As human beings we are meant to go through transitions throughout our phases of life in order to become fully human, to become a true elder who has wisdom to pass down the generations. With each transition in our life, we go through a descent where we let go of an old identity so that the energies and the motivation for the new can emerge. One of the reasons we go on retreat and keep a daily practice is because we’re training in descent. We go into liminal space, between worlds, where we separate from what we know as we are birthed into a new phase of life.
Erin Selover, LMFT
Residential Retreat Teacher
Erin Selover is a Dharma teacher with over 20 years of Buddhist training and serves as a residential retreat teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She currently works as a Spiritual Strategist with individuals and is a Somatic-Based Marriage and Family Therapist. Since 2018, her passion has been distributive governance and needs-based gift economics. She has complemented her Buddhist practice and studies with studying and experimenting with Miki Kashtan and the Nonviolent Global Liberation community. As a white settler of Irish descent on Indigenous lands, she’s in ongoing inquiry about how power and privilege functions within modernity and the complex history of her ancestors. Drawing from these threads, she co-stewards a meditation community integrating the Celtic Wheel of the Year and Buddhism within needs-based gift economics and distributive governance. She completed Spirit Rock and IMS residential retreat teacher training program in 2016. She was mentored by Phillip Moffitt and trained as a strategist with his Life Balance Institute.
Erin Selover's Upcoming Programs
Retreat | On-Land
October 21 - October 25, 2026 | Wednesday - Sunday | 4 nights
Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love: Practices for Cultivating Awareness, Loving-Kindness, and Inner Resilience
6.75 CE Credits. Full - short waitlist. Commuter spaces available! This retreat will focus on integrating a sense of embodied warmth with an intuitive knowing by cultivating a relaxed and kind attention in all activities. We will pay particular attention to attitudes of mind—such as pushing away, leaning in, or spacing out—and the impacts of those mind states on one’s capacity to connect with lovingkindness and deep inner intuitive listening. As we develop this continuity of compassionate presence and discernment together we will cultivate our capacity to attune and listen to Citta, an intuitive mysterious knowing that arises simultaneously within moment to moment experience. Come with a beginner's mind.
Short Program | On-Land
Sunday, November 29 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Insight Mini Retreat: A Day of Practice
Join us on the land for a day of Insight Meditation practice. This day will be held in noble silence with alternating sitting and walking meditation as well as teachings that support the cultivation of equanimity (upekkhā)—the capacity to stand in the center of things with a calm, clear heart. Our time together is designed both for those newer to practice who are curious about retreat, as well as more experienced practitioners wanting to reconnect. All are welcome!
Erin Selover
Retreat | On-Land
January 19 - January 26, 2027 | Tuesday - Tuesday | 7 nights
The Depths of Winter: An Insight and Continuum Retreat
Full - short waitlist. During this mid-winter retreat, we align with the wisdom of our bodies and the long nights. Practicing in relative darkness supports deep letting go, shedding old narratives to nourish emergent possibilities within. This retreat weaves Insight Meditation with Continuum—a somatic practice using breath, sound, and fluid movement to awaken innate intelligence. Held in noble silence, each day includes Dharma reflections, somatic explorations, guided meditation, and Q&A, alongside night gazing, candlelight practice, and time in nature.
Dharma Library
Can't join us live online or on the land? Study and practice at your convenience with Erin Selover through our new library of recordings, articles, and self-paced online courses.