Retreats
Lotus Garden offers year-round opportunities for personal solitary or session retreats.
We have 16 private rooms available for retreats, with shared bath, available for $55 per night. This includes three simple meals along with coffee and tea service.
- SESSIONS RETREATS
- Sessions retreats offer the opportunity for practitioners to do intensive personal practice within the milieu of community life. A session retreat generally consists of three or four personal practice sessions per day. The retreatant may also participate in the community morning and evening prayers, and will share meals with the sangha. Those on sessions retreat will join the Lotus Garden resident staff for meals and will be
asked to participate in a simple work assignment each day. Meditation instruction is available as needed.
- SOLITARY RETREATS
- Solitary retreats offer an opportunity for practitioners to pursue their practices in solitude. A solitary retreat traditionally consists of either four or six practice sessions per day. Solitary retreatants are encouraged to bring their own shrine materials and set up their own shrines.
Solitary retreatants may eat their meals in their rooms.
- RETREAT AND PRACTICE SUPPORT
- All retreatants at Lotus Garden will have the support of our drupön, or retreat master. Our Drupön, Roar Vestre, has extensive retreat experience and was appointed by Her Eminence Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche.
- GROUP RETREATS
- Several times a year, group retreats may be scheduled. These generally include opportunities for both solitary and session retreatants to participate. Please check the Program Calendar.
For inquiries, please contact us by phone at 1-540-778-2405 or by email at registration@lotusgardens.org.
Last Update: 30 January 2010
Photo Credit: A blossoming lotus on the lake at Lotus Garden
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