Spirit Rock Meditation Center — Local services in Fairfax

"Silence Is Golden" no truer words have ever been spoken. If you want to up-level your personal best, go to a silent meditation retreat here at Spirit Rock Meditation Center or find one near you. I left this retreat a kinder, more compassionate, more patient human being with more love for myself than ever before. I actually feel different in my own skin, which is quite amazing and as I look through my eyes I feel that I'm looking through a different pair of lenses. I consider this place my Spiritual Home and I can't wait to go back. The simple daily rhythms could actually be difficult at times, but I never felt better. My body, spirit, heart/mind were nourished and filled up in a beautiful way. The combination of sitting, walking, working, eating on repeat, and going back to the absolute basics had me feeling alive and deeply connected to myself and the beautiful Coastal Miwok lands I was so honored to roam everyday. The phenomenal vegan/veg cuisine was probably the best gourmet food I've ever tasted in my life!!! I am so grateful to my company for paying for this and allowing me this professional development time to upgrade myself. Can't wait to do this again this new year! Thank you Rockwood Leadership Institute for this gift!!! p.s. I don't have any pictures of the gorgeous food (we ate the rainbow) cuz we had no cell phones during the retreat. If you really want to upgrade your life, ditch your cell phone (schedule time away from it) talk less and listen more Xoxo

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I had the honor of volunteering as a Parking Attendant for Ajahn Passano’s transformative 2023 Dhamma Talk, “Happiness on the Buddhist Path.”

This Center is divine, orderly, and bursting with with radiant compassion.

I especially recommend the quiet pagoda (apologies, I forget the name!) near the Meditation Center.

This simple and humble wooden “gratitude” center contains a prayer wheel and walls filled with portraits of renown leaders, heroes, and devotees from so many loving traditions.

Of particular interest to me are the handwritten dedications and offerings from people who guide my thoughts and actions so often they feel like (affordable) gurus and therapists who live in different rooms “inside” my head.

The silence, peace, and compassion in the pagoda was so profound I felt firsthand what I can only term as the opposite of the Stendhal syndrome! My heartbeat slowed, my thoughts ceased, and even I had nothing left to say!

I have no words that can convey the honor and grace of setting foot in a place of such deep restfulness and humility!

My only thought upon reflection is — “These are all simply human beings, just like me! … Right?”

If I could recommend a place of pilgrimage to anyone in the world, this place would have to make the shortest of...

I had a day-long not too long ago. It was my first time and I wanted to experience the center in more ways than just sitting in the small room with so many people. During the silent walking meditation period, there were so many people and we weren't allowed to go to the main building area, so even though we were walking outside, people were too close to one another and had to spread out to parking area which wasn't very serene! I was really hoping that I could enjoy a serene and quiet space while attending the retreat but it was too crowded and restricted. The retreat itself was nice, but maybe it could be a little smaller and more intimate? Also, the fact that we weren't allowed to move around the ground in silent meditation felt too constricted. It seems like a nice, spacious place but I felt too confined to one area. It would be really nice if one could just visit the spiritual place without so much confinement. I am used to visiting temples in Asia where everyone is welcome at any time because no matter how many people are visiting, it is always very quiet. I wish Spirit Rock could make itself available to people who seek a quiet place any time, even if they are not paying participant to any of...