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Ratna Ling Gift Certificate
Open Dates
Give a gift that can transform someone's life forever--a healing retreat at Ratna Ling! Click "Ratna Ling Gift Certificate" above. Available in any amount from $50 - $5,000. Please indicate your name (Buyer) in the registration and indicate the name and email of the person to whom you will give the certificate (Recipient) where indicated.
Welcome to a Calm Place - ONLINE
With Richard Dixey
Open Dates
This self-paced course contains an introduction to calmness meditation, the basis for insight into the experience. Calmness meditation is a key life skill here, allowing more control and flexibility in our range of responses.
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.
Finding Freedom Within - Independence Day Weekend - WAITING LIST ONLY
With George Wiegand and Renate Marx
July 3 - 6, 2025
This special retreat takes place over the July 4th weekend. We will join together in a spirit of reflection and community, honoring our shared aspiration for true freedom—freedom from suffering, confusion, and fear.
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.
Second Saturdays - July
With Ratna Ling Faculty
July 12, 2025
Enjoy Ratna Ling for the day! For those of you who canʻt stay an entire weekend at Ratna Ling, weʻve designed these summer day retreats for you!
Second Saturday at Ratna Ling is a 1-day retreat of respite, relaxation, community, and a bountiful vegetarian meal!
How To Meditate - Online Workshop
With Emily Provosty
July 12, 2025
Meditation is an excellent way to find our personal and ever-present source of calm, balance and energy. Join Emily Provosty of our sister organization, The Nyingma Institute, to begin or renew your meditation practice.
What Happens Next? - Sonoma County Writers Camp
With Elizabeth Stark and Ellen Sussman
July 16 - 20, 2025
Are your pages buzzing with tension, alive with story, vivid, active, and unforgettable? Together, we will examine what in your own writing engages the reader and what can be developed to hook that reader completely.
Releasing Negative Self-Talk Saturday Workshop - Online and in Berkeley
With Suellen Ehnebuske
July 19, 2025
Would you keep a friend that speaks to you the way you sometimes speak to yourself? Join Suellen Ehnebuske and our sister organization The Nyingma Institute to learn ways to overcome this negativity which only makes us less effective and less happy!
Sacred Connection Retreat: Nurturing Mind, Body and Soul
With Stacy McGinty
July 25 - 27, 2025
Join us for a restorative exploration as we delve into the most sacred connection of all – the one within ourselves. Throughout the weekend, you'll be guided through a series of transformative practices, including yoga, meditation, breath-work, and journaling, all carefully curated to help you slow down, recharge, and reconnect with your inner wisdom.
Regenerate the Earth
With Manuel Maqueda and Raquel Santiago
July 25 - 27, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 10, 2025.
Designed for conscious individuals from diverse backgrounds —including environmentalists, professionals, parents, and anyone experiencing eco-anxiety—this immersive program provides a holistic approach to understanding our interconnection with the natural world.
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.
Restoring Balance with Steadiness & Ease
With Mary Beth Ray
August 1 - 3, 2025
In this weekend retreat, you will slow down and experience spaciousness in your body, mind, and breath to just be. The yoga practices are infused with peace and calmness to cultivate deeper stability, awareness, and insight into the interconnected dimensions of your whole self.
Ease & Effort: Finding the balance
With Jacqui Rowley
August 8 - 10, 2025
For many of us who are moving too fast between work, family, friends, and the digital world, we find it hard to slow down. If we want to feel balanced, then there's nothing more urgent than learning how to slow down and simply rest.
The Radiance Retreat: A weekend of Vitality
With Klara Crean and Leslie Tippell
August 15 - 17, 2025
Step into the radiant embrace of late summer and join us for an immersive retreat in Sonoma County, where the season’s vibrant energy becomes your catalyst for renewal and inner power.
Rooted in Nature
With Charlotte Keane and Shoshana Hebshi
August 22 - 24, 2025
Do you feel a calling to connect with Mother Earth and your ancestors? Join Shamanic Priestess Charlotte Keane from The Unstruck Drum for this weekend of deep communion with nature. You will learn to tune in so deeply that you can feel the voice of Mother Earth.
A Weekend of Self-Care | Labor Day
With Natalie Colvin, Meg McDonald and Sarah Michelson
August 29 - September 1, 2025
Book now and get $200.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 19, 2025.
Treat yourself and take three days at Ratna Ling to unwind, reflect, and breathe into your fullness. Remember what you value the most, and then return to your life with a renewed sense of ease, joy, and strength.
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.
Sacred Seeing: Inspire your creativity!
With Melina Meza and Baxter Bell
September 5 - 7, 2025
Join us for a restorative and inspiring retreat at Ratna Ling Retreat Center, nestled among the majestic redwoods of the Sonoma Coast, just a short drive from the breathtaking landscapes of Salt Point State Park and Sea Ranch. In this serene and spacious setting, we will explore creativity as a spiritual path and a means of self-discovery.
Fall Equinox Retreat
With David Cho
September 19 - 21, 2025
As we transition from Summer to Fall, we might feel the need to transform and start anew, ready for new ventures or fresh routines. We will focus our yoga practice on nurturing the body and mind after the hot months, cooling our body, mind and spirit to welcome the wonders of Autumn.
Autumnʻs Embrace - A relaxation retreat
With Clare Buckley
September 26 - 28, 2025
Join Senior Yoga Teacher Clare Buckley in the serene and beautiful setting of Ratna Ling and awaken to the experience of holistic wellbeing. In the serene and beautiful setting of Ratna Ling, we will explore embodied movement, breath work, energy work, meditation and mindful practices to deeply nourish energy pathways and to restore balance and equanimity.
