A glorious 7-day meditation, music and movement retreat at The Boardwalk Lodge, in Government Camp near the base of Mt Hood.

The dates are: Sunday, October 13th-Saturday October 19th 2024. (With the option of staying an extra night at no extra cost to help integrate and marinate, Highly Encouraged!)

For full info, rates, questions and more, email us at: ecstaticdancebend@gmail.com

Checkout The Boardwalk website: https://www.theboardwalklodge.com/

And take a Boardwalk tour on youtube too https://youtu.be/QZ06BYnob7M

This is our fourth time in three years hosting this meditation retreat at this beautiful locale and each time has been a soaring success.

Includes 5 full days of silence and no eye-contact. The first and last days are partially silent as they are transition days.

We have an extremely unique opportunity to present this retreat at a very low cost, as the owner of the building is a great friend and offers his lodge at a reduced fee because of his belief in the integrity of our endeavor.

Registration cost is $250 for all 8 days

Plus the price of your own food, as food is not included and must be provided by the attendee

Registration price includes lodging and all activities for the entire course plus an extra night if you are able to stay until Sunday!

There will not be a chef for the retreat. Participants will be responsible for all of their own food, snacks, beverages, and spices beyond brown rice and quinoa. We'll be providing a large amount of pre-prepared brown rice and quinoa for participants to build meals on top of. This "make it your way" style of food prep helps us reduce overhead fees for you, and simplify the need to cater to specialty diet needs for us.

The intention and aim of this retreat is to offer a sensational container for all of us to drop deep within ourselves, listening to the subtle movements of our incredible lives. This is an embodiment retreat. Many silent meditation retreats practice only sitting meditation. We will be incorporating lots of movement meditation into our time together. The yoga, om-ing, nature walks, hot tubs, drum circles, dancing and sitting will all be meditations as we play and practice integrating embodied presence in every activity.

This retreat is not an initiation into any particular style, format or tradition of meditation. Once, each day a facilitator will offer some techniques and inspirations from their own meditation practice. These tools that are shared are for inspiration and to help spark creativity in your practice. They will not be obligatory in any way, you are always free to skip any and all offerings at this retreat as you are the master of your own schedule. If you already come with an established meditation practice of your own that’s fantastic. There will be no pressure to altar or change your style. We are co-creating a wondrous environment inside of which we can enjoy the deepening of our meditation practices.

This will very likely, and hopefully, be a powerful experience. It may release astounding levels of joy just as much as it may give permission for the rising of intensely upsetting or disturbing emotions, memories and thoughts. You may dance and sing and twirl or want to hide and ball and curl. You can go through valleys and peaks. This is the majesty present in a potent container. You are invited to become intimate with yourself, to listen profoundly to who you are, to know yourself at a deeper and subtler level. It is a precious gift and the rewards are infinite.

The facilitator group will always be approachable if there is a very strong desire to break silence or a felt emergency.

This is a cell-phone free event. Cells must be turned-off during the entire duration of the retreat. Ryan Re’s number should be given as an emergency contact for your loved ones who may need to reach out to you during the retreat. Ryan's phone will be always reachable.

Take note that all sits and activities are optional to attend, you can sleep-in and skip what you don’t want to attend. But we are requiring that no food is prepared or eaten outside the meal-times.

The lodge can sleep 47 people when full but we are capping it at 16 people total (including facilitators) to give us ample space.

There are no private rooms, but the rooms are large and spacious and there will be no more than 2 people per room. (follow the youtube video link to peek inside the lodge).

Male identifying persons and female identifying persons will have separate sleeping quarters as well as separate hot tubs and separate bathrooms.

For full info, rates, questions and more, email us at: ecstaticdancebend@gmail.com