Programs for Seniors

Setu Prayer

Dear Lord, please fill my heart
with love and devotion for you
and burn out all seeds of selfish desire
and sense craving in my mind.

Grant that I may be carried by you
from this life to the next without suffering
and be born in a holy family
with my heart overflowing
with love and devotion for you
from earliest childhood onwards.

– Eknath Easwaran

The Senior retreat program helps us bring this intriguing prayer to life. To find out if a Senior retreat is right for you, read this Prayer very carefully. If the Prayer describes what you desire, attending a Senior retreat will help you gain practical skills to achieve it.

You will discover how to use your later years to become established in your highest, eternal ideals: when you’re established in the changeless, aging cannot affect your security nor your ability to contribute to life.

These retreats are held at our retreat house in Tomales, California – about one hour north of San Francisco. They are more practice-based than theory-based, so you should have experience of daily practice using all the eight points consciously throughout the day.

Four days of shared practice will enable your deepened passage meditation practice to infuse your life back home with deepened passage meditation. That’s our goal for every one of us who attends this retreat – to extend and deepen our daily practice.

The schedule is well balanced, so you can take part in as much or as little as you feel comfortable with. There is ample time to transition between activities, and quiet time in the afternoon for rest and personal study.

Senior parents are welcome to attend with a child if the child meets the prerequisites too. This helps your son or daughter to support you in attaining your spiritual goals for the second half of life.

These are the most popular retreats we offer, so we recommend registering as far in advance as possible to ensure your place.

“I’ve done a lot of coursework in my life, but this – by far – is the most important class I’ve ever taken.”

Programs for Seniors: Prerequisites

Programs for Seniors: Schedule & Fees

Half-week retreats begin on Friday at 4:00 p.m. and end on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.

Click here to see the retreat fees and an explanation of our sliding scale.

Retreat FAQs and Tomales Retreat House Information

Click here for details about our retreat logistics.

Click here for information about our retreat house and travel to Tomales.