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Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light (290A25) - Audit

Dawn Scott, devon hase, Yong Oh, Heather Sundberg and Kimi Mojica

December 18 - 23, 2025

Date and Time Details:
Thursday to Tuesday
December 18-23, 2025 (5 nights)
Opening day/Start Time: 4:00pm US Pacific Time
Closing day/End Time: 11:00am US Pacific Time
(Times are approximate and subject to change)

Online via Live Broadcast

Contact: Spirit Rock Registration
registration@spiritrock.org

Cancellation Policy - Online: Drop-ins, Daylongs, Multiday Programs (1-3 days), Family Programs/Series, CEC fees:

  • NO REFUNDS
  • Open Credit, or Donation to Spirit Rock = if cancel by midnight, the day prior to program start (Pacific Time)
  • No Open Credit = if cancel day of the program, or beyond

Description:

Throughout this residential retreat, we will focus on centering ourselves at the time of the holidays and the New Year. Together we will quiet our minds, ground our bodies, open our hearts, and use inquiry to help energize our practice. Special emphasis will be placed on opening to the darkness, including to our difficulties and challenges, and opening to the coming light, which includes the beauty, joy, wisdom, and love within and around us. This retreat will include complete meditation instructions, sitting and walking meditation, daily lovingkindness practice, daily Qigong practice, evening talks, practice discussions, and a Winter Solstice ceremony.

On-Land Teachers: Dawn Scott, devon hase, Yong Oh, and Kimi Mojica (movement)
Online Teacher: Heather Sundberg

Details for Audit Option:
The audit option for this retreat offers online access to the teacher-led meditation instructions and Dharma talks broadcasted live from Spirit Rock’s Upper Meditation Hall. Video recordings of each teacher-led session will be posted within 24 hours after a session ends. All audio and video recordings will be available for you to play and replay indefinitely after the retreat ends.

Important note regarding the audit option, it is held only online and it does not offer interactions with the teachers (i.e., no practice meetings, no ability to ask questions during Q&A sessions, etc.), nor does it offer online small groups or affinity groups.

Included:

  • Live broadcast from the Zoom hall of all Dharma talks, instructions, and teacher-led meditation sessions
  • Retreat homepage – includes retreat schedule, access to recordings, other resources
  • Recordings of all Dharma talks, instructions, and teacher-led meditation sessions

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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devon hase

devon first encountered meditation in 2000, as a college sophomore longing for a deeper way to meet life. Since then, She has spent over six cumulative years in meditation retreat in both the Insight and Vajrayana traditions, studying closely with teachers such as Joseph Goldstein, Tara Brach, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and others. Most recently, devon […]

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Yong Oh

Yong is a Dharma Council teacher at the Durango Dharma Center and a core teacher for Sacred Mountain Saṅgha, and is also a visiting teacher for other community centers across North America. He teaches retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Society, Big Bear Retreat Center, and Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center. He is a […]

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Heather Sundberg

Heather Sundberg has taught Insight Meditation since 1999 and has taught residential retreats regularly at Spirit Rock since 2001. She completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training program under Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Beginning her own meditation practice in her late teens, for the last three decades, Heather has studied with senior teachers in the […]

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Kimi Mojica

Kimi Mojica (they/she) is a process strategist, mindfulness coach, conflict transformation and restorative practices facilitator, and community teacher of the Buddhadharma with over twenty years of experience stewarding cultural and organizational transformation. Kimi works at the nexus of conflict literacy, leadership and organizational development, and cultural change, applying the principles of conflict transformation and Just […]

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