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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
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 9, 2023 Awakening with the Land: A Day of Contemplative Practice in the Mountains All Levels / Outdoor Rupert Marques View Details Join waiting list
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 Join waiting list
August 10 - 13, 2023 InterBeing: Buddhist Insight and Contemporary Jewish Mysticism All levels / In Person Rabbi Jeff Roth View Details Join waiting list
August 15 - 20, 2023 August Volunteer Week All Levels / In Person View Details Register
August 29 - September 4, 2023 Buddhism and Recovery All levels / In Person Kevin Griffin View Details Register
September 10 - 17, 2023 Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students Experience required, see description / In person Donald Rothberg View Details Join waiting list
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 All Levels / At-home (online) David Chernikoff View Details
Registration opens: Jul 1, 2023
October 13 - 20, 2023 Taking Refuge: A Vipassana and Brahma Vihara Retreat All levels / In person DaeJa Napier View Details
Registration opens: Jul 1, 2023
October 25 - 28, 2023 [COMMUTER/ASHEVILLE] Redefining Hope in a Darkening World: A Meditation & Yoga Retreat All Levels / In Person (Commuter) Jeff Collins and Gisela Konrad View Details
Registration opens: Jul 1, 2023
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
Registration opens: Jul 1, 2023
November 9 - 12, 2023 A Medicine Buddha Retreat All levels / In Person Dr. Hun Lye View Details
Registration opens: Jul 1, 2023
November 30 - December 3, 2023 Entering the Heart of the Mother: Retreating into the Mandala of Vajravarahi All levels / In Person Lama Justin von Bujdoss View Details
Registration opens: Jul 1, 2023
December 6 - 10, 2023 The Winter Heart of the New Saint Experience required, see description / In Person Lama Rod Owens View Details
Registration opens: Sep 1, 2023
December 28, 2023 - January 3, 2024 New Year’s Retreat: Non-Duality of Sacred Darkness and Sacred Light Experience Required, see description / In Person John Orr and Ronya Banks View Details
Registration opens: Jul 1, 2023

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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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…

Awakening with the Land: A Day of Contemplative Practice in the Mountains

Rupert Marques

July 9, 2023
Pisgah National Forest
The Whole Earth is the True human body. - Dōgen…

Earth in Mind: Dharma, Deep Ecology and Land

Rupert Marques

July 11 - 16, 2023
Southern Dharma Retreat Center
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…
Rabbi Jeff Roth

InterBeing: Buddhist Insight and Contemporary Jewish Mysticism

Rabbi Jeff Roth

August 10 - 13, 2023
Using the vehicle of Noble Silence and a variety of…

August Volunteer Week

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

Buddhism and Recovery

Kevin Griffin

August 29 - September 4, 2023
Join us for a unique meditation retreat combining traditional Buddhist…

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

David Chernikoff

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

Taking Refuge: A Vipassana and Brahma Vihara Retreat

DaeJa Napier

October 13 - 20, 2023
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there…
Jeff & Gisela

[COMMUTER/ASHEVILLE] Redefining Hope in a Darkening World: A Meditation & Yoga Retreat

Jeff Collins and Gisela Konrad

October 25 - 28, 2023
Land of Sky UCC
You are cordially invited to celebrate the bigness of being…

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…

A Medicine Buddha Retreat

Dr. Hun Lye

November 9 - 12, 2023
Medicine Buddha is the vajrayāna embodiment of the healing powers…
Lama Justin von Bujdoss

Entering the Heart of the Mother: Retreating into the Mandala of Vajravarahi

Lama Justin von Bujdoss

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

The Winter Heart of the New Saint

Lama Rod Owens

December 6 - 10, 2023
Winter represents a season when we are called inward to…

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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