Buddhist Retreats
5-Day Personal Retreat
Flexible Dates
We invite folks with a personal meditation, yoga, spiritual, or mindfulness practice to join our community for 5-day stays. This is for anyone with a deep desire to connect with themselves, Nature, and our Ratna Ling community.
Refresh, Renew and Recharge – a Midsummer Meditation Retreat
With Maria Helena Kubrusly and Linda Copenhagen
July 11 - 13, 2025
Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and relaxation, focusing on Meditation, Contemplation, and Integration, designed for practitioners of any level. Join us and discover the profound benefits of mindfulness and meditation.
Cultivating Patience - with Special Guest Teacher Khenpo Kunga Dakpa from India
With Khenpo Kunga Dakpa and Renate Marx
July 11 - 13, 2025
Join us for a joyful retreat led by Buddhist monk Khenpo Kunga Dakpa and Renate Marx from SINI in India. Patience may be one of life's most important skills to develop, but it is rarely taught systematically. Patience, when actively and skillfully cultivated, softens reactivity, judgment, and discouragement.
A Higher Purpose Documentary and Reception
July 27, 2025
Join us form 4-6 PST on July 27th for an inspiring documentary recently released by The Guna Foundation. We will have a documentary showing and a simple reception with appetizers and drinks. Please stay for the viewing and discussion after. This is a FREE event, and donations are welcome.
Space and Ease: A Personal Retreat
With Ratna Ling Faculty
August 1 - 3, 2025
Do you need some time and space in the quiet with a change of scenery? Ratna Ling is hosting a series of personal retreat in our great outdoors. A space and ease retreat is described as a transformative experience where you can find solace, rejuvenation, and inner peace.
The Perfections of Wisdom and Meditation Workshop - In Berkeley & Online
With Mark Henderson and Hugh Joswick, Ph.D.
August 2, 2025
Saturday, August 2, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM PST Buddhist wisdom can be remarkably pertinent for modern times and modern life. Shantideva, in his beloved text, carried from generation to generation for centuries, gives us a treasure of ideas and advice on living a happy life transcending the ideas that keep us tied to dissatisfaction. […]
Space and Ease: A Personal Retreat
With Ratna Ling Faculty
August 15 - 17, 2025
Do you need some time and space in the quiet with a change of scenery? Ratna Ling is hosting a series of personal retreat in our great outdoors. A space and ease retreat is described as a transformative experience where you can find solace, rejuvenation, and inner peace.
Space and Ease: A Personal Retreat
With Ratna Ling Faculty
August 22 - 24, 2025
Do you need some time and space in the quiet with a change of scenery? Ratna Ling is hosting a series of personal retreat in our great outdoors. A space and ease retreat is described as a transformative experience where you can find solace, rejuvenation, and inner peace.
Appreciating Beauty: A Meditation Retreat in Nature - SPECIAL PRICING
With Maria Helena Kubrusly
September 5 - 7, 2025
During this retreat, aligning the abundant natural beauty of Ratna Ling with Tibetan yoga exercises, meditation, and practices, you will learn to relax the body and open the senses. Let Nature teach you more about who you really are, and who you can be. You can experience the interconnectedness of all existence.
Learning to Be More Conscious
With Jack Petranker
October 15 - 19, 2025
In this retreat, we start with grounding practices, then look at how we use stories to make sense of our lives, including the story that we “own” our experience. We will also investigate the way our limited understanding of space and time undermines our capacity to be more conscious. There will be ample opportunities to enjoy and learn from the spectacular beauty of Ratna Ling and its surroundings.
Yoga & Meditation Retreat
With Denelle Numis
March 20 - 22, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Dec 19, 2025.
Indulge yourself in a luxurious weekend getaway to the coastal redwoods of Sonoma County with Denelle Jarro Numis. Give yourself the gift of daily yoga and meditation, delicious and nutritious vegetarian meals and a blissful 2-nights stay in a cozy cottage at Ratna Ling Retreat Center.
Refuge & Renewal: an Insight Meditation Retreat
With Heidi Bourne
April 24 - 26, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 23, 2026.
Join us for a peaceful weekend retreat dedicated to nourishing the basic goodness that lives inside, the inherent life force that awakens into a life of clarity, kindness and courage. Drawing on the teachings of the Buddha, our practices include Insight and Metta Meditation, gentle movement, and daily dharma talks.