14th Annual Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Gregory Kramer, Mary Burns and Jessica Mui

June 1 - 7, 2026

Peaceful group meditation during the Cascadia Insight Dialogue Retreat focused on mindfulness and relational meditation.
Early Registration: USD $720 by April 1
Regular Cost: USD $790 after April 1

Date and Time Details: June 1 to June 7, 2026

Location: Samish Island, WA (located between Seattle, WA, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Address: Samish Island Campground & Retreat Center, Scott Road, Bow, WA, USA

Contact: cascadiaretreat@gmail.com

Scholarship: We offer three categories of scholarships.
• Limited need-based scholarships are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
• Additional support available for practitioners of color.
• Canadians may request a discount to offset the extreme currency discrepancy.

Dana: Our teachers are offering this retreat in the tradition of dana (freewill giving). Retreatants have an opportunity at the end of the retreat to support the teachers and the teachings through freewill donations.

Cancellations: Cancellations will be reimbursed 80% until March 31, and 50% until April 14. No refunds after April 14.

Further Retreat Details: Find more information about scholarships, transportation, accommodations, retreat structure, and a photo gallery of our retreat site here.

Registration Deadline: Registration Deadline: April 25, 2025. For late registration, please email cascadiaretreat@gmail.com with your request.

  • $790.00 –
    USD. We strive to keep the fee as low as possible to make this retreat accessible to as many as possible. The fee represents our actual costs, primarily venue expenses (food and lodging), and teachers’ transportation. All organizers and teachers volunteer their time and service.
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Growing Resilience and Relational Capacity

Through careful and skillful practice, with the support of the Insight Dialogue guidelines, we will expand our relational capacities as awareness meets awareness.

This is an empowering response to the alienation, cruelty, and disempowerment saturating our societies. In our fractured world, greater relational capacity offers us greater resilience and balance. This, along with silence, time in nature, and shared meditative inquiry, resource us to participate in the world as it is with enhanced compassion, equanimity, and radical relatedness.

About the Leaders

Gregory Kramer

Gregory Kramer is the Founding Teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community and has been teaching insight meditation since 1980. He developed the practice of Insight Dialogue and has been teaching it since 1995, offering retreats in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. He has studied with esteemed teachers, including Anagarika Dhammadina, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya […]

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Mary Burns

Mary Burns teaches Insight Dialogue internationally and also offers the practice online. She engages actively in the Insight Dialogue Community by participating in the Teachers Council, Guiding Sangha, Awakening White Awareness cohort and by mentoring facilitators and teachers in development. For more than three decades she has been drawn to the intersection of eastern and […]

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Jessica Mui

Jessica Mui worked in the Canadian telecom industry for many years, having had an undergraduate background in computer science. In 2002, she left her job to pursue spiritual development. Since then, Jessica visits Myanmar often to intensively practice insight (vipassana) meditation and lovingkindness (metta) meditation. She also goes to Myanmar to study the teachings of […]

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