Community Events for 2026
Elemental Pilgrimage
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center
September 3 - September 8, 2026 (6 nights)
Erin Selover + Anne Cushman
We are in this together
Within the container of Noble Silence, we will explore essential dharma practices that awaken intuitive wisdom and deepen our felt relationship with the natural world. Each day we’ll make a meditative pilgrimage to a different landscape, each offering a unique balance of earth, water, sun, and wind—such as a still pond, a ponderosa grove, a moonlit meadow, a stream sparkling over stone. In these living temples, we will cultivate mindful, heartful presence through all our senses, in movement and stillness, while opening to the dharma wisdom that is speaking through each place.
Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love
Spirit Rock Meditation Retreat
October 21 - October 25, 2026 (5 nights)
Erin Selover + Emily Horn
On the land at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
We are in this together
“From my own experience, there is no difference between mindfulness and loving kindness. When you are fully loving, aren’t you also mindful? When you are mindful, is this not also the essence of love?” – Dipa Ma
This retreat will focus on integrating a sense of embodied warmth with an intuitive knowing by cultivating a relaxed and kind attention in all activities.
13 Moons of Mourning:
New Moon Mourning Rituals
Every New Moon from through December 2026
With Erin Selover + Meghan Kroll
New Moon, Friday April 10, 8:30 - 10am PST
Meghan Kroll and I are offering 13 Moons of Mourning through December 2026. We have several intentions. First, we want to increase our community's capacity to mourn. We see it as an essential skill at this time. We want to build our culture where mourning is a characteristic of how we relate to ourselves and each other.
Second, when we are feeling afraid, angry, confused and other difficult emotions, mourning is a skill to bring us back to compassion and tender threads of vision. The aliveness felt through mourning can literally be the energy we engage to take the next skillful step in an otherwise mess of confusion and/or reactivity.
Third, we see mourning combined with a commitment to serve as an act of resistance. While modernity teaches us in the global north to fight, consume and flee to supposed privileged pockets of safety, we are encouraging us to gather together to mourn these impulses, see our collective situation ever more clearly and listen for deeper impulses connected to life and a world that works for everyone everywhere. We welcome you to join us.
You can join this offering at any time. You are not required to attend all. 13 Moons of Mourning will be offered through zoom.
Offerings can be made through Venmo @erinselover or paypal.me/ErinSelover
2026 Celebrating Summer Solstice
with Erin Selover
Friday June 19th, 8:30 - 10:30am PST
Please join us to gather in the evening of Summer Solstice to align with the outer energy beginning to wane and the inner energy beginning to expand. We celebrate all that has manifested since the Winter Solstice, during the outward cycle of the Sun, and consciously call back the dark to restore balance and wholeness internally and externally.
Suggested offering between $33 - $66. Please do not let finances be a barrier to receiving this offering.
2026 Celebrating the Fall Equinox
with Erin Selover
on Zoom
Date and Time TBD
Come celebrate the Fall Equinox with earth based ritual, meditation and a sincere community. This year we will hold this ritual during the Lunar Eclipse at 7:32pm to support amplifying our prayers for collective balance and healing at this time.
Equinox is a time of year when day and night are of equal length all over the world. Connecting with the earth’s relationship to the sun at equinox, offers an opportunity to reflect on how to bring steadiness and wisdom to individual, relational and societal imbalances.
Fall Equinox is a meaningful time for celebration of the harvest. Whatever bore fruit, rejoice in the offering. It is also a time of restored balance and integration. It’s natural to get out of balance in summer. Now is the time to get back into the body and daily rhythms that nourish you that may have gotten lost in all the abundance of summer. This is a potent time to gather and we are delighted to be together again.
Suggested offering between $33 - $103. Please do not let finances be a barrier to receiving this offering.
Samhain Immersion 2026
Courting our Ancestors within Beloved Community
A 6 -week online immersion program with an
optional on-land Weekend Silent Retreat + Ritual
with Erin Selover
6 Tuesday online October 13th - November 17th, 5:30-7pm PST
on-land in Lake County Friday, October 30th, 11am - Monday, November 2nd, 12pm
We are excited to announce that registration is open for the 2025 Samhain Immersion. Please join us to celebrate the Celtic New Year, honor our Ancestors and enter into our 6th year of working with the Celtic Wheel.
We are offering both an online and an on-land immersion. Both will include 3 online sessions to prepare and 3 online sessions to integrate. You have the option to do your own ritual at home or gather in Lake County Friday, October 31st - Sunday, November 2nd.
Samhain Immersion - Online
6 Wednesdays October 15th - November 19th, 5:30-7pm PST
+ self-created ritual over Samhain weekend.
Suggested Dana: $0 - 240
Samhain Immersion - On land
6 Wednesdays online October 15th - November 19th, 5:30-7pm PST
+ weekend retreat in Lake County
Friday, October 31st, 11am - Sunday, November 2nd, 3pm.
$0-$400 for housing + food; Suggested Dana: $0 - 600
Samhain is the beginning of the Celtic New Year where we reflect on the past growing season and begin to sense what to align ourselves with in the coming year. In addition, Samhain is a time of ancestral connection, where the veil is thinnest and it is said we are able to communicate most easily with the ancestors.
