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What a beautiful, well organized and tended to place. I hosted a three day retreat there in November and couldn't have been happier with the experience!
Releasing the Grip: A 5-day Meditation Retreat
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Releasing the Grip: A 5-day Meditation Retreat
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December 17 - 21, 2025
About this Retreat
Linda Copenhagen began her Buddhist studies at the Nyingma Institute in 1996, while she was a mother of 3, a wife, CPA, and the finance director for various startups in the Bay Area. For the past several years, she has been a CFO and financial consultant in the non-profit sector. She currently serves as the Director of Ratna Ling, and she supports in the Accounting for many of the TNMC organizations (Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Center). Linda continues to weave Buddhist teachings into modern life, finances, and the meditation retreats she offers. She hopes to inspire busy executives and householders to find more balance and ease in their lives.
Maria Helena Kubrusly is a founding member of the Nyingma center in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. An Odiyan resident since 1999, Maria Helena works regularly with Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche on administrative and community matters. Maria Helena has offered retreats and courses in the US, Brazil, and Europe, online and in person. She has a masters degree in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK.
George Wiegand is our well-known and loved volunteer at Ratna Ling. He has been a student of our Founder Tarthang Tulku and a full-time volunteer in Nyingma organizations for 40 years, as a chef, baker, kitchen manager, temple builder, book binder, and pressman.
He earned his Masters of Education in Counseling in 1974. After teaching high school while in the Peace Corps, he served as a Counselor at a Catholic high school before moving to California in search of a meditation teacher. He intensively trained in Tibetan Yoga (Kum Nye) from 1982-1986 at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, and then moved to the Odiyan country center.
George describes his daily practice as meditation in action, working on projects in the Nyingma community, cooking, baking, building temples, printing, binding books, and teaching Tibetan meditation. His active meditation has been a solitary practice, internally studying the working of his own mind as he performs dharma activities. Some of his greatest lessons have come from caring for a dying parent and teaching communication to teenagers at a mindfulness-based youth treatment center.
His hobbies include bread baking, basketball, and choir singing.
Details of this retreat
Join the Director of Ratna Ling, Linda Copenhagen and the Ratna Ling faculty, for a new year-end retreat to help you loosen your attachments to outcomes and find your "story" does not need to restrict your freedom to enjoy life in a positive way.
Give Yourself a Precious Gift Before the Holidays
Give yourself a chance to slow down and reconnect with what truly matters. This special new offering from Ratna Ling is designed to help you meet the season with ease, openness, and a generous heart. We hope you’ll step into the holidays feeling refreshed, peaceful, and ready to appreciate every moment.
Did you know that USA Today rated Ratna Ling number 5 among the Top 10 Meditation Centers in the country? We are honored to share this expanded retreat with you, giving you time and space to deepen your experience of meditation and reflection.
In this 5-day Meditation Retreat, we will explore how our minds and bodies form new patterns and reinforce old ones. You’ll learn tools to loosen these patterns, shifting from judgment to appreciation. Even uncomfortable feelings and situations can then become opportunities for growth and transformation.
Through mindfulness and meditation practices, you will learn to slow down, calm your mind and body, and see more clearly. As we explore our senses, feelings, and perceptions, we begin to notice how our reality is created. These practices help us become more tolerant, spontaneous, and spacious — and less attached to any single outcome.
You may find yourself discovering that there is always more than one way to meet life’s experiences — with awareness, balance, and compassion.
We have planned a simple but special menu to support your practice!
This weekend includes:
Reading, Reflection and Discussion
Meditation & Mindfulness Practices
Work Practice in Garden, Kitchen, etc.
Kum Nye (Tibetan Relaxation Practice)
Self-Massage Techniques
Time in Nature and Solitude
Schedule (Subject to change):
WEDNESDAY
3pm Check-in
5:30pm Dinner
7pm Opening Circle, Meditation
THURSDAY
8am Silent Breakfast
9am-11am Introduction to Meditative Awareness
12:15 - 1:15 pm Lunch
2pm - 3:30 pm Work Practice & discussion
4pm Kum Nye
5:30pm Dinner
7pm Tibetan Bowl Meditation
FRIDAY
8am Silent Breakfast
9am-11am Meditation
12:15pm Lunch
2pm Work Practice
4pm Kum Nye
5:30pm Dinner
7pm Self-Massage
SATURDAY
8am Silent Breakfast
9am-11am Guided Meditation
12:15pm Lunch
2pm Work Practice
4pm Kum Nye
5:30pm Dinner
7pm Journaling and Reflections
SUNDAY
8am Meditation
9am Closing Circle
10am Brunch
12pm Checkout
Give Yourself a Precious Gift Before the Holidays
Give yourself a chance to slow down and reconnect with what truly matters. This special new offering from Ratna Ling is designed to help you meet the season with ease, openness, and a generous heart. We hope you’ll step into the holidays feeling refreshed, peaceful, and ready to appreciate every moment.
