Retreats
Let’s meditate at the beach!
Also, quarterly retreats reinforce your mindful awareness skills.
That means that you get fun, friendship, and learning all in one place.
MAY
Spring
Beach-Side Summit
On the 1st Saturday of May, our studio community gathers for a retreat day at Good Harbor beach in Gloucester Massachusetts. This is our spring studio summit, the biggest event in our calendar.
(This year: 05/03/25)
Come for the day, or stay overnight at the beach-side inn.
August
Summer
Extended-Practice Workshop
On Cape Cod
On the 3rd Wednesday of August, stop by our campground site in Eastham MA for tent-side meditations. (This year: 08/20/25)
Mindful Beacon members have an extended practice period from 12pm-2pm. There’s options to arrive early for a brown bag lunch & learn. If you’re vacationing in the area, we’ll plan for a campfire and mindful mini-golf during our retreat.
We hold this event on a Wednesday because Provincetown’s Carnival Parade happens on a Thursday.
November
Fall: Black Friday
Extended-Practice Workshop
Arlington MA
The day after Thanksgiving, spend the morning of Black Friday meditating in a sanctuary. (This year: 11/28/25)
Mindful Beacon members have an extended practice from 10am to 12pm. And then, there’s options to stay for a brown bag lunch & learn.
Feb/March
Ground Hog’s
Extended-Practice Workshop
Cambridge or Arlington
Time to wake up, and wake up in mindfulness style, after the long winter.
The studio again has an extended practice from 10am to 12pm on a weekend sometime around the end of February or beginning of March.
As with all our Extended-Practice Workshops, there’s options to stay for a brown bag lunch & learn after the meditation.
Exact dates, and location, are picked by members’ votes during our January New Year’s zoom classroom. Join the membership to cast your vote.
Interested?
Our studio offers the best meditation retreat experiences.
Upgrade to the paid membership if you want tickets to these events.
In order to attend the MBZ1 retreats on this page, it’s recommended to have at least a once-per-week practice established.
You can simply tune in to the radio station once a week to try it out, and go from there with the free emails.
Most folks start with listening to the free radio station.
And then, reading along with the newsletters is great!
Weekly emails offer prompts to deepen your contemplative learning.
An MBZ1-specific training pathway is detailed step by step via email as your meditation practice progresses.
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Broadcasting podcasts, ambient soundscapes, and guided meditations. MBZ1 [Listen Now]
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Just listen along with the radio station to start.
And then, think about subscribing to the newsletter. Read about inspirations and ideas for navigating this mindfulness stuff.
You’ll learn more about the podcast studio where we record live guided meditations.
Reading along will also give you a sense for what a mindfulness studio is. Also, it could help with figuring out if a mindfulness studio subscription could boost your practice.
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News and updates via Substack.
Email versions are delivered on Sunday mornings.You can also read the archive of past issues at the Substack page.
Your witty comments are welcome.
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Subscribe for live links, new insights, beach retreats, and studio tickets.
After you subscribe, you must upgrade to the paid membership in order to get tickets to the studio retreats listed on this page.
Please note that the free subscription doesn’t include tickets to these retreat events.
Free subscribers get only the photos of the fun in their newsletter feed.
Make sure to upgrade if you want to attend, participate, and even take the photos!
When gathering together for meditation, it’s useful to have an initial signal
to hone in on.
A meditation practice starts with a bell.
Our studio of practice starts with the radio station.
And then, the process of deepening mindfulness practice is a quieting process that
eventually leads to a healing silence.