“Caverly meets each person, each moment, as they are, and gently provides gateways for softening into love.”

— Sue, Consultant

Non-Duality in Nature

The Direct Path to Love and Beauty

A retreat with Johann Robbins and Caverly Morgan

July 19-25, 2025

Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center

Registration now open!

On this retreat, the meditation approach is simply resting in awareness, without effort or striving. Surrounded by beauty in the peace of nature, letting everything be just as it is, our experience becomes simpler and more enjoyable.

You will have ample time to connect and be with the natural world and the beauty that surrounds you - inside and out. Summers are gentle in the mountains - with the green meadows, alive forests, wildflowers, high peaks, the running creek, and all the birds, moose, deer, elk, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, and other critters. It is an ideal setting for returning to our true nature, in nature. In all of this, you will rediscover the love, gratitude, and connection that is already inside of you - that is your being.

As we meditate, walk, converse, and share retreat space together, a natural sense of ease and belonging emerges. Our minds begin to quiet down from the ping-ponging of wanting and aversion - seeking and resisting. Without effort or struggle, separation dissolves and we are free to drop into love and connection. This is the Direct Path – not an effort, but a natural and easeful connection to our being - to who we truly are.

This retreat is informal and relaxed, with ample time for teaching, guiding, support, and discussion. There will be free time to enjoy the land in whatever way is right for you. The schedule will have periods of silence as well as optional times to be relational, allowing the love that naturally arises to flow as conversation among participants.

The Direct Path is not based on effort or technique, but is instead a relaxed falling back into our true nature - our being. If you have been practicing any form of Buddhism, Zen, or Mindfulness, have heard about the Direct Path or Non-Duality, or just feel drawn to a natural and deep approach to being in nature, this retreat will be a unique opportunity to explore, experience, love, and enjoy. In nature, at peace, we discover that we already are the happiness we seek.

This Retreat Includes:

Guidance and instruction in the Direct Path open awareness meditation, both sitting and walking.
Individual attention and breakout groups. Beginners and first-timers are fully supported, while those more experienced will find plenty to deepen their experience, so all are welcome.
Plenty of free time for hiking, meditation, rest, or just being in a beautiful space.
Evening campfire dharma talks and discussion.
One-on-one meetings with the teachers.
Camping or a variety of indoor rooms to choose from. Scholarships are available as needed.
If you want to do this retreat and the four-night Solo/Sangha retreat after it, please register for both. The interim nights are included and free.

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Being Resourced for These Times

A Whidbey Island Summer Retreat

With Caverly Morgan

July 28 - August 2, 2025

Whidbey Institute (WA)

“In the darkest times, one light can make a magnificent difference. When we come together in beloved community—rooted in truth, remembering our essence—we create a collective light far brighter than any one of us could shine alone.”

—Caverly

Join us for a nourishing and illuminating meditation retreat that will provide you with practical and grounded tools for these times.

These times call for collective care, collective solidarity, and collective practice. The cherished tradition of retreat is an opportunity to gather and connect, to heal and replenish, and to cultivate, together, the light of awareness—an ever-expansive light that we are all in need of right now.

Being Resourced for These Times is an invitation to explore, in community, contemplative technologies meant to benefit you personally, and beyond—understanding that our world changes when they are applied collectively. As Thich Nhat Hanh once predicted, “the next Buddha may be a Sangha” (aka, community of people who practice together.)

On this summer retreat we will delve deeply into Relational Dharma. Relational Dharma recognizes that our life unfolds within relationship—relationship with family, friends, colleagues, community, the world. We’ll mine the richness of being in relationship with each other while also exploring the gifts of what is beyond relationship.

Join us as, personally and together, we explore an understanding of presence that is inherently nourishing and connected—and the brilliance that comes from acting in the world on behalf of this luminous knowing.

What You Can Look Forward To:

Teachings and Guided Meditations: Engage in insightful teachings and guided meditations to deepen your understanding and experience of relational dharma and how to resource in these times.
Tools and Practices: Learn powerful and accessible tools to both deepen your personal practice and extend practice into the world.
Dyads and Group Discussions: Connect with fellow participants through structured dyads and open group discussions, fostering a supportive community.
Individual Session: Meet with Caverly privately to foster a deeply personal understanding of the teachings and practices as they relate to your life.
Journaling: Reflect on your experiences and insights through guided journaling exercises.
Mindful Movement: More information to come.
Restorative Time: Explore Whidbey Institute’s scenic trail system, wander the tranquil labyrinth and gardens, or simply rest. Rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit.
Nourishing Organic Meals: Enjoy delicious meals crafted by Whidbey Institute’s chef specially prepared for our group.

Our time together will be held in the container of the Whidbey Institute. Nestled amongst a 106-acre conservation forest campus on South Whidbey Island, WA, the Whidbey Institute is dedicated to nurturing the conditions for transformational learning and growth.

Our home for the week will be a community of farm houses and cabins dotting the meadow and forest, with delicious organic meals prepared especially for our group by the Institute’s chef. Our daily rhythm will include meditation, community discussion, and individual sessions with Caverly. The retreat will include daily periods of silence. Our time together will also be deeply enhanced by the embodied movement practices. Instructor to be announced soon!

This meditation retreat will be a hybrid of relational and silent time. There will also be plenty of free time to explore the trail system, walk the labyrinth, as well as rest. Deeply rest.