Meditation & Mindfulness
Learn practical and spiritual tools for releasing body shame and finding power in being seen. Join mindful eating coach Marcella Friel and learn how to work with the wisdom of your body to free yourself from more →
ONLINE • Stepping into Visibility: Shed Body Shame and Find Power in Being Seen
Marcella Friel
January 15–17, 2021
In today’s world, when so many factors elicit our empathy and desire to help, we very quickly become drained, overwhelmed, and burned out. We just cannot expose ourselves to so much suffering! Both Buddhism and compassion more →
Trauma is highly prevalent. Research tells us that 90% of us will live through a traumatic event, and some will develop debilitating symptoms in its aftermath. The COVID-19 global-pandemic has only increased our awareness about the more →
ONLINE • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
David Treleaven
January 24–February 7, 2021
This weekend retreat will explore the core tenets of Buddhism, for those who are interested in establishing a meditation practice for the first time, as well as for those who have a current practice but want more →
This weekend retreat introduces the short daily practice of White Tara, one of the most famous bodhisattvas of compassion in Tibetan Buddhism. Emanated from the tears of the compassionate Avalokiteshvara, peaceful White Tara is said to more →
ONLINE • White Tara: A Soothing Practice for Difficult Times
Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown
February 6–7, 2021
Tibetan medical texts described future degenerate times, where never before seen diseases arise in times of environmental degradation. Universal healing and the Medicine Buddha’s practice included instructions, recipes, and methods for working with such degenerate times. more →
ONLINE • The Healing Buddha: Ancient Tibetan Wisdom for the Global Pandemic
Nashalla Nyinda
February 19–21, 2021
Join Nashalla Nyinda on Medicine Buddha Day for the free first night of her weekend-long, online home retreat. If you want to register for the full retreat instead, please click here. Tibetan medical texts described future more →
ONLINE • The Healing Buddha: Free First Session – Ancient Tibetan Wisdom for the Global Pandemic
Nashalla Nyinda
February 19, 2021
The Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion (SC-MSC) is a highly experiential program that will teach you how to care for yourself with understanding and support when you need it most — when you fail, feel inadequate, more →
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 how to shape the life and health more →
ONLINE • Beyond Suffering: Unconditional Self Love, Mindfulness Meditation & Qi Gong Retreat
Blake D. Bauer
February 26–28, 2021
Every great wisdom tradition teaches the value of love and compassion. But how do we practice this in our daily lives, especially in our intimate relationships? We will draw on the Buddhist teachings of Thich Nhat more →
Simply being a human being can be exhausting– especially when we live in a culture that condemns rest. Add to that a pandemic, an ever-quickening pace of life, plus any other curve balls life might throw more →
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 →
Embodied Listening offers a way to move through blockages, challenges and uncertainty by tuning into your most reliable source for guidance — the wisdom of your body. In this time of challenge and upheaval, learning to 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 →
The spiritual traditions respect the body as the foundation of awareness and connection to self and other. Your body is full of wisdom and is your greatest teacher. Join together with other women in this powerful more →
All of us have an innate capacity to experience well being, strength, and confidence, even in the face of stress, pain, or illness. In order to enhance that capacity, we introduce the power of mindfulness, the 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. Read more about SMC's response to the pandemic here. Nurture family connections while rejuvenating your spirit in the beautiful terrain of Shambhala Mountain more →
Like all other branches of science, the science of mind must be primarily based on the rigorous observation of natural phenomena. Much as astronomers rely on the telescope, so do contemplatives rely on the power of more →
The Science of Mind: A Practical Inquiry Into the Nature of Mind Through Traditional Buddhist Meditation
B. Alan Wallace
August 1–8, 2021
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