Meditation & Mindfulness
This program has been canceled and will be rescheduled. When eye, heart and world are in the same place, at the same time, your experience is direct and your art expressions are spontaneous and vivid. This more →
Ways of Seeing and The Way of Nature: Contemplative Photography, Haiku and Deep Ecology
John McQuade
September 29–October 3, 2021
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a program of practical, scientifically-supported teachings to reduce stress, facilitate relaxation, and promote physical health and emotional well-being. Inspired by the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, this retreat offers tools for engaging the more →
Working with your mind is one of the most beneficial skills you can learn, yet most of us don’t even know where to start. Through the practice of meditation, it is possible to balance your thoughts more →
* This program will be rescheduled for Spring 2022 * For employees of Larimer County, this program is eligible for the Lifestyle Education Benefit Program. Please see details below. This four-week online course is designed to more →
ONLINE • Mindfulness Meditation and Movement for Wellness
Melissa Lago and Loden Nyima
October 3–24, 2021
Co-sponsored with the Leading with Genuine Care Retreat The Leading with Genuine Care Leadership Retreat (formerly the donothing Leadership Retreat) offers business leaders, entrepreneurs, and those seeking a more mindful life with the most rewarding challenge they may ever take — a leadership-focused mindfulness and meditation more →
Leadership Retreat: Leading with Genuine Care
October 3–7, 2021
This program has been canceled and will be rescheduled for 2022. If it's time for a fresh start, yoga and meditation provide an ideal practice combo to bring us back to beginner's mind – a sense more →
Fresh Start: Yoga and Meditation for Effortless Relaxation
De West and Brian Spielmann
October 8–10, 2021
This program has been canceled. This weekend invites you to open into the Prajñāpāramitā (perfection of wisdom) teachings that draw from a collection of Mahayana Buddhist texts pointing to non-conceptual ways of actualizing the nature of more →
The Great Mother of Non-Duality: Perfecting Transcendent Wisdom
Dr. Amelia Hall and Dr. Nashalla Nyinda
October 8–10, 2021
Join international bestselling author Blake D. Bauer for five days of deep healing and life changing self-care. Discover why suffering such as anxiety, depression, addiction, illness, and relationship problems are logical cries from your body, soul, and subconscious more →
Deep Healing: A 5-Day Unconditional Self-Love, Qi Gong & Meditation Retreat
Blake D. Bauer
October 16–21, 2021
Rediscover your sense of natural wakefulness in this restorative meditation retreat. Set in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado, you will deepen your connection to your practice and open your heart, while connecting with the serenity more →
Getting the Love You Want is a virtual weekend workshop that provides an in-depth Imago experience for couples in all stages of relationship. You and your partner will gain greater insight into your relationship dynamics and more →
ONLINE • Getting the Love You Want
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D
October 22–24, 2021
How do we stay inspired, centered, and rooted in our innate wisdom—especially during times of challenge? In this three-day women’s retreat, you’ll replenish your body, heart, and mind through spaciousness, quiet, yogic and dharmic teachings and more →
Filling Your Well: A Women’s Yoga, Meditation & Nature Retreat
Sara Avant Stover
October 22–24, 2021
A Mahamudra Shamatha-Vipashyana, Tonglen, and Sadhana of Mahamudra Retreat This two-week retreat is open to anyone who has a regular sitting meditation practice. Full participation qualifies as two weekthün credits within the Shambhala Path curriculum. The more →
You’ve experienced joy and health, pain and loss. You’ve tested your physical limits, and have recovered from surgeries. You’ve traveled, shared insights, and cared for others. Now it’s time to attend to your body as it more →
Aprende a meditar: Programa en español. Aprender a meditar en tu lengua materna es un regalo especial. Ejercitar tu mente de esta forma puede aportarnos grandes beneficios, sin embargo muchos no sabemos por dónde empezar. A more →
This immersive weekend meditation workshop helps us open to ourselves with gentleness and appreciation. Through the practice of meditation, we tap into timeless wisdom and glimpse unconditional goodness as the ground of our existence. With talks, more →
