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.
During the summer, Lama Foundation welcomes visitors and pilgrims from all walks of life to join the community and connect with the land. Retreats are offered, serving a wide range of spiritual languages and personal needs, from Women Singing in Circle to Co-Founder Asha Greer’s Vast Silence. Some guests may also find retreat space in one of Lama’s hermitages, or just enjoy a visit to the summer community, weaving the inner and outer wilderness into their own rhythm.
In the winter, Lama turns inward, giving the resident circle (a fluctuating group of about 8-15 men and women) the chance to pursue their own spiritual practices in relative peace and silence. During this time, residents participate in both solitary and group retreats, as well as plan and prepare for the coming summer schedule. Like a crew that sails a massive ship, the resident circle is responsible for nearly all of the daily workings of Lama Foundation, both in winter and summer, but their work is only possible with the enormous help from all the stewards, volunteers, donors, trustees, free associates and continuing members who make up the community as a whole, a community deeply connected to the Mountain, to spirit, and to every person who has come before and after.