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.
Erin Selover's Upcoming Programs
Retreat | On-Land
October 21 - October 25, 2026 | Wednesday - Sunday | 4 nights
Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love
6.75 CE Credits. Spaces Still Available! This retreat will focus on integrating a sense of embodied warmth with an intuitive knowing by cultivating a relaxed and kind attention in all activities. We will pay particular attention to attitudes of mind—such as pushing away, leaning in, or spacing out—and the impacts of those mind states on one’s capacity to connect with lovingkindness and deep inner intuitive listening. As we develop this continuity of compassionate presence and discernment together we will cultivate our capacity to attune and listen to Citta, an intuitive mysterious knowing that arises simultaneously within moment to moment experience. Come with a beginner's mind.
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.