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Drala Mountain Center Drala Mountain Center is a mountain valley retreat located on 600 acres in northern Colorado hosting meditation and yoga retreats.
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Since 1971 the Center has offered hundreds of programs on Buddhist meditation, yoga and other contemplative disciplines. Tamed by more than fifty years of use as a contemplative retreat, Drala Mountain Center is a place where one of the basic truths of Buddhism—that people can be profoundly open to the wisdom of the present moment—is always readily available.

10/28/2026

If you are looking to nourish your creative spirit and step back into everyday life feeling grounded and inspired, our upcoming meditation and writing retreat may be just the opportunity you've been looking for.

Led by award-winning poet, author, and transmitted Zen teacher, Brooke McNamara, this weekend retreat offers a path to clear out the mental chatter and daily distraction while using writing practices to capture the fresh insights and raw feelings that surface when the mind goes quiet. During this retreat, Brooks bridges deep contemplative meditation and vibrant creative expression so you can experience how stillness fuels genuine creative spark.

Whether you’re tending to a specific writing project or simply wanting to reconnect with the creativity of your childhood, this practice is for all experience levels.

🌟 Opening to Inspiration: Meditation & Writing for Aliveness & Connection
📆 December 4th - 6th, 2026
📍 Drala Mountain Center | Red Feather Lakes, CO
🔗 https://www.dralamountain.org/program/oi1226-opening-to-inspiration-meditation-writing-for-aliveness-connection/

Register today and join a supportive space to share your work, tender curiosities, and declarations alongside a community of like-minded "awakening adventurers."

Do you often feel like meditation practice leaves you feeling ungrounded when you eventually return to the reality of da...
10/23/2026

Do you often feel like meditation practice leaves you feeling ungrounded when you eventually return to the reality of daily life? Does the concept of awareness, mindfulness, or even meditative silence seem out-of-reach?

Then you may be missing one important aspect of meditative practice: the mind-body connection.🧠🧘

Our upcoming retreat, Fully Being centers on Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s teachings using direct, embodied tools that teach you how to drop the over-thinking, untangle emotional tension, and resolve subtle anxiety held in the body.

🕯 Fully Being A Path of Awareness, Healing and Insight: A Weekend Retreat
👨‍🏫Lead by Adam Kane
📆December 11th - 13th, 2026
🔗https://www.dralamountain.org/program/fb1226-hybrid-fully-being-a-path-of-awareness-healing-and-insight-a-weekend-retreat-with-adam-kane/

Bonus! This retreat counts as one of the core, foundational prerequisites for attending an in-person retreat directly with Tsoknyi Rinpoche.🤍

10/20/2026

When you join A Way Through Darkness with , you are offered the opportunity to learn powerful practices for turbulent times from one of the great teachers of our era.

Usually reserved for 40 of her closest students at the seaside monastery, Gampo Abbey, she is offering a seat to you from anywhere in the world.🌍This is not a retreat that asks you to be different than you are or to escape what is happening. It’s a retreat about befriending what is already here: the parts of you that are afraid, the parts of you that are angry, the parts of you that wonder if anyone else is feeling this too.🫶🏼🌧️

Register Now! https://learn.shambhala.com/p/a-way-through-darkness/ =smcaffil&a_cid=8b47a8a2

Through simple and impactful teachings on the Four Dignities, Pema offers guidance on what matters most in times like these: cultivating fearlessness. It’s not a fearlessness that hardens us or asks us to deny what we feel but one that helps us meet fear, pain, and uncertainty face to face with kindness, courage, and steadiness.

Being on the path isn’t always as easy as it first seems. Spiritual growth isn’t about passively scattering seeds of joy...
10/17/2026

Being on the path isn’t always as easy as it first seems. Spiritual growth isn’t about passively scattering seeds of joy, dedication, or awareness and hoping one takes root in spite of the harsh elements. It takes deliberate effort and devotion to cultivate a practice.

In our greenhouse at Drala Mountain Center, we are reminded of this commitment by tending to every seed with water, nutrients, care, and appreciation.🪴And as we watch our plants thrive, we release our expectations of how tall they will grow, how much bounty they will produce, or how good they will taste as those outcomes are ultimately out of our control. ✨

How do you release expectations for yourself, others, and the path? 🧘‍♂️🙏

Once a year, Pema Chodron leads a winter retreat where she gives an extensive set of teachings to some of her closest st...
10/15/2026

Once a year, Pema Chodron leads a winter retreat where she gives an extensive set of teachings to some of her closest students in the intimate shrine room of her seaside monastery, Gampo Abbey. The room can only fit 40 people, but you’re invited to take yo ur seat from anywhere in the world.

In A Way Through Darkness, a home retreat based on those teachings, Pema Chödrön speaks directly to the challenges of our time, and how we can bring light to the places that need it most, both within ourselves and in the world around us.

