Coming in 2025
Please scroll through this page to see Bill’s various events coming this year. He Is also planning additional events and will continue to revise and update this page, so please return to it occasionally.
*** Free online contemplative gatherings ***
Bill continues to convene periodic, live-streamed, 50-minute online conversations he describes as “Hearing, Remembering, Coming Together” (Sanskrit: Śravana, Smaraṇa, Saṃsthāna).
He begins each session by sharing a teaching from yogic and other spiritual philosophies. He and the group then sit together with that teaching in a spirit of contemplation in a way that Bill hopes supports participants in applying it in their lives. Each session ends with a short period of meditation.
Participation is free of charge and participants do not need to commit to the on-going series. Anybody and everybody is welcome for any session.
The next gathering will be scheduled for the latter part of the Spring.
Please return to this page occasionally for further information.
I will also send out a notice to my mailing list. To place your name on that list please go the the “Join Bill’s Mailing List” tab on this Website.
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*** Week-long Exquisite Love Retreat in Sweden ***
August 3-9, 2025
So’Ham Retreats, Nora, Sweden.
Within the challenges brought to us by an often-difficult world, heart-centered contemplative practices can open us to the experience spiritual love: for others, for ourselves, for life itself, for divinity. The complexities and possibilities of life’s journey give us an opportunity to strengthen, deepen and clarify this love.
Yet, the contours of life can also draw us away from the experience and expression of spiritual love, or what is known in yoga philosophy very broadly as bhakti.
In this retreat at a beautiful site in rural Sweden we will take time to understand, cultivate, and refine spiritual love through contemplative study, meditation, chanting, and integrating the heart and body through physical yoga practices.
As a way to focus our contemplative practices, we will turn to my translations of passages from the Bhakti Sūtra, an important text on spiritual love composed in the tenth century in India.
For full information and to get a link to register, please press here.
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*** Week-long Yoga and Contemplative Philosophy Retreat in Portugal ***
With Bridget Woods Kramer
November 14-20, 2025
Cocoon Portugal
Produced by Georgie Fearn Yoga
For full information from Georgie’s Website, press here.
As Georgie says there, “We loved this venue so much in 2024, it was one of the reasons that we knew that we had to come back! The venue is a 275 acre farm on the coast of Southern Portugal. The farm grows much of it’s on food (which is quite possibly the best retreat food I’ve ever had,) it has a beautiful freshwater lake and is only 10 minutes from beautiful stretches of untouched coastline.”
And please also return to this Schedule Page over the coming weeks for more information.
