Winter Dathun: A Month-long Meditation Retreat

Gaylon Ferguson and Shastri Janet Solyntjes

December 12, 2015–January 10, 2016

Tuition $100 + 29 nights

CLICK HERE for more Dathun information and HERE for links to individual Weektuns.

Gaylon Ferguson

Gaylon Ferguson, PhD, has led mindfulness-awareness retreats for 45 years. He was Core Faculty in Religious Studies at Naropa University. The author of Natural Wakefulness (2009) and Natural Bravery (2016), he contributed the foreword to Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation and Freedom (2020). His articles and essays have appeared in Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, and Buddhadharma.

Shastri Janet Solyntjes

Shastri Janet Solyntjes joined the Shambhala community in 1986 and began teaching in 1994. She is a certified Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher and serves as a faculty member for the UMass Center for Mindfulness leading silent retreats for MBSR teachers-in-training.

Janet lives in Longmont, CO with her husband, Jeff Price. They co-founded The Center for Courageous Living which offers a variety of programs, retreats, and trainings throughout the Front Range and internationally.

Program Details

Registration for this program takes place from 10 am to 4 pm on your program start date. All participants and volunteer staff must check in at our Guest Registration house. Your program will end with breakfast on the last day.

Financial aid is available for this program.