RMERC 2026 Event Calendar
Registration for most 2026 retreats is now open! Questions? Try our chatbot (lower right), see our resources page or send us an email. We hope to see you soon! Early bird discounts up to 75 days before a retreat starts!Â
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April 2026
As winter thaws and the high peaks awaken, this spring retreat invites exploration of mindfulness in the Rocky Mountains. Guided by teachers trained with Sayadaw U Tejaniya, practice emphasizes relaxed, natural awareness, cultivating openness, curiosity, and ease to meet each moment as it is...
This long weekend is ideal for first-time retreatants or those seeking to unplug, enjoy Noble Silence, and deepen meditation. Led by Upali, the retreat blends silent practice, nature immersion, and teacher guidance to support a deeper connection to yourself and your meditation practice...
May 2026
Drawing on the Buddha’s teachings, this retreat explores the Bodhisattva path, dedicating oneself to the well-being of all beings. Cultivating love, courage, and wisdom, participants learn to meet suffering with a steady, responsive mind and a compassionate, courageous, and receptive heart in daily life...
Deepen your meditation practice in a supportive community rooted in the Rinzai Zen Buddhist lineage. This retreat integrates a trauma-informed approach with teachings inspired by Kingian and Gandhian Nonviolence, fostering healing, insight, and mindful engagement with self and others...
If you’re stressed, burnt out, or carrying climate anxiety, this retreat offers a diverse, intergenerational community united by care for a better world. Over six days of semi-silent mindfulness, participants connect with nature, share, heal, and cultivate calm, compassionate, and committed eco-action...
This nature meditation retreat supports wholeness through land-based mindfulness and trauma-informed practices. By reconnecting with nature and exploring inner shadows, patterns, and energies, participants transform trauma, balance body, mind, and spirit, and deepen connection with self, community, and Earth...
June 2026
Metta-Vipassana blends insight meditation with the Four Foundations of Mindfulness and Metta practices, cultivating awareness, kindness, joy, and equanimity. This silent retreat offers guided meditation, Dharma teachings, and small group discussions, welcoming all levels to deepen their path toward liberation.
Inspired by the Rocky Mountains, this retreat explores Buddha Dharma through receptivity, embodiment, and belonging, cultivating intimacy with self, community, and nature. Through meditation, outdoor practice, qi gong, chanting, talks, and inquiry, all levels reconnect with the teachings and feel at home on Earth.
This retreat invites reconnection with nature and self through sensory outdoor meditation and embodiment practices that foster wholeness and kinship with all life. In silence and presence, participants slow down, open the heart, and explore everyday wonders through sitting, walking, and mindful hiking...
July 2026
Set in the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Center, this POC retreat empowers organizers, healers, educators, and activists to address the polycrisis and deepen belonging. Through meditation, yoga, dialogue, a grief and rage ceremony, and solo time in nature, participants cultivate love, kinship, and resilience.
This retreat offers a deep, unhurried immersion in nature, combining extended solo time at your campsite with daily guidance from teachers and community. Designed for seasoned retreatants, it invites silence, self-discovery, and the profound recognition that you are nature itself...
his retreat offers a deep, unhurried immersion in nature, with extended solo time at your campsite balanced by guidance from teachers and community. Designed for seasoned retreatants, it invites silence, self-discovery, and the profound recognition that you are not in nature, you are nature...
This relaxed meditation retreat offers a gentle immersion into effortless awareness, supported by the high-summer mountains and simple practices that reveal ease, wonder, and connection. Ideal for those drawn to mindfulness, Buddhism, or NonDual truth, it invites deep rest and open, spacious presence.
August 2026
"In interdependent intimacy with the land, and with the elements as our queer teachers, elders, and kin, we will reconnect to knowing our own inherent nature as already free, and our queerness itself as an awakening."
This retreat supports those wishing to deepen insight meditation in nature under the guidance of caring teachers. Daily practice includes instruction, guided meditation, sitting and walking periods, and discussions, with outdoor practice when possible. Suitable for beginners and experienced students...
This no-to-low-cost immersive retreat supports community resilience, spiritual grounding, and emotional preparation for climate and polycrisis-related challenges, offering practices and connection to help participants strengthen inner resources, navigate uncertainty, and respond with care and presence...
This retreat is an invitation to join a group of experienced meditators who want to deeply explore the nature of the awakened heart and mind as described in Dogen's Zenji's classic statement, "Enlightenment is Intimacy with all things."
This nature-based retreat blends Tribal Nations’ wisdom with Buddhist meditation to deepen connection with self, others, and the natural world. In the serene Ecodharma Center mountains, practices include silence, sitting and walking meditation, outdoor nature work, and teachings integrating animism and insight meditation...
September 2026
This portal to the queer future includes silent and moving meditations, time in nature and community, somatic practices like bodywork, martial arts, and Aikido, and the creation of sacred community through ritual, altar making, and shared ceremonial practices...
This nature meditation retreat supports healing ancestral, collective, and personal trauma through mindfulness, somatic practices, and story. Participants reconnect with their true nature through silent and community practices—meditation, journaling, and hikes—fostering resilience, embodiment, and Earth connection...
A gathering to support a deep, soul-centered, nature-rooted journey in community, exploring the integration of masculine and feminine energies, fierce tenderness, power and compassion, inner elder and youth, wisdom and innocence, and the creative expression essential to wholeness and human connection...
We are living through accelerated change calling us to serve what we love by cultivating resilience through meditation, earth connection, and regenerative presence. This silent ecodharma retreat invites a return to source through meditation, deep listening in nature, and embodied leadership in action...
October 2026
Practicing mindfulness in the quiet of retreat, supported by a like-minded sangha, steadies and calms the mind. Grounded in this shared presence, natural joy begins to shine through the heart, touching our families, colleagues, and communities, and nourishing the change we feel called to serve...
Enter a spacious healing retreat where nature, silence, and sacred sleep awaken a joyful, lucid connection with your dreams. In the Rocky Mountains, supported by an intimate community, explore Eastern and Western lucid dreaming practices to spark creativity, intuition, and deep self-knowing. All levels welcome...
This retreat offers immersive engagement with the Work That Reconnects and Nature Connection practices, exploring how to live and act amid ecological and social change. Through contemplation, movement, ritual, creativity, and time in nature, participants cultivate resilience, clarity, belonging, and active hope...
November 2026
Silence Singing is a retreat blending meditation and creative expression through song, ritual, group process, and play. It supports experienced meditators expanding their expression, artists seeking deeper inspiration, and newcomers drawn to fresh ways of being, creating, and connecting in authentic community...
This retreat offers a simple, relaxed weekend to slow down and step away from the usual pace of daily life. Set in the beauty of RMERC during often mild November weather, the days include silent and guided meditation, time to walk or hike outdoors, and opportunities for discussion and reflection. The approach is gentle and straightforward, with minimal emphasis on technique—more about noticing and
2026 Retreats will be listed in mid-January, 2026. In the meantime, you can view last year’s retreats here.