Events
Thanksgiving Beach Sit
Start the holiday season by practicing in community and stillness for our annual Thanksgiving Beach Sit with Trudy and Christiane Wolf.
Bring a beach chair or your meditation cushion and a towel to sit on. The sit will be without guidance. You can join anytime, if you are late or just want to sit for 30min just join quietly.
We are looking forward to seeing you!
Directions: Take Ocean Park Blvd. all the way West to where it stops, and turn left on Barnard Way. Take your first right at the stop sign into Parking Lot 5 South and turn RIGHT into short term parking before the main lot ticket booth. There is an extra (unmanned) ticket booth on the short term lot.
The sitting group will be just north of lifeguard station # 26 or to the right if facing the ocean. Walk straight down the wooden board walk and then to your left. You may not be able to see us sitting on the beach from the parking lot, so please walk to the lifeguard station to find the group.
Metered parking is free on Thanksgiving!
Schedule: 7am – 8am PT.
More information and sign up here!
Ram Dass Legacy Retreat: Open Your Heart in Paradise
Trudy and Jack will be returning to Maui in December for this yearly gathering!
Join the Love Serve Remember Foundation, along with Krishna Das & Friends, to celebrate the 16th Anniversary of “Open Your Heart in Paradise” Maui Retreats at the Napili Kai Beach Resort.
Experience the enduring legacy of Ram Dass by participating in this ever-popular retreat, which welcomes long-time pilgrims, truth-seekers, and newcomers embarking on their spiritual journey.
Embark on a pilgrimage to Maui, a perfect opportunity to break away from daily routines and immerse yourself in an environment conducive to silence, reflection, meditation, healing, and celebration.
This retreat offers a chance to connect with a like-minded community of all ages from around the world, coming together in satsang/sangha to support each other’s personal and spiritual growth through shared practices and camaraderie.
Find more information and register here.
Practicing Presence and Deep Connection: Wisdom and Wellbeing at Blue Spirit, Costa Rica
Join Trudy for Wisdom and Wellbeing at Blue Spirit, Nosara, Costa Rica in January 2025! She will be teaching with Jack and others as part of their Wisdom and Wellbeing Program. Find more information on their website.
Coming Home to Our Senses
Come home to your senses with Trudy Goodman, Gullu Singh and Gabrielle Hammond.
Time in retreat allows us to step away from the demands of everyday life and listen deeply to our body, heart and mind. The purpose of this practice is to turn our attention to what brings true peace and happiness in life while cultivating more resilience, compassion and wisdom, both in responding to suffering in the world and in our own hearts.
Most of the retreat is held in silence, with periods of sitting and walking meditation. Expect guided meditations, teaching talks, qigong practices and a teacher-led practice discussion meeting for each participant.
Retreatants are given guidance to encourage the practice of mindfulness in all the retreat activities, staying with their own present experience as it unfolds, moment to moment.
Registration for this retreat closes on May 1st, 2025 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.
This retreat is offered both in person, on land, and online.
More details and registration available on the BBRC website soon!
Devotion to the Sacred Retreat
Trudy will be joined by her friends Anam Thubten, James Baraz, Jill White Lindsay and Alexa Redner for this special retreat held in person at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
The retreat will focus on cultivating states of true well-being such as gratitude, kindness, and compassion and keep connecting to the source within us from which they arise. As they shine through, they become a gift to everyone in our lives.
This retreat is for practitioners who want to deepen their meditation practice through heartfelt connection to our natural goodness, well-being and joy.
A silent retreat with a schedule of sitting and walking meditation, with instruction, Dharma talks and practice discussions with the teachers.
This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings.
Find more details and register here.
The Dharma of Desire with Trudy Goodman and Lisa Ernst
Trudy is joined by Lisa Ernst for this special retreat in Big Bear.
On the path of awakening, sometimes we may believe desire is a problem to be eradicated. Yet when we get curious about desire and look at our relationship to it, we can enter more deeply into the fertile ground of our own being and move closer to the heart. In this retreat we will have the opportunity to explore desire in a supportive, non-judgmental space that allows us to open our hearts and meet desire with compassion and insight. When we hold desire in the crucible of wisdom and understanding, it transforms into loving presence.
This retreat will include sitting and walking meditation, instructions, dharma talks and discussion.
This silent retreat is suitable for all levels of experience.
Click here for more information and to register!
The Power of Love Summit
Join me November 5-12 for The Power of Love Summit and:
Boost Your Self-Love - Master self-care practices that affirm your value and enhance your self-esteem
Revitalize Your Love Life - Rekindle romance and intimacy with expert-led sessions addressing common relationship challenges
Strengthen Family Bonds - Mend and deepen relationships with tools that foster understanding and respect across generations
Embrace Healing Techniques - Participate in sessions that utilize love as a foundational tool for emotional and physical healing
Celebrate Love's Transformative Power - End the Summit empowered with actionable steps, inspiration, and a renewed belief in the power of love to change lives…
My session is on November 5.
