Healing and Freedom:

Lovingkindness & Mindfulness Meditation Retreat

February 28 - March 7, 2025

Start spring with a new vision of what your life could be, a renewed inspiration and feeling for life.

This retreat will bring together deep work in Mindfulness Meditation with the healing power of Lovingkindness.

 Get a break from all your technology and reconnect with the rhythms of the sea, stars, and your own being. 

 You will:

  • Uncover and release old patterns that have been holding you back from your dreams

  • Heal your heart with Lovingkindness

  • Experience deep calm, extraordinary clarity, and unexpected joy

  • Gain a systematic understanding of meditation as a path to liberation

  • Learn tools for enhancing your physical suppleness and vitality through Inner Awareness Yoga, fascial stretching, and meditative relaxation.   

  • Swim in the turquoise waters of the Caribbean and relax in hammocks

  • Explore the Palancar Reef, the world’s second longest barrier reef 

  • Enjoy delicious natural meals made with Love

Plus, there will be time for:

Optional group discussions on integrating meditation into your daily life challenges

Opportunity to meet privately with the teacher

Meet the Instructor

  • Paul Jaffe

    Paul Jaffe has been practicing Buddhist Meditation and philosophy, along with other wisdom teachings for 50 years. He has studied with Meditation Masters in Zen, Insight and Tibetan Tantric traditions.  He began teaching meditation in 1980, and has led retreats in Japan, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Russia and Spain.  

    His broad experience as a university professor, financial services advisor, intercultural consultant, healer, personal and business coach, political and social organizer, husband, and father, reflect his energetic engagement with life and his penchant for trying to bring the expression of compassion into the world of everyday life.  

    He has studied with renowned masters in the Zen, Vipassana and Tibetan traditions, including Maezumi Tainzan Roshi, Bernie Glassman Roshi, Genpo Merzel Roshi, UchyamaKosho Roshi, HH Gyalwang Drukchen, and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Namgyal Rinpoche and Acharya Doug Duncan.

Accommodations & Rates

Our retreats are available at a sliding scale. We invite you to practice economic solidarity with your community and choose the ticket tier that makes the most sense with your financial situation. Explanations of the pricing tiers can be seen on our reservations page. All prices are in USD.

General - $1060

Sustainable - $910

Solidarity - $760

The retreat cost includes the following:

  • 7 nights accommodation based on double occupancy

  • All Meals at Xo Ki’in Retreat Center

  • This retreat fee does not include Dana

  • For further information and payment please send an email to info@xokiin.com

What is Dana?

Dana is a Sanskrit word that means “donation” or “yoga of generosity”. In the Buddhist tradition, teachings are given freely so that anyone, no matter their financial means can attend classes. Each time one receives teachings, it is an opportunity to consciously practice generosity. Giving money and other means of support expresses gratitude and support to the teacher and helps to ensure that these teachings continue.

Each person receiving teachings determines the amount of Dana according to one’s heart and one’s financial means. When deciding how much to offer, one should think about what these teachings mean to you and try to give accordingly.