Cloud Mountain Retreat Center posts 2026-27 insight meditation schedule
Cloud Mountain’s new retreat calendar pairs a downloadable 2026-at-a-glance PDF with lottery-based sign-up, signaling a year built around embodiment and structured practice.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center posted its 2026 retreat schedule on July 31, giving practitioners a downloadable at-a-glance PDF and a master list of residential retreats for the year ahead. The lineup points to a center planning around embodied insight, mixed teacher offerings, and registration windows that reward early calendar work.
The Castle Rock, Washington center describes itself as a non-sectarian Buddhist retreat center hosting year-round residential retreats in southwest Washington, and one listing gives its address as 373 Agren Rd., Castle Rock, WA 98611. That location matters for Pacific Northwest sitters who rely on regional residential options rather than long-distance travel to Barre, Massachusetts or other national retreat hubs.
One of the clearest planning markers is “At Peace With Ourselves: An Insight Meditation Retreat,” led by Keri Pederson, set for Aug. 28-31, 2026. The three-night Friday-to-Monday format is a compact fit for returning sitters or people testing a residential retreat before committing to a longer sit. Cloud Mountain lists the cost at $415, $315, or $265, plus dana, and shows the retreat as closed after registrations were collected until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14 for a lottery drawing.
The 2026-27 calendar also leans into longer, more embodied work. “Breathing, Being, Seeing: Embodied Paths to Liberation,” with Devon Hase and Nico Hase, is scheduled for March 26-31, 2027, and registration is not yet open. The title itself signals a retreat centered on body awareness and lived practice, the kind of format that tends to appeal to meditators who want more than sitting instructions and are ready to bring insight practice into sensation, movement, and ordinary life.
Teacher pathways on the wider schedule reinforce that pattern. A Dharma Sangha listing for “Refuge of Belonging with nico and devon Hase” places the retreat at Crestone Mountain Zen Center for Aug. 16-22, 2026, and notes that Nico lived and trained there through much of his twenties. A Devon + Nico Hase page also lists a 2026 Refuge of Belonging Annual Retreat for those same dates, while Sharon Salzberg’s Metta Hour podcast includes an episode featuring Devon and Nico Hase.
Cloud Mountain’s own history fits the same picture of steady, practical infrastructure. Northwest Dharma Association coverage noted the center’s reopening of residential retreats despite COVID-19 and later described Cloud Mountain as innovating in its 40th year. The new schedule keeps that rhythm going, with clear costs, set retreat lengths, and a mix of early sign-up and lottery access that makes the year of practice easier to plan before the best spaces fill.
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