Five Keys to the Complete Path of Mindfulness
Trudy and Jack are excited to share this new course presented by Lion’s Roar, Five Keys to the Complete Path of Mindfulness, where you’ll have the opportunity to discover the full potential of mindfulness. This is more than a meditation class—it’s a comprehensive guide to living a truly meaningful life. They will be joined by six other wonderful experts, who will provide guidance and insights on the five essential keys of mindfulness: meditation, insight, ethics, compassion, and community. Together, these five keys make up the essential elements that transform mindfulness into a powerful and beneficial way of life.
Each week includes live sessions with Q&A, deep teachings, and guided meditations to integrate mindfulness into every aspect of your life. Whether you’re new to mindfulness or a seasoned practitioner, this course offers the tools to unlock a happier, more purposeful life. I hope you’ll join me for this transformative journey.
Celebrating Ram Dass: Love, Serve, Remember
Join Trudy, Jack and others for this celebration of Ram Dass, which will include a selection of his teachings for our times. Together, we will honor Ram Dass’s cherished place in the Spirit Rock community as a mentor to our teaching community and inspiration to our saṅgha. This event will feature presentations from the most beloved senior teachers in our Insight Community about his influence on their teachings as well as footage of Ram Dass himself offering teachings on multiple subjects.
This event is offered on a sliding scale and will support Love, Serve, Remember Foundation, Hanuman Maui, and Spirit Rock.
Find more information and register for the event here.
Love and Relationship: The Great Spiritual Practice
Join Trudy and her beloved Jack for a day to celebrate relationships at beautiful Spirit Rock Meditation Center!
We are always in relationship—with ourselves, with partners when we have them, with family and those near and dear (or not so dear), and with the community and the world around us. Our relationships are demanding, urgent, important, and intimately human.
Join us for a day of heartfelt teachings and practices, stories, and honest dialogue. At this time in our lives and in the troubled world, we need the practices of wisdom and love, skill and communion. We can learn the skills of love with those nearby, and learn to expand this practice to the world beyond. During this special day together, Trudy and Jack will share what has helped them over a lifetime of practice.
More details about Spirit Rock and registration here.
Wildwomxn Retreat
Trudy will be the guest teacher with the Los Angeles based women’s circle wildwomxn for their September daylong retreat on September 7, 2024.
Wildwomxn is a monthly circle for sharing, connection and awakening wild womanhood. Founded by Maria Egan and Lulu Toselli, who were inspired by 'Women Who Run with the Wolves', the classic text on the fierce feminine 'by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Each month wildwomxn groups explores aspects of the 'wild woman' including creativity, intuition, passion and the spiritual elements of female power.
They are a donation only, inclusive and safe space for all female identified humans.
The retreat theme will be 'sisterhood'... a day of meditation, time in circle and in nature celebrating the refuge of friendship and sangha with womxn. we will gather in a beautiful retreat house on several acres of protected land in the midst of the Hollywood Hills.
Saturday, September 7th, 10am-5pm
Benedict Canyon Retreat House 9940 Westwanda Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Reserve your seat HERE
Suggested donation $50 (sliding scale $30 -100)
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk. This practice is offered BOTH online AND in-person at InsightLA Santa Monica!
This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00.
Sign up for either version of the practice, get more information, and more at InsightLA.
The Magic of Awareness
Trudy is joined by James Baraz, Anam Thubten, and Jill White Lindsay for this transformative retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
The paradox of awareness is profound and yet very simple. It can’t be described because it has no objective qualities and no limitations. Sometimes it comes naturally to the surface when we are fully in the present moment and no longer lost in thoughts or mental projections. Awareness is neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither good nor bad.
In this retreat we will learn how to pay attention to this quality of awareness through formal and informal meditation. Once we know how to pay attention, it can be experienced in an instant, in all circumstances. When we learn to reside in that liberated mind, we find the very thing we have been seeking all along.
This retreat includes silent sitting and walking periods combined with instructions and practice meetings with teachers and daily Dharma talks. This retreat is silent except for teacher-led Q&A, small groups, or other practice meetings.
Click here for more information and to register!
The Power of Love Summit
What is love?
The Power of Love Summit features a remarkable group of presenters including relationship psychologists, social scientists, marriage and family counselors, health professionals who integrate love into healing practices, artists and storytellers who explore themes of love in their work, spiritual leaders, and so many more…
Please join Trudy, Deepak Chopra, Jane Fonda, Marianne Williamson, Michael Beckwith, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Anne Lamott, Sharon Salzberg, John Gray, Kute Blackson, Thomas Hübl, Ocean Robbins, Valarie Kaur, Sue Morter and 40 more presenters to help…
Boost Your Self-Love - Master self-care practices that affirm your value and enhance your self-esteem
Revitalize Your Love Life - Rekindle romance and intimacy with expert-led sessions addressing common relationship challenges
Strengthen Family Bonds - Mend and deepen relationships with tools that foster understanding and respect across generations
Embrace Healing Techniques - Participate in sessions that utilize love as a foundational tool for emotional and physical healing
Celebrate Love's Transformative Power - End the Summit empowered with actionable steps, inspiration, and a renewed belief in the power of love to change lives…
Trudy’s session is scheduled for June 4!
