MEDITATION, SATSANG, AND RETREATS
Meditation, Satsang, and Online Events
Meditation & Satsang
Fourth Tuesday of the month, except December (January - November, 2025)
Jan 28, Feb 25, Mar 25, Apr 22, May 27, Jun 24, Jul 22, Aug 26, Sep 23, Oct 28, Nov 25
Online satsang hosted via Zoom
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (PT)
For those of you interested in attending satsang at our “regular” Tuesday evening monthly time, we will be offering satsang on Zoom at the same time this month. Karen Wilsey, our Satsang Coordinator, will be Zoom hosting this satsang. If you are interested in attending, please click the link below to register your interest in receiving the Zoom meeting details that will be sent to you the day before the event. While this satsang is offered free of charge, should you wish to make a donation to Moon Mountain Sangha, we are happy to receive donations of any size via PayPal (donation link here) or mailed to:
Moon Mountain Sangha
1719 Union Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
Since this online satsang will be available to a larger group than generally come to the Unitarian Church in San Francisco on Tuesday evenings, we welcome new friends.
Retreats
The Heart’s Gratitude: Seeing the Sacred in the Ordinary
An online weekend retreat with Dorothy Hunt
“You don’t need a reason to be grateful.
Gratitude itself is the reason.
It’s a way of seeing, a way of aligning
yourself with reality.”
—Alan Watts
Date: Two-day retreat:
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Saturday, November 15, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PST
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Sunday, November 16, 2025 @ 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PST
Format: online retreat. Suggested donation: $60 – $75, payable through PayPal.
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
Event Description: When we give attention to the Heart we share, we discover a great fullness as well as a vast emptiness (awake openness) out of which life arises. We begin to develop a deep appreciation for life’s unique expressions, and the silent Mystery from which our breath, form, feeling, movement, sound, sensation, and energies take birth and return to Source. Touching this dimension of our Being invites us to see the sacred in the ordinary, here and now, and to open to moments of beauty that exist, even when pain, chaos or confusion are also present. Practicing gratefulness can change a life; but first we have to SEE.
View the flier.
A Six-Night Silent Retreat with Dorothy Hunt and guest teachers Brent BecVar and Shantam
What: Six-night silent retreat at Vajrapani Institute, hosted by Moon Mountain Sangha.
Date: June 1-7, 2026
Format: In-person silent retreat at Vajrapani Institute.
Location: Vajrapani Institute Retreat Center in Boulder Creek, California
Event Description: Retreat offers a powerful opportunity to open to the depth and silence of Being. It provides a time and space free of the usual demands of daily life to immerse oneself in Silence, to recognize and remember our true nature, and to investigate the implications of living from this truth. Vajrapani Institute, the site for this residential retreat, is a beautiful Tibetan Retreat Center situated on 70 acres of redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This rustic and remote setting features a dormitory building for men and women that includes indoor restrooms as well as single and double rooms, six lovely retreat cabins, and an option for camping.
Dorothy will be joined by two guest teachers:
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Brent BecVar, M.S. has been guiding Silent Retreats with Deepak Chopra and teaching meditation for 34 years in addition to being an educator and administrator with the Chopra Center during that time. Trained as a psychotherapist, Yoga instructor, and Vedic Educator, he is the Director of the Vedic Counseling program incorporating Ayurveda, Yogic philosophy, and Jyotish, Vedic Astrology, in a therapeutic environment.
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Shantam was invited to teach by Adyashanti in 2002, and is the founder of Fluid Presence™, a holistic approach to Self-Realization, as well as being an internationally known instructor and practitioner of warm-water body work therapy. Whether on land or in the water, Shantam invites a return to the heart, where body-breath-emotion-spirit are deeply held in the awake Presence that connects us to all levels of Being. She and Dorothy taught a retreat together at Vajrapani in 2009.
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Click here to view more details and register for this retreat!
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View the informational flier for this retreat.
Moon Mountain has a limited number of scholarships available for retreats. If you would like to apply, please fill out and send in the following form at least 2 months prior to the retreat for which you are applying.
