Gatherings
Retreats, satsangs, and gatherings with non-dual teachers around the world in 2026. Time spent in the presence of those who have recognized their true nature can be profoundly clarifying.
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with Plum Village monastics
A long, residential retreat with sustained practice in the Plum Village tradition, supporting deeper stabilization of mindfulness and insight. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Swami Sarvapriyananda
A weekend of talks with Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of Pittsburgh. A monk of the Ramakrishna Order and head of the Vedanta Society of New York, Sarvapriyananda is among the most followed contemporary teachers of non-dual Vedanta, known for clear, direct exposition of the nature of consciousness and the self, with talks that have reached audiences from TEDx and Google to Harvard. (See the Sydney listing for a fuller account of Swami Sarvapriyananda.)
with Chris Senko Perez, Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma, Sensei Monshin Nannette Overley, Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer
A structured online Zen practice period with guidance, talks, and community rhythm. Practice periods are designed to make the path ordinary: the kitchen, the calendar, and the breath as the same field.
with Rupert Spira
Seven days with Rupert Spira at the Garrison Institute on the Hudson River — a deep immersion in the direct path to the recognition of our essential, aware nature. A renowned British teacher, Spira spent forty years studying the non-dual traditions — the teachings of Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Shankara, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta, Robert Adams, and Atmananda Krishna Menon — before meeting his principal teacher, Francis Lucille. He is the author of The Transparency of Things, Presence, The Ashes of Love, and The Light of Pure Knowing. Each day is built around two movements: guided meditation, in which we rest in being, as being; and dialogue, in which the non-dual understanding is explored together through questions and conversation. Spira describes retreats as time to steep together in the peace of our true nature, in self-abidance, friendship, and creativity. The setting is exceptional: the Garrison Institute occupies a former Capuchin monastery on the 95-acre Glenclyffe property overlooking the Hudson, with gardens, a boxwood labyrinth, a river-bluff gazebo, and walking paths connecting to the Hudson River trails and the Appalachian Trail. Accommodation is simple and quiet; meals are lacto-vegetarian. The retreat is offered both in person and as a full livestream.
with Angelo DiLullo
A semi-silent retreat with Angelo DiLullo in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, for those committed to a sustained investigation of their deepest nature. DiLullo's approach is direct and present-moment — inquiry into thought, perception, belief, and emotion, paired with meditation and what he calls shadow work — held across guided talks, group meditation, and dialogue in a supportive container of silence. The setting is the Art of Living Retreat Center near Boone. (See the UK Silent Retreat listing for a fuller account of DiLullo.)
with Gangaji
A second four-day silent retreat of 2026 with Gangaji, offering a later-in-the-year opportunity for deep quiet and sustained practice. The retreat format centers on silence, allowing subtle insight to settle without constant conceptual processing.
The fall anniversary sesshin at the Zen Center of Syracuse (Hoen-ji) — an intensive period of Zen meditation marking the center's founding. Sesshin gathers practitioners for days of silent zazen in a strong communal container, with the traditional forms of Zen retreat: seated and walking meditation, work practice, and teacher interviews. Offered hybrid, in person and online.
with Upaya Zen Center Teachers
An in-person sesshin nested inside Upaya’s Fall Practice Period. It’s an immersion in formal Zen training: long sits, silence, and the kind of simplicity that turns non-duality from concept into felt reality.
An eleven-day self-inquiry and meditation immersion with Camino at the Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado — a high-desert town long known as a gathering place for contemplative communities. As with Camino's other retreats, the work centers on self-inquiry grounded in emotional intelligence: meeting thought and emotion directly, learning to witness rather than suppress, and inquiring into experience without relying on prior belief. (See the Guatemala listing for a fuller account of Camino's approach.)
with Plum Village monastics
A late-year family retreat session focused on mindful living, connection, and strengthening family practice routines. The Plum Village approach highlights interbeing: the lived sense that self and world arise together rather than as separate islands.
with Eckhart Tolle
A weekend intensive with Eckhart Tolle, among the most widely read spiritual teachers of our era — author of The Power of Now and A New Earth. In "Silent Power," Tolle invites participants to discover the invisible, transcendent consciousness that pervades all of creation, pointing — as he has for decades — to stillness and presence as the doorway into the Now and out of identification with the thinking mind. Tolle (born in Germany in 1948, educated at London and Cambridge) teaches a non-conceptual awakening: not a new belief system but a shift in the locus of identity from the stream of thought to the aware presence beneath it. The intensive gathers a large audience for two days of talks, guided stillness, and the quiet transmission his events are known for. Held at the San Diego Convention Center on the edge of San Diego Bay.
with Henry Shukman, Valerie Forstman
The annual Rohatsu sesshin at Mountain Cloud Zen Center, co-led by Sanbo Zen master Henry Shukman and associate master Valerie Forstman. "Rohatsu" means the eighth day of the twelfth month — Bodhi Day — traditionally the day the Buddha looked up at the morning star and awakened. The retreat honors that moment and takes it into practice, gathering as the year darkens toward the solstice, "bolstered by the silence of the coming winter," to deepen realization through zazen. Sesshin is the intensive heart of Zen training: long days of silent seated meditation held in a strong communal container, with dokusan — one-to-one interviews with a teacher — and daily talks. Henry Shukman, originally from the UK, is an award-winning poet and author (One Blade of Grass, Original Love), spiritual director emeritus of Mountain Cloud, and co-founder of the meditation app The Way; his co-teacher Valerie Forstman leads from the center's zendo. Mountain Cloud sits on two dozen acres in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains off the Old Santa Fe Trail — a small, handcrafted zendo in high desert country. The sesshin is offered hybrid: on-site residential, commuting, or online participation, with online retreatants supported by their own orientation, handbook, and break-out sessions.
with Mingyur Rinpoche
Part of the Dorje Drolö Dzogchen transmission — a restricted set of teachings from Mingyur Rinpoche's personal lineage, offered publicly for the first time in 2026–27. Dzogchen, the "Great Perfection," points directly to the already-present nature of mind; this retreat centers on teachings that unite calm-abiding (shamatha) and insight (vipashyana) within the Dzogchen view, including Trekchö — "cutting through" to the natural state. Prerequisites apply, consistent with the transmission's requirements. Offered hybrid from the Tergar center in Madison. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is one of the most widely known meditation masters of his generation — a Tibetan Buddhist teacher in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, known for uniting rigorous contemplative training with warmth, humor, and an unusual fluency in modern science. He guides the worldwide Tergar Meditation Community.
with Angelo DiLullo
A weeklong conference-and-retreat with Angelo DiLullo in the Blue Ridge Mountains, blending his direct, present-moment style of awakening inquiry with a wider "multi-modality" program of breakout sessions. Where his silent retreats emphasize inquiry and stillness, this gathering opens out into a variety of complementary approaches and dialogue, at the Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina. (See the UK Silent Retreat listing for a fuller account of DiLullo.)
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