My full teaching schedule schedule is below the featured retreats. Also see select Insight Santa Cruz events here.

May 4-9, 2025, Spring Insight Meditation Retreat with Dawn Neal

This will be a silent mindfulness retreat with alternating sitting and walking meditation, instruction, Dharma talks, work meditation, and practice discussions with the teacher.

The Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, CA, is located approximately 45 minutes north of Santa Cruz, California, and approximately an hour southwest of San Jose International Airport. This rustic center is surrounded by the deep forest of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It includes a beautiful –and steep– walk uphill to the meditation hall. There is no cost for this retreat; it is a gift of generosity (Dana).

Registration is currently open. Participants will be selected through a lottery system, and notified of their status by April 8.

July 29-August 3, Abbot Doshin Mako Voelkel and Dawn Neal will be offering a 5-day retreat on Cultivating Bodhisattva Virtues at the beautiful Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Registration is currently open.

August 24-29, 2025, Dawn Neal and Kim Allen will be offering a five-night all-Dana Insight retreat at the Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, CA. Registration will open in May.

December 14-21, 2025, Silent Residential Insight Meditation Retreat with Dawn Neal, Bob Stahl and Mary Grace Orr at Insight Retreat Center. Registration lottery opens August 14, 2025. Check the IRC website then for details and registration.