Meditation & Mindfulness
Note: This program is being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see updates about SMC's response to the pandemic here. You’ve experienced joy and health, pain and loss. You've tested your physical limits, and have more →
Note: This program is being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see updates about SMC's response to the pandemic here. If we are brave often enough we will fall. Rising Strong™ is about what it more →
On Saturday, September 26th, the Cameron Peak Fire reached Shambhala Mountain Center. Many of us are grieving for what was lost, while also turning towards the process of restoring and rebuilding. In addition to the updates more →
There’s a saying in India that “The world is like a grinding stone. It will either grind you up, or it will turn you into something beautiful.” In this unprecedented time generated by the COVID-19 pandemic more →
ONLINE • Living in the Challenge Zone: An Insight Meditation Retreat
David Chernikoff
October 30–November 1, 2020
Note: This program is being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see updates about SMC's response to the pandemic here. Heart of Recovery introduces the ancient wisdom of meditation to the path of recovery from more →
Note: This program is being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see updates about SMC's response to the pandemic here. Feeling stressed, anxious, speedy, confused, depressed? Life these days can be challenging in so many more →
Note: This program is being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see updates about SMC's response to the pandemic here. Our minds and bodies are naturally awake, whole, complete, healthy, and sacred. Yet in today's more →
Join author, lecturer, and esteemed Buddhist teacher B. Alan Wallace for this engaging online retreat. A synopsis from B. Alan Wallace on what to expect: In this retreat, we will begin by distinguishing between worldly pleasure more →
ONLINE • Buddhist Psychological Insights into the Inner Causes of Distress and Well-Being
B. Alan Wallace
November 14–15, 2020
What hinders our natural tendency to open and appreciate our lives? Do we acknowledge that some of the obstacles and challenges to our happiness are often sourced in the mind? Is there a way to train more →
Note: This program is being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It may be available as an online retreat soon. Please see updates about SMC's response to the pandemic here. Join international bestselling author Blake D. more →
Beyond Suffering: Unconditional Self Love, Mindfulness Meditation & Qi Gong Retreat
Blake D. Bauer
December 4–6, 2020
Note: This program is being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see updates about SMC's response to the pandemic here. Embrace a slower pace and notice how it offers a deeper connection to mind, body, and more →
Slowing Down: A Yoga, Self-Care, and Loving-Kindness Retreat
Heather Lindemann and Cole Schlam
December 4–6, 2020
What do writers want more than anything in the world? Time to write. Yet even if such precious time could be found, it’s not always easy to settle into the writing groove. Meditation can help synchronize more →
ONLINE • Fearlessly Creative: An Online Meditation & Writing Retreat
Susan Piver
December 12–13, 2020
This 5-day residential program is an intensive form of the internationally recognized, eight-session Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) training developed by Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff. It is open to laypeople and professionals alike. Participants will learn to: more →
Note: This retreat has been rescheduled for next year. It will be held May 28th-31th, 2021. Our bodies hold our lives. They hold wisdom and energy for living and growing. They also hold our obstacles: anxiety, more →
Take time to cultivate your capacity for attention, emotional balance and compassion in and out of the classroom. Designed to support you in bringing a mindful presence to your personal life and professional work in schools, more →
Note: This retreat has been rescheduled from June 12th-14th, 2020 to June 11th-13th, 2021. The spiritual traditions respect the body as the foundation of awareness and connection to self and other. Your body is full of more →
Note: This program has been rescheduled from 2020 to June 18 - 25, 2021. All of us have an innate capacity to experience well being, strength, and confidence, even in the face of stress, pain, or more →
Mindfulness Meditation Retreat: A 7-Day, Teacher-Led, Silent Retreat
Janet Solyntjes and Jim Colosi
June 18–25, 2021
Note: This retreat has been rescheduled from 2020 to 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An online version of the program is in the works for mid-July 2020; updates available soon. Read more about SMC's response to more →
Cancer is one of life’s greatest challenges. In this retreat, we learn how to navigate this potentially confusing, treacherous, and heartbreaking terrain. Our extraordinary team of experts will share their wisdom in integrative medicine, Tibetan more →
Courageous Women Fearless Living: A Retreat for Women Touched by Cancer
Jemi Steele, Ann Braden and Chasse Bailey-Dorton
September 7–12, 2021