Events
Upcoming
Awakening Body, Mind and Heart—The Joy of Mindfulness
This 5-day silent online retreat with James Baraz, Suzie Brown, Zoe Zohs and Nadine Levy will provide you with the precious opportunity to deepen your practice and engage in embodied mindfulness from your home environment.
The focus of the 5 days will be on cultivating joy, ease and balance through the practice of sustained mindfulness, embracing mind, body and heart and offering experience a soft place to land.
Each day will include two sessions of mindful movement, a Dharma talk and meditation instructions. The retreat will support you to deepen into stillness and actively cultivate wholesome states of mind that promote joy and gratitude in the present moment.
The daily schedule will span from 7am to 7pm (Sydney time) and will include periods of online and offline practice.
Small group interviews with the teachers will also be offered.
The retreat is open to all, and no particular experience is required.
Awakening Body, Mind and Heart—The Joy of Mindfulness
This 5-day silent online retreat with James Baraz, Suzie Brown, Zoe Zohs and Nadine Levy will provide you with the precious opportunity to deepen your practice and engage in embodied mindfulness from your home environment.
The focus of the 5 days will be on cultivating joy, ease and balance through the practice of sustained mindfulness, embracing mind, body and heart and offering experience a soft place to land.
Each day will include two sessions of mindful movement, a Dharma talk and meditation instructions. The retreat will support you to deepen into stillness and actively cultivate wholesome states of mind that promote joy and gratitude in the present moment.
The daily schedule will span from 7am to 7pm (Sydney time) and will include periods of online and offline practice.
Small group interviews with the teachers will also be offered.
The retreat is open to all, and no particular experience is required.
Insight Berkeley Daylong, with James Baraz
Insight Berkeley Daylong
Join us for a day of mindful sitting and walking meditation at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery. This hybrid in-person/online event will provide you with the opportunity to deepen your practice with like-minded friends in a sacred setting.
Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or new to meditation, this daylong retreat offers a space for quietly connecting to the stillness within. James and Eve will offer instructions, Dharma talks, and Dharma music. Offered on a dana basis.
Join us on Zoom by clicking HERE
If you have difficulty joining with the above link, join manually using this information:
Meeting ID: 460 493 377
Passcode: 029590
To join our meeting by phone, dial your local number
and have the passcode 029590 ready.
+16699009128,,460493377# US (San Jose)
+13462487799,,460493377# US (Houston)
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https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdC65A1M74
Earth Day 2025: A Weekend Gathering and Celebration
Join us as we celebrate Earth Day with a weekend of joyful connection in honor of our magnificent home—this living Earth. Together, we will cultivate Earth awareness and celebrate our interconnection with all life through Dharma talks, meditation, music, and community. Join the Spirit Rock community as we celebrate the power of collective action and step forward as compassionate stewards of the Earth.
Cultivating a Joyful Resilient—an EcoDharma Meditation Retreat
Join us as we celebrate Earth Day with a weekend of joyful connection in honor of our magnificent home—this living Earth. Together, we will cultivate Earth awareness and celebrate our interconnection with all life through Dharma talks, meditation, music, and community. Join the Spirit Rock community as we celebrate the power of collective action and step forward as compassionate stewards of the Earth.
Awakening the Heart
This workshop is designed to support us as we open to our own goodness and learn practices to awaken love in others. Based on timeless Buddhist principles, as well as key findings in modern neuroscience, we will explore how to cultivate and sustain certain wholesome states, which, through practice, become the perspective we embody.
By awakening our hearts, we have the power to affect both ourselves and others in a profound way. With practical and accessible exercises and teachings, we will explore the full spectrum of the awakened heart. We’ll discover ways to love ourselves and extend that love into our relationships so that we can truly delight in the joy of others.
During our time together, we will:
Study the science behind real happiness.
Discover healthier habits and beliefs through powerful awareness practices.
Embrace and be embraced by a supportive community.
Learn tools for a solid mindfulness practice.
Finally, we’ll explore freely expressing our capacity for compassionate action in a spirit of contribution. In this way, our own awakening heart becomes a gift to our troubled world. Join us as we practice and explore together!
