Kadampa Meditation Center Colorado offers many meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition, both in Denver and the surrounding areas.

In meditation retreat, we take a break from our normal busyness to gain experience of a particular meditation practice.

In a retreat, we have a chance to go deeper, to really be able to let go of our usual busyness, preoccupations, and worries, experiencing a spacious and life-enhancing perspective. We can take our spiritual practice up a notch. Even with poor concentration, we are generally more peaceful, relaxed, and happy on retreat than in our ordinary fast-paced, externalized lives.

At Kadampa Meditation Center Colorado, we offer a variety of retreats to give the practitioner an opportunity to get away from ordinary everyday life and a distracted mind. These relaxing and profound retreats help us create the space to contemplate and meditate on specific teachings.

Our meditation retreats range from half-day retreats on Saturdays, to full weekends, to away retreats during which we stay at a retreat center in the mountains. These retreats are offered throughout the year and provide an opportunity to gain retreat experience in quiet, peaceful, conducive environments. Guided by Gen Kelsang Gomlam, and teachers from both KMC Colorado and other Centers, we have something for everyone, from beginners to advanced students. Here is a summary of what we offer, and please browse to find something for you.

Offered every month, these are accessible and enjoyable for those new to meditation.

We offer a variety of retreats in our beautiful urban temple itself, very easy to access for everyone in the Denver area, and providing a peaceful and safe environment in which to meditate. Our meditation room is quiet and comfortable, we observe some silence during these retreats, and we are located close to Sloan’s Lake for enjoyable strolls between sessions.

We use a beautiful location nestled in the mountains for our popular monthly day-long retreats in the beautiful town of Evergreen. Each month, we meditate on a different theme.

Rocky Mountain weekend retreats are Offered once or twice a year, usually over a long weekend, these incredible retreats are very well attended and offer us the chance to make great strides in our meditation practice.

These faith-based retreats, held at our Center, are usually a week in length. They are a mixture of guided and unguided sessions, three or four sessions a day, and include time for some reading, prayers, and meditation. They are an integral part of the Teacher Training Program (TTP), but are also open to everyone else. You may attend any number of sessions. The preliminary practices, or so-called “preliminary guide retreats”, include the following Buddhist practices: Refuge and Bodhichitta, Guru yoga and mandala offerings, Vajrasattva purification practice.

For Supporting Members of KMC Colorado, some of our retreats, classes, and events are available to livestream as well as in-person. A wonderful option when you cannot get away. 

Note: To attend online you must be a supporting member of KMC CO.