At the Center, we teach concentration and insight meditation techniques from both the Christian and Buddhist traditions. There is instruction and ongoing spiritual direction for beginning and advanced students.

The Center offers three retreats each year. The “Spring Retreat at Saint Andrew's” is a three-day meditation retreat held every May at Saint Andrew's Abbey, a wonderfully contemplative, Benedictine monastery in the high desert outside Valyermo, California. We also sponsor the “Fall Spiritual Life Seminar” and the “Winter Meditation Retreat” with such well-known teachers as Wayne Muller, Alan Cohen, John Tarrant, and James Finley.

These shorter, two-day retreats are held at the Center in Riverside.

Meditation “sitting groups” also meet at the Center on a weekly basis. These groups provide students with the ongoing structure and encouragement necessary to deepen their meditation practice.

 
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