The Final Retreat in the Eightfold Path

with Kevin Courtney

March 8-15, 2026 | Menla Retreat, NY

Special Guests:

Kate Shela | Natalie Kuhn | Erin Rose Ward | Kacey Rodenbush | Erin Yee

An Immersive Week of Devotion, Absorption, and Return

In March 2026, the Eightfold Path community gathers for the final retreat in our eight-year journey: SAMĀDHI, the culminating limb of yoga.

Step by step, year by year, we have moved through each limb, cultivating clarity, resilience, depth, and devotion. Though the practices draw us inward, the journey has been shared: a co-created temple of community, rooted in sincerity, respect, and love for the path to the absolute.

This closing chapter is not about effort or achievement. It is about release. A return to the infinite presence already alive within.

Samādhi is often described as absorption: the merging of subject and object, self and spirit. It is not a peak to reach, but a field to remember. Not performance, but the fruit of devotion. Here, awareness shines unobstructed, revealing the vastness of who and what we truly are.


The Arc of the Week

This retreat offers a rare opportunity to quiet the noise and connect with the deeper intelligence of the heart and soul. Across the week, a carefully sequenced flow of accessible practices will gather the energies of body, breath, and mind into coherence. From that center, consciousness expands, naturally, in its own time, for each participant.

Each day, we explore sacred pathways into presence:

  • Morning Meditation and Pranayama with Kevin to cultivate stability, spaciousness, and insight

  • Tantric Hatha Yoga, Restorative Practice, Qi Gong, and Yoga Nidra to harmonize energy and ground awareness

  • INSIGHT Contemplative Sessions with self-inquiry, journaling, and dialogue

  • The 360 Emergence with Kate Shela and Erin Rose Ward for embodied transformation

  • Breathwork + Storytelling with Natalie Kuhn to ignite clarity and inspiration

  • Sound Alchemy with Kacey Rodenbush to down-regulate and attune to subtle awareness

  • Soul Scent essential oil alchemy by Erin Yee to support integration

  • A Final Ceremony to honor and seal our collective passage

All offerings are accessible to seasoned practitioners and those new to the path. No prior experience with the Eightfold Path is required.

The Invitation

This weeklong journey is a refuge. A sanctuary for crossing the most sacred threshold within.

If you feel the call, come as you are: with your devotion and your questions, your laughter and your tears, your longing and your wonder. All of it belongs here, part of the alchemy and the subtle forces that draw you inward.

Together, we return to what has always been: the steady light of consciousness within.

Registration is now open. Space is limited.

With love and respect,

Kevin

If you have questions about attending SAMĀDHI or would like to set up a payment plan in order to attend, please email our retreat producer Nico Grae | Nico@thisisinsight.com

New to the EIGHTFOLD PATH RETREAT? Please fill out this request to attend form. This is required to book.

Past attendees, you may go directly to booking.

What is The Eightfold Path?

Founded in 2018, The Eightfold Path is a multi-year exploration of the eight limbs of yoga. Rooted in Vedic and Tantric wisdom and carried by a living, breathing community, each year centers on one limb through an annual retreat designed to nourish, awaken, and transform.

As we enter Samādhi, we fulfill the original vision: eight limbs, eight years, one path. What remains is not just the teaching, but the lived transmission of a journey walked together.

The Sacred Practices we will Incorporate:

  • Meditation

  • Yoga Nidra

  • Pranayama

  • Restorative Yoga

  • Sound Alchemy

  • Tantric Hatha Yoga

  • The 360 Emergence

  • INSIGHT Self Inquiry

  • Ceremonial Breathwork

  • Somatic Movement

The Eightfold Path Creator, Kevin Courtney

Kevin Courtney, founder and CEO of INSIGHT, is a leading expert in meditation, mindfulness, and conscious leadership.

With a commitment to lifelong learning, Kevin has spent three decades immersed in the wisdom of Vedanta, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Psychodynamics, and Psychology.

Grounded in these teachings, he founded INSIGHT in 2013—a one-on-one program designed to illuminate and awaken the body, mind, heart, and spirit.

Kevin and his family live in Santa Monica, CA, and he continues expanding his teachings’ reach through mentorship, online meditations, workshops, and retreats. His work is dedicated to guiding others toward a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.

New to the EIGHTFOLD PATH RETREAT? Please fill out this request to attend form. This is required to book.

Past attendees, you may go directly to booking.

Meet Your Guest Teachers

  • Kate Shela

    Kate is a dynamic shapeshifter, a potent shamanic healer and seer. She brings transformational medicine to every dance floor. A catalyst with heart who creates life retrievals. She drops into the belly of listening and draws out the innate healer in each of us.

    Kate is the co-founder of The 360 Emergence that offers a range of in-person experiences from 1:1 mentoring, immersions & exploratory movement Labs to The 360 Apprenticeship.

  • Natalie Kuhn

    Natalie Kuhn, founder of "Make the Sun," is a multi-faceted public speaker, teacher, and artist who blends her expertise in mental health with a uniquely accessible approach to spirituality.

    Her poetic keynote addresses, handcrafted transformational pocket mirrors, and immersive workshops invite individuals and organizations to see themselves and the world with greater clarity and compassion.

  • Erin Rose Ward

    Erin Rose Ward is a guide on the path to wholeness and remembering. She is passionate about the human body and its capacity to escort us into a deep relationship with the sacred.

    Erin has been with The Eightfold Path retreat since its inception. Her work is a translation of wisdom traditions applied to our modern times through the lens of the heart.

About Menla Retreat

Menla is a hidden oasis set in a secluded valley beside an enchanting stream in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. A truly unique venue and a project of Tibet House US – the Dalai Lama’s cultural center in North America – Menla is a modern resort and destination spa surrounded by thousands of acres of unspoiled wilderness. Inspired by the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Tibet, Menla strives to keep alive knowledge handed down for centuries through its retreat offerings.

There is a selection of accommodations that will be booked first come, but we will also do our best to meet your rooming needs and preferences. If you are familiar with the property and want to have a specific type of room, PLEASE book your reservation as soon as possible.

All meals are included in your retreat registration and are made lovingly by the chef and culinary staff on site. The meals will be strictly vegan and vegetarian, but accommodations can be made for allergies.

New to the EIGHTFOLD PATH RETREAT? Please fill out this request to attend form. This is required to book.

Past attendees, you may go directly to booking.