Spring Insight Retreat (224R25) - On Land

Registration opens at 9:00am (Pacific Time) on January 9, 2025 and closes at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) on May 8, 2025. A waiting list will be created if the retreat fills early.

Interested in Commuting to the retreat? – learn more below.

Spring Insight Retreat: Understand the Mechanisms of the Salutary Effects of Mindfulness

Description

All the time before you were born plus all the time after you die is almost exactly all the time there is. Yet we find ourselves here, alive, in time, with a question: How should I live? We begin by listening deeply. The Buddha suggested we have underestimated the capacity of our hearts. Retreat helps us to remember. Together, we’ll sit in the refuge provided by a 2,600-year legacy of wisdom and kindness. In this silence, we come to know the preciousness of life and the poignancy of the human condition. We discover a way of opening to the intensity of the human condition such that our heart is softened rather than hardened. During this retreat, we will offer systematic instructions in mindfulness meditation, as well as in lovingkindness practice. Throughout the retreat there will also be Dharma talks and meetings with teachers to support you in your practice.

This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings.

Retreat to be held on the land

Financial Details

Sliding Scale fees are for 7 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.*

Supporter Rate w/guaranteed single room – $4200
Benefactor Rate – $3360
Sustainer – $2520
Basic – $1680
Scholarship Rate (BIPOC, Mudita/Karuna, or Young Adult [ages 18-26 yrs]) – $665
*Registration fees DO NOT include teacher dana. At the end of the retreat, there will be an opportunity to offer dana to the teachers and to Spirit Rock.

Scholarship offerings: All scholarship rates require a minimum fee. These rates are available on a first-come, first-serve basis and limited to those with significant financial needs. Scholarships are limited to TWO per calendar year for on-land retreats. And, while we are not able to offer “pay what you can” type of scholarships for residential retreats, we invite you to email us if the lowest rate does not fit your financial circumstance.

Hemera Fellowships for Residential Retreats – are you eligible and a first-time retreatant? Learn more details…

EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2024 – Covid-19 Safety Protocols for residential retreats have been updated..

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

• $100 On or before 8 weeks
• $175 4-8 weeks before
• $300 2-4 weeks before
• No refunds as of 2 weeks before

Scholarship and Commuter Rate Cancellation Fees:

• $75 On or before 8 weeks
• $100 4-8 weeks before
• $200 2-4 weeks before
• No refunds as of 2 weeks before

**Fees reduced for serious illness or death in family

Retreat Commuter Option

The retreat commuter option will only become available once the retreat is FULL with a waitlist.

Prerequisite to Attend as a Commuter:
You must have attended at least one 7-night or two 5-night silent, Insight (vipassanā) meditation residential retreats PRIOR to attending this retreat.

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 accommodations. 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

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

Commuter Sliding Scale:
Sustainer-Commuter – $1260
Basic-Commuter – $840

Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 15 CE credits for $150 for psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors. Please review our Continuing Education Credit information page to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by Spirit Rock.***

Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. Healthcare providers will learn mindfulness practices that can be useful to enhance their ability to deepen the therapeutic alliance, enhance empathy, and improve patient-provider communication. The mindfulness practices that will be offered during this retreat may enhance self-awareness, reduce stress and burnout, and promote emotional well-being.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:

• Define mindfulness, and list some of the hypothesized benefits of mindfulness practice;
• Describe 2 practices that develop mindfulness;
• Describe how focused attention practices can reduce stress, emotional inflexibility, and rumination;
• Describe equanimity, and its role in emotional balance;
• Describe the ways that attention to bodily sensations can positively affect well-being;
• Describe how mindfulness relates to prosocial emotions such as kindness and compassion;
• Identify at least four hypothesized benefits of the effect of mindfulness meditation for care providers and improved patient care;
• Describe how mindful practices of silence and attentive listening contribute to a deeper understanding of the self and foster emotional resilience and empathy.
• Describe the mechanisms by which these practices cultivate compassion, reduce emotional hardness, and enhance interpersonal relationships;
• Describe how the core values of wisdom and kindness can be applied to therapeutic settings, improving patient care and promoting holistic well-being.

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

Schedule: (Full attendance is required. Times are listed in Pacific time.)

• May 9
  • No CECs
• May 10 – May 15
  • 8:30am – 9:30am: Guided Practice with Instructions, Q&A
  • 4:30pm – 5:15pm: Lovingkindness Practice
  • 7:30pm – 8:15pm: Evening Dharma talk
• May 16
  • No CECs

***Please note:

• For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
• For those with a different license than listed above, or with a license from a different board or association than listed on our CEC info page, please contact your licensing board or association directly to request pre-approval/acceptance of CE credits offered at Spirit Rock. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed.
• Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 15 contact hours.
• Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.