Sangha Live
Trudy will be teaching via Sangha Live, a global online platform for interactive dharma classes and courses, on Sunday, April 21. This online class includes guided meditation, dharma talk, and an interactive Q&A, and is offered on dana/generosity-basis.
During this session, we will be exploring the topic of :
Presence as an Act of Compassion and Love
Mindful presence is the necessary ground of compassion and care. With presence, we courageously enter an intimacy that connects us with ourselves, each other and the world, body, heart and spirit.
The beautiful truth is that presence and love can grow and blossom through the practices of meditation and mindful loving awareness. Let's join together to do this, with teachings, meditation, and heartfelt sharing!
The class is 1.5 hours long and begins at:
11am PT (L.A.) / 2pm ET (N.Y.) / 7pm GMT (London) / 8pm CET (Paris)
Learn more & register via this link:
To learn more about Sangha Live, visit their website: sangha.live
The Heart of Nature Summit
Join Trudy April 16-22 for The Heart of Nature Summit and:
- Embrace Healing and Resilience - Learn from experts and practitioners how to integrate nature therapy and contemplative practices into your life for healing and emotional resilience
-Navigate Environmental Grief - Explore collective spaces for sharing and healing, helping you to acknowledge and navigate the grief of ecological loss
-Connect with Your Inner Strength - Sessions on reclaiming feminine power and fostering diversity will empower you to lead with compassion and strength in all areas of life
-Revitalize Ancient Wisdom - Gain insights from Indigenous knowledge, understanding how to live in respectful harmony with the natural world
-Co-Create Sustainable Visions - Engage in visionary sessions that stimulate creative thinking for a sustainable future, dreaming a new world into being together
-Celebrate Earth Day with Purpose - Culminate your journey with actionable steps and a heart-centered approach to environmentalism, ready to make impactful changes in your community and beyond
Trudy’s session will be April 18.
To register click here!
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00.
This group is now offered BOTH online via Zoom and in-person at InsightLA Santa Monica!
Join the group here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00.
Stay tuned for the group moving to in-person at InsightLA Santa Monica!
Join the online group here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Women of Wisdom Online Summit
Trudy is excited to welcome you to the Women of Wisdom Online Summit. It is offered through Lion’s Roar, a non-profit Buddhist foundation, and it begins on Thursday, March 21 at 9:00am PT with a keynote message from Trudy.
This 5 day summit brings together 20 leading women experts and spiritual teachers–and is by, for, and about women on the spiritual path. The female experience is centered, with teachings and practices that address the joys and challenges of modern women. While the summit is primarily geared toward those who identify as women, all will be welcome to participate.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
"Compassion, Presence, and Nonduality”Two-Day Meditation Retreat with Norman Fischer, Trudy Goodman, and Anam Thubten
Compassion, Presence and Nonduality: a two-day meditation retreat with Trudy Goodman, Norman Fischer and Anam Thubten.
These topics have great relevance to our daily life and the relationship between ourself and our world. In this retreat, these three teachers will invite everyone to understand and embody these timeless spiritual principles, which can bring freedom to our hearts. Practicing compassion, presence and nonduality can help us become a positive influence in the world and live the path of a bodhisattva. The retreat will have periods of meditation as well as Dharma talks by each teacher.
Join this in-person only retreat at Dhumata Temple in Point Richmond, CA on March 9 and 10, 2024. The retreat is held from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm PT each day.
Register and find more information here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Living a Joyful Life Summit
Trudy is thrilled to be a part of this FREE 5-day program. Join her along with presenters Tara Brach, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Sam Harris, Michael Beckwith, Byron Katie, Anne Lamott, Maria Shriver, Dan Harris, Daniel Goleman, Tami Simon, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Dan Siegel, Kristin Neff, Joseph Goldstein, Krishna Das, Terry Real, Rhonda Magee, Richard Davidson, Robert Thurman and many more.
Would you like to live with more inner peace, freedom and joy? Joy is not just a fleeting emotion — it's a vital aspect of a well-rounded, healthy life. What does living a more joyful life bring you?
It brings you more energy and vitality, and improves your physical and mental health
It brings you stronger, more loving relationships
It brings increased productivity and creativity, better decision making, and living with more fulfillment and purpose
And so much more...
Take your first step towards living with more inner peace, freedom and joy... click here for more information or to register for this FREE summit!
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Presence, Practice and the Neuroscience of Connection
Join Trudy for Wisdom and Wellbeing at Blue Spirit, Nosara, Costa Rica in January 2014! She will be teaching with Jack Kornfield and others at Blue Spirit in Costa Rica. Find more information on their website, or read this beautiful brochure.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.
Sunday Sitting Group with Trudy - every Sunday at 10am!
Join Trudy for a guided meditation practice and dharma talk via zoom. This is offered by donation, and no one is turned away for lack of funds- you can attend for as little as $1.00. Join the group here.