Boundless Refuge is a response to the suffering in our world. We believe our world needs more peacemakers, and that meditation is a direct path to inner and outer peace. Through long retreat our innate powers of freedom, wisdom and compassion grow and flow forth into our world.

Our annual 3-month meditation retreat is an immersive journey of transforming suffering into peace by practicing the Middle Way.

Our retreats are sustained solely through dana, the practice of generosity.

May our activity bring forth the light and warmth of wisdom and compassion in our world.

My own self I will place in Suchness, and, so that all the world might be helped, I will place all beings into Suchness, and I will lead to Nirvana the whole immeasurable world of beings.

- Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita

  • Melissa, 2022

    This was the most important thing I've done in my life. It's hard to convey how powerful it was. North taught us to cultivate a sense of spacious awareness that has led to a dramatic reduction in my own suffering and an increase in my capacity to show up for the suffering of others. I am filled with gratitude.

  • David, 2023

    The Boundless Refuge 3-month retreat was a very positive and profound time for me. Most of all, it helped me deepen my capacity to bring a non-clinging awareness to every experience, internally and externally. Much gratitude to North and the team for making this possible!

  • Dylan, 2022

    North’s teaching is direct, compassionate, and responsive, and he is willing to go to great lengths to meet someone where they are. This retreat is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your practice in a setting that is both challenging and supportive. These conditions for practice are hard to find anywhere.

  • Levi, 2023

    Through the teachings, I gained a solid view and embodied understanding of the path. Post retreat, I’m finding more space and am finding joy in giving more of myself. North brings love in the form of both support and challenge and offers a teaching style that encourages spontaneous living.

  • Ned, 2022/23

    I left the retreat knowing I had been privileged to have received teachings of deep truth. North’s dharma touched on a range of traditions and methods, but what was consistent throughout was the importance he placed on a freedom which felt both incredibly close and incredibly important. There is a newfound sense of capacity in me that is best described as the simple knowing that “all is welcome.”

  • Phil, 2022/23

    I was braced for discomfort and inner turmoil but was surprised to discover that waking up in the predawn hours and sitting silently with unknown figures was actually a door gently opening toward liberation. That corner of earth, that particular spot where we gathered, is resonant with peace and wisdom that still rings clear now many months later. North's gracious hosting and playful teaching bring forth vast open space in each of the participants. How lucky to get to be there for it.