August 8 - 10, 2025

Registration opens July 23 and closes August 6
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Friday PM - August 8 ||  5-7pm Pacific / 8-10pm Eastern
Focus Out

Leader: Shinzen Young
Type of Program: Special Theme
Prerequisites: Previous experience with the See, Hear, Feel family of techniques
Fee: $10 per person 

Learn how to focus on physical sights, physical sounds, and physical body sensations. In daily life, we are constantly looking, listening, and moving the body. The Focus Out technique will allow you to stay deep and anchored even while going about complex activities such as driving, working, or talking to people. It’s a systematic and tangible way to experience the Power of Now.

In preparation for this program, please:

Saturday AM - August 9  ||  5-9am Pacific / 8am-12pm Eastern
Self-Enquiry

Leader: Shinzen Young 
Type of Program: Special Theme
Prerequisites: Some familiarity with the See, Hear, Feel family of techniques (Just See, Just Hear,
                             Just Feel, SHF)
Fee: $20 per person

In this program, we’ll explore a fundamental meditation strategy that has been discovered and re-discovered many times, and in many cultures – how to turn awareness back on itself to find the true Witness, i.e. pure consciousness.   The techniques you’ll learn here represent Shinzen’s re-working of traditional practices such as those associated with Advaita and certain forms of Zen. You’ll learn how to turn attention back 180 degrees to question who sees, who hears, who feels.

In preparation for this program, please:

Saturday PM - August 9  ||  10am-2pm Pacific / 1-5pm Eastern
[Bounce Blast: Working with the Auto Family

Leader: Shinzen Young 
Type of Program: Drill
Prerequisites: A good familiarity with all four of the Expressiveness techniques -- Auto Think, Auto  Speak, Auto Move, and Auto Focus (aka Do Nothing).
Fee: $20 per person

This program is for people who are quite familiar with the theme of Auto, also known as expressiveness or bounce. It will be a deep dive into the dynamic side of emptiness.

In preparation for this program, please:

Sunday AM - August 10 ||  8am-12pm Pacific / 11am-3pm Eastern
Going Deeper into Equanimity

Leader: Shinzen Young 
Type of Program: Special Offering
Prerequisites: Some familiarity with the Unified Mindfulness system.
Fee: $20 per person

In this program, Shinzen will introduce some special exercises designed to clarify and deepen the equanimity skill. He'll also present a big picture map with equanimity at the center connecting the domains of science, spirituality, the humanities, and public discourse. 

In preparation for this program, please:

Sunday PM - August 10  ||  1-5pm Pacific / 4-8pm Eastern
Feel Great!

Leader: Shinzen Young 
Type of Program: Special Offering
Prerequisites: Previous experience with the following: Feel Rest, Auto Move, Feel Good and Feel Flow.
Fee: $20 per person

In this program, we’ll explore the interplay of four techniques that tend to create immediate pleasure rewards in your body experience:

  • Feel Rest – Find and/or create somatic tranquility.

  • Feel Bounce (aka, Auto Move) – Tune into spontaneity as you walk, move, dance,

  • Feel Good (aka Nurture Positive Body Emotion) - Create and hold pleasant emotional sensations in the body.

  • Feel Flow – Tune into any and all experience of impermanence in the body: undulations, vibrations, arisings & passings, expansion & contraction.

In preparation for this program, please: