Public Retreats
2024 Golden Lotus Spring Banquet
With Golden Lotus Yoga Teachers Association
May 4, 2024
Otsego Club of Gaylord
A Special Event: This annual event is hosted by the GLYTA Yoga Teachers Association. This event dates back to Song of the Morning's early roots. Yogacharya valued creating special occasions where yogis near and far could come together to enjoy an evening out on the town while raising extra proceeds for the Retreat center.
2024 Inner Peace Retreat (May)
With Song of the Morning Community and Staff
May 10 - 12, 2024
Song of the Morning
An Inner Peace Retreat: We invite you to join us for an uplifting weekend of relaxation and spiritual refreshment in our quiet woodland setting. Come to unwind, recharge, and reconnect with your inner core of peace.
2024 Be Still and Know: Practices in Silence and Discernment
With Swami Sankarananda
May 17 - 24, 2024
Song of the Morning
A Guest Teacher Retreat: This retreat is an opportunity for all sincere truth seekers to experience and imbibe in the sacred Silence within. All participants are expected to observe & respect silence as guided during the full retreat.
2024 Inner Peace Retreat (June)
With Song of the Morning Community and Staff
June 7 - 9, 2024
Song of the Morning
An Inner Peace Retreat: We invite you to join us for an uplifting weekend of relaxation and spiritual refreshment in our quiet woodland setting. Come to unwind, recharge, and reconnect with your inner core of peace.
NEW! Summer Solstice Hatha Yoga Retreat
With Roy and Mary Ann Thibodeau
June 21 - 23, 2024
Song of the Morning
A Guest Teacher Retreat: In celebration of the U.N. International Day of Yoga, which also falls on the Summer Solstice, come join Song of the Morning and Golden Lotus Teacher's Association for an enriching Yoga Weekend Retreat!
2024 Community Day: Friends & Members Weekend
With Song of the Morning Staff and Community
June 28 - 30, 2024
Song of the Morning
A Special Event: Every summer the Clear Light Community - the residential community surrounding Song of the Morning - chooses a day to celebrate our community by bringing everyone together to learn new things as well as to help us as we explore how our community is growing...Community Day is open to everyone...
2024 Spirit and Nature Festival
With Song of the Morning Staff, Community, and Friends
August 2 - 4, 2024
Song of the Morning
Our annual family-friendly weekend event features festive music, sacred kirtan, storytelling from our local indigenous community, daily hatha yoga, guided meditations, themed nature walks, children's workshops and joyous fellowship under the sun and the stars! Come enjoy our cool and quiet mornings, vibrant forest, a purifying river to swim in, glorious wildflowers, delicious vegetarian meals and so much more! Don't miss this extraordinary summer event in the pristine setting of Northern Michigan!
2024 Accommodations for Spirit and Nature Weekend
August 2 - 4, 2024
Thank you for purchasing a ticket to the Spirit and Nature Weekend! The price of your Spirit & Nature ticket includes camping. If are on this page, it is because you would like to stay in the Lodge, Domes or Wheelhouse at Song of the Morning during the festival. To help our small staff team […]
NEW! Gardening for Divine Vitality
With Will and Wendy Page-Echols and Justine Markey
August 16 - 18, 2024
Song of the Morning
A Spiritual Living Retreat: We invite all gardeners (beginning and seasoned) to join an experiential hands-on workshop featuring practical gardening techniques combined with the universal spiritual principles of yoga.
NEW! Weaving of the Sacred: Embracing the Branches of Yoga
With Shannon Lynn Smith and Sunny Johnson-LeMieux
August 23 - 25, 2024
Song of the Morning
A Guest Teacher Retreat: Submerge yourself into the heart of yoga during a fun and spiritually nourishing weekend retreat in the deep woodlands of Song of the Morning Yoga & Meditation Retreat Center.
2024 Yogacharya Birthday Celebration
August 30 - September 1, 2024
Song of the Morning
A Special Event: It is with gratitude that we come together each year for Yogacharya's birthday to celebrate his life of service and generosity. [Save the date! Details coming soon!]
2024 Inner Peace Retreat (September)
With Song of the Morning Community and Staff
September 13 - 15, 2024
Song of the Morning
An Inner Peace Retreat: We invite you to join us for an uplifting weekend of relaxation and spiritual refreshment in our quiet woodland setting. Come to unwind, recharge, and reconnect with your inner core of peace.