Did you know that USA Today rated Ratna Ling number 5 among the Top 10 Meditation Centers in the country? We are honored to share this expanded retreat with you, giving you time and space to deepen your experience of meditation and reflection.
In this 5-day Meditation Retreat, we will explore how our minds and bodies form new patterns and reinforce old ones. You’ll learn tools to loosen these patterns, shifting from judgment to appreciation. Even uncomfortable feelings and situations can then become opportunities for growth and transformation.
Through mindfulness and meditation practices, you will learn to slow down, calm your mind and body, and see more clearly. As we explore our senses, feelings, and perceptions, we begin to notice how our reality is created. These practices help us become more tolerant, spontaneous, and spacious — and less attached to any single outcome.
You may find yourself discovering that there is always more than one way to meet life’s experiences — with awareness, balance, and compassion.
We have planned a simple but special menu to support your practice!
This weekend includes:
Reading, Reflection and Discussion
Meditation & Mindfulness Practices
Work Practice in Garden, Kitchen, etc.
Kum Nye (Tibetan Relaxation Practice)
Self-Massage Techniques
Time in Nature and Solitude
Schedule (Subject to change):
WEDNESDAY
3pm Check-in
5:30pm Dinner
7pm Opening Circle, Meditation
THURSDAY
8am Silent Breakfast
9am-11am Introduction to Meditative Awareness
12:15 - 1:15 pm Lunch
2pm - 3:30 pm Work Practice & discussion
4pm Kum Nye
5:30pm Dinner
7pm Tibetan Bowl Meditation
FRIDAY
8am Silent Breakfast
9am-11am Meditation
12:15pm Lunch
2pm Work Practice
4pm Kum Nye
5:30pm Dinner
7pm Self-Massage
SATURDAY
8am Silent Breakfast
9am-11am Guided Meditation
12:15pm Lunch
2pm Work Practice
4pm Kum Nye
5:30pm Dinner
7pm Journaling and Reflections
SUNDAY
8am Meditation
9am Closing Circle
10am Brunch
12pm Checkout
Getting Here
Directions
San Francisco International and Oakland International airports are approximately three hours south of Ratna Ling by car. Alaska Airlines flies to and from Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa which is approximately 1.5 hours from Ratna Ling by car. Unfortunately, there are no shuttles that bring you directly to Ratna Ling, so it is best to rent a car or email us to support in coordinating a carpool with fellow retreatants.
Accommodation
14 guest cottages on 120 acres of property. Each spacious, quiet cottage has 2 private rooms, with high ceilings and a deck with a view. Cottages include jet tubs (or ADA shower), towels, deluxe linens, refrigerator, tea kettle, coffee/tea, kitchen sink/counter, diningware, dining table, and living room with a stove fireplace. Free wifi available and a landline telephone. Guests can choose to have an exclusive cottage for ONE person; a private room for ONE person in a SHARED cottage; or a cottage for TWO people. Any additional guest after TWO is $100 per person per night. Meals and classes included.
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
Three miles from the beautiful Sonoma coast. Organic, vegetarian meals. 120 acres of redwoods, canyons, reservoirs, and wildlife. Sacred architecture timber cottages and communal spaces. Featured stupas, gardens, and temple empowered by Tibetan Buddhist Lama Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
All of our meals are organic and vegetarian, made with love and care.
We provide homemade yogurt and granola for breakfast. Lunches and dinners always include salads or salad bar. Each meal is self-served on a buffet table.
Customer Reviews
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My favorite retreat center
I love Ratna Ling. The cabins are spacious, filled with windows and high ceilings, and very clean. The staff are so kind and helpful. They gives tours of the temple, property, nearby hikes, and talks about the history of the property. The vegetarian food is absolutely delicious and satisfying. Recently they have begun making bread which is fresh and hard to resist.
I've come here 6 times now and can't wait to come back. Every time I'm here, the stress of life just melts away and feel so cared for and rejuvenated. This is a special place.
I've come here 6 times now and can't wait to come back. Every time I'm here, the stress of life just melts away and feel so cared for and rejuvenated. This is a special place.
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such a special place
Ratna Ling is a very special place- comfortable natural and great food. super nice staff.
I will be back for another great yoga retreat
I will be back for another great yoga retreat
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Love it there! It would be nice if you updated the shower heads an easy fix.
Thank you for the great wewkend
Thank you for the great wewkend
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Peace Beauty Serenity
2+ day yoga retreat with the inimitable, Bex Urban. Highlights of Ratna Ling Retreat Center - the staff, food, temple (including sound meditation), education, extraordinary nature (forest baths readily available) and comfortable, clean accommodations. Kindness abounds.
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