Retreats

Attend a Retreat 
Retreats offer all levels of learning and development guided by dedicated TWIM Instructors. Retreats are structured courses structured for participants to progress in the stages of awakening. Retreat leaders provide specific and detailed instructions that has shown effective world wide by thousands of people. Many learn TWIM as their first introduction to meditation while others with previous experience attend a retreat in with the aspiration to deepen their understand and progress further in the stages of meditation to exeperience awakeing otherwise known as nirvāṇa or nibbāna.
  1. Maintain ethical code of conduct (sīla) that helps steady the mind and relax the body in preparation for meditation.
  2. Apply effective practice skills "right effort" learned as the Six Rs methodolorgy as a cornerstone for effective meditation. 
  3. Cultivate of the stages of meditative understanding known as (jhanas) or levels of tranquility (samatha) and insight (vipassanā) knowledge along with four sublime conscious states of loving-kindness; compassion; altruistic joy; and equanimity of mind known as the heavenly abodes (Brahmaviharas) or degrees of benevolence. 
  4. Develop sublime mental quality of collectedness of awareness resulting in natrual samādhi, equinimity, and insight.
  5. Experience the goal of relief from habitual stress reactions and unhappiness with the cessation of suffering, nirvāṇa or nibbāna.
Now—October 2024, 10-Day residential metta retreats, 2024 with various teachers at Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center, MO. See complete listing  Go>

​Sept 13-21, Oct 11-19, Nov 8-16, 2024, 9-day, Zoom Retreat with Delson Armstrong, Fundraiser Event for the Freedom of Mind Foundation  Go>

​Dec 27 2024—Jan 5 2025, 10-day/9-Night Winter Holiday TWIM course with Rachael O'Brien at St. Francis Retreat Center, San Juan Bautista, CA, Go>

​April 18-27, 2025 10-day Easter Retreat, with Delson Armstrong and others to be announced at St. Francis Retreat Center, San Juan Bautista, CA,  Go>

Outside the U.S.

HeartDhamma
10-day residential retreats in Asia and Australia with Bhante Ananda  ​Go>

Dhamma Sukha Indonesia
Classes, Zoom, and residential retreats with various teachers in Jakarta and Bali Go>

Dhamma Sukha India
Classes, Zoom, and residential retreats with various teachers. Pune and Goa Go>