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The
Ashram
Address: 2025 McKain Street, Calabasas,
CA 91302-2317
Phone: 818-222-6900
Cuisine: Vegetarian.
Description: Retreats dedicated to
health, fitness and renewal.
The
Chopra Center *
Carlsbad, CA
Phone: 760-931-7566
Tassajara
Zen Mountain Center *
39171 Tassajara Road, Carmel Valley , CA
93924
Phone:
831-659-2229
Cuisine: Three vegetarian meals are
served daily to overnight guests. Breakfast
and dinner are family style. For lunch,
guests may choose between eating in the
dining room or making a “bag lunch” from a
buffed.
Typically from May through August, Tassajara
a Soto Zen Buddhist monastery, opens its
gates for workshops, retreats, guest
practice, work-study programs, and the
quiet, peaceful solitude of our mountain
valley.
Glen
Ivy Hot Springs
(left photo courtesy: Glen Ivy Hot
Springs)
Address: 25000 Glen Ivy Road, Corona, CA
92883
Phone: 888-453-6489
(Toll-free)
Cuisine: Some vegetarian & vegan options
at their GOCO Cafe.
We
Care Detox Spa and Spiritual Retreat
Address: 18000
Long Canyon Rd., Desert Hot Springs, CA
92241
Phone:
800-888-2523 (Toll-free)
Cuisine: Their program is an
"all-liquid juice fasting &
detoxification process. We Care Spa prepares
a nutritious green salad for you to take on
the plane or to eat prior to departure.
Description: Family-owned
spa and spiritual retreat.
Deer
Park Monastery *
2499 Melru Ln, Escondido, CA 92026
Phone: 760-291-1003
A 400-acre Buddhist sanctuary providing a
safe, secluded, peaceful place to cultivate
inner solidity and clarity, under the
guidance of their teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh.
" We welcome you to come and practice with
us, for a Day of Mindfulness, for a few days
a week or several weeks."
Golden
Door
Address: 777 Deer Springs Rd, San Marcos, CA
92069
Phone: 760-744-5777
Cuisine: Mostly vegetarian, with vegan
options.
Description: Luxury resort. Here in
this peaceful northern pocket of San Diego
County, founder Deborah Szekely in 1958
developed a unique philosophy of personal
health and fitness inspired by the ancient
Japanese Honjin inns – and the spa industry
grew its first roots. Escape to our original
flagship Golden Door spa near San Diego,
California, offering treatments and ideals
rich in tradition, yet executed with a
modern interpretation. Join us for a
weeklong customized stay in this atmosphere
of rare privacy, and achieve a deep,
meaningful rapport with nature, enjoy the
camaraderie of 39 fellow guests, and
discover a meaningful reconnection to your
innermost self.
Osmosis
Day Spa Sanctuary
(right photo
courtesy: Osmosis Enzyme Baths)
Address: 209 Bohemian Highway,
Freestone, CA 95472
Phone: 707-823-8231
Cuisine: Dine at nearby restuarants.
Sivananda
Ashram Yoga Farm
14651 Ballantree Lane, Grass Valley, CA.
95945
Phone: 530-272-9322
Cuisine: Vegetarian
Description: Yoga retreats based on the
teachings of Swami Vishnu-devananda.
Heartwood
Institute
220 Harmony Ln, Garberville, CA 95542
Phone: 707-923-5000
Cuisine: Diet: The kitchen staff consciously
prepares vegetarian meals. Much of the
fresh, seasonal produce is harvested daily
from vegetable gardens on Heartwood's land.
Fish is served occasionally.
Wellness retreats & Massage
certification on 200 acres.
Optimum
Health Institute of San Diego
***
6970 Central Ave, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
Phone: 800-588-0809
Raw vegan based educational program. OHI is
a mission of The Free Sacred Trinity Church.
Stanford
Inn by the Sea **
44850 Comptche Ukiah Rd, PO Box 487,
Mendocino, CA 95460
Phone: 707-937-5615, 800-331-8884 (Toll
free)
Cuisine:
vegan
Breathtaking Inn &
Resort, and home to one of the
internationally-famous vegan restaurant, The
Ravens.
