The Heart of Spiritual Surrender,
6-day California Summer Retreat with Miranda Macpherson
Do you long to get out of your own way and come home to the living Presence within you? Are you ready to release spiritual striving and discover what it truly means to live from unity, love, and embodied wisdom in everyday life?
I invite you into a five-day residential immersion in the heart of spiritual transformation. Together, we will relax beyond the sense of separation and the conditioned patterns that keep you seeking, striving, or holding yourself apart from your true nature. I will share the often-unspoken nuances of going further on the awakening path—and reveal how authentic surrender is not something you do, but something you learn to allow. This unfolds through direct transmission and the embodied practice I call Ego Relaxation™.
Held in a palpable atmosphere of unconditional acceptance, we will illuminate where you may still be living from the paradigm of separation and what sustains it. As these structures come into the light, surrender can deepen naturally, opening stable access to the freedom, peace, and wholeness that are your birthright and your offering to this world. I will also guide you to take a deeper inner seat, so you can meet all of life with presence and respond from an integrated platform of unity.
Each day weaves together rich teaching and experiential practice—including inquiry, silent and guided meditation, mantra, music, and some breathwork—designed to nourish, open, and stabilize your realization.
In a community field where everything is welcome, you will be supported to:
- Discover what authentic spiritual surrender truly is and what allows it to unfold
- See through the beliefs, self-images, and attachments that sustain separation
- Understand why old patterns return, even when they no longer serve you
- Allow for absorption back into the very Source of your Being
- Stabilize realization so you can genuinely live from love and freedom in daily life
- Let your awakening naturally bless your loved ones and our world
San Damiano Retreat Center – Danville, CA
We are delighted to welcome you to our first retreat at San Damiano, a beautiful Franciscan retreat center nestled in the rolling hills of the San Ramon Valley. Set on over fifty acres of peaceful, natural beauty, San Damiano offers a quiet, prayerful atmosphere that effortlessly supports reflection, rest, and inner listening. Many of you hold deep affection for the Mercy Center, as I do. As you know, it has now closed to hosting retreats, and we’ve taken great care in finding a new home that carries a similar spirit of simplicity, silence, and sacred presence. San Damiano feels like a wonderful continuation—an oasis of peace where the land itself invites us inward. With private rooms, garden access, fountains, walking paths, a labyrinth, and other sacred spaces, the setting gently holds our time together. The Franciscan greeting, “Peace and All Good,” truly lives here—and I look forward to sharing this special place with you.
How to Get There
Retreat Format & Timings
WE ASK THAT YOU DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO ARRIVE BEFORE SUPPER ON THE 1ST DAY AND TO STAY UNTIL AT LEAST 1PM ON THE FINAL DAY. LATE ARRIVALS AND EARLY DEPARTURES CAUSE DISRUPTION FOR MIRANDA AND THE GROUP.
(All times are in Pacific Time and may be subject to minor changes closer to the time.)
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
2:00 P.M – Onwards – Arrive at San Damiano
5:30 P.M – Supper
7:00 P.M – 9:00 P.M – Opening Session
MONDAY, JUNE 22 – FRIDAY, JUNE 26
7:30 P.M – 8.30 A.M – Breakfast
8:45 A.M – 12:00 P.M MORNING SESSIONS
Includes:
* morning meditation & mantra practice
* teaching session with inquiry practice
* interactive dialogue together
12:00 P.M – 3:30 P.M – LUNCH & SELF-CARE TIME with specific deepening and self-nurturing recommendations from Miranda.
3:30 P.M – 5:30 P.M – AFTERNOON SESSIONS
5.30 P.M – 6.30 P.M – SUPPER
7:00 P.M – 9:00 P.M – EVENING SATSANG SESSIONS
FRIDAY, JUNE 26
Participants will have to vacate rooms before the morning session.
8:45 A.M – 11.45 A.M – CLOSING SESSION
12:00 P.M – LUNCH
2:00 P.M – ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST LEAVE SAN DAMIANO
WHAT PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS SAY
COST TO ATTEND
The cost includes room, board, and Miranda’s fee for this event. We are offering an early bird set of prices until March 1st and a regular price after March 1st onwards.
You can select a price below that includes a single room and one that includes a double room. If you choose a double room you will be emailed about your roommate preference if you have one.
Please make sure to discuss this with the person you wish to room with ahead of time.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Cancel before April 28th, you will receive a 95% refund.
Cancel before June 2nd, you will receive a 50% refund .
No refunds available if you cancel on or after June 5th , if you do not show up, or if you leave the retreat early for any reason. No exceptions can be made.
