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Ecodharma Retreat Center

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RMERC 2026 Event Calendar

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April 2026
Apr 21 - 26, 2026
Marjolein Janssen and Liz Powell

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...

Apr 30, 2026 - May 03, 2026
Upasaka Upali and Nicoya Helm

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
May 05 - 10, 2026
Heidi Bourne and Heather Lear

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...

May 11 - 17, 2026
Kritee Kanko and Imtiaz Rangwala

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...

May 19 - 24, 2026
Piero Falci and Knellee Bisram

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...

May 25 - 30, 2026
Cornelia SantschiJean LeonardRochelle Calvert

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
Jun 01 - 07, 2026
Dave Smith and Ann Brand

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.

Jun 09 - 14, 2026
Jean Leonard and Ramona Lisa Ortiz-SmithRebecca Bradshaw

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.

Jun 22 - 28, 2026
Carla Brennan and Renee RosarioPeter Williams

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
Jul 06 - 12, 2026
Imtiaz Rangwala and Ramon ParishKritee Kanko

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.

Jul 20 - 25, 2026
Johann Robbins and Cornelia Santschi

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...

Jul 27, 2026 - Aug 02, 2026
Johann Robbins and Caverly Morgan

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
Aug 03 - 09, 2026
Lauren Robin Tejeda, Mo Bankey and Sriya Bhattacharyya

"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."

Aug 10 - 16, 2026
Denise Ackert, Kate Siber and Liz Powell

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...

Aug 17 - 23, 2026
Kritee Kanko and Ramon Parish

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...

Aug 31, 2026 - Sep 06, 2026
Peter Williams, Manny Mansbach, and Karen Waconda

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
Sep 08 - 13, 2026
Ream and Kimi Mojica

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...

Sep 16 - 20, 2026
Rochelle Calvert and Dr. Renda Dionne Madrigal

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...

Sep 24 - 27, 2026
Carol Kortsch, Will Forsythe and Laurie Adams

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...

Sep 28, 2026 - Oct 04, 2026
Deborah Eden Tull and Kritee Kanko

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
Oct 12 - 18, 2026
Barry Gillespie

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...

Oct 21 - 25, 2026
Katie Love and Chelsea Waves

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...

Oct 26, 2026 - Nov 01, 2026
Constance WashburnRukmini Iyer and Alex Julie

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
Nov 04 - 08, 2026
Thomas Walker and Eric Hertz

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...

Nov 12 - 15, 2026
Johann Robbins

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

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2026 Retreats will be listed in mid-January, 2026. In the meantime, you can view last year’s retreats here.

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