Sitting in Beauty: A 5-day Silent Meditation Retreat

Sitting in Beauty is a five-day silent meditation retreat at Drala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado. It is a retreat for people who want an extended stretch of quiet practice, with speech set aside for the length of the program and the days given over to sitting meditation.

What to Expect

The format is a silent retreat over five days. Silence is the container: no conversation to manage, no social obligations, only time to practice and to notice what arises. A silent meditation retreat like this suits anyone ready to go beyond a weekly sit or a short workshop and spend several consecutive days in sustained practice.

The Setting

Drala Mountain Center is a mountain retreat center near Red Feather Lakes in northern Colorado. It hosts a wide range of programs, including Buddhist path retreats, meditation and mindfulness retreats, yoga and wellness, and programs centered on the natural world. Its grounds include the Great Stupa, which is the site of some of its retreats. The center also runs other silent meditation retreats and a Foundations of Meditation series, so it is a place well versed in holding contemplative practice.

For this retreat, the quiet of a mountain setting is part of the offering. Silence tends to deepen when the surroundings are unhurried, and a retreat center away from town helps that happen.