Sky Mind
Retreats
About us
Sky Mind Retreats is a community dedicated to Nature Dharma retreats. All retreats are held in natural outdoor settings. Our offerings include a variety of experiences such as camping retreats, backpacking adventures, and kayaking excursions, among others. While most retreats take place fully outdoors, some may offer indoor sleeping options, allowing participants to enjoy being outside during the day (weather permitting). Most of our retreats are grounded in the Insight Meditation tradition.
Nature retreats provide an opportunity to explore the power of a silent meditation retreat while immersed in the beauty and wildness of nature. We participate in an age-old tradition of going into the wilderness as a support for spiritual practice and inquiry. Immersed in nature, we use meditation practices to increase our receptivity to interconnectedness, preciousness and to the beauty that surrounds us.
Upcoming Retreats
Boonville, CA 95415 United States
Nourish your wild heart in this women’s mindfulness meditation retreat in a beautiful nature preserve in northern California. Unplug from your busy life and your digital devices and connect with the healing energy of the natural world and the intuitive wisdom of your own body.
Cochise, AZ 85606 United States
Rāhula asked, “Venerable sir, how is mindfulness of breathing developed and cultivated so that it is of great fruit and great benefit?”
The Buddha replied, “Rāhula, develop meditation that is like the earth; for when you develop meditation that is like the earth, arisen agreeable and disagreeable contacts will not invade your mind and remain.”
When the Buddha’s son Rahula asked about mindfulness of breathing, the first practices the Buddha offered were practices on the elements – developing meditation like the earth, fire, water, air and space. During this week-long retreat, we will be offering practices to support the development of intimacy with the earth element and the freedom of simplicity of mind. We will explore how meditating with the earth brings great fruit and great benefit. Weather permitting, all practices will be held outside.
Ward, CO 80481 United States
Do you long to embody the ease, freedom, and aliveness that is your true home? To do so, the Buddha implored us to “go to the forest, to the foot of a tree” as an onward leading condition for awakening to our true nature. In this home of spruce forests, alpine meadows, birdsong, and wandering moose, we practice immersed in the natural world. And we explore opening ourselves to the beauty, inter-connectedness, and preciousness of our true nature. During this retreat, we’ll be encouraged to look out and around, as well as inward, and to delight in what we see.
