Fees and Sliding Scale

Regional One-Day Retreat

Standard Fee: $100

(includes program and vegetarian lunch)

Sliding Scale: $65 – $140

(see explanation below)

Regional or Tomales Weekend Retreat

Standard Fee: $300

(includes program, vegetarian meals, and accommodation)

Sliding Scale: $240 – $375

(see explanation below)

Commuter: $200

(includes program and meals only)

Tomales Weeklong Retreat

Standard Fee: $700

(includes program, vegetarian meals, and accommodation)

Sliding Scale: $575 – $850

(see explanation below)

Commuter: $500

(includes program and meals only)

Tomales Young Adult Weekend Retreat

Standard Fee: $200

(includes program, vegetarian meals, and accommodation)

Sliding Scale: $165 – $250

(see explanation below)

Commuter: $100

(includes program and meals only)

Tomales Senior Half-Week Retreat

Standard Fee: $400

(includes program, vegetarian meals, and accommodation)

Sliding Scale: $325 – $500

(see explanation below)

Commuter: $250

(includes program and meals only)

Affiliate program

Program fee: $200

(includes phone conference workshops and web-based study group)

Internship standard fee: $400

(includes program, vegetarian meals, and accommodation)

Internship commuter: $250

(includes program and meals only)

Retreat house stayovers before or after your Tomales retreat

Single night: $65 per person

(one night before and/or after the retreat; international travelers two nights before and/or after)

Sliding Scale: $45 – $65

(see explanation below)

Online Family Program

Standard Fee: $50

(includes phone conferences and online study group)

Sliding Scale: $30 – $70

(see explanation below)

Choose the price that seems right to you: a lower fee if you need help with the retreat fee, or the standard fee, or a higher fee if you would like to make a donation. We will keep all donations and fee payments confidential.

The standard fee covers the cost of your retreat experience. Each dollar paid over the standard fee is a tax-deductible contribution to the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. As an example, if you pay $140 for a one-day retreat, $100 covers your place, and you are donating $40 to help the BMCM bring retreats to more people. Last year, you made a big difference with 86 retreat donations, allowing 227 additional retreatants to enroll – together we thank you!

We depend upon donations to subsidize over 10% of our retreats and other programs’ costs, and over 40% of our overall BMCM operating costs. If you would like to increase your tax-deductible donation to more than the upper sliding scale price indicated above, we would be very grateful – you will then be supporting our retreat development for the future.

If the lowest price on the sliding scale still seems too high for you, please email us for information on applying for payment plans and/or the availability of scholarships. And please contact us at this email address if you would like to make an additional donation, or if you have any questions or comments about our sliding scale pricing.

If you find you are not able to attend the retreat for any reason, we would be more than happy to refund your retreat fee in full. We regret that we cannot refund donations made above the standard retreat fee.