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The Reset Retreat: Bringing the Joy of Dharma to Your Work and Life, GGF 8/12–8/14
Description
The Reset Retreat offers an immersive, device-free environment to help you cultivate the qualities of mind and communication skills that lead to well-being and success—at work, with money, and in life. Given how much of our lives we spend working, this retreat is designed to bring joy, purpose, and flow to the moments that shape so much of who we are.
The retreat spans just 48 hours—short enough to fit your schedule, yet long enough for a real shift. Past participants have described the experience as “timeless.” Set in the breathtaking Marin Headlands just north of San Francisco at Green Gulch Farm, you’ll have space to truly unplug, reset your nervous system, and discover the clarity and wisdom that emerge from stillness.
This is an invitation to stop reacting to your life and start living it. To shift from busyness as a default to intentionally cultivating your most important asset: your presence.
Over the course of the retreat, you’ll hike through the headlands, share organic meals, practice meditation techniques designed for real life, move between collective silence and catalytic conversation, experience a restorative sound bath, and walk to the ocean.
We welcome those new to meditation as well as those with decades of experience.
Fee Information
- Benefactor Ticket Price: $393 — supports others’ participation
- Standard: $315 — covers full program costs
- Member (Become an SFZC Member): $267 — for current SFZC members
Please note that the retreat fee does not include accommodations.
For commuter options please call 415-865-1899.
San Francisco Zen Center is committed to making Zen practice and the Dharma accessible to all who seek it by offering both a General support fund and a dedicated BIPOC support fund. Please email supportfunds@sfzc.org for more information BEFORE signing up.
Spencer Sherman
Spencer Sherman is a longtime mindfulness practitioner, teacher, author, and the former CEO of Abacus. (The publication Barron’s called him “The Buddhist Financial Advisor.”) He has been leading the Reset Retreat at Green Gulch Farm for the past 14 years.
Sessei Meg McNeil (Levie)
Sessei Meg McNeil currently serves as head of practice (tanto) at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. She has practiced Soto Zen for 35 years and has lived in residence at all three San Francisco Zen Center temples.
Sarah Jenness
Sarah Jenness has been a restorative yoga teacher since 2010. She presently offers weekly yoga and sound healing for the cancer support community at Providence Health and other organizations, and publicly in the SF Bay Area and Sonoma County, CA. Sarah leads her clients lovingly through transformative and healing practices.