Meditation, Nature, and Awakening
Description
Experience a peaceful retreat where the restorative power of nature meets the clarity of insight meditation. This gathering is designed to support happiness, inner balance, and a deeper connection to yourself through time-tested practices rooted in the Buddhist tradition.
For more than 2,500 years, insight meditation has served as a pathway to profound wisdom, helping practitioners cultivate awareness, presence, and understanding. Set within a natural environment, this retreat offers the ideal space to slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with a quieter, more grounded way of being.
Participants can expect a reflective atmosphere that encourages mindfulness, stillness, and gentle awakening through direct experience. Surrounded by nature, the retreat creates space for insight to unfold naturally, supporting both personal renewal and a sense of inner spaciousness.
Accommodation Options
Tent Cabins
The tent cabins at Vallecitos offer a simple, yet comfortable, low-cost accommodation. The tent cabins are on wooden platforms with canvas walls. Each has a bed, a small table and chair. There are zipper windows in the tent cabins and the front opening can be spread wide to invite in sunlight. All tent cabins have a small propane heater. Tent cabins are single occupancy, stand-alone structures. Please note that tent cabins tend to be colder in the shoulder seasons (May and September/October).
Tent Camping
An economical option intended only for experienced campers. You are required to bring your own tent camping gear, as Vallecitos does NOT supply a tent. Temperatures are highly variable, precipitation is to be expected, and you are expected to be fully self-sufficient. This option is strongly discouraged for anyone new to Vallecitos. Please note that our tent camping spaces, like all Vallecitos housing options, are single occupancy. You may not share a tent or camping space with other retreat participants. Pricing includes meals.
Tent Cabin Benefactor Rate
This option covers retreat costs and helps support others who require financial assistance to attend. The difference between this rate and the actual rate is tax-deductible. We greatly appreciate your help in supporting access to practice on retreat at Vallecitos. All accommodations are single occupancy. The price includes accommodation and meals.
Tent Cabin Actual Rate
This rate covers the actual costs of the retreat. All accommodations are single occupancy. The price includes accommodation and meals.
Tent Cabin Scholarship Rate
This option is a 35% scholarship of the actual costs of the retreat. All accommodations are single occupancy. The price includes accommodation and meals. If you require additional scholarship assistance above this rate, please select this housing option. Complete your registration, and then submit an additional scholarship application (directions are provided after registering).
Teachers
About Peter Williams Peter Williams brings more than 32 years of meditation practice, rooted primarily in the Theravada Buddhist tradition and enriched by extensive study in the Tibetan tradition. Over the course of his path, he has spent more than 43 months in silent retreat, deepening the kind of insight and steadiness that inform his teaching today. Since 2003, Peter has shared...
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About Chas DiCapua Chas has spent more than 35 years devoted to mindfulness and Buddhist meditation, with a primary focus on the Early Buddhist school. His practice includes over two years of combined time in silent, intensive retreat, offering a deep foundation for the teachings he shares today. He has studied with Burmese meditation masters, western monastics in the Thai Forest...
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