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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.
5-Day Personal Retreat
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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.
The Art of Doing Nothing - ONLINE
With Magda Costa
May 7 - 28, 2026
Join us for a beginner-friendly meditation class designed for busy minds that never stop. You’ll discover simple ways to pause, breathe, and reset—without overthinking, apps, or awkward postures.
Refuel & Recharge: The Quiet of Ratna Ling
With Bex Urban
May 8 - 10, 2026
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.
Space and Ease: A Personal Retreat
With George Wiegand and Karmyn Ojeda
May 8 - 10, 2026
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.
Alive & Awake: A meditation retreat
With Maria Helena Kubrusly
May 15 - 17, 2026
Give yourself three days to reconnect with your body, quiet your mind, and awaken your senses to the beauty of life. This retreat offers a gentle, nurturing space to slow down and return to the natural ease within you.
A Weekend of Self-Care | Memorial Day
With Natalie Colvin and Meg McDonald
May 22 - 25, 2026
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.
Aging with Grace: A yoga retreat for adults 50+
With Patricia Becker
May 29 - 31, 2026
Step into a joyful weekend of movement, relaxation, and renewal, thoughtfully designed for adults 50 and better. As the seasons shift and nature begins to blossom, this retreat invites you to do the same—reconnect with your strength, flexibility, and inner glow.
Kum Nye Tibetan Relaxation - ONLINE
With Karmyn Ojeda
June 1 - 5, 2026
Get in touch with your feelings and sensations. Practice awareness. Find relaxation, and learn how to feel good and balanced. Kum Nye is a Tibetan gentle healing system that offers nourishing practices for the body, mind, and soul.
Befriending Ourselves
With Taylor Rechtschaffen
June 5 - 7, 2026
Access the infinite compassion at your core, transforming your relationship with yourself. In this immersive retreat, discover how two profound wisdom traditions—Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the Buddhist concept of bodhichitta—unite to awaken your innate capacities for healing and wholeness.
Living with More Ease
With Renate Marx
June 5 - 7, 2026
Do you often find yourself tense, distracted, or out of balance? There are several tools you can rely on that can be simple to integrate so that life doesnʻt have to feel so hard.
Summer Refresh: A yoga retreat
With DeAnn Barry
June 12 - 14, 2026
Start your summer with both ritual 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.
Peace and Quiet: A meditation retreat - SPECIAL PRICING
With George Wiegand, Linda Copenhagen and Karmyn Ojeda
June 12 - 14, 2026
This special retreat is offering a sliding scale allowing you to give what you can. It's 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, lay down, be in nature, meditate, and come back to center.
Working with Joy: Transforming Work into a Spiritual Path - ONLINE
With Wangmo Dixey
June 13 - July 18, 2026
In Working with Joy, Wangmo Dixey invites you to explore how work itself can become a path of inner development. Drawing on the wisdom teachings of Tarthang Tulku, this course examines how our experience of work is shaped less by circumstance than by how we meet experience moment to moment.
Forest Bathing: Find Yourself in Nature
With Ben Page
June 19 - 21, 2026
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.
Illuminate: Summer Solstice and Full Moon Retreat
With Alyssa Lauren Stone
June 26 - 28, 2026
The Summer Solstice marks the longest day of the year-- a celebration of light, vitality, and growth. The Full Moon invites reflection, release, and renewal. Join Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master, and Musician, Alyssa Lauren Stone, for a transformative weekend in the forests...
The Six Paramitas: Leading Your Life with Purpose and Clarity
With Khenpo Kunga Dakpa, Tsering Gellek and Barry Schieber
July 2 - 5, 2026
Ratna Ling is happy to present a 3-night retreat based on traditional Buddhist teachings by our sister organization, the Sarnath International Nyingma Institute. You'll explore the paramitas—the Six Perfections that form the foundation of the Bodhisattva path.
