Private Rooms
Each of the four bedrooms is private, comfortable, and spare. Nothing in the rooms competes with the work. Views of pine forest and ridge line from every window.
The Location
Cold Springs, CA
The Sierra Nevada Foothills
Just under three hours from San Francisco, heading towards Yosemite near Pinecrest Lake, the mountains rise into a different atmosphere. Here, at 6,000 feet elevation, the air changes. The silence is not the silence of noise-canceling headphones. It is the silence of distance from the world's constant insistence on itself.
Cold Springs is a small community nestled in pine forest — rugged, quiet, and inhospitable to distraction. The retreat house sits on several acres of private land with views that make the scale of ordinary concerns suddenly visible for what they are.
The location is not incidental. Mountains have always been the traditional setting for this kind of inquiry. There is a reason.
6,000 ft
Elevation
~3 hrs
From San Francisco
Private
Acreage & Access
The Property
Four bedrooms.
One purpose.
Practice Hall
A dedicated, stripped room for sitting practice and direct dialogue with the teacher. No decoration. Natural light from floor-level windows onto the forest floor.
Common Gathering Space
Meals are taken together in the common room — unhurried, nourishing, and woven into the inquiry. The table is as much a teaching space as the practice hall.
The Format
A Weekend
Without a
Schedule.
There is no rigid schedule because this work does not happen on a timetable. There is a rhythm to the days that has proven itself — and within that rhythm, the teaching emerges when the conditions are right, not when the clock says so.
Friday
Arrival & Opening Dialogue
Participants arrive in the late afternoon. An unhurried meal. The teacher meets each person where they are. No formal teaching yet — only honest meeting.
Saturday
Deep Inquiry
The full day is given over to the work. Morning sitting, individual dialogues, walking in the forest, afternoon dialogue. Meals as continuation of the inquiry. The evening is often when something shifts.
Sunday
Integration & Departure
Morning practice. Closing dialogue as a group. Time to sit with what has happened before the descent back to ordinary life. Departure after lunch.
Throughout
Continuous Availability
The teacher is present throughout the weekend, not only during formal sessions. At a retreat of four, there is no separation between teaching and everything else.
All-Inclusive
Everything That Matters
is Included
Private bedroom with mountain views
All meals, prepared on-site
Unlimited direct access to the teacher
Morning tea and sitting practice
Individual and group dialogue sessions
Access to private forest trails
Pre-retreat preparation call with teacher
Post-retreat follow-up correspondence
iRealization reading materials curated for you
Total digital silence — no Wi-Fi in the house
