Upcoming Retreats
In-person residential retreat: Insight Retreat
Co-taught with Dawn Neal
Silent insight retreat with alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talks and instructions, work meditation, and practice discussion with the teachers. Suitable for newer and more experienced practitioners.
In-person residential retreat: Insight Retreat
Co-taught with Diana Clark, Ying Chen, and David Lorey
Note: This retreat is at Hidden Villa Hostel in Los Altos CA, which is physically close to the prior-listed retreat at the Quaker Center in Ben Lomond. It is possible to combine the two retreats into a longer one.
In-person Non-residential Retreat at Los Altos Community Center
Co-taught with Diana Clark, Ying Chen, and David Lorey
This is a non-residential retreat that combines deep silence during the day with practice at home during the evenings.
Residential Retreat at Insight Retreat Center, co-taught with Gil Fronsdal (online hybrid option also)
Co-taught with Gil Fronsdal
This silent Insight retreat features sitting and walking meditation, work meditation, and practice discussions with the teachers. There will be an online hybrid option. For that, the practice discussions will be with a different teacher (not Gil or Kim).
Pilgrimage to Sri Lanka
This is a special opportunity to visit Sri Lanka, which is steeped in Buddhist history and cultural sites. We'll visit temples, monasteries, the ancient Bodhi Tree (a cutting from the original in Bodh Gaya), and the place where the Pali Canon was first written down
In-person: Insight Retreat at Big Springs Retreat Center (Sierra City CA)
Co-taught with Diana Clark, Ying Chen, and David Lorey
This is an "offsite retreat" through Insight Retreat Center. Silent practice with sitting, walking, work meditation, Dharma talks, and practice discussions with the teachers.
In-person: Uncontrived's Inaugural Retreat
Teacher: Kim Allen
Join us for an Insight retreat with classical instructions in sitting and walking meditation. After an initial session of community connection, our practice time will be held in noble silence to support deepening meditation. The retreat includes sitting, walking, Dharma talks, work meditation, and practice discussion with Kim.
In-person residential retreat: Listen, Heart, Peace: An Insight retreat
July 12-19 (Sun-Sun)
Co-taught with Diana Clark
Careful attention to our inner life awakens the heart and mind to the possibility of peace in the present moment.