Retreats

Discover a Deeper Way of Living Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center offers a retreat for almost everyone. Our schedule carries a...
  • Casita ($650) & Teacher Fee ($300) – $760.00
  • Casita ($725) & Teacher Fee ($400) – $580.00
  • Casita ($925) & Teacher Fee ($500) – $740.00
  • Yurt ($650) & Teacher Fee ($300) – $520.00
  • Yurt ($725) & Teacher Fee ($400) – $580.00
  • Yurt ($925) & Teacher Fee ($500) – $740.00
  • Tent Cabin ($525) & Teacher Fee ($300) – $420.00
  • Tent Cabin ($600) & Teacher Fee ($400) – $480.00
  • Tent Cabin ($700) & Teacher Fee ($500) – $560.00

Please note that outstanding balances will be automatically charged 30 days prior to your retreat. Please see our Registration Information to learn more.

Date & Time Details: Registration opens at 3:00pm on the first day. The retreat will end at 8:30 am on the last day.

Price: The price for this retreat ranges between $680-$940 (price includes accomodations, meals, and a sliding scale teacher fee from $300-500). This is not a dana based retreat. (Learn more)

Shuttle: Shuttle service is available for this retreat.(Learn more)

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Drinking from the Inner River: A Women’s Meditation Retreat in Nature

With Anne Cushman and Erin Treat

July 15 - 19, 2017

Nourish your wild spirit and reconnect with your own deepest nature in an embodied meditation retreat specifically designed to honor the unique needs and treasures of a woman’s journey.  In the company of rushing rivers, clear ponds, abundant wildlife, and ancient ponderosa pines, we’ll reunite with our bodies, our hearts, and our own innate wholeness, compassion, and intuitive wisdom.

In a circle of women held within the intimate container of silent retreat, we’ll deepen into an approach to meditative practice that honors the creative, intuitive, embodied, and relational dimensions of a woman’s life.

Each day will include vipassana-style sitting and walking meditation; gentle, mindful yoga or other body-based practices; nature explorations; mandala drawing; dharma reflections; and community connection and sharing.

Teachers

Anne Cushman
As a teacher and writer, Anne Cushman explores the intersection between spiritual practice, creative expression, and the down-to-earth details of embodied human life. A practitioner of both dharma and yoga since 1982, she is a retreat teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, core faculty for Spirit Rock’s Dharma Yoga Mindfulness Training, and the director of mentoring for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. She is the author of the memoir The Mama Sutra: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Path of Motherhood; the novel Enlightenment for Idiots; the spiritual India travel guide From Here to Nirvana; and Moving Into…
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Erin Treat
Erin Treat lives in Durango, CO and has been practicing Buddhist meditation for nearly 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 Thanissara…
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