The retreat includes:

🌟 8 hours of ALL - NEW video teachings (with closed-captioning)
🌟 2 live Q&A calls with Pema
🌟 Live meditation sessions
🌟 Facilitated discussion forums
🌟 Special retreat bonuses

Plus with the Buy One, Gift One launch offer, every purchase receives a free second enrollment to gift to a friend! Thank you to Shambhala Publications!

🔗Enroll today: https://learn.shambhala.com/p/a-way-through-darkness/ =smcaffil&a_cid=8b47a8a2

10/09/2026

Join Dr. Rochelle Calvert, a licensed clinical psychologist and somatic experiencing practitioner, for this brief talk on how nature can offer support in difficult times. Traumatic events, chronic stress, or even just the overwhelm of a busy life can leave you feeling fragmented or disconnected. When our inner ecosystem is disrupted in this way, it can feel impossible to get back on a path towards presence.

When we reconnect with nature's inherent healing properties, we can come back home to ourselves. If this resonates, she is hosting Healing with Nature: A Winter Solstice Retreat from December 18th until the 21st.❄️ Rooted in nature-based mindfulness and somatic practices, this retreat offers a supportive space for healing, regulation, and deep reconnection with the rhythms of the Earth.

Are you ready to reconnect with your inner light?🧘🌟Register today! https://www.dralamountain.org/program/hn1226-healing-with-nature-a-winter-solstice-retreat/

10/08/2026

In the stillness of winter, gather to reconnect with the wisdom of your heart.

♥ Healing the Heart: A Silent Yoga and Zen Retreat
📍 Drala Mountain Center | February 5th–7th, 2027
🧘 Led by Kali Basman

Kali's teaching approach weaves together Zen mditation, Buddhist Psychology and Internal Family Systems Therapy into the living discipline of Yin and Vinyasa Yoga. An internationally celebrated Dharma teacher, she invites you to slow down, to soften, and to embrace the space that silence provides.

✨ Register now: https://www.dralamountain.org/program/hh227-healing-the-heart-a-silent-yoga-and-zen-retreat/

If you've ever visited , you've likely run into one of our staff members or volunteers; whether sitting down for a meal...
10/07/2026

If you've ever visited , you've likely run into one of our staff members or volunteers; whether sitting down for a meal in our dining hall, walking the trails that cut through our land, or you've seen them tending to those very paths. Even if you haven't had a chance to connect with them directly, you’ve certainly felt their presence.

They are the ones who greet you at guest services to ensure you arrived safe and sound, who imbue so much love and care into your food, who make sure your rooms are welcoming and clean, who leave their own offerings at shrines to give back to this community, and who steward this sacred land so that generations to come can enjoy it.🌱

While we're endlessly grateful for everyone who makes this mission and community possible, we don't say it often enough. So, thank you. To everyone who has a hand in making DMC the inviting, grounded, peaceful, and transformative place it is. We appreciate you! 🥰🙏

When you arrive at , you are greeted by the power of the land: its beauty, spiritual healing, and grounding energy. And...
10/06/2026

When you arrive at , you are greeted by the power of the land: its beauty, spiritual healing, and grounding energy. And as you relax into silence, you open yourself to the deep blessings this sacred place has to offer.

Join renowned Buddhist monk Loden Nyima for Peace and Freedom, a weeklong silent retreat designed to help you dive into deeper stillness, healing, and peace.

What awaits you:
🧘 4–6 hours of daily meditation
🌿 Time to recharge and reflect in nature
💡 Deepen your understanding of calm abiding (shamatha), loving-kindness (metta), and liberating insight (vipashyana)
🧘‍♂️️ Learn simple yoga exercises designed to clear the body and support sitting practice
💚 Practice tools to unblock stuck emotions, advance your practice, and overcome obstacles
🤝 Optional 1-on-1 support sessions with Loden

You may also choose to deepen your practice by registering for his Silent Meditation Intensive (Nov 13–15) for a full 10-day immersive journey. ✨ When you register for both programs, enjoy discounted tuition and lodging!

🔗 Sign Up Today! https://www.dralamountain.org/program/pf1226-peace-and-freedom-a-weeklong-meditation-retreat/

10/01/2026

Modern life moves pretty fast. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or disconnected from yourself, consider this your official invitation to slow down.

Join us November 18th–22nd for Reset, Rise, & Reconnect. This 5-day journey is designed to help you release stress, clear the noise, and regulate your nervous system through breathwork, Kundalini and Hatha yoga, sound healing, and time in nature.

No prior experience needed. Just bring yourself exactly as you are. 🥰

📍 Drala Mountain Center
🗓️ Nov 18–22, 2026
🔗 Register here: https://www.dralamountain.org/program/re1126-reset-rise-reconnect-a-kundalini-journey-to-your-true-self/

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151 Shambhala Way
Red Feather Lakes, CO
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