Shoshoni Yoga Retreat
Open your heart. Still your mind. Find your bliss.
Shoshoni is a residential ashram and spiritual retreat center nestled in the Rocky Mountains above Boulder, Colorado that provides sacred space for individuals to practice meditation and yoga, connect with nature, and experience the joy that lies within.
Shoshoni Yoga Retreat
Open your heart. Still your mind. Find your bliss.
Shoshoni is a residential ashram and spiritual retreat center nestled in the Rocky Mountains above Boulder, Colorado that provides sacred space for individuals to practice meditation and yoga, connect with nature, and experience the joy that lies within.
Upcoming Retreats and Trainings
Yoga Retreat
Visit any weekend. Two night minimum required.
Not available: Sept 17-20, Oct 30-Nov 1
Join us for a rejuvenating weekend filled with yoga classes, guided meditations, sacred art, and more. Take this opportunity to recharge, reconnect, and return home refreshed and inspired. Book your spot today and embark on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth.
Day Retreats
September 25, 26
Enjoy a day in the beautiful Rocky Mountains, complete with yoga classes, guided meditations, and sacred art. In your free time, hike the trails, relax in nature, and enjoy the hot tub and sauna.
Malas, Mantra, and Movement Workshop
September 12
A mala is a string of prayer beads commonly used in the practice of japa, or mantra repetition. In this workshop, you’ll learn about mantra and how to work with it, as well as make your own mala to practice with and take home with you. Yoga and Meditation classes complete the experience.
Yoga Lifestyle Immersion
October 1-29
This one-month program offers a rare opportunity to spend time at an ashram, combining an extended retreat with the experience of being a resident. Immerse yourself in nature and the practices of meditation, yoga, and selfless service. Live and practice alongside a group of dedicated resident yogis in a beautiful and secluded mountain setting.
Honor Wisdom: Yoga for Healing 2
October 4-10
Explore the nature of the top preventable diseases on the United States as well as a yogic approach to moderation and optimal health. Enjoy a deep dive into functional breathing mechanics and its vast neurobiological connections. Experience the purification potential of VajraSattva mantra and an immersive retreat practice. Additional training topics include the Yoga Endurance Screen, over 20 new dynamic asanas, and the latest concepts in Pain Science.
Nourish to Flourish Retreat
October 16-18
Discover the art of holistic well-being in this Ayurveda-based retreat, which offers practical Ayurvedic wisdom and self-care techniques to help you reduce stress, enhance energy, and cultivate lasting harmony.
Meditation Teacher Training Level 1
October 19-26
Deepen your own experience and understanding of the ShambhavAnanda Yoga meditation teachings, and learn to teach others. Each day is devoted to a different meditation topic and technique; spend time in personal exploration and group discussion, then develop your own style of teaching to share with the class. This is a week-long, 30-hour training.
Relax, Reset, and Restore Retreat
October 29-November 1
Embark on a rejuvenating journey to relax your nervous system and rediscover your inner balance. This retreat offers yoga practices designed to release physical and mental tension, restore your energy and cultivate a profound sense of center through daily Breath Labs, gentle yoga, mindful meditations and blissful mantra chanting.
Shoshoni Yoga Retreat believes that everyone should have safe and equitable access to yoga and meditation, from yoga teacher trainings to immersive yoga retreats. In drawing upon the resources of our inner spiritual work, we move forward as activists in the call for racial and social justice – we will listen, educate ourselves, engage, and continue to grow in ways that support Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized communities.
Enjoying the views at Rollins Peak ☀️
#coloradohiking #coloradoretreat #coloradomountains
As the 2nd annual Lotus & Lion Art Show comes to a close, we’re enjoying talking with all the incredible artists & learning about their work.
Image: Shoshoni’s director, Faith Stone
& artist, Rachel Dinda, with Rachel’s painting, Transience. ✨
See more of Rachel’s work - @dreamscape_r
#lotusandlionartexhibition #artist #buddhaart
Discover the art of holistic well-being.
✨Nourish to Flourish ✨Ayurveda-based retreat with Swami Devananda this October.