In this time of challenge and upheaval, learning to fully inhabit your body and be present to its inherent knowing is an essential skill. Embodied Listening offers a way to move through blockages, challenges and uncertainty more →
ONLINE • Embodied Listening®: Trusting the Wisdom of Direct Experience
Hope Martin
November 12–14, 2021
NOV 12-14 In today's speedy world, we are all in need of kindness to ourselves. This two-day practice intensive is designed for meditators looking to take a deep dive into their practice. This weekend is spent more →
Discover relaxation and wakefulness in our pristine mountain environment. Our Retreat and Renewal programs offer contemplative approaches for working with the fullness of daily modern life, bringing insight and inspiration to career, family, health, relationships, more →
Extended Thanksgiving Retreat & Renewal
November 25–28, 2021
Discover relaxation and wakefulness in our pristine mountain environment. Our Retreat and Renewal programs offer contemplative approaches for working with the fullness of daily modern life, bringing insight and inspiration to career, family, health, relationships, more →
Thanksgiving Retreat & Renewal
November 26–28, 2021
Join international bestselling author Blake D. Bauer for a weekend that will offer you a safe environment to address your core fears, transform negative thinking, and find clarity around shaping the life and health you want. The more →
Beyond Suffering: Unconditional Self Love, Mindfulness Meditation & Qi Gong Retreat
Blake D. Bauer
December 3–5, 2021
How do we face experiences of suffering and pain, of working with what is and maintaining an open heart, ready to embrace the present moment? Just by hearing the mantra, or name of the Medicine Buddha more →
Medicine Buddha: Working with Suffering, Opening to Compassion
Dr. Nashalla Nyinda
December 3–5, 2021
Feeling stressed, anxious, speedy, confused, depressed? Life these days can be challenging in so many ways. Thousands of years of experience, and now science, have shown that the practice of mindfulness can help establish relaxation, more →
The Heart of Mindfulness Retreat is a 7-day silent meditation retreat that emphasizes the deep understanding and practice of mindfulness in its most universal expression while respecting and acknowledging its contemplative and spiritual roots. The retreat more →
The Heart of Mindfulness: A Silent Meditation Retreat
Janet Solyntjes and Jon Aaron
December 10–17, 2021
Discover relaxation and wakefulness in our pristine mountain environment. Our Retreat and Renewal programs offer contemplative approaches for working with the fullness of daily modern life, bringing insight and inspiration to career, family, health, relationships, more →
Retreat & Renewal
December 17–19, 2021
The life story of the Buddha stands out in religious literary history as a powerful example of how one human being transformed his relationship to dukkha (discontentment or suffering) and discovered a way to live with more →
Emotional Resilience: Learning from the Buddha’s Life Story
Lama Elizabeth Monson
March 31–April 3, 2022
The Karuna Training Basic Cycle is a comprehensive training that occurs in ten courses over two years; six online weekends, four extended retreats at Shambhala Mountain Center, and ongoing groups in between programs. 332 hours of more →
Karuna Training: A Certification in Contemplative Psychology – Registration
Melissa Moore, Sandra Ladley and Terry Jaworski
May 4–7, 2022
The Karuna Training Basic Cycle is a comprehensive training that occurs in ten courses over two years; six online weekends, four extended retreats at Shambhala Mountain Center, and ongoing groups in between programs. 332 hours of more →
Karuna Training: A Certification in Contemplative Psychology
Melissa Moore, Sandra Ladley and Terry Jaworski
May 4–7, 2022
The Karuna Training Basic Cycle is a comprehensive training that occurs in ten courses over two years; six online weekends, four extended retreats at Shambhala Mountain Center, and ongoing groups in between programs. 332 hours of more →
OLD_Karuna Training: A Certification in Contemplative Psychology — Enrolling now!
Melissa Moore, Sandra Ladley and Terry Jaworski
May 4–7, 2022
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 →
Become a brush and, step by step, we will find ways to foster joy and serene excitement, both in our art and in everyday life. Experiment with artistic interpretation and spontaneous improvisation using a variety of more →