Yoga & Meditation Retreat for Autumn
With Patricia Becker and George Wiegand
October 3 - 5, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 4, 2025.
Join us for a nurturing weekend retreat to help you reconnect with yourself and cultivate a sense of deep inner peace. Led by experienced instructors Patricia Becker and George Wiegand, this retreat combines Aging with Grace Yoga, guided meditation, and mindful practices...
Exactly As You Are: Practicing Acceptance
With Lydia Hwang and Jen Lo
October 10 - 13, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 11, 2025.
Join Lydia Hwang and Jen Lo for this intimate retreat, which includes daily yoga, step-by-step Kintsugi making lessons, evening sound baths, and guided color meditation. Each participant will create their own piece of Kintsugi artwork to take home.
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.
Harmony Unveiled: Meditation & Movement in Nature
With Gretchen Donovan
October 17 - 19, 2025
Book now and get $200.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 6, 2025.
Feeding Your Demons is a five-step method created by Lama Tsultrim Allione which has benefited thousands worldwide from every walk of life on five continents. The work transcends spiritual constructs, serving as a meaningful tool for anybody, regardless of religious affiliation or personal philosophy.
Elevate Your Essence!
With Bex Urban
October 24 - 26, 2025
Practice peace with yoga poses and an intentional pause with Meditation. In this retreat we welcome back Master Teacher Bex Urban for a special yoga retreat at Ratna Ling! Take this mindful "time out” and step away from the distractions of your daily life to re-initiate yourself into more stillness.
Autumn Insight - A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
With Jill Lindsay
October 31 - November 2, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Aug 1, 2025.
Gather together for an unforgettable and deeply nourishing yoga retreat. This retreat will be a wonderful way to step away from the world and immerse yourself in the practice of yoga and mindfulness during the fall season.
Be Here Now - Fall Weekend Retreat
With Yvonne Kingsley
November 7 - 9, 2025
Join Yvonne Kingsley for a peaceful weekend of yoga and meditation as we slow down and surrender to the present moment. Through the alchemy of mindful movement, breath work and contemplation, we expand our capacity to meet the present moment with curiosity and equanimity.
Women's Self-Care Retreat
November 14 - 16, 2025
Come together with fellow women to celebrate our innate strength, wisdom, and compassion. There is time to reconnect to the sacred feminine and cultivate a community of sisterhood and solidarity through deep listening, laughter, self-care, and ceremony.
The Essence of Yoga: A Weekend Retreat
With Jenn Russo
November 21 - 23, 2025
We welcome back Master Teacher Jenn Russo of Healdsburg for a special yoga retreat. At this retreat we will focus on using the breath to strengthen our practice and experience a lasting peace. Afternoons will be a slow flow/restorative practice, focused on calming, centering and relaxation.
Joy & Appreciation - SPECIAL PRICING
With George Wiegand, Linda Copenhagen and Carmen Ojeda
November 28 - 30, 2025
For this special retreat, we are offering a sliding scale to allow you to give what you can. We hope you can join us! This Thanksgiving retreat is offered as a way to support folks who need some peace and quiet in the redwoods. We invite you to join us to take a sacred pause, to sit, to lay down, to be in nature, to meditate, and to come back to center.
Quiet Spaces: A Winter Retreat
With Gloria Baraquio
December 5 - 7, 2025
As the season turns to more darkness and cold, our bodies naturally long to retreat inward. December is a time to reflect on what has transpired and process all of the emotions and experiences of the year. Let yourself be silent and enjoy the gifts of stillness.
Cozy Yoga Winter Weekend
December 12 - 14, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 12, 2025.
The weekend includes morning pranayama and meditations, asana classes and two yoga nidra sessions, all designed to warm your body and ignite your self-connection. We’ll embrace the elements of winter, using a combination of breath-work and movement to channel energy, create heat, and explore yoga.
Winter Respite Retreat - Finding Warmth in the Cold
With Melina Meza and Baxter Bell
December 19 - 21, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 19, 2025.
Our yoga getaway will be perfect way to deepen your practice while simultaneously keeping your inner fire (agni) bright during this dark season. And there is no better place to do this than our beautiful center in the redwoods!
New Year Reset
With Alyssa Lauren Stone
January 23 - 25, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 24, 2025.
Join certified yoga teacher, Reiki Master, and published writer, Alyssa Lauren Stone, for a transformative weekend. From faster-paced Vinyasa flows to more restful Restorative poses, we will explore different types of yoga, breath-work, and meditation techniques to get the body energized and relaxed.
Renewal: A midwinter retreat
With DeAnn Barry
January 30 - February 1, 2026
Start your year with both enthusiasm and relaxation! With the sacred shapes of yin yoga and the tranquil heat of vinyasa, this weekend retreat offers a container of renewal and strength.
Embodying Balance: A Retreat for Resilience and Renewal
With Olivia Barry
February 26 - March 1, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Nov 27, 2025.
This retreat is a 4-day immersive experience designed to nourish your body, calm your nervous system, and reconnect you with your inner steadiness. Through a thoughtful blend of alignment-based yoga, gentle strength-building, yoga therapy, and joyful movement, you’ll explore how structure and softness support one another.
Spring Renewal Yoga Retreat
With Dariece Warren
April 17 - 19, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 16, 2026.
Let go of the heaviness of winter and welcome in the energy of the spring season! Using mindful movement and alignment based yoga flow we will release tension and clear out stagnant energy to raise our vibration.
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.