One way of thinking about this practice, and especially about retreat, is that we are aligning our hearts, minds, and bodies with the subtlety of freedom. And this sense of freedom is always already present—it's here right now, co-arising with every moment.
Erin Selover, LMFT
Residential Retreat Teacher
Erin Selover is a Dharma teacher with over 20 years of Buddhist training and serves as a residential retreat teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She currently works as a Spiritual Strategist with individuals and is a Somatic-Based Marriage and Family Therapist.Since 2018, her passion has been distributive governance and needs-based gift economics. She has complemented her Buddhist practice and studies with studying and experimenting with Miki Kashtan and the Nonviolent Global Liberation community. As a white settler of Irish descent on Indigenous lands, she’s in ongoing inquiry about how power and privilege functions within modernity and the complex history of her ancestors. Drawing from these threads, she co-stewards a meditation community integrating the Celtic Wheel of the Year and Buddhism within needs-based gift economics and distributive governance. She completed Spirit Rock and IMS residential retreat teacher training program in 2016. She was mentored by Phillip Moffitt and trained as a strategist with his Life Balance Institute.
Erin Selover's Upcoming Programs
Retreat | On-Land
June 5 - June 12, 2025 | Thursday - Thursday | 7 nights
Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love
Registration Open. This retreat will focus on cultivating relaxed and kind attention in all activities to support stability of mind, body, and heart. As we move through our moment-to-moment activities and meditation practice, we will then turn towards the investigation of suffering and the end of suffering. Particular attention will be paid to attitudes of mind—such as pushing away, leaning in, or spacing out—and the impacts of those mind states on one’s sense of peace and freedom in relation to experience.
Retreat | On-Land
September 20 - September 25, 2025 | Saturday - Thursday | 5 nights
Awakening through the Three Characteristics: A Women’s Liberation Retreat
Open to all self-identified women. Registration Open. We welcome all who identify as women, as well as non-binary folks who feel nourished in spaces centering women. The radical promise of the Buddha’s teaching is that it’s possible to be at ease and free, even in unfree conditions. During this retreat, we will practice mindfulness and compassion, looking at the unfolding of moment-to-moment experience and ways of perceiving that are grounded in the three characteristics of reality (aniccā, dukkha, and anattā). Nourished by the tradition of Buddhist communities abiding in silence, kindness, and clarity, our time will include mindfulness meditation in stillness, movement, and all daily activities.
Dharma Library
Can't join us live online or on the land? Study and practice at your convenience with Erin Selover through our new library of recordings, articles, and self-paced online courses.