Wonderwell In-Person Retreats
Natural Dharma Fellowship is committed to keeping our visitors and staff as safe as possible.
Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.
NDF COVID-19 Health and Safety
In 2021, NDF’s Board of Directors created a COVID Task Force composed of clinicians and public health professionals from our Sangha and charged them with making policy recommendations based on evolving CDC, federal, and state protocols and mandates. They continue to monitor:
- public health conditions, (including case counts, hospitalizations, and other conditions)
- federal, state, and local directives
- CDC and local public health guidelines closely and will adjust this policy as circumstances warrant to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
In order to provide a safe and comfortable retreat environment, and to protect NDF Sangha and staff from potential exposure to COVID-19, the following risk mitigation measures will apply during in-person retreats:
Retreatants may serve themselves from the buffet line, which is behind a plexiglass sneeze guard.
- You are ill, experiencing symptoms typical of COVID-19, and/or test positive for COVID-19
- You have had a known exposure to COVID-19
- You have traveled to a COVID-19 hotspot or traveled internationally.
Double rooms (shared) are randomly assigned, so please be aware that if you sign up for a double room without designating a roommate, you will be sharing with someone you do not know. If you are not willing to make that agreement, please do not register for a shared room. Note: Men and women who don’t know each other will never be assigned to the same room.
Retreatants may always register for a shared double room with someone whom they know, as long as space is available.
MASK POLICY
Optional and Encouraged at Wonderwell
TESTING POLICY
Tests STILL needed to attend
Multi-day Events
A negative COVID-19 test result is required before admittance to the retreat for anyone attending a multi-day retreat. Please test 24 hours prior to your expected arrival at Wonderwell, using either a PCR test or a rapid (at-home) test kit.
Please bring a rapid test kit with you to Wonderwell. We will have a limited number of test kits available for during-retreat testing.
One-Day Events
For events such as Dharma Sunday, Thursday Meditation, or other one-day events where folks will not be sleeping over, we will not ask for a test to be done 24 hours prior to arrival.