Living Stillness, Moving Light with Roma Hammel, PhD
An illuminated body • living in truth • living in power • living in love
A Summer Deepening Retreat
Open to certified Realization Process teachers and advanced practitioners
“Nonduality is the wholly mysterious experience that we are made of a luminous unified field of consciousness at the same time that we experience ourselves as made of matter. Experiencing this utter truth of life reaps an unmistakable deepening of our ability to love, create, speak, and experience delight.” – Roma Hammel
July 27 — 31, 2026
9:45 AM – 4:15 PM
In-Person, Los Altos Hills, CA
The Invitation
Do you seek to realize the nonduality of your innate nature?
Do you long to feel the utter truth of it vibrating throughout your whole body?
This summer retreat is a rare invitation to dissolve the boundaries between your inner depth and the world around you. Together, we will weave the Realization Process and traditional Taoist practices through immersive seated meditation, movement, relational touch, sound, art, dialogue, and direct contact with nature.
In this unified, relational field of consciousness, the body naturally softens, perception shifts, and subtle fragmentations gently release. Your thoughts, sensations, and perceptions begin to move as a singular, unified expression of life. In this space of deep nondual realization, even the simplest gesture becomes filled with intelligence, clarity, and love.
A taste of what is alive in our recent work
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The Subtle Core as Gateway: Attuning directly to the innermost channel of the body to open into the fundamental dimension. From this deep anchor, you are teaching practitioners how to fully disentangle from passing experience while remaining vibrantly alive, responsive, and humanly awake within it.
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Internal Coherence and the Qualities of Being: The understanding that inhabiting the absolute internal depth of the body uncovers an authentic self that is naturally coherent, whole, and ringing with innate intelligence, love, and power. These qualities do not need to be manufactured or constructed—they are simply waiting to be uncovered.
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Authenticity and Aliveness: A strong emphasis that embodied realization is not self-denial or a flattening of the self. Instead, it is an invitation to a life that is more vibrant, impactful, pleasurable, and transparent—allowing your true essence to show up fully in your sparkling eyes, a vibrant voice, and a sensuous touch.
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The Daily Flow and Experience
Our core retreat hours are 9:45 am–4:15 pm, with room on both sides of the day to rest, swim, walk, gather, or simply linger together. We’ll offer a light breakfast starting at 9:00 am for those who would like to arrive early and settle in together. Please bring your own lunch daily.
Mornings center on subtle, somatic, unity-consciousness meditations. Afternoons open into creative and relational exploration—through movement, sound, art, pair work, and time in nature.
As our time together unfolds, the structure softens, allowing space for reflection and unstructured presence: alone in nature, in pairs or small groups, or together. Art materials will be available throughout the retreat for those who feel drawn to draw, paint, or create as part of their process. There will also be optional opportunities for swimming, walking through Esther Clark Park, napping in hammocks, enjoying an evening potluck by the pool, and watsu, as weather permits.
What to Bring
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Clothing: Casual summer clothes with a lightweight jacket for early mornings or evenings.
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Sun & Water: Swimsuit, sun hat, and dark glasses.
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Footwear: Comfortable walking shoes and easy slip-on/slip-off sandals that you can leave at the door when entering the house.
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Practice & Reflection: A meditation bowl (if convenient) and a notebook.
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Comfort: Any personal comfort items you might need throughout the day.
What to Expect
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9:00 am (Optional Gathering): Bring your breakfast or snack—go for an early swim, rest in the hammock, or pick ripe blackberries.
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9:45 am: Gathering as a group—overview of the morning—what’s alive now?
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10:00 am – 12:45 pm: Subtle, somatic, unity-consciousness seated meditations.
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12:45 pm – 1:45 pm (Lunch): Bring food to eat or share—go for a swim, walk through nearby Esther Clark Park, draw, read, talk with others, or nap under the redwoods.
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1:45 pm: Gathering as a group—overview of the afternoon—what’s alive now?
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2:00 pm – 4:15 pm: Creative meditations that deepen our contact with the unified field—through art, music, sound, poetry, journaling, movement, pair work, small group somatic inquiries, and solitary time in nature.
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4:15 pm Onward (Optional): Stay here and swim or relax.
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5:30 pm Onward (Optional): Organize a potluck or take-out food to share—sit out on the back patio by the pool as the sun sets, and linger until 9 or 10 pm.
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9:00 or 10:00 pm Onward: Quiet time and rest.
Who This is For
This retreat is for experienced RP meditators who can sustain consciousness of the unified field for 90+ minutes. I
Please commit to showing up, speaking your truth, listening with curiosity, and honoring confidentiality (so that each of us can be open, let go of fear of judgment, and allow our self to be seen and heard in our humanness.) After all, what we say in one moment as “truth” might be completely different in the next.
This series is designed for experienced meditators who know their own psychological history. t is not focused on psychological work but instead on deepening attunement to the unified field of consciousness pervading us as a group.
Fees & Cancellations
- The fee for the retreat is $800.
- Payment is due when you’re accepted into this retreat.
- The fee for changing your registration or cancelling your registration (up until two weeks ahead of time) is $100.
- After that date, there are no refunds, except for unanticipated emergencies.
- There are a limited number of spaces open to participants who need financial assistance in order to participate.
Retreat Suggestions
- Create a supportive, quiet environment
- Design a life style conducive to your well-being
- Make a list of resources that honor the importance of being kind to yourself and others.
- Listen to the wisdom of your body with tenderness and curiosity.
Reflections
“Roma is an extraordinary, compassionate, and perceptive teacher.
Along with a deep understanding of the principles and practices of the Realization Process, she brings to her work the finely attuned spiritual sensitivity, psychological insight, and warm loving presence gained from her own awakening.
I highly recommend her.”
“Roma, your presence has been a profound gift in my life. What would have taken me years to learn has unfolded with ease and depth through your guidance. I feel truly seen and supported. Integrating the spiritual and the somatic has brought me closer to my true nature, revealing a sense of wholeness that I hadn’t known before.”
“I can barely begin to explain the alchemy of Roma’s work. Her ability to guide me into a lived, visceral integration of body, mind, and heart is a gift I didn’t expect to experience in this lifetime.”
“Roma is the most amazing teacher. She holds space with great skill, pushing and probing in the kindest and gentlest ways, bringing about dramatic and subtle changes simultaneously. Few embody such depth, kindness, inclusiveness, and generosity.”
“Roma is an extraordinary teacher. She is vibrantly alive, wise, and a healing presence. She embodies and transmits the unconditional love and luminosity of fundamental consciousness, offering a safe space for people to open their hearts and deeply connect with themselves and the world around them.”
“You have a rare gift for intuitively guiding me in our private sessions—and each one of us in your mentoring groups—into a lived experience of who we truly are: whole, authentic and vibrantly alive.”
Let’s Meditate