Retreats

Discover a Deeper Way of Living Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center offers a retreat for almost everyone. Our schedule carries a...
  • Casita (Highest Rate) – $975.00
  • Casita (Middle Rate) – $825.00
  • Casita (Lowest Rate) – $700.00
  • Yurt (Highest Rate) – $975.00
  • Yurt (Middle Rate) – $825.00
  • Yurt (Lowest Rate) – $700.00
  • Tent Cabin (Highest Rate) – $775.00
  • Tent Cabin (Middle Rate) – $650.00
  • Tent Cabin (Lowest Rate) – $525.00
  • Hermitage (Lowest Rate) – $1,375.00

Date & Time Details: Check-in is from 3:00-5:00 on the first day of the retreat. The retreat will close mid-morning on the last day of the retreat.

PRICE: We offer a sliding scale structure. Prices for this retreat range from $450-$975 (not including dana). (Learn more)

DANA: This is a dana based retreat. (Learn more)

SHUTTLE SERVICE: Shuttle Service is available for this retreat. (Learn more)

SCHOLARSHIP / FELLOWSHIP AVAILABILITY: All scholarship and fellowship funding has been awarded for this retreat. If you would like to apply to be on the wait list for scholarship funding, please email refuge@vallecitos.org (Learn more)

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Belonging, Connection and Nature: Coming Home Together

With Sebene Selassie, Erin Treat and Solwazi Johnson

June 9 - 14, 2018

This retreat emerged from the relationship between its teachers as a result of many years of being together in dharma practice, teaching, and spiritual friendship. And this retreat invites the participants into relationship — with themselves, each other, the land, and all beings everywhere without exception.

Awakening from the delusion of separation through practice and inquiry we will explore belonging , connection and nature to reveal what supports us in coming home to our hearts, coming home to interdependence. Grounded in foundational Dharma teachings, we will offer traditional sitting and walking instruction as well as daily opportunities to practice in wild nature together. This is a silent retreat but we will also engage in inquiry and sharing through structured, guided relational practice as part of the context of the retreat.

Special Note for this retreat:   To achieve a supportive retreat container for this experience, we will be accepting a certain number of registrations for both those who identify as people of color and for those who do not self-identify as people of color. This will ensure a rich, diverse and balanced group for the retreat. Thank you for your understanding.

Teacher

Erin Treat
Erin Treat lives in Durango, CO and has been practicing Buddhist meditation for 30 years.  In addition to serving as the Guiding Teacher of Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center since 2013,  she teaches regularly at Spirit Rock and the Insight Meditation Society.  She served for 20 years in leadership on the Teaching Council of the Durango Dharma Center.  Erin teaches the practical and the profound, from a heart grounded in respect for mystery and the many faces of awakening. Her approach to sharing the dharma is influenced by her ongoing experience as a student of the Diamond Approach by A.H. Almaas and by…
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