Harbin
Hot Springs
18424 Harbin Springs Rd, Middletown, CA
95461
Phone: 707-987-2477
Cuisine: Cafe with vegan and vegetarian
options
Non-profit retreat and workshop center,
located north of San Francisco, above the
Napa Valley wine region. Guests travel to
soak in the natural spring pools, receive
massages, sun on the clothing-optional
decks, attend workshops, hike the hills, or
to simply relax.
Shasta
Abbey *
Attn: Guest Master, 3724 Summit Drive, Mt.
Shasta, CA 96067-9102.
Phone: 530-926-4208,
ext 305 (guestmaster)
Cuisine: Ovo-lacto vegetarian
Introductory & advanced Buddhist (Zen)
meditation retreats.
Zen
Mountain Center *
P.O. Box 43, Mountain Center, CA 92561
Phone: 909-659-5272
Experience the life changing practice of
medit ation and awareness. Offer a regular
daily schedule, introductory weekends,
silent meditation retreats (sesshin) ranging
from three days to one month, and two
intensive training.
The
Expanding Light Retreat *
Nevada City, CA
Phone: 530-478-7518,
800-346-5350
Personal retreats and many workshops on over
700 acres of forests and meadows. Followers
of Paramahansa
California
Vipassana Center | Dhamma Mahavana
*
P.O. Box 1167; North Fork, CA 93643
Phone: 559-877-4386
Dhamma Mahavana is situated on a 109 acre
forested property in the Sierra foothills.
Sonoma
Mountain Zen Center *
6367 Sonoma Mountain Road, Santa Rosa CA
95404
Phone: 707-545-8105
Zen buddhist &retreats.
Green
Gulch Farm Zen Center *
1601 Shoreline Hwy, Muir Beach, CA 94965
Phone: 415-383-3134
In addition to the temple program of
meditation and study, it includes an organic
farm and garden, as well as a guest and
conference center. Traditional Zen
meditation retreats.
Sierra
Hot Springs *
521 Campbell Hot Springs Rd, Sierraville, CA
96126
Phone: 530-994-3773
Cuisine: Vegetarian and vegan options are
offered at their cafe
Land
of Medicine Buddha *
5800 Prescott Rd, Soquel, CA 95073
Phone: 831-462-8383
Cuisine: vegetarian
108-acre Buddhist retreat center offering
classes, retreats, and some spa facilities
Orr Hot
Springs
13201 Orr Springs Rd, Ukiah, CA 95482
Phone: 707-462-6277
Clothing optional resort near Mendocino and
Ukiah. Massage therapy treatments are
available. Campsites are available.
Manzanita
Village Retreat & Sanctuary
**
Gunn Canyon, Warner Springs, CA 92086
Phone: 760-782-9223
Cuisine: Plant-based
Mount
Madonna Center *
445 Summit Rd, Watsonville, CA 95076
Phone: 408-847-0406
Cuisine: vegetarian, with gluten and
dairy-free options available. Organic
produce is used whenever possible.
Conference and retreat center
located on 380 acres of mountain-top redwood
forest and grassland overlooking the entire
Monterey Bay. Workshops & retreats are
held year-round, and day visits and personal
retreat programs also available.
NEWSTART
**
20601 W Paoli Ln, Weimar, CA 95736
Phone: 800-525-9192 (toll free) or
530-422-7955
Cuisine: plant based
Experience the physician monitored NEWSTART®
Lifestyle residential program with Christian
emphasis.
Spirit
Rock Insight Meditation Center
*
5000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Box 169,
Woodacre, CA 94973
Phone: 415-488-0164
Cuisine:
Ovo-lacto vegetarian meals, with wheat-free
and vegan options at all meals.
Founded to create an enduring Dharma
retreat, practice, community and study
center rooted in the Buddhist tradition. "A
primary purpose of Spirit Rock Meditation
Center is to offer opportunities for
training and practice of vipassana (insight)
meditation, ... through silent meditation
retreats.
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