Retreats
What is a retreat?
On retreat we stop all forms of business and extraneous activities so as to emphasize a particular spiritual practice. There are three kinds of retreat: physical, verbal and mental. We engage in physical retreat when with a spiritual motivation we isolate ourself from other people, activities, and noise, and disengage from extraneous and meaningless actions; we engage in verbal retreat when with a spiritual motivation we refrain from meaningless talk and periodically keep silence; and we engage in mental retreat by preventing distractions and strong delusions such as attachment, anger, jealousy, and strong self-grasping from arising, and by maintaining mindfulness and conscientiousness.
Each Year we enage in the following retreats - Please visit our Special Events menu to see when our next retreat is.
Refuge Retreat
Lamrim (Stages of the Path to Enlightenment Retreat)
Guru Yoga Mandala Retreat
Vajrasattva Purification Retreat
24 Hour Tara Retreat
Heruka/Vajrayogini Retreat
Mahamudra Retreat
Amityaus Retreat
1,000 Armed Avalokiteshvara Fasting and Purification Retreat