The primary purpose of this Immersion is for you to connect with the benevolence and resilience of your ancestral line to support you engaging with the ongoing collapse of modernity. The focus will be on taking the next integratable next step within your journey of ancestral connection. We will focus on preparing ourselves and integrating what we experienced in our online gatherings.
For online-only practitioners, the three sessions before October 31st will set you up to create your own ritual over Samhain. This is designed to both support those new to the Celtic Wheel, Samhain and/or ritual and those who are experienced.
Finally, these Samhain Immersions are offered on Dana - the Buddhist practice of generosity. Absolutely no one turned away for lack of funds.
Calling Forth Vision - A Winter Solstice Online Daylong
with Erin Selover
December 2026
Date and Time TBD
During this daylong retreat, we will meet the winter solstice with reverence and humility as we move through the longest nights of the year and welcome the returning of the light. During the morning session we will practice mindfulness meditation, abiding in silence and stillness, with kindness and clarity. Then, in the afternoon, we will reflect on the previous year and conclude with a ritual that invites a release of that which no longer serves us and a calling forth of that which we intuitively feel emerging from within.
When preparing your at-home space for retreat, we encourage you to create conditions to support your being in contemplative silence for most of the day. We invite you to set up a practice location where you can view the outdoors, and to plan time for integration after the retreat.
LOCATION:
Online via Zoom
Rest And Renewal:
An Online Winter Solstice Life Retreat
with Erin Selover
on Zoom in Community
Likely over the Gregorian New Year with similar format
This retreat is designed for you to do at home as either a silent retreat or a life retreat that you do in the full or partial context of your daily life. The intention is to co-create a container that will support you to deepen your meditation practice in the luminous darkness of these long dark winter nights. While also aligning with the energy of the winter season, which like a seed gestating in the soil, is the ideal time for planting intentions. My hope is to have it mostly be restful while doing only nourishing things that support your coming year. So, whether you are in the fullness of family life, working full or partial time or have the entire time for practice, this retreat is designed to deepen your meditation practice while also offering renewal practices such as identifying core values for the year, aligning our yearly schedules with astrology, journal prompts for reflection and opportunities for creating rituals of rest and rejuvenation.
The immersion schedule will similar to the following (Times are in PST):
Sunday:
10-12pm Orientation, Meditation, Setting Intentions
6-7:00pm Guided Meditation
Monday: ,
9-9:45am Guided Meditation
12-12:45pm Guided Meditation
5:30 -7pm Dharma Talk, Practices and Discussion
Friday:
9-11 Guided Meditation & Prepping for Solo time
11am + Solo Time
Saturday:
Continued solo time to create a day based on your needs for your own practice and renewal time
Sunday:
10am - 1pm Meditation, Sharing, Closing
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Our zoom room will be opened during the entire retreat so people can come in to practice together on off hours for meditation support.
While as many people as possible attending each session will co-create a stronger field, this retreat is designed to support you within the context of your actual life. What I imagine is there will be a group of us that are attending almost everything and we will be anchoring the retreat and their will also be a group that is attending what they can given family, personal and work commitments. My request is that you attend what is within capacity, no more no less, and are integrating the teaching wherever you are as best you are able. I trust our shared intentions and retreat field will support each of us deepen our practice in our contexts just as they are.
This retreat will be held on gift economics. This retreat is designed to be available to anyone who wants to attend please do not let finances be a barrier. The suggested a sliding scale of $0-$600.
If you are in financial hardship right now we ask that you stretch to receive this retreat as a gift from the community to you.
If you have capacity to contribute financially, we ask you to contribute what would bring you joy to contribute
Please make offering to Erin through Venmo @erinselover or paypal.me/ErinSelover by December 21. Please share offerings using “friends and family” and note that it is for “Solstice 2025 Immersion” in the comments.
2027 Imbolc Ritual:
Celebrating the Lunar Imbolc
Date + Time TBD
With Erin Selover
On Zoom
Imbolc is the half-way point between the winter solstice and spring equinox. A time where we are invited to begin to welcome the sun and slowly turn outward.
Imbolc is also a time to celebrate the Celtic Goddess Brigid. Brigid is a goddess of mercy. As we complete our reflection of the previous year and move towards the new life calling at Spring, Brigid encourages us to continue to bring tenderness, forgiveness and gentleness to the previous year.
The retreat is offered completely on gift and no one is turned away for lack of funds. Suggested offering between $33 - $103. Please do not let finances be a barrier to receiving this offering.
To register contact Corrie at corriebennett@gmail.com
Offerings can be made through Venmo @erinselover or paypal.me/ErinSelover
2027 Celebrating Ostara: The Festival of Balance
Aligning with the Energies of the Spring Equinox
March 20th, 5:30-7:30 PST
With Erin Selover
On Zoom
Spring Equinox is a time when day and night are equal all over the world. It’s particularly a time of tuning into the quality of balance, to see clearly the possibilities that lie before, however constrained, as the flowers blossom and the days gradually increase in light.
The retreat is offered completely on gift and no one is turned away for lack of funds. Suggested offering between $33 - $103. Please do not let finances be a barrier to receiving this offering. Offerings can be made through Venmo @erinselover or paypal.me/ErinSelover
Registration will open in late February. Email corriebennett@gmail.com to be added to the email list for these events.