart, and developing profound clarity and depth of Insight practice. Instructions will follow the traditional four foundations of mindfulness, influenced by the teachings of Mahasi Sayadaw and other Theravada (Insight Meditation) traditions, and will be supported by a variety of skillful means. The teachings will encompass training in the heart qualities of lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, with a daily schedule structured around periods of silent meditation, guided instructions, Dharma talks, practice meetings with teachers, and optional mindful movement.
These extended retreats (as with all retreats at Spirit Rock) are NOT open for self-retreats.
February Teaching Team:
Dawn Scott, Vance Pryor, Tuere Sala, Brian Lesage, devon hase, JD Doyle, Rasika Link (movement), Eleni Monos (teacher-in-training)
March Teaching Team:
Tara Mulay, Tempel Smith, Tuere Sala, Devin Berry, Anushka Fernandopulle, Kristina Bare, Francisco Morillo Gable (assistant), Marjolein Janssen (assistant), Rasika Link (movement)
TWO-MONTH SLIDING SCALE:
Please consider selecting the highest possible level you can reasonably afford: your generosity supports your community of practitioners who need to pay less as well as staff and Spirit Rock. *NOTE: All two-month attendees will have a single room.
Supporter Rate – $23,240 (covers cost of retreat, plus a deeply generous dana offering to Spirit Rock)
Benefactor Rate – $16,800 (covers cost of retreat, with a meaningful dana contribution to Spirit Rock)
Sustainer Rate – $12,320 (covers cost of retreat)
Basic Rate – $9,240 (partially subsidized rate)
Scholarship Rate (YA, BIPOC, M/K) – $4,200 (significantly subsidized rate)
PLUS a donation to the teacher(s).
EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2024 – Covid-19 Safety Protocols for residential retreats have been updated..
CANCELLATION POLICY – Two-month Retreat:
- $350 fee* = on or before December 7, 2024 (> 8 weeks)
- $600 fee* = December 8, 2024 – January 4, 2025 (4-8 weeks)
- $850 fee* = January 5 – 18, 2025 (2-4 weeks)
- No refunds = January 19, 2025 or after (applies to ALL participants)
*Fees reduced 50% for scholarship participants, excluding last tier.
About the Teachers
Dawn Scott
Dawn Scott has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2008. She is a graduate of the Insight Meditation Society’s teacher training program and is a core teacher of Spirit Rock’s Liberation, Emptiness, and Awareness Practices (LEAP) Program. Dawn has a deep love of long retreat practice and the Buddha's liberative teachings.
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Vance Pryor
Vance Pryor has practiced insight meditation since 1999 in both the United States and Myanmar. He has been influenced by the teachings of Sayadaw U Pandita and Sayadaw U Tejaniya. He is a graduate of The Insight Meditation Society's 2017-2021 Teacher Training Program.
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Tuere Sala
Tuere Sala is a Guiding Teacher at Spirit Rock Retreat Center and Seattle Insight. She is a retired prosecuting attorney who has practiced Vipassana meditation for over 30 years. Tuere is committed to lay practice and inspired by bringing the Dharma to nontraditional places. She is a strong advocate for practitioners living with high stress, […]
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Brian Lesage
Brian Lesage has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1988 and has taught meditation since 2000. He has studied in the Zen, Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism. He was ordained in the Rinzai Zen tradition in 1996. His training in Vipassana Meditation includes doing extended meditation retreats in Myanmar (Burma), Nepal and India as well as numerous […]
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devon hase
devon hase loves long retreats. Cumulatively, she’s spent four years in silent practice in the Insight and Vajrayana traditions. Since discovering meditation in 2000, she has put dharma and community at the center of her life: she spent a decade bringing mindfulness to high school and college classrooms and now teaches at the Insight Meditation […]
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JD Doyle
JD Doyle (they/them) served as Core Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, where they co-founded the Alphabet (LGBTQIA+) Saṅgha. They graduated from Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Retreat Teacher Training in 2020 and teach at saṅghas across the US and in Canada. JD began studying and practicing Buddhism in 1995, at Insight Meditation Society and […]
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Tara Mulay
Tara Mulay teaches and mentors Insight Meditation Practitioners to refine their mindfulness practice, both on the meditation cushion and in daily life. She was trained and authorized to teach by Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and is a Guiding Teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Tara began her intensive mindfulness practice while working as […]
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Tempel Smith
Tempel Smith teaches Mindfulness, Insight and Metta meditation with an emphasis on Buddhist psychology and mind-body awareness. He spent a year as a monk in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita and Pa Auk Sayadaw. Tempel serves on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, organizes the Dedicated Practitioners Program (DPP) and Living Dharma retreats for Spirit Rock […]
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Devin Berry
Devin Berry is co-founder of Deeper Still, a teen meditation sangha at East Bay Meditation Center and serves as a founding board member of Mindful Peacebuilding. A meditation practitioner since 1999, he is a student of Thich Nhat Hanh as well as a Vipassana practitioner. Devin is a graduate of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher-training practicum. […]
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Anushka Fernandopulle
Anushka Fernandopulle is a Spirit Rock Retreat Teacher who has trained for over 35 years in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. Anushka studied Buddhism at Harvard College and then spent four years in full-time Dharma and meditation training in monasteries and retreat centers in the US, India and Sri Lanka. Anushka was invited to teach Dharma […]
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Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP
Kristina Baré is an insight meditation teacher, therapist, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner. She has trained primarily in the Burmese lineages of Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw and Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw. She enjoys supporting students deepening samadhi, loving-kindness and insight. Opening the door to an expansion of the heart and to liberating wisdom. In support of the […]
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Rasika Link
Rasika has been practicing and teaching hatha yoga since 1984. She has been influenced by many teachers in both the Iyengar and Kripalu traditions. In 1999 she began vipassana practices at Spirit Rock, and her yoga classes gradually shifted to a more concentrated, mindful style of teaching. She invites curiosity to awaken in the asanas […]
Learn more about Rasika LinkCategories : Multi-day, On-land, Prerequisite, Residential, Retreat