Healing States Silent Retreat
Join us as we celebrate Earth Day with a weekend of joyful connection in honor of our magnificent home—this living Earth. Together, we will cultivate Earth awareness and celebrate our interconnection with all life through Dharma talks, meditation, music, and community. Join the Spirit Rock community as we celebrate the power of collective action and step forward as compassionate stewards of the Earth.
Insight Berkeley Daylong, with James Baraz and Eve Decker.
Insight Berkeley Daylong
Join us for a day of mindful sitting and walking meditation at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery. This hybrid in-person/online event will provide you with the opportunity to deepen your practice with like-minded friends in a sacred setting.
Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or new to meditation, this daylong retreat offers a space for quietly connecting to the stillness within. James and Eve will offer instructions, Dharma talks, and Dharma music. Offered on a dana basis.
Join us on Zoom by clicking HERE
If you have difficulty joining with the above link, join manually using this information:
Meeting ID: 460 493 377
Passcode: 029590
To join our meeting by phone, dial your local number
and have the passcode 029590 ready.
+16699009128,,460493377# US (San Jose)
+13462487799,,460493377# US (Houston)
Find your local number:
https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdC65A1M74
Connecting Mind and Heart
The Mind and the Heart are not separate. We’ll take this week of silence to explore and put into practice various skillful means to let go of unproductive habits of mind. We can then experience insights that heal, uplift and ultimately free us. This results in a clear, quiet mind and a relaxed open heart.
The retreat will consist of silent sitting and walking practice, meditation instructions, interviews with the teachers and dharma talks. The meditation techniques we practice are over 2,500 years old and are mostly based on the Theravada Buddhist tradition. Taking part in the retreat does not, however, require an adherence to Buddhism or any adaptation of personal faith.
Why take part in the retreat? What happens on a retreat?
The retreat is suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners. Beginners have a chance to become familiar with basic meditation techniques and to see their effects clearly in practice, so a retreat is a good way to begin a meditation practice. For experienced meditators, a retreat is a great opportunity to deepen and clarify their practice under the guidance of qualified teachers.
Teachings are offered mainly in English. The daily routine consists mostly of sitting and walking meditation and also includes instructions for meditation, an evening talk, a working period and a voluntary exercise of mindful movement. The retreat is held in silence except during individual or group interviews with a teacher.
The retreat includes a daily breakfast, lunch and light dinner, all vegan. Participants stay in 2-4 person rooms. The retreat will take place at the Kreivilä course centre, which is located in Matku, near Forssa, on the shore of Lake Matkujärvi.
Insight Berkeley Daylong, with James Baraz and Eve Decker.
Insight Berkeley Daylong
Join us for a day of mindful sitting and walking meditation at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery. This hybrid in-person/online event will provide you with the opportunity to deepen your practice with like-minded friends in a sacred setting.
Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or new to meditation, this daylong retreat offers a space for quietly connecting to the stillness within. James and Eve will offer instructions, Dharma talks, and Dharma music. Offered on a dana basis.
Join us on Zoom by clicking HERE
If you have difficulty joining with the above link, join manually using this information:
Meeting ID: 460 493 377
Passcode: 029590
To join our meeting by phone, dial your local number
and have the passcode 029590 ready.
+16699009128,,460493377# US (San Jose)
+13462487799,,460493377# US (Houston)
Find your local number:
https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdC65A1M74
Equanimity: Finding Balance in Difficult Times
A Hybrid Weekend Retreat with James Baraz
Equanimity or Upekkha is a highly valued quality in Buddhist teachings. It is listed in the Four Divine Abodes, the Seven Factors of Enlightenment, and the Ten Paramitas. When highly developed it is the precursor to the experience of awakening. But what is equanimity? How can we cultivate it in our meditation practice? Even more how can we access it in our daily life, especially in times like these with so much uncertainty, fear, sadness, and suffering in the world?
Through periods of silent sitting and walking, meditation instructions geared to cultivating equanimity, talks and practice discussions, we will explore the development of equanimity in our formal practice and aspects of equanimity that can be applied pragmatically to our life off the cushion. This course is appropriate for both new and experienced practitioners.
