Realizing The Way
A 3-day residential retreat with Henry Shukman
Mount Madonna Retreat Center, California
October 8–11, 2026
In Person
Join Henry for a 3-day retreat that offers a true immersion: extended meditation, dharma teachings, a friendly community, and the conditions for deep insight to arise naturally.
Through meditation, teaching, and the particular quiet of residential practice, we’ll explore what it means to realize The Way: and how this can form the foundation of a transformative meditation practice. The beautiful redwoods and mountain views of Mount Madonna provide a natural container for this deepening inquiry.
What to expect at a residential retreat
The retreat includes daily meditations, dharma teachings from Henry, extended Q&A sessions, and periods of noble silence. Meals are vegetarian and taken together as part of the practice.
Most importantly, three days allows the kind of settling that reveals what shorter retreats cannot touch — you’ll have time not just to hear the teachings, but to begin living them, while immersing yourself in a committed community of meditators.
Here’s what students have said about Henry’s teaching
Thank you for creating this nourishing space. Our practice together revealed a place of deep authenticity, opening to ease and acceptance – which remains an anchor throughout my days since.
This was my first time sitting in shared stillness with so many others and it was absolutely magical.
I loved listening to Henry, the guided meditation and meditating with this sangha. The atmosphere had beautiful lightness and depths and I still feel it inside.
About your teacher
Henry Shukman
Henry is an authorized Zen Master in the Sanbo Zen lineage, the co-founder of The Way meditation app, and the Spiritual Director Emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In addition to teaching meditation, Henry is an award-winning author and poet. His struggles and traumatic experiences as a youth, combined with a spontaneous awakening experience at 19, and decades of practice training, paved the way for Henry to develop a well-rounded approach to healing and awakening through meditation.
First access for Realizing The Way
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