The collected and unified mind is already here. It's not anything that we need to go out and find or create—it's part of our nature. So we do our best, with a wholehearted effort, to create the conditions, and then we receive what reality brings to us. When we let go of craving, when we are open to impermanence, when we thin the sense of self—what emerges in that space? What happens? What I notice through direct experience is generosity, kindness, tenderness, care, often an ache in my heart, and an incredible capacity to be with suffering.
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. Website: erinselover.com
Erin Selover's Upcoming Programs
Retreat | On-Land
September 19 - September 25, 2024 | Thursday - Wednesday | 6 nights
Spiritual Sanctuary: A Women's Liberation Retreat
Open to all self-identified Women. We welcome all who identify as women, as well as non-binary folks who feel nourished in spaces centering women.
A Few Spaces Still Available! We live in times of increasing pressure, which can be experienced as intensity, stress, limitation, or dissatisfaction. The Four Noble Truths remind us that pressure is an unavoidable part of life, and that freedom is possible within it. This retreat offers a space in which practitioners can choose rest, renewal, and liberation. Together we will practice in silence, integrating movement and stillness, outdoor practice, and Dharma talks that lift up women’s journeys of awakening from a diversity of lineages and traditions.
Retreat | Online
October 4 - October 6, 2024 | 1 half day and 2 full days. Times variable - see details.
Embodying True Empowerment: Finding Clarity, Authenticity, and Well-being for Women in Midlife
Open to all self-identified Women. Midlife is a complex phase for women. These years bring wisdom and confidence, but also challenge us with changing bodies, increased responsibilities, evolving relationships, and limited time and energy. This workshop utilizes mindfulness practices and practical teachings to empower women in midlife to effectively respond to change. While engaging in explorations that help you catch up with yourself and align with what truly matters to you, you'll also gain life skills for meeting change with clarity, authenticity, and well-being.
Retreat | Online
Sunday, December 15 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Calling Forth Vision: A Winter Solstice Daylong
During this retreat, we’ll meet the winter solstice with reverence and humility as we move through the longest nights of the year and welcome the returning of the light. During the morning session we will practice mindfulness meditation, abiding in silence and stillness. In the afternoon we’ll reflect on the previous year and conclude with a ritual that invites a release of that which no longer serves us and a calling forth of that which we feel emerging from within.
Erin Selover
Retreat | On-Land
Sunday, December 15 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Chanting, Meditation and Winter Solstice Ritual
The great love, joy, and sacred light that this season celebrates are found within our own hearts. During our time together, we’ll experience the nourishment of interconnection as we use the powerful and sublime blend of chanting and meditation to carry us from the frenzy of “holiday mind” to the ocean of the awakened heart. This uplifting evening will include chanting (call and response) and meditation, and we will conclude with a beautiful candlelight ritual to honor the winter solstice.
Retreat | On-Land
June 5 - June 12, 2025 | Thursday - Thursday | 7 nights
Cultivating Citta: Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love
Registration Opens - February 5. 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.
Erin Selover
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.