The last 4-day stillness retreat was on Dec 29, 30, 31, Jan 1 2026 - each day 9am-12pm (noon) Pacific Time. 2026 dates TBD.
I do quarterly stillness retreats with my meditation group. The retreat is over 4 days. Each day we sit in uninterrupted stillness for 3 hours. You can join any one session if you like if you can’t do all four, but ideally all 4 for deeper experience.
Each 3-hour session is about immersion (samāveśa) in the heart center, allowing ourselves to abide in stillness in the heart, and surrender to be worked by higher intelligence.
“When there is an absorption into the Heart maintained for four periods of three hours, it assumes the nature of a 'day' in which everything is permeated by the light of consciousness and the night of contraction ceases, one becomes omniscient like Bhairava in this very body."
From the Parātriśikā Laghuvṛtti, attributed to Abhinavagupta, translated by Ben Williams
Testimonials
“Thank-you Shambhu, please forgive me Shambhu and everyone as I don’t have many words…I’m in a state of reverence from the meditation retreat. I can’t thank you enough and everyone that was able to attend. Incredibly healing and deeply centering. And a beautiful humble place of repose to come and center within….welcoming us all where we are. This was my feeling…and my experience… I’m looking forward to more and deeply looking forward to when I’m able to come regularly on Saturdays. A hawk is calling in the background as I write with such a beautiful tone. It feels appropriate for my lack of words to express the ineffable sacred gift. Much love and gratitude and blessings always.”
“Thanks for the meditation retreat! Feeling the cleansing and new frequencies.”
“I am so grateful to bring in the new year this way Shambhu. I feel like my heart is one with the universe. I was challenged to feel bliss and realized it was because I was expecting bliss to be an emotionally charged gleeful state. When I surrendered into what was there in the heart center, I found that bliss is more like a calm deep peace for me. I have been working with bliss since we started focusing on it in Oct-Nov and am so grateful for this breakthrough. I know that the 4-day journey you took us through helped me really get to this deep state of surrender to really feel the bliss that is there. I also had some awareness about what I need to do to honor my heart so that I can surrender to bliss and will be following through with making life a creative flow with consciousness, expressing unexpressed love, and ensuring I get transmission of knowledge from one of our elders to help carry lineage forward.”
“So much alignment and freedom - amazing!”
“Thank you, Shambhu. Blessings drench your being.”
“This is powerful experience. It’s not easy to sit for three hours and there are many temptations to get up. But I am experiencing a profound stillness. The hourly prompts are also very useful to refocus. Thank you Shambhu for holding this space.”
“Overflowing gratitude for your spiritual guidance.”
“Thank you Shambhuji! Just what I needed!”
“I had an interesting experience today. I was in and out of a dream state. In the dream state I found myself in a room with Shambhu and others meditating. He walked up to my third eye and spoke some ancient sounding words I didn’t recognize that went into the still point in the center of my head and awoke that area with an intense burning sensation. Then Shambhu actually spoke in the meditation to begin the 3rd hour of focusing on the still point in the heart.”
“It was so nourishing! Thank you Shambhuji!”
“Thank you for the stillness!”
“So good!!!”
