Meditation Center for
ongoing silent retreats

Choose any date, any length
​(minimum 2 nights)
​​open year round

​direct booking here 
​In a welcoming and beautiful environment, guests enjoy simple peace.  A daily practice of meditation and verbal silence is led by teachers with over 40 years of meditation practice. Beginners or meditating for years, guests come and then return again and again to Silent Stay to deepen their spiritual practice.  We are discovering the heart of the moment through maintaining silence, meditation, and self nurturing.  A one on one meditation insight session is included during the retreat.

We greet you verbally and show you around.  There is an additional orientation for new guests, to answer any questions.  A silent retreat is more than not speaking, it is a doorway to receiving genuine peace and quiet from within.

unplug for inner peace

Silence & the infinite Heart

ongoing silent retreats ~ 2 night minimum

  • ​​Rest, restore, renew in the calm & serenity of silence
  • See: Daily Rhythm
  • For beginners and experienced meditators alike.​
  • ​Spacious days of verbal silence, healing & renewal
  • 1:1 meditation and awareness training included
  • Learn how to creatively engage the silence and soften mental activity

Silent stay retreat center

  • In the hills of Solano County, Northern California, one hour & 15 minutes Northeast of San Francisco, and easily accessible from Sacramento and Los Angeles. An intimate setting on a private gated estate with a limit of ten guests
  • Each person can have a private room. Double rooms for friends and family
  • Retreat Center Photos ~ Panoramic Views
  • Beautiful Accommodations with all cotton linens provided, plus Salt Water Pool 
  • See Costs  
  • European Style Hermitage Retreat ~ See our first Hermitage in Assisi, Italy voted one of the top ten retreat centers of the world by CNN and Travel & Leisure
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Photos by Richard Formica

The gift of simple peace

we are a non profit organization dedicated to offering peace, Quiet, 
​heart centered meditation
Since 1986

We are a silent meditation retreat center in Northern California easily accessible from San Francisco, Sacramento, and Los Angeles

the infinite heart

The innermost heart is the doorway to our happiness & wisdom.  Holding outer silence supports and nurtures inner well being and calm. We begin to notice the peace that is all around us and inside of us. Our mental activity softens and dissolves.  Being present, nurturing our inner life brings new understanding, trust, and joy into our daily life. We learn to live from our inner beingness, centered and present. 

A practice of living in the heart of the moment is given. With meditation, silence & taking well deserved time for ourselves, we find the doorway to a special vastness, gentleness, and much more inside our hearts. Your retreat includes guidance in taking the meditation practice home and integrating expanded awareness into daily activities. Bring a journal to remember your experience and ways to anchor inner quiet and well being in daily life.

special events & Pilgrimages
Silence is ​peace 
​expressing itself
Ruth Davis

What Others Are Saying About Silent Stay Retreats:
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"Thank you so much for this experience.  I can now hear the silence of my heart and embrace the inner peace.  I have been truly moved by my time here.  I look forward to when I come back."  Kevin G.​
"Thank you again for sharing the gift of silence with me and so many others.  It has truly changed my life and is the seed of so much of the self-discovery, self-knowing, and self loving that has followed.  Warm wishes and much inner peace, Joel A.
 "My time at Silent Stay has changed my life.  I'm more productive at work, I'm more tolerant and of my fellow man, and in general I have a better, more peaceful outlook on life.  I wish to thank you both for helping me get there.  I plan to come again very soon to continue my journey.  Julie G.
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