March 3 – 8     Crestone, CO

Awakening Wisdom & Love Through Insight Meditation

Teachers: Susie Harrington, Brian Lesage
Registration: opens in September


This retreat offers the unique opportunity to practice Insight Meditation at Blazing Mountain Retreat Center. Blazing Mountain is situated on the sacred land of Crestone, Colorado. The surrounding environment and beautifully designed meditation hall provide a spacious setting for practice. The comfortable accommodations and healthy vegetarian meals will nurture your well-being. Sponsored by, and more information available from the Salida Sangha.

Everyday Dharma: Bringing our Practice to our Interpersonal Lives

Non-Residential Retreat
May 5 – 7 | Friday - Sunday     Spirit Rock, Woodacre, CA
Teacher: Susie Harrington
This retreat will explore how our practice is challenged and comes alive in the crucible of our interactions each day. While we can increase intimacy with ourselves through silent practice, the larger exploration becomes how to keep that connection alive while in relationship with others. Relational dharma is the invitation to make each interaction of our day a place of intensive and rewarding dharma practice – an opportunity for connection, understanding and insight.

Emptiness: Experienced students retreat

June 13 -21      Insight Meditation Society
Barre, Massachusetts
Teachers: Guy Armstrong, Sally Armstrong, Susie Harrington, Brian Lesage

Touching the Earth: Nature as a Gateway to the Heart

July 14 – 19     Paradise, Utah
Teachers: Susie Harrington and Brian LeSage
Cost: 3-day $140-$100; 6-day $260-$140
Info & Registration: Cache Valley Sangha

This residential retreat will be an opportunity to sit and walk in silent meditation practice in a lush pastoral setting. Looking deeply into the heart of our experience, we will examine the habits of mind that cause us to suffer. When we bring our compassionate attention to moment to moment experience, our hearts and minds relax and we can access freedom, contentment and well -being.

This retreat will take place primarily outside, with camping or bunk house accommodations available. In addition to sitting and walking meditation, there will be dharma talks, meetings with the teachers, chanting and mindful movement. Those new to meditation and those with experience are welcome.

Walking in the Buddha’s Footsteps

August 6 -13      Pecos, New Mexico
Teacher: Susie Harrington
Cost: : $695 - $495 (sliding scale)
Location: Tolemei Center, Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey, Pecos NM
Info & Registration: Via this pdf form from the sponsors . For any
questions, please contact Jean Admire via JEAD or 505-901-9455

This retreat is co-sponsored by Albuquerque Insight Meditation Center, Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha, & Taos Mountain Sangha


The Buddha was a real person who lived 2600 years ago. True, he was exceptional, but still a traveler through the joys and challenges of life. In many ways, his life was his most profound teaching: the search for freedom from suffering and following the search, how to embody the awake heart in a full and meaningful life. For this retreat, we will investigate stories from the Buddha’s life, and explore how these can be of use to us in our lives. There will be an emphasis on not only the journey to awakening, but also on how to meet the everyday challenges and complications of our personal lives and in today’s world. During this silent retreat, there will be sitting and walking meditation, meditation instructions, dharma talks, and individual meetings with the teacher. Like the Buddha, we will practice outside as much as conditions allow. This retreat is open to all - those with experience and those new to practice.

Meditation and Poetry Retreat

September 22–24      Old La Sal, Utah
Teachers: Susie Harrington and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Cost: $170 - $220 for room and 3 nourishing meals a day. Suggested donation to the teachers: $100 - $400.
Info & Registration

We live in a culture that wants to know—we chart and graph and test and outline. We codify and classify and name. But what do we really know? What is all this messiness and mystery that breeds underneath our longing for orderliness and certainty? What would happen if we could really rest in uncertainty? How deep might that relaxation go? How much more open might our lives be if we made friends with letting go?

We’ll read poems that don’t bring answers, poems that lead us deeper into paradox. We’ll sit in the midst of the not-knowing, sit with our joys, our challenges, the what is here of each moment. We’ll write our own explorations of what if and what else and see what even a small bit of wonder might do … if you’re willing to risk a little, meditation and writing can open doors where before you didn’t even realize a door existed. Spiritual doors. Healing doors. Doors where there used to be walls.

No previous writing experience required. No previous meditation experience required. This poetry and meditation weekend is for anyone who is curious about weaving spiritual awakening and the creative poetic impulse.

Escalante Wilderness Backpacking Retreat

Short hiatus due to scheduling conflict