Hazon Meditation Retreat

The Hazon Meditation Retreat is an opportunity to slow down and explore life’s deepest truths in a warm and supportive Jewish environment.

Participants are guided through a daily schedule that includes several hours of sitting and walking meditation, soulful Jewish prayer (davennen’), supportive interview sessions with teachers, and optional yoga. 

The main form of meditation taught on this retreat is mindfulness, an approach originally derived from Buddhist traditions but now widespread in secular, Jewish, and other contexts.  Mindfulness brings forth the natural capacity to notice whatever is happening in your experience with kind, non-judgmental presence. It can lead to profound insights into your personality, the causes (and relief) of stress in your life, even the fundamental facts of existence itself.  On this retreat, we cultivate and deepen mindfulness in forty-five minute sitting meditations, periods of walking meditation, and throughout the day.

This is also a Jewish retreat. In addition to daily davennen’ sessions in the Jewish Renewal style, we infuse our teaching with Jewish mystical traditions, contextualize our insights in Jewish language of holiness and the Divine, and build an inclusive Jewish community together. We welcome people with all types of Jewish observance and none, Jews and non-Jews, those who connect with “God” language and those disillusioned with religion, new and experienced meditators, and a community that is diverse in age, race, background, and sexual and gender identities. Throughout the retreat, participants are invited to explore the sacred in the diverse ways that speak to them.

This retreat is conducted in the tradition of our teachers, Rabbi David Cooper z”l and Shoshana Cooper, as well as our beloved co-teacher, Beth Resnick, who cannot join us this year due to family responsibilities.  We hope to hold Beth’s heartful presence with us on this year’s retreat.