This retreat offers practical Ayurvedic wisdom and self-care techniques to help you reduce stress, enhance energy, and cultivate lasting harmony.
#ayurveda #ayurvedaretreat #selfcare #nourish
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#meditation #meditate #quietyourmind #breathe #clarity
Rainbow over Shoshoni Temple 🌈
📷 by Ramana 🥰
#meditationtemple #ashram
Our 2nd annual Lotus & Lion Art Show closes this weekend. We have loved having this incredible art in our new gallery & have enjoyed sharing this with all of our retreat guests. ❤️🙏🏼
Art in Order:
Manjushri Monarchs by Luka Hey
The Gaze of Infinite Compassion by Vijay Maharajan
Contemporary Prayer Wheel by Joe Arnold
Rebirth by Joy Redstone
Cave Painting #13 Asian Koel by Terry Brewer
Shakyamuni by Karma Phuntsok
Red Vistara by Shohini Ghosh
More White Clouds by Roshan Houshmand
Kali by Cynthia Kennedy
A Taste of Time by Kabi Raj Lama
Black by Karma Phuntsok
Buddha on Wood Panel by Maria Aragon
Mandala: Third Eye by Mary Schultz-Williams
Ganesha by Mahalia Mae Porter
Inundated by Helen Redman
Harmony in Diversity series by Faith Stone
Burn It Down by Jennifer McCorkell
Pretty Little Love Song by Anita Schwartz
Medicine Buddha by Rain March
I Am the Universe by Sajal Siwakoti
Green Tara - Day of the Dead by Helen Redman
The Silent Remover (ceramic) by Sajal Siwakoti
Compassionate Hope by Diane Tunnell
#lotusandlionartexhibition #artgallery #hinduart #buddhistart
Lotus & Lion Juror Spotlight
✨Sarah Magnatta, PhD
Sarah Magnatta is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Denver. She received her PhD in art history from the Ohio State University and specializes in global contemporary art and museum studies. She previously worked at the Denver Art Museum and has curated several exhibitions, including Gonkar Gyatso: Intimacy and Immediacy at the Vicki Myhren Gallery in Denver. She also curated Tenzing Rigdol’s first solo U.S. exhibition, My World Is in Your Blind Spot, at the Emmanuel Art Gallery in Denver and the Tibet House U.S. in New York City.
Sarah’s research largely concerns issues of transnationalism and mobilities in contemporary art, and her current book project is tentatively titled Contemporary Art of the Tibetan Diaspora. She has published essays in Art Journal, Journal of the British Association for South Asian Studies, the Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, and the Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism. She teaches courses on contemporary art through global perspectives and is especially interested in challenging art historical and museum hegemonies.
#lotusandlionartexhibition #jurorspotlight #artexhibitions #sacredart
Lotus & Lion Spotlight
✨Faith Stone
Faith Stone is a seasoned artist whose exploration of carving and painting Buddhas spans more than three decades, marked by a deep immersion in the traditional art of Tibetan thangka painting. For 20 years, Faith dedicated herself to mastering the intricacies of thangka, honoring sacred proportions and capturing the essence of traditional Buddhist art while bridging ancient practices with modern interpretations.
Beyond her canvas, Faith has assumed the role of a guardian of cultural heritage. Over the past 10 years, she has been fervently committed to the preservation and revival of Buddha woodblocks, particularly thangka woodblocks. This art form faced endangerment in the wake of the Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet. Faith’s dedication has made her one of the few artists worldwide engaged in the intricate processes of carving and hand-printing Buddhist woodblocks.
Images 1: Environmental Green Tara (acrylics on canvas)
Environmental Green Tara by Faith Stone presents the beloved Buddhist bodhisattva as a guardian of ecological harmony and interconnection. Seated peacefully upon a lotus cloud, Tara radiates compassion and calm while surrounded by animals of land and sea, symbolizing her vow to protect all living beings.
Through this work, Environmental Green Tara reminds us that compassion is not passive. It is an active responsibility to care for the vulnerable, preserve ecological balance, and live in respectful relationships with all beings who share this world.
