Public Retreats
Family Camp 2025
This EVENT is CURRENTLY FULL, please join us for Family Camp 2026! A weekend family retreat where participants are given the opportunity to better understand their mind and emotions through a Tibetan Buddhist lens using meditation, discussion, art, nature and play. Set in the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains, families with children ages […]
Cultivating Compassion in Daily Life: A Weekend Retreat
Serkong Tsenshap Rinpoche II and Dr. Alexander Berzin
***Retreat Update: Expanded Weekend with Serkong Tsenshap Rinpoche II and Dr. Alexander Berzin** We’re delighted to share that what was originally planned as a daylong retreat with Serkong Tsenshap Rinpoche II has been expanded into a full weekend retreat! This allows for additional teaching time with Rinpoche! We’re also honored to welcome Dr. Alexander Berzin, […]
How to Train a Happy Mind
Scott Snibbe
Based on his popular book How to Train a Happy Mind, this three-day retreat with Scott Snibbe offers a relaxed tour of eight meditations that help bring out your best qualities, deepen your relationships, and build a better world. Each of the retreat’s practices is derived from the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim “stages of the path,” a […]
Six Session Guru Yoga & Shiné - Mahamudra
Venerable René Feusi
We are overjoyed that one of our most precious teachers, Venerable René Fuesi, is returning to Vajrapani in September! Ven. René's retreats are known to be deeply transformative as he invites us to inquire into the nature of the mind. Join us as Ven René creates this rare opportunity to get to know our minds […]
Six Session Guru Yoga Weekend ONLY
Venerable René Feusi
About the Retreat We are overjoyed that one of our most precious teachers, Venerable René Fuesi, is returning to Vajrapani in September! Six Session Guru Yoga Weekend With any HYT initiation in our tradition, there is a commitment to do the six sessions of guru yoga, but many have never received instruction. Venerable Rene […]
Shiné - Mahamudra Week ONLY
Venerable René Feusi
About the Retreat We are overjoyed that one of our most precious teachers, Venerable René Fuesi, is returning to Vajrapani in September. Ven. René is creating a rare opportunity to learn how to meditate more deeply in this immersive retreat. Shiné - Mahamudra Venerable René will start the Shiné - Mahamudra portion of the […]