Unwind for this gleeful exploratory romp into the deeply mysterious heart of meditation practice, with meditation instructor and award-winning writer Jeff Warren, co-author of the best-selling Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics.

The main practices will be mindfulness and acceptance, with continuous exploration into the transformative dynamics of how spiritual practices work. Jeff will also teach about what it means to be your own teacher, able to “MacGyver” your meditation to fit your unique circumstances and nervous system, always curious about and alert to new openings and possibilities.
 
There is simply no greater adventure. 

Jeff’s primary intention for this retreat is to activate people’s motivation and wonder. Meditation is training how you want to exist. It’s that deep, that real, and sometimes that cosmic. Leading these explorations is his absolute favorite thing in the world to do. It is his privilege to connect to people in this way and he loves getting to know the folks he meets on retreat.

Nurtured by breathtaking views, this retreat is suitable for total beginners to more experienced practitioners. Three days of sitting and discussion, with some movement and nature excursions to keep the energy moving and the body limber. Excitement will be had, as well as peaceful sighing and frequent existential reorientations.

A note from Jeff:

Have you seen the Art of Living website? Hundreds of glossy teachers and techniques from every tradition and approach imaginable. That’s a lot of options. I always wonder: how are you supposed to know which one is right for you?

This situation pretty much sums up my first few years as a practitioner. I spent all my time pinging around in a lather of ADD-powered excitability, jumping from teacher to teacher and technique to technique, never sure what I was doing or why.

I would like to help you avoid this scenario by … giving you yet another option. Because, yes, now I’m ON that website, with my own ridiculous offering.

Welcome to Meditation Retreat for Fidgety Skeptics, where it doesn’t matter how many techniques and paths you’ve neurotically screwed up. In this workshop, we start again fresh, by exploring the core existential skills being trained across all techniques.

We’ll dig into the magical mystery weirdness of concentration, clarity, equanimity, and friendliness, and then we’ll build a customized practice that works for each of us. We’ll do all this in a rigorously humanistic way that nevertheless gets bat-shit mystical at the end, because, frankly, that’s where the fun is.