Large Group Times
Each day of the retreat we will all gather together for the Large Group Community Meeting.
This meeting goes from 3:00 – 4:00pm EST.
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About This Retreat
Our current world is full of chaos, uncertainty, fear, anger, and overwhelm. Sometimes in the midst of this we forget the importance of the heart–all of its wisdom and all of its complexities. During this weeklong retreat, we’ll learn a radical presencing of the heart, discovering the pliable aliveness that is here with us all the time. Of course, there is love. But there’s also rage, sorrow, delight. Practicing with these helps us crack open, break together, and learn what it is to be human. Along the way we’ll build resilience, fortitude, and courage–the tools we need to carry forth with brave and loving hearts.
What makes our retreats unique
Intimate
With small group work at the heart of our virtual retreat model, we always prioritize human contact & relationship–deep intimacy at a distance.
Supported
You’ll be supported, for a few hours each day, by a highly-experienced teaching team. Receive quality instructions, get your questions answered, we’ve got your back.
Peer-Led
Help build the retreat by hosting & attending peer-led practice sessions, offered throughout the day. On retreat we practice alone, together.
Customizable
You can turn your life into a retreat by designing your own formal retreat schedule. We make the logistics easy, so you can do the hard work of showing up & being present.
Planetcentric
Practice in a global community of adults, tuning in from across geographic time-zones & cultural backgrounds. ALL are welcome in a Mindfulness Retreat Online.
Retreat Features
Large Group Retreat Meeting
A daily meeting where everyone on the retreat will get together for a daily teaching plus practice and/or small group work. The large group community meeting marks the both the beginning of each new day of the retreat, so is an important common point of reference as we practice together across timezones.
Small Group Practice Meetings
At least once each day, you will be joining a group of dedicated peers, and a retreat teacher, to engage in group practice. These sessions will give you a chance to practice along with the retreat curriculum, and ask practice related questions. These sessions will be offered at a number of times throughout the day, and you’ll be able to see which teachers & times are available before registering for the retreat.
Peer-Led Practice Sessions
Throughout each day of the retreat there will be 30-minute silent peer-led practice sessions offered. These silent peer-led sessions give retreatants ample opportunity to engage in supportive group practice. You can even help host them, taking even deeper ownership for the continuity of practice on this retreat.
Private Teacher Meetings
During a Mindfulness Retreat Online you'll have the option to schedule a 20-minute private session with a retreat teacher. You can use this meeting to check-in about how the retreat is going, ask any questions that you have, and get general support from a skilled guide.
Mindfulness Retreat Network
Each retreat is offered through our Mindfulness Retreats Network. Here, you’ll be able to find a detailed schedule for your retreat, along with recorded talks and supplementary learning material from the retreat teachers. In addition, once the retreat is live, this network is where you’ll find the event information you’ll need to join the live peer-led practice sessions.
Meet Your Teachers
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Devon Hase
Devon Hase teaches meditation on retreat teams at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock, and throughout North America and Europe. She supports practitioners with online personal dharma mentoring, is a mentor in Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, and teaches on the Ten Percent Happier and Simple Habit apps. Along with her life partner Craig Hase, Devon co-authored their first book, How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Survival Guide for Modern Life, published by Shambhala in April 2020. Devon has spent years in meditation retreat in the Insight and Vajrayana traditions, and now lives together with Craig in urban retreat in her hometown of Ashland, Oregon, splitting each week between teaching and practice.
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Susa Talan
Susa Talan is co-founder and dharma leader at Open Door Meditation Community in Portland, ME. She has been studying and practicing Insight Meditation for 14 years and is a long-time student of Sayadaw U Tejaniya with whom she ordained temporarily in 2010. She also studies with Tibetan teacher Mingyur Rinpoche. Susa offers workshops on mindfulness + meditation in a variety of settings and is also an artist + illustrator.
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Noliwe Alexander
Noliwe Alexander has been a student of Vipassana meditation for over 20 years. Throughout this time of deep devotion to the Dharma, Noliwe has become a dedicated practitioner, meditation teacher of various retreats and sitting groups, day-longs and class series programs. She dedicates much of her BuddhaDharma practice and teachings to the BiPOC, LGBTQIA+, At Risk and Elder communities. She is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s CDL4 program, EBMC’s Commit 2 Dharma program in 2010 and is a graduate of Spirit Rock Teacher Training from 2017-2020. Noliwe is the founder of Peace At Any Pace, Inc. a non-profit organization that offers a Journey to Healing from Intergenerational & Ancestral Trauma retreats and Elder & Youth programs, which are exclusively for people from the African Diaspora. Noliwe is a wisdom keeper and humbled by the presence of her ancestor’s spirit that lives within and walks beside her.
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Janet Roos
Janet E. Roos has been practicing meditation for over 10 years. She is a UCLA-Trained Mindfulness Facilitator and a certified member of the International Mindfulness Teacher’s Association. She has been teaching secular mindfulness practices in a corporate setting. Janet has worked for over 30 years in Information Technology, in various leadership roles for large Fortune 10 Companies. She is a four-time “Hall of Famer” with passion to bring Mindfulness Practices to athletes, corporate employees, and others in supporting career development, stress management, and career/life transitions. She currently serves on two Boards in the SF Bay Area and volunteers with Non-Profit Organizations.
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Sabra Saperstein
Sabra Saperstein began practicing mediation in 2002 and her practice deepened significantly over the past 6 years while working at Insight Meditation Society. She practices primarily in the vipassana tradition and has more recently begun to devote herself to Soulmaking Dharma, the teachings of Rob Burbea. She is passionate about exploring and offering embodied spiritual practice that is embedded in the relational and engaged with the world.
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Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith
Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith, M.B.A., has been practicing meditation and sitting silent retreats for over 25 years. She teaches for the East Bay Meditation Center, the Mills College Love and Liberation Sangha and has also served as a Community Welcome Leader for Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Monday Night with Jack Kornfield and Friends. She is a Retreat Manager, consultant and facilitator for Peace At Any Pace, Inc. Ramona Lisa graduated from East Bay Meditation Center’s Commit to Dharma Program (C2D3) and Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Dedicated Practitioners Program (DPP6).
Noliwe Alexander
Devon Hase
Janet Roos
Sabra Saperstein
Ramona Lisa Ortiz-Smith