Discovering a New Way of Being - A Tibetan relaxation retreat
With Karmyn Ojeda, George Wiegand, Linda Copenhagen and Renate Marx
July 10 - 12, 2026
If you feel pushed, stressed, or overwhelmed to keep it all together, this weekend is designed for you. Join our Ratna Ling Faculty in a full weekend where you get to take it easy and slow down. This retreat, devoted to relaxation, invites a new way of being—one of softening, listening, and gently returning to […]
Refresh and Recharge – a Midsummer Meditation Retreat
With Maria Helena Kubrusly and Linda Copenhagen
July 17 - 19, 2026
Book now and get $150.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jun 1, 2026.
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.
Let It Rip! Sonoma County Writers Camp
With Elizabeth Stark and Ellen Sussman
July 22 - 26, 2026
In this camp session, we will learn how to trust our inner voices, the rhythms that propel us toward an image, an unexpected action or line of dialogue, a shocking twist in a scene.
Living Without Stress: A mindfulness and yoga retreat
With Jack Petranker and Gretchen Donovan
July 31 - August 2, 2026
In this powerful weekend retreat at Ratna Ling, Jack Petranker—direct student of Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche for 45 years and editor of over a dozen of Rinpoche’s books—guides participants in gently uncovering the hidden patterns that keep us striving, fixing, and feeling like life is just happening to us.
Expand Into Summer: Tap into Your Inner Heart and Radiate Your Light
With Rachel Lipton
August 7 - 9, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until May 8, 2026.
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. This retreat invites you to expand your sense of self and embrace the fullness of your being.
Being Now: How to Navigate Uncertain Times - Online
With Magda Costa
August 14 - 16, 2026
Book now and get $50.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until May 15, 2026.
This retreat invites you to pause, turn inward, and reconnect with a deeper way of living. A way that doesn’t depend on fixing yourself, proving anything, or becoming someone else. A way that begins by letting go of the belief that you are not enough, that you don’t know how, or that freedom is somehow out of reach.
Ease & Effort: Finding the balance
With Jacqui Rowley
August 14 - 16, 2026
Book now and get $50.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until May 15, 2026.
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.
Understory: Exploring Body, Word, and Landscape
With Nica Celly and Jolene Beilstein
August 21 - 23, 2026
To enter the understory is to practice listening below the surface: to slow down, to sense, and to reconnect with the fertile, unseen layers that sustain life both within and around us. In this workshop-style, three-day retreat, Jolene and Nica will offer a sequence of embodiment practices designed to explore somatic wholeness...
Awakening the Balanced Mind Bringing Peace into Everyday Life - ONLINE
With Wangmo Dixey
August 22 - September 26, 2026
Saturdays, 10:00-11:00 am Pacific Time For a new and meaningful take on self-care, join Wangmo Dixey of Dharma College for a rewarding and insightful 6 weeks exploring self-care. Free cancellation after first class In a world shaped by constant acceleration, uncertainty, and division, many people long for peace yet struggle to know how to live […]
End of Summer Reset
With David Cho
August 28 - 30, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until May 29, 2026.
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.
The Courage to Lead: A 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training
With Gloria Baraquio
August 31 - September 17, 2026
Book now and get $200.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jun 1, 2026.
This yoga intensive to cultivate leaders who serve with courage and compassion. Shivakali Yoga offers a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training over 18 days, steeped in the ancient spiritual, philosophical and meditative traditions of Yoga, and grounded in modern anatomical studies, sequencing, and approaches to practice.
A Weekend of Self-Care | Labor Day
With Calista Ocean and Salma Syed
September 4 - 7, 2026
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.
Transitions & Transformation: A Yoga Retreat
With Vinita Laroia
September 11 - 13, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jun 12, 2026.
Life is a moving, dynamic process, and yoga is simply a practice for Life. Can we listen deeply and appreciate the moments in between? Can we pause where we need to, and give more effort when the posture calls for it? When we practice with this moment-to-moment awareness, we can embody flow and presence in yoga and our life.
