As human beings we are meant to go through transitions throughout our phases of life in order to become fully human, to become a true elder who has wisdom to pass down the generations. With each transition in our life, we go through a descent where we let go of an old identity so that the energies and the motivation for the new can emerge. One of the reasons we go on retreat and keep a daily practice is because we’re training in descent. We go into liminal space, between worlds, where we separate from what we know as we are birthed into a new phase of life.
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
September 20 - September 25, 2025 | Saturday - Thursday | 5 nights
Awakening through the Three Characteristics: A Women’s Liberation Retreat
For those who identify as women. Spaces Still Available! This retreat is intended for the benefit of those who self-identify as women as well as nonbinary folks nourished in women-centered spaces. 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.