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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.
6-Day Personal Retreat
Flexible Dates
We invite folks with a personal meditation, yoga, spiritual, or mindfulness practice to join our community for week-long stays. This is for anyone with a deep desire to connect with themselves, Nature, and our Ratna Ling community.
A Sacred Pause - SPECIAL PRICING
With Gloria Baraquio and Linda Copenhagen
April 4 - 6, 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 weekend 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.
Coming into Balance - A retreat with yoga and massage
With Dana Hancock and Melody Hopkins
April 11 - 13, 2025
Pairing two powerhouses in health and wellness, this weekend retreat combines yoga practice with the traditional Chinese medicine of gua sha to invite self-care and overall wellness.
Space and Ease: A Personal Retreat
April 11 - 13, 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
April 18 - 20, 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.
Fresh Start: A meditation retreat for Spring
With George Wiegand
April 18 - 20, 2025
If you are looking to start or cultivate your meditation practice, join our Resident Teacher George Wiegand for a special weekend of mindfulness practices.
Spring Renewal Yoga Retreat
With Dariece Warren
April 25 - 27, 2025
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.
Nurturing the Body & Mind: A Healing Yoga Retreat
With Olivia Barry
May 9 - 11, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 8, 2025.
This retreat is designed to create space for deep nourishment, blending the wisdom of yoga into our physical practices and daily lives. Our focus will be on the Yamas (ethical principles) and Niyamas (personal observances), using these foundational aspects of yoga as a guide...
Yoga & Meditation Retreat
With Denelle Numis
May 16 - 18, 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.
Space and Ease: A Personal Retreat
May 16 - 18, 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.
A Weekend of Self-Care | Memorial Day
With Gloria Baraquio and Jazzy Wong
May 23 - 26, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 12, 2025.
In the fast-paced world of mobile devices, cars, planes, deadlines, and capitalism, we can lose track of what's important. Treat yourself to 3 days to unwind, reflect, and breathe into your fullness. Remember what you value most, and then return to your life with a renewed sense of ease, joy, and strength.
Writing as a Spiritual Practice
With Sallie Tisdale
May 30 - June 1, 2025
When we use writing as a spiritual practice, we realize that creative work and spiritual orientation feed each other. This weekend is designed for both beginning and working writers, and as a creative expression for everyone.
Sacred Flow: Reclaiming Rhythm, Power, and Peace
With Chanda Williams
May 30 - June 1, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 19, 2025.
Join us for a soul-nourishing weekend retreat designed to help you return to your natural rhythm, awaken your inner power, and rediscover deep peace.
Mindful Money: Financial wellness and spiritual wealth for the modern woman
With Gloria Baraquio and Amy Patterson
June 5 - 8, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jun 4, 2025.
Calling all women yogis! We want you to feel wealthy in all the ways! What is your relationship with money and finances? In this retreat, we use yoga principles to activate not only our spiritual lives, but also how we spend, earn, save, invest, and share our financial resources.
Forest Bathing: Find Yourself in Nature
With Ben Page
June 13 - 15, 2025
We are excited to host our first Forest Bathing Retreat with Benjamin Page, author of Healing Trees.
Forest Therapy, also known as Forest Bathing or "Shinrin-Yoku," offers a pathway for people to remember how to immerse themselves in nature in order to rest from all that consumes them in their daily lives.
Moving from Stuck to Joy: A Reset for the Soul
With Becky Vollmer and Michael Wilson
June 19 - 22, 2025
Too often, the intense pressures of modern work and life serve more to sap our energy than to ignite it. We may find ourselves moving through days feeling dull, disconnected, and burned out. But even when our inner light feels dim, soul-guided choices give us the power to reignite it.
Path and Purpose: A 5-Day Yoga Intensive
With Gloria Baraquio
June 25 - 29, 2025
Book now and get $200.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 25, 2025.
In this 5-day journey you will be guided in the practices of mantra, meditation, ritual, yoga, philosophy, journaling, sequencing, and nature walks. These full days of practice from sunrise to bedtime will help you understand more about your own path, your beliefs, your values and your purpose.
Expand Into Summer: Tap into Your Inner Heart and Radiate Your Light
With Rachel Lipton
June 27 - 29, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until May 14, 2025.
Step into the vibrant energy of summer with this transformative weekend retreat designed to help you reconnect with your inner heart and unleash the radiance that resides within you. As the season of growth, vitality, and warmth unfolds, this retreat invites you to expand your sense of self and embrace the fullness of your being.
Refresh, Renew and Recharge – a Midsummer Meditation Retreat
With Maria Helena Kubrusly and Linda Copenhagen
July 11 - 13, 2025
Book now and get $150.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until May 26, 2025.
2 ARRIVAL DATES AVAILABLE. 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.
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.
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.
Restoring Balance with Steadiness & Ease
With Mary Beth Ray
August 1 - 3, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 22, 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
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until May 9, 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
With Klara Crean and Leslie Tippell
August 15 - 17, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until May 14, 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 and Meg McDonald
August 29 - September 1, 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.
Meditation in Nature
With Maria Helena Kubrusly
September 5 - 7, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jun 6, 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
September 5 - 7, 2025
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jun 6, 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
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jun 20, 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.
Welcoming Change: Yoga & Meditation 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.
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.
Women's Self-Care Retreat
With Heldine Aguiluz
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.
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 in the year and process all of the emotions and experiences of 2022. Let yourself be silent and enjoy the gifts of stillness.
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.