🌟 Friday – Meditation Overnight
JOIN US FOR A DONATION-BASED Meditation Overnight AT THE JUST LOVE FOREST ASHRAM 🧡
4:30 PM Arrival
Just Love Forest is held as a Forest Ashram, open to all, but rooted in the living traditions and lineage of the great Indian saint Neem Karoli Baba, and following the path of Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of love.
Our Friday Evening Meditation Retreats are donation-based. Everyone is welcome. Simply offer what you can to help us offset food costs and maintain the space.
Each evening will include:
Guided Meditation with Mitch – open to all paths, lineages, and traditions.
Pooja & Aarti Ceremony – an ancient Hindu Vedic practice honoring the elements and the four directions.
This sacred space is open to people of all faiths. If you feel called, you may bring a sacred object from your own tradition with a spiritualist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, or otherwise to place on the altar and receive blessings.
If these practices are new to you, don’t be afraid. Come with curiosity, come to learn, come to share in community. Our invitation is simple: all hearts are welcome.
As part of this we will offer an Indian food dinner before our meditation. You're welcome to come for the evening and depart around 8pm or stay overnight in one of our canvas bell tents, all donation based.
Saturday morning we will wake up and offer a silent meditation from 7:00am - 8:00am and then Pooja & Aarti Ceremony again from 8:00-8:30am, followed by breakfast.
Join us in the forest. Breathe. Sit. Pray. Share the sacred.
Everything for this event is donation-based. We appreciate your support of our efforts.
Bala and Mitch are all certified Mindfulness Meditation Teachers, graduated from Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach's 2-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certificate Program through the Awareness Training Institute and the University of Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. As part of this 2-year program, they completed a 6-month DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accountability) training.