Deep Listening:

A Winter Ceremony of Sound and Stillness

January 7th-10th, 2027

Near Portland, Oregon

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You’re Invited

To a different kind of retreat experience. Share in a group inquiry into silence and sound, and cultivate the practice of meditation through a curated ceremonial container.

This retreat is an opportunity to cultivate your meditation practice, and bring it into the amplified container of ceremony. Whether you are a long time meditator or it is something unfamiliar, this retreat is an opportunity to integrate deep presence into your life.

Quiet your mind, return to your breath, and deepen into the medicine of mid-Winter. Through ceremony, silence, and sacred sound, we will enter into a space of stillness where the luminous mind can reveal its true nature.

Together, we’ll step into sacred space through:

  • 2 Group Ceremonies

    Featuring live sound, professional facilitation, and deep intention

  • Breathwork

    Facilitated by a highly trained breath work practitioner.

  • Meditation

    Cultivating and deepening through daily meditation leading up to the retreat.

  • Preparation and Integration Circles

    Online circles before and after the retreat to ground into practices and relationship

  • Live Sound + Ceremony

    Organic, live sound will guide each group ceremony

  • Nourishing, hand crafted, organic meals

    Crafted with love by a local chef

  • Nature Immersion

    Let the wild hold you and be your foundation

  • Luxury and artistically inspired accomodations

    At a boutique retreat center less than an hour from Portland, OR

This retreat is not about healing, though something like it may occur.

Rather, our aim is to cultivate presence. The kind of presence that unfurls in the meditation hall in the darkness of the night. The kind of presence that allows the language of the wild to permeate your soul. The kind of presence that awakens when we gaze into the still pool of our quiet, radiant mind.

For a week leading up to this retreat, participants are invited to join in a daily morning meditation call as part of our preparation process and to begin cultivating their practice.

Through meditation, breath work, live sound, active listening, and ceremony, we will collectively dive into a space of Deep Listening.

Deep listening, coined by composer Pauline Oliveros, “explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, and interactive performance, as well as listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination, and dreams.”

Learn more about Deep Listening here.

  • Are seeking to clarify your psyche, mind, and soul through deep presence.

  • Are drawn to meditation, Buddhist Dharma, and mindfulness teachings, and would like to cultivate this practice.

  • Long for a supportive community based around inner work.

  • Are willing to be vulnerable, honest, and open to the unknown

  • Have a stable foundation to return to (emotional, relational, financial)

This retreat is for you if you:

  • Are currently in acute psychological distress.

  • Have no prior experience in psychedelics, psychotherapy, or inner work.

  • Lack a strong personal support system (job, relationships, housing).

  • Have a history of psychosis or untreated trauma.

  • Are uncomfortable with group vulnerability or ceremonial containers.

  • Don’t value meditation, silence, and stillness.

This retreat is not for you if you:

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Meet the team:

  • See my About page

  • Chet Bentley is a sound healing practitioner, teacher and transformational guide using music as an entry point for inner exploration, spiritual expansion and biological coherence. Merging his understanding of the physics of sound and the mystical traditions of ancient folk musics, his offering merges organic instrumentation, digital-signal processing, electronics and voice to create a sonic world unlike any other. His work is born of devotion, faith and service to others, in hopes that humanity's path forward is one illuminated by love and harmony. Born into a lineage of musicians, artists and healers, his lifelong pursuit of music has lead him to receive an MFA from Mills College in Electronic Music and Recording Media, a Sound Healing certification from Globe Institute, collaborations with leaders and innovators in the arts and sciences and an array of teachers from different paradigms and traditions. He currently resides in the Bay Area of California.

Now accepting applications

$3150

$2850

(Until October 30th)

$1000 deposit to secure your place.

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Why an application?

Because of the depth and intensity of this work, I ask all prospective participants to complete a short application. This isn’t about exclusivity—it’s about ensuring that everyone who attends is truly ready for the kind of inner and group work this retreat will invite. Ceremonial work requires a strong foundation of emotional resilience, self-awareness, and support. By taking the time to learn about each person’s background, intentions, and readiness, I’m able to create a safer, more attuned container for everyone involved.

Spaces are limited to 12 participants.

Not the right time?

I regularly have 1-2 openings for 1:1 mentorship clients. To learn more about working with me individually, visit my mentorship page.

Join my 6-week online course, Mythopoetic Integration, starting November 1st, 2026.

FAQs

Where is this retreat held?

At a private, boutique retreat center located 45 minutes from Portland, OR.

What about prep and integration?

Once all participants have been screened and confirmed, we will be offering a week of daily morning meditation to ground us into this practice and connect as a group. A post-retreat integration call will also be offered within 3 weeks.

What kind of lodging can I expect?

Comfortable, luxury, and artistically designed accomodations. You will likely be sharing a room with 1-3 people, each with their own queen bed. Glamping tents are available upon request. For private or gender-specific accomodations, please contact us.

How many ceremonies will take place?

2 group psilocybin ceremonies and 1 breathwork session.

What about food?

Hand-crafted, deeply thoughtful food will grace our table throughout the duration of the retreat. There will be more than enough. Dietary accommodations can be made within reason.

Do I need prior meditation experience?

No. Prior meditation experience is helpful, but not required. This retreat is a potent opportunity to cultivate this practice, whether it is new to your life or a foundation to it.

Refund policy

Deposits are non-refundable, but can apply towards a future retreat if you need to cancel.

If you cancel 30 days or more before the retreat, you will receive a 50% refund.

If you cancel within 30 days of the retreat, no refund will be offered.