Self-Care and the Joy of Ease – An Introductory Online Course
With Dr. Elon Goldstein
September 11 - October 16, 2026
Thursdays 10:00 - 11:30 am PST Join Dr. Elon Goldstein from our sister organization, Dharma College, in an exploration of positive ways of being even in uncertain times. From Dharma College: Many people today feel at least partly out of balance. Whatever the causes, the results tend to be the same: our bodies may battle […]
Sustained Awareness: A Meditation Retreat
With George Wiegand
September 17 - 20, 2026
For those interested in deepening their Meditation practice, Ratna Ling has designed three levels of retreats for folks at different stages of the path. This Level 3 Retreat is designed for those who are confident about their practice. We invite you for a 4-day Retreat with George Wiegand to cultivate stability and steadiness in the mind.
Rooted in Nature
With Charlotte Keane and Shoshana Hebshi
September 18 - 20, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jun 19, 2026.
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.
Re-Vision: Sonoma County Writers Camp
With Elizabeth Stark and Ellen Sussman
September 23 - 27, 2026
This camp will show you how to let the story teach you its secrets. We will begin by assessing what you’ve got–what’s evolved on the page. By discerning what your story wants to be, you will be able to build on what you’ve achieved.
Meeting Anger with Compassion
With Gretchen Donovan
October 2 - 4, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 3, 2026.
What if you could use your anger wisely? What if you could make friends with anger? This weekend retreat offers a supportive space to explore the nature of anger through meditation, gentle yoga, and subtle energy movement, all grounded in Buddhist philosophy.
Women's Self-Care Retreat
With Sarah Michelson and Laura Moir
October 9 - 12, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 25, 2026.
Come together with fellow women to celebrate your 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 Inner Landscape: A Meditation Retreat in Nature
With Maria Helena Kubrusly
October 23 - 25, 2026
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.
Elevate Your Essence
With Bex Urban
October 23 - 25, 2026
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.
The Art of Loss: Letting Go with Grace
With Gloria Baraquio and Lydia Hwang
October 30 - November 1, 2026
Book now and get $50.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 31, 2026.
At some point in our lives, we all experience losses and endings in various forms. Together, we will explore what it means to live with the understanding of impermanence—in our roles, our relationships, and our most cherished dreams.
The Essence of Yoga: A Weekend Retreat
With Jenn Russo
November 13 - 15, 2026
We welcome back 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.
Autumn Renewal: Yoga, Ayurveda, and Healthy Aging
With Melina Meza and Baxter Bell
November 13 - 15, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Aug 14, 2026.
Join longtime teachers Melina Meza and Baxter Bell for a nourishing weekend at Ratna Ling exploring yoga and Ayurveda as practical pathways to vibrant, healthy aging.
Joy & Appreciation - A Thanksgiving Retreat
With George Wiegand, Linda Copenhagen and Karmyn Ojeda
November 27 - 29, 2026
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 during this holiday. We invite you to take a sacred pause, to sit, to lay down, to be in nature, to meditate, and to come back to center.
The Gift of Writing: Introspection and Self-Reflection
With Cynthia Cummins
December 11 - 13, 2026
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 11, 2026.
As winter solstice approaches, we gather in stillness and allow quiet presence to lead us back to ourselves. In this Wild Heart Writing retreat, we begin by invoking the muse, releasing expectations and setting aside our inner critics. Clear, compelling writing follows, seemingly without effort.
Winter Slowdown: A 5-day Meditation Retreat
With Linda Copenhagen and Maria Helena Kubrusly
December 16 - 20, 2026
Instead of speeding up, take this time to slow down. This special offering from Ratna Ling is designed to help you meet the holiday season with ease, openness, and a generous heart. We hope you’ll step into the holidays feeling refreshed, peaceful, and ready to appreciate every moment.
Spring Radiance: Harness Energy & Awaken Joy
With Klara Crean and Leslie Tippell
May 14 - 16, 2027
Book now and get $50.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Feb 12, 2027.
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.