Cultivating Concentration, Jhana Factors, and Jhana States a 10-night Meditation Retreat in California led by Shaila Catherine Tuesday, May 6, 2025 – Friday, May 16, 2025 This retreat will follow the approach to deepening concentration and attaining the absorption states of jhāna as described in Shaila Catherine's first book, Focused and Fearless, recently republished under [...]
Insights into Emptiness: Meditations on the Six Senses An 8-day meditation retreat with Shaila Catherine January 8 – 16, 2025 at Redwood Glen Retreat Center in Loma Mar, CA The retreat begins with registration from 2:30 – 4:00 pm on January 8. The retreat ends around noon, before lunch on January 16. This retreat will [...]
Registration has closed. Concentration, Jhana, and the 16 Steps of Mindfulness with Breathing a 10-night Meditation Retreat in California led by Shaila Catherine Tuesday, May 7, 2024 – Friday, May 17, 2024 The retreat begins with registration from 2:30 – 3:30 pm on Tuesday, May 7. The retreat ends at 11:45 am on Friday, May [...]
Liberating Meditations on the Body, Impermanence, and Death A 10-day meditation retreat with Shaila Catherine Tuesday, May 9 – Friday May 19, 2023 at Redwood Glen, 100 Wright Drive, Loma Mar, CA 94021 “Mindfulness of death, when developed and cultivated, is of great fruit and benefit, culminating in the deathless, having the deathless as its consummation.” [...]
Due to the current shelter-in-place orders, we have moved the retreat that was previously scheduled for January, to new dates: May 4-14, 2021. This retreat is open for registration! This will be a very special retreat—a rare opportunity to practice with seclusion and intimacy. We will limit attendance, wear masks indoors, increase ventilation, practice social [...]
Cultivating Concentration and the Jhana Factors A 10-day retreat with Shaila Catherine Tuesday, February 18 – Friday February 28, 2020. Partial attendance can be arranged but must start on the first day of the retreat. Don't wait! Scroll down to register now! Registration closes February 1. This ten-day residential retreat will utilize mindfulness of breathing [...]
Liberating Mind and Heart: A weeklong retreat on Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity with Shaila Catherine Monday, September 17, 2018 – Sunday September 23, 2018. Partial attendance can be arranged for the first 3 or 4 nights. DON'T WAIT! Registration closes August 31. LOVING KINDNESS is a profound quality of friendliness toward all of [...]