Clear Sky is a Buddhist-lineage conscious community based on 310 acres in the Canadian Rockies, on the traditional homelands of the Ktunaxa First Nations.
Since 2005, Clear Sky has been growing and offering retreats and training for people with a heart for spiritual exploration who want to awaken more quickly and fully.Â
From around 2012, we evolved into a conscious metamodern-informed community, exploring new ways of living an engaged spiritual life in modern times.Â
Our offerings include meditation retreats and a training program, online courses and webinar series, meditation cabins, a one-acre food forest, and hosting our founding teachers’ retreats and teachings. In 2026 we are also collaborating with Tamera Healing Biotope in Portugal on a course exploring how healing money and healing love go together.
The name Clear Sky represents the mind of blissful, non-clinging awareness – the still, clear mind always present behind the ever-shifting clouds of everyday thoughts and emotions. This is the mind that pays attention to the right details and is alert, awake, conscious, and kind.
Vision: We are creating a revolutionary center that inspires and supports awakening.
Values: We are creating a conscious center that is:Â
We empower you to transform struggle and embrace vitality.
Our aspiration and common purpose is wake ourselves up and help others do the same. We are increasingly Integral and metamodern informed, and aim not just to wake up, but to grow up, clean up, and show up.
You do not need to be a member to stay at Clear Sky. Membership as such is purely for voting rights at our annual board meetings. Becoming a long-term resident involves first coming to a program such as our 3 month immersive program.
For staying onsite, we ask you to first visit for one of our programs or attend our three month residential program.
A board, council, or committee chosen by members makes decisions on behalf of the community.
Decisions proceed unless someone has a reasoned objection.
Primary authority rests with the community’s founder(s) or designated leader(s).
As a small community, major decisions are generally discussed as a group amongst the full-time residents. Day to day operations are largely governed in a sociocracy style of circles or domains. As a teacher-led Buddhist lineage center, in spiritual matters we are largely led by our head spiritual director. We are experimental in that we are trying to combine both authentic spiritual direction in a lineage tradition, while in parallel evolving conscious community structures for how we live together.
Members contribute labor instead of or in addition to monetary payments for housing and community participation.
As a charity there is no individual ownership. Residents contribute both some rent, and contribute to the running of the center and community. We try to work generatively where resident income (for example through teaching) is directly linked and synergistic to the goals and vision of the community / organization. Dana (Sanskrit for generosity) is a key part of our practice. Additionally, working on money shadow and our patterns around money, to develop healthier mental models around finances is a key part of our work.Â
Common House, Kitchen, Meditation Room, Garden(s), Vehicle Share, Library, Workshop, Outbuilding(s), Tractor & Farm Equipment, Fire pit, Internet
We offer a variety of courses and retreats ranging from:
– Buddhist lineage based retreats
– Online course around money and spirituality, creating supportive conditions/container for meditation and growth, and meditation tools for fragemented times
– Residential programs such as our 3 month program
– Personal cabin retreats
Series on indigenous learning (four seasons of learning program)
Group training on the wheel of consent
Some individuals have done specific DEI programs through their workplaces
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Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.
Communal living with shared resources, property, and often income or work responsibilities
Communities centered around shared land stewardship, sustainable agriculture, or connection to specific natural environments.
Residential communities focused on providing space for meditation, spiritual practice, and personal growth retreats.
Connecting people and communities through an intentional online marketplace
A residential project: people live here as their primary home.
An institution, business, network, or project that isn’t a residence (e.g. a learning center, farm, or network with no one living there full-time).
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