Quiet your mind.
Open your heart.
Rooted in the teachings of Insight Meditation, Spirit Rock Meditation Center offers retreats, classes, and workshops on-land and online that support both beginners and experienced practitioners in deepening their meditation practice. Located just 45 minutes north of San Francisco, Spirit Rock takes its name from the iconic rock pictured here.
Featured Programs
Other Upcoming Programs
Class Series | Online | Dharma Institute
January 9 - February 6, 2025 | Thursday - Thursday | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Men in the Dharma: Healing, Power, and Liberation
As the world around us changes rapidly, from climate to culture, the roles we fill as men in our family structures, workplaces, and relationships are also changing. In these classes, we will learn meditation and mindfulness-based approaches to working with our minds and hearts, learn from each other in council, and feel the support of brothers on the path of liberation. We will share a mix of silent practice, relational mindfulness practices, and community connection. All self-identified men are welcome.
Retreat | Online
Sunday, January 19 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Nourishing Our Roots: Healing Ancestral Trauma
5 CE Credits. While the Dharma brings us to the present moment, you may realize that your present moment is influenced by the trauma of your ancestors, whose emotions still echo within you. Trauma can be passed down through generations because the DNA of our ancestors flows in our bloodstream. To break the cycle of our intergenerational trauma, this daylong will involve ritual, introspection, movement, and inquiry in order to delve deep into the veins of our ancestral trauma and release it.
Pawan Bareja
Retreat | Online
Saturday, January 25 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Meeting New Beginnings Together: Insight Meditation for Our Beloved LGBTQIA+ Community
Open to all self-identified LGBTQIA+. In Insight practice, every moment is a new beginning, a fresh start, and an opportunity to explore our motivations and intentions. Join us in the support and kindness that we offer each other as LGBTQIA2S+ community, with all its diversity and inclusivity. Together we will meditate in silence, in both stillness and movement, as we cultivate our hearts and minds and uncover wholesome intentions for our lives. This retreat is suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners who self-identify as LGBTQIA2S+.
bruni dávila
Retreat | Online
Sunday, January 26 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Anxiety as Teacher: A Dharma and Yoga Daylong
This daylong program will weave Dharma wisdom and mettā meditation together with mindful movement. These embodied practices will help release chronic tension and calm reactivity. We’ll emphasize the heart practice of mettā in meditation and Dharma discussion in order to cultivate a kinder, more spacious relationship with ourselves. Through these practices, we come to embrace anxiety as a teacher—one that deepens mindful awareness and generates a tender connection to our inner states. All abilities and levels of experience are welcome.
Djuna Devereaux