Image 2 - 6: Harmony in Diversity Series (accordion book)
Image 7: Faith with Vishnu by Diane Woodward
#lotusandlionartexhibition #greentara #environmentalart #mokuhanga #woodblockprints
Lotus & Lion Spotlight
✨Maria Aragon
I am a self-taught artist working in oil and in collage, using art calendars I hoard to make symbolic or whimsical artworks. I pull from research on ancient cultures and various spiritual paths to express ideas, symbolisms, and create new perceptions for familiar figures, like Apollo or Medusa.
Images:
Buddha on Wood Panel (side one) (oil on wood)
This is one side of a two-sided work, depicting the Buddha in meditation. Painted on the reverse/inside of a cradled wood panel.
Emanations (paper collage)
#lotusandlionartexhibition
#oilpainting #buddhaart #buddha
Lotus & Lion Artist Spotlight
✨Sajal Siwakoti✨
Growing up in Nepal, surrounded by temples, rituals, Sanskrit chants, and sacred architecture, spirituality was never separate from daily life. It existed in gestures, spaces, sounds, and silence. These experiences shaped my understanding of life as an intimate relationship between the universe outside and the universe within. Through biomorphic forms inspired by Hatha yoga and meditative movement, I explore this inner energy and the quiet process of self-realization. The golden sphere becomes a symbol of divine radiance, while the stacked rounded forms symbolize unfolding of consciousness and human potential. The Sanskrit mantra Aham Brahmasmi “I am the universe” is central to my practice. It is not only a phrase, but a realization: that what we seek outside already exists within us.
As artist in residence at Eldorado Ashram, this Ganesha sculpture is the first sculpture created here, which makes it especially meaningful, and the three-tier sculpture is the first contemporary sacred sculpture I created in the United States, making it a very special milestone in my artistic journey.
#lotusandlionartexhibition #sculpture #nepaleseart #yogaart #sacredart
Lotus & Lion Spotlight
✨Suran Song
An interdisciplinary artist who uses mixed media to map the inner weather of the mind. In “The Five Hindrances on the Buddha’s Path,” the artist turns toward the five difficult states (desire, aversion, lethargy, agitation, and doubt) and renders them as sharply observed, spiritually surgical portraits of monkey mind. Working with intuitive contour drawing, each image arises from a kind of snow blindness on the blank page, drawing in the heat of each hindrance as it is felt. The resulting monkey-like figures give form to experiences that are usually invisible, hovering between caricature and self-portrait. How will viewers project their own inner states onto these sparse marks and post-consumer wrappers within the near-emptiness of the frame? These works sit at the edge of humor and discomfort, inviting a direct yet contemplative encounter with the obstacles that shape uneasy consciousnesses.
Images: The Five Hindrances on Buddha’s Path (black marker, post-consumer wrappers)
#lotusandlionartexhibition #buddha #spiritualpath
Lotus & Lion Spotlight
✨Gray Finch
These mixed media paintings, titled “The Fourfold Path of Harmony,” were created after a meditation with an emphasis on overcoming adversity and transformation. Combining three to four Buddhist images allowed me to push boundaries in my studies and techniques; thus it gave a clearer sense of purpose and created a profound shift in my consciousness of where I am seeking a deeper interconnection to my true self.
Image 1: The Fourfold Path of Harmony II (mixed media)
“The Fourfold Path of Harmony II” was created with the reference of an Eastern Asian legend where the Koi overcomes a waterfall and transcends into a dragon. This symbolizes the journey towards enlightenment.
Image 2: The Fourfold Path of Harmony III (mixed media)
“The Fourfold Path of Harmony III” was created with a clear sense of purpose: to create a triptych through a process of meditation and develop a sense of harmony by combining Buddhist elements with an emphasis on adversity and transformation.
#lotusandlionartexhibition #mixedmedia #lotus #harmony #lotusart
Shoshoni is an incredibly unique and beautiful place to learn yoga and meditation. The classes, trainings, accommodations, and food are all top notch and made with love for everyone to share. You can feel the sweetness all around you at Shoshoni. I highly recommend this nourishing place to anyone seeking retreat, renewal, or real opportunities for spiritual growth.