• Rhythm of the Earth Mindful Music Festival at Deer Park

    Deer Park Monastery 2499 Melru Lane, Escondido, CA, United States

    You are warmly invited to Rhythm of the Earth, the Third Annual Mindful Music Festival at Deer Park Monastery—a joyful day where music, mindfulness, and nature come together in harmony. Founded by Thich Nhat Hanh, Deer Park will host this special gathering on May 9 from 1:00–9:30 PM across its beautiful 400-acre landscape in Escondido. For more information,

  • BIPOC Weekend at Deer Park

    Deer Park Monastery 2499 Melru Lane, Escondido, CA, United States

    A Mindfulness Weekend for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) at Deer Park Monastery, May 15-17. See the Deer Park website for more details (link below).

  • May Day of Mindfulness with Victoria Mausisa: Fierce Love — Resistance and Rest

    EBMC 285 17th Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    A day for reflection, recovery, and engagement NOTE: This Day of Mindfulness will be held at East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC). See details below. With cruelty and injustice in the world running rampant every day, it can seem difficult to know what to do. We invite you — activists, advocates, practitioners, and all who support

    By donation
  • Geography of Change: A Forest Retreat for Navigating Life Transitions, with Valerie Brown

    Quaker Center Ben Lomond, California, United States

    Dharma teacher Valerie Brown will be offering a retreat at Quaker Center this coming year. Please share this invitation with your sanghas! This is an in-person retreat, May 29-31, 2026. Immersed in the stunning beauty of the redwoods in spring, this retreat explores issues of life transition, vocation, passion, purpose, meaning, direction, and underlying patterns,

  • Mindfulness Trainings Recitation

    San Francisco Dharma Collective 2929 24th St, San Francisco, California, United States

    Spiritual Friends Sangha invites you to our monthly recitation of the Buddhist Precepts for Ethical Living, aka the Five Mindfulness Trainings. After a period of settling in, we will cultivate awareness together in silence for 20 to 30 minutes - sitting, walking, standing, reclining, rolling meditation all welcome. This will be followed by a communal

    Free
  • CANCELLED: June Day of Mindfulness

    Shantideva Monastery 30345 Palomares Road, Castro Valley, California, United States

    Many members of our community will be in France for the Order of Interbeing retreat during much of June, so we are cancelling our plans to hold a local Day of Mindfulness this month. Please join us the following months at Shantideva and elsewhere around the Bay Area!

  • Deer Park Family Retreat

    Deer Park Monastery 2499 Melru Lane, Escondido, CA, United States

    Deer Park's very popular annual retreat for families to join monastics and other practitioners in the Plum Village tradition. For more information, see the link to the Deer Park website below.

  • July Day of Mindfulness: Great Love and Letting Go

    Rossmoor Gateway Clubhouse 1001 Golden Rain Rd, Walnut Creek, California, United States

    You are invited to a Day of Mindfulness Hosted by Potluck Sangha  Join us for a nourishing day of mindfulness dedicated to exploring the depth and freedom of Great Love—a love that is spacious, wise, and liberating. Rooted in the teachings of the Buddha and inspired by the insights of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, this

    Free
  • August Day of Mindfulness

    Shantideva Monastery 30345 Palomares Road, Castro Valley, California, United States

    Please save the date for a Day of Mindfulness at Shantideva Monastery.

  • September Day of Mindfulness in Vacaville

    Pho Tri Wisdom Meditation School 7233 Pleasants Valley Road, Vacaville, California, United States

    Please save the date for a Day of Mindfulness at Pho Tri Wisdom Meditation School in Vacaville.

  • October Day of Mindfulness in Santa Cruz

    Udumbara Retreat Center / Duc Vien Tinh Uyen 21055 Summit Road, Los Gatos, CA, United States

    A day of mindfulness at Udumbara is planned for October. However, the date is not yet confirmed.

  • November Day of Mindfulness

    Shantideva Monastery 30345 Palomares Road, Castro Valley, California, United States

    Please save the date for a Day of Mindfulness at Shantideva Monastery.