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Retreat Calendar

Note: On opening dates, registration will open at 2:00 PM ET. On opening day, it will say "closed" below until 2:00 PM ET. 

Dates Title Experience Level / Format Teacher Details Register
April 8 - 15, 2023 In Nature, Our True Nature All levels / In person Rev. WonGong So View Details Register
April 24 - 30, 2023 The Noble Eightfold Path: An At-Home Dharma Study and Practice Retreat All Levels / At-home (online) DaeJa Napier View Details Register
April 27 - 30, 2023 Beginning Again: A BIPOC Spring Retreat BIPOC / In person Fresh "Lev" White View Details Register
May 3 - 7, 2023 Deepening Your Practice: An Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Meditators Experience required, see description / In person David Chernikoff View Details Join waiting list
May 9 - 14, 2023 The Marriage of Meditation and Yoga All levels / In Person Gisela Konrad and Jeff Collins View Details Join waiting list
May 25 - 29, 2023 Metta-Vipassana: Integrating the Heart and Mind All levels / In Person Dave Smith View Details Join waiting list
June 1 - 4, 2023 Awareness, Wisdom, and the Release of the Heart All levels / In Person Mark Nunberg View Details Join waiting list
June 15 - 18, 2023 A Path of Love: The Six Paramitas All levels / In Person Leslie Rawls View Details Register
June 20 - 26, 2023 Cultivating Wise Speech All levels / In Person Donald Rothberg View Details Register
June 29 - July 2, 2023 Return to Source: An Eco-Dharma Retreat All levels / In Person Deborah Eden Tull View Details Register
July 11 - 16, 2023 Earth in Mind: Dharma, Deep Ecology and Land All levels / In Person Rupert Marques View Details Register
July 18 - 23, 2023 Returning to Flow: An Insight Dialogue Retreat Experience required, see description / In person Phyllis Hicks and Anna-Brown Griswold View Details Register
July 26 - 30, 2023 Making Peace with Your Ego: Finding Freedom Through Letting Go All levels / In Person Lisa Ernst View Details Register
August 15 - 20, 2023 August Volunteer Week All Levels / In Person View Details Closed
September 10 - 17, 2023 Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students Experience required, see description / In person Donald Rothberg View Details Register
September 21 - 24, 2023 Self-Guided Retreat Experience Required, see description. / In Person Donald Rothberg View Details Register
October 6 - 8, 2023 The Path of Service: An At Home Insight Meditation Retreat with David Chernikoff All Levels / At-home (online) David Chernikoff View Details Register
November 2 - 5, 2023 Belonging and Thriving: Being Your Own Good Friend LGBTQIA+ / All levels / In Person Fresh "Lev" White and Eve Decker View Details Register
November 30 - December 3, 2023 Vajravarahi Retreat All levels / In Person Lama Justin von Bujdoss View Details Register
December 28, 2023 - January 3, 2024 New Year’s Retreat: Non-Duality of Sacred Darkness and Sacred Light Experience Required / In Person John Orr and Ronya Banks View Details Register

Until further notice, registration for our residential programs is restricted to individuals who have or will receive their second, third, or subsequent Covid-19 vaccination at least two weeks before their arrival on site. We also require all registered participants to present negative results from a Covid test performed in the 3 days prior to the start of your retreat AND that you consent to being tested upon your arrival at Southern Dharma. Any rapid antigen test is acceptable for testing, including over-the-counter at-home tests.

 

 


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In Nature, Our True Nature

Rev. WonGong So

April 8 - 15, 2023
Come and experience truth—the truth of our own nature! Spring…

The Noble Eightfold Path: An At-Home Dharma Study and Practice Retreat

DaeJa Napier

April 24 - 30, 2023
The Noble Eightfold Path is the heart of the Buddha’s…

Beginning Again: A BIPOC Spring Retreat

Fresh "Lev" White

April 27 - 30, 2023
“…We must die every day in order to renew ourselves,…

Deepening Your Practice: An Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Meditators

David Chernikoff

May 3 - 7, 2023
This retreat is for experienced meditators who want to deepen…

The Marriage of Meditation and Yoga

Gisela Konrad and Jeff Collins

May 9 - 14, 2023
In one sense the goal of spiritual work is to…

Metta-Vipassana: Integrating the Heart and Mind

Dave Smith

May 25 - 29, 2023
Vipassana meditation (Insight or mindfulness practice) unites the stillness of…

Awareness, Wisdom, and the Release of the Heart

Mark Nunberg

June 1 - 4, 2023
Buddhist awareness practices are the skillful ways we develop the…

A Path of Love: The Six Paramitas

Leslie Rawls

June 15 - 18, 2023
Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh said the paramitas taught by the…

Cultivating Wise Speech

Donald Rothberg

June 20 - 26, 2023
Integrating meditation practice with our speech and communication is one…

Return to Source: An Eco-Dharma Retreat

Deborah Eden Tull

June 29 - July 2, 2023
Eihei Dogen, the twelfth-century founder of Soto Zen, referred to…

Earth in Mind: Dharma, Deep Ecology and Land

Rupert Marques

July 11 - 16, 2023
The birds have vanished into the sky. And now the…

Returning to Flow: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

Phyllis Hicks and Anna-Brown Griswold

July 18 - 23, 2023
Insight Dialogue brings together meditative awareness, the wisdom teachings of…

Making Peace with Your Ego: Finding Freedom Through Letting Go

Lisa Ernst

July 26 - 30, 2023
“Live in the nowhere you come from even though you…

August Volunteer Week

August 15 - 20, 2023
Volunteer weeks at Southern Dharma offer an opportunity to deepen…

Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

Donald Rothberg

September 10 - 17, 2023
In the context of a small retreat, we will train…
Single cabin in the meadow

Self-Guided Retreat

Donald Rothberg

September 21 - 24, 2023
Join other experienced practitioners for self-guided practice in noble silence,…

The Path of Service: An At Home Insight Meditation Retreat with David Chernikoff

David Chernikoff

October 6 - 8, 2023
Compassionate action plays a central role in all of the…

Belonging and Thriving: Being Your Own Good Friend

Fresh "Lev" White and Eve Decker

November 2 - 5, 2023
Please join us for a place of refuge, with a…
Lama Justin von Bujdoss

Vajravarahi Retreat

Lama Justin von Bujdoss

November 30 - December 3, 2023
Within Vajrayana Buddhism, deity yoga, or yidam practice, is a…

New Year’s Retreat: Non-Duality of Sacred Darkness and Sacred Light

John Orr and Ronya Banks

December 28, 2023 - January 3, 2024
Since ancient times, in the Northern Hemisphere, this period at…

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