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The Lama Foundation houses two unique hermitage retreat spaces from which you to may choose - rustic cabin style hermitages that could be described as a unique wilderness experience and are isolated from the main area of the Foundation. Privacy and quietude are present.

The Maqbara hermitage is situated far above the structures that support the daily activities of the Foundation. The hermitage area has a breathtaking view of the valley and the mountains beyond.

The Bear hermitage, a straw bale vault, designed and built by Women Build Houses, offers womb-like seclusion and quietness in the lower scrub oaks of the land and has a nesting effect.

Since its early days, personal retreats have been one of the cornerstones of the Lama Foundation. Time apart from community life for deep listening, reflection and spiritual practice has given sustenance and form to the sacred charge with which the Foundation has been entrusted and has profoundly shaped resident and visitor experience.

The hermitages exist in the pause between the in-breath and the out-breath. They are our transport to other dimensions; to our deeper and truer selves; the loving containers that embrace us as we step from our ordinary lives into sacred silence and solitude with the prayerful support of the community.

Whether we come to do a specific practice under the guidance of a teacher or simply to remove another layer from the Everyday, it is here that we reconnect with Spirit and the natural world and re-create the rhythms that support and feed us.

Lama Foundation is a spiritual community, educational facility, and retreat center adjacent to the Carson National Forest about 30 miles south of Colorado near the town of Taos, New Mexico. Designed as a community that embraces all spiritual traditions, it has strong ties to Taos Pueblo, the Hanuman Temple in Taos, NM, Sufi Ruhaniat International, Dervish Healing Order, The Church of Conscious Harmony, St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, CO, and dozens of other communities, spiritual teachers, and thousands of pilgrims from nearly all religious heritages who call Lama their home.

The purpose of the Lama Foundation is to be a sustainable spiritual community and educational center dedicated to the awakening of consciousness, spiritual practice with respect for all traditions, service and stewardship of the land.

At 8,600 ft above sea level, Lama Foundation thrives within the beautiful and rugged 1.5-million-acre Carson National Forest in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southern tip of the Rockies. The increased snow and rainfall of these mountains gives birth to a vast forest transitioning from fir and spruce at its highest elevation to ponderosa pine, scrub oak, juniper, pinon, and eventually petering out into sagebrush and chamisa on the valley floor, still 6,500 feet above the sea. At the valley’s center lies the majestic Rio Grande River, whose stunning gorge can be seen from Lama's front porch. The abundant grasses, pine nuts, wild rose hips, and acorns attract abundant wildlife, including elk, mule deer, black bears, several species of rabbit, squirrels, rodents, non-poisonous snakes, red-tailed hawks, owls, wild turkeys, mountain bluebirds, migratory birds, bobcats, and the occasional mountain lion.

Item Special Note

This item must be booked by June 1, 2014 based on scheduling. Simple meals will be provided and you may bring your own food as well to prepare in your hermitage.

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