Peace and Rest
Weekend Nature Retreat
with Johann Robbins and Cornelia Santschi
July 31 – August 3, 2025
Registration is Open Now
Escape the busyness of life with a peaceful long weekend retreat in the mountains, offering nature-based meditation and restorative silence. Enjoy daily meditation sessions, both group and individual, with an emphasis on relaxing into open awareness and connecting deeply with nature. Open to all experience levels, this retreat will leave you feeling rested, nourished, and reconnected to the present moment.
Retreat Details
Take a break from busyness and craziness by giving yourself the gift of a long weekend in the mountains this summer. This retreat offers time for peacefully easing into nature-based meditation and restorative restful silence. Being able to slow down, reconnect, and awaken to the beauty of the present moment, you’ll leave feeling rested, deeply nourished, and more alive. Whether you’re seeking inner stillness, inspiration, or simply a break to destress, this is the only summer weekend retreat scheduled at RMERC.
The retreat will be outdoors as much as weather allows. Each day will include nature meditation instruction and then plenty of time for sitting and walking, both in the group and on your own. The emphasis will be on relaxing into open awareness, leading to the falling away of separation, and simply resting and being in nature.
There are no prerequisites for this retreat, and beginning meditators and first-time retreaters are welcome and will be fully supported, while those with more experience will be able to find your own balance between instruction and silent practice.
This Retreat Includes:
- Guidance and instruction for meditation in nature (both sitting and walking) to deepen our experience of connection with the earth and nature, dissolving separation and stress.
- The joy, healing and aliveness that comes with peacefully sitting and walking in beautiful wild settings.
- Free time for meditation and rest.
- Small group discussion and Q and A with the teachers.
- Evening campfire dharma talks.
- If you want to do this retreat and the four-night Solo/Sangha retreat before it, please look at the information and register for both.
What Participants Have Said about Previous Retreats:
I leave this retreat with a full heart and a renewed connection to nature. The teachers guided the process with great skill and sensitivity, and the retreat was better than I ever imagined or hoped for.
Peg F.
I loved the tender way the teachers held the space: open, kind, curious, respectful, with great inclusivity and humility. And how they let this sacred land be the primary teacher.
Christina O.
The ecosangha came alive with the invitation to share, contribute and gather wisdom. The solo was most precious, truly an organic ceremony, every moment and action became a ritual of belonging.
Jill L.
I love this retreat and have come twice now. It is masterfully crafted to allow participants to settle into deep meditation in the outdoors, while developing a rich community of people connecting with each other meaningfully around internal and external responses to the ecocrisis.
Charley R.
This retreat connected me to a beautiful web of wise and deep people. Through the careful instructions of the teachers we went from gratitude and love into the depths of ecological suffering, and then back up into connection and interdependence as a sangha. I greatly appreciated the gradual shift from silence into solo, and then more time for sharing at the end of the retreat.
Sam K.
There is a wonderful holding that comes from the land in synergy with the non-directive wisdom and compassion of the teachers. Their generosity was profound.
Fran C.