Summer Retreat July 27-31, 2026

Do you seek to realize the nonduality of your innate nature?
Do you long to feel the utter truth of it throughout your whole body?

This retreat is an invitation to deepen into the nonduality of your innate nature and to feel its truth throughout your whole body.

We weave Realization Process and Taoist practices through seated meditation, movement, touch, sound, art, dialogue, and time in nature. In this atmosphere, the body softens, perception shifts, and subtle fragmentations release. Thoughts, sensations, and perceptions begin to move as one unity. Even the simplest gesture can feel filled with intelligence and love.

• The Subtle Core as Gateway. The innermost channel of the body opens directly into the fundamental dimension. From here, we disentangle from experience while remaining fully alive within it.
• Internal Coherence and the Qualities of Being. Inhabiting the body reveals an authentic self—coherent, whole, and resonant with intelligence, love, and power. These qualities are not constructed, but uncovered.
• Authenticity and Aliveness. Embodied realization is not self-denial. It uncovers a life that is more vibrant, impactful, and pleasurable—a transparent presence that is also human, alive, and responsive.

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.

Please email me back right away if you would like to come.

Please confirm your reservation by sending the $800 retreat fee to rhammel@pacbell.net through Zelle or PayPal Friends and Family. Please select “Friends and Family” so the full amount goes toward the retreat.

Nourished by nature and nurtured by the kindness of others, our hearts become wild and fierce, our bodies luminous and self-aware, our minds keen and clear.

casual summer clothes with a lightweight jacket for early mornings or evenings, sun hat, dark glasses, swim suit, walking shoes, meditation bowl (if convenient), notebook, personal comfort items

9:00 am (optional) gathering – bring your breakfast or snack – go for an early swim or rest in the hammock or pick ripe blackberries
9:45 am – gathering as a group – overview of morning – what’s alive now?
10 – 12:45 pm – subtle, somatic, unity-consciousness seated meditations
12:45 – 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
1:45 pm – gathering as a group – overview of afternoon – what’s alive now?
2 – 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, solitary time in nature
4:15 pm onward – (optional) stay here and swim or relax
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 sunsets, and linger until 9 or 10 pm …
9 or 10 pm onward – quiet time – rest

Options:

• Arrange an outing to visit Stanford University (15 minute away), San Francisco (45 minutes away), Monterey (90 minutes away)
• Explore the beaches (45 minutes away) or redwood trees (30-45 minutes away for old grove trees) or downtown (6 minutes away)
• Walk around downtown Los Altos or Stanford Shopping Center

This retreat is for experienced RP meditators who can sustain consciousness of the unified field for 90+ minutes. It is not focused on psychological work but instead on deepening attunement to the unified field of consciousness pervading us as a group.

Fee: $800 – due when you’re accepted into this retreat. The fee for changing our registration or cancelling your registration (up until July 1st ) is $100. After that date, there are no refunds except for unanticipated emergencies.