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. 
Summer Solstice Hatha Yoga

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...
Banner reads: "Spirit and Nature Festival. August 2-4, 2024." A sandhill crane illustration soaring through the blue sky above the river valley at Song of the Morning.

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!
A group of people walking down a hill clapping and rejoicing in music.

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.