Retreats
when An immersion in practice
is most relevant. Our retreats also meet
requirements for many
mindfulness teacher trainings.
What We Provide
Retreats provide dedicated, in-depth times of mindfulness, lovingkindness and compassion practice. See below to find a program that’s right for you.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you need financial assistance to attend, please complete our contact form and we will reach out to you.
Sharing the Refuge of Space & Simplicity
Grounded in the practices of insight meditation and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), this residential retreat will emphasize bringing kindness and awareness together, moment by moment. Éowyn Ahlstrom and Chas DiCapua will co-lead the week-long immersion in practice.
Dates: September 8 – 13, 2023
Times: Arrive Friday Afternoon, Depart the Following Wednesday
Location: Won Dharma Retreat Center, 361 State Route 23, Claverack, NY
Mindfulness 5-day retreat
Join us for five days of retreat practice with Eowyn Ahlstrom and Bob Stahl. Attending a silent retreat provides an opportunity to give moment-to-moment attention to mindfulness practice over the course of a number of uninterrupted days, thus deeply exploring awareness, experience, and the intrinsic relationship between them.
Dates: October 6-11, 2023
Times: Friday, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm, Saturday – Tuesday, 9:30 am – 9:30 pm, Wednesday, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (ET)
Location: Live Online
The Middle Path to Living Awareness
Mindful awareness, together with a balanced approach to our experiences, can transform our sense of possibility and create a foundation for responding to the ordinary (and extraordinary) stresses of our lives. Join Eowyn and Steve Kramer for this silent retreat offered in collaboration with the Copper Beech Institute
Dates: October 27, 2023 at 5 PM to October 29, 2023
Times: arrive Friday by 5pm and depart Sunday around 1pm (ET)
Location: 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT
More About Retreats
Meditation retreats provide a way to deeply cultivate, explore, and strengthen sustained mindfulness, kindness an compassion practices. There is simply nothing like a retreat to help connect with yourself and learn from your inner life.
Our retreats are open to and supportive of anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of mindfulness. Held in silence and relative simplicity, retreats support the growth of deeper wisdom and compassion. In addition, retreats are profoundly important for those training to teach mindfulness as well for established teachers since ultimately, a teacher must be able to teach based on their wisdom, which comes from their own direct experience.
Retreat Sample Schedule
6:30 AM – Greet the Day Sitting
7:00 AM – Mindful Meal and/or Informal Mindfulness Practice
8:00 AM – Guided Practice and Meditation Instructions
9:00 AM – Walking
9:45 AM – Lightly Guided Sitting
10:30 AM – Walking
11:15 AM – Sitting
12:00 PM – Mindful Meal and/or Informal Mindfulness Practice
2:00 PM – Lovingkindness Sitting
2:45 PM – Walking or Group Meeting
3:30 PM – Sitting
4:15 PM – Guided Mindful Movement
5:00 PM – Sitting
5:30 PM – Mindful Meal and/or Informal Mindfulness Practice
7:00 PM – Talk, Reflections on and Guidance around Practice
7:45 PM – Brief Walking or other Self-Guided Mindful Movement
8:00 PM – Sitting
9:00 PM – Goodnight
What to expect from a retreat
- Cultivating the ability to be with discomfort (physically, mentally and emotionally) and meet it with less reactivity, greater wisdom, and growing balance.
- Seeing and understanding more clearly the causes and effects of actions as well as their impacts on oneself and others.
- Identifying the subtle mental habitual patterns of reactions and mediating a wiser and kinder relationship with them.
