Volunteer Work Party – April 29 – 30

Come join us for a weekend of all kinds of inside and outside projecting at Cloud Mountain! This is offered as a time to come together as sangha in a relaxed and informal environment of work and fun to take on a variety of projects to spruce up and clean up the...

Demystifying Awakening

The retreat will include dharma talks on the process of awakening, our resistances, how it unfolds, what changes in us in, and after, awakening. We will also learn and practice meditations that invite and support awakening, including ample time for questions and...

Releasing Body and Mind

On this retreat we will be learning simple-yet-potent practices that release body and mind. This approach to practice is centered around gentle and skillful resting of the body in an upright posture and letting a natural unfolding occur. Over time, body and mind...

Cultivating Insight

Insight meditation (vipassana in Pali, the language of the original Buddhist teachings) is the simple and direct practice of moment-to-moment mindfulness. Through careful and sustained observation, we experience for ourselves the ever-changing flow of the mind/body...