Help for this young person

Below is an e-mail I received from an enthusiastic yogi in our weekly sitting group. I'm hoping the KFD community can help him out by recommending retreat resources and offering any other useful/skillful advice.
Thanks!

"I'm writing to you with some questions today about some upcoming plans I have for myself, hoping you can share some insight or wisdom.... I really appreciated your last letter so I'm wondering if you could help me further...

I'm currently 23, just graduated in psychology at UGA in 2010, and ultimately want to be a therapist one day. For now, my goal for the next few years is to deepen my practice in meditation and attain a deep level of mindfulness so I can share my insight and skills with the world in the context of therapy. However, I'm not sure where I can go to cultivate that. Ideally, I would like to live a monastic life, but I can't seem to find a place that would help me with that. I told you about the [GOENKA] retreat that I have coming up, but I really only see that as the beginning. I want full immersion, a life and mind altering experience that will enrich me in so many ways. I'm willing to commit years to a retreat, to learn from those who studied this art for years, and it's truly what I have in mind for the next years of my life. I'm writing to you today because I know you've had experience in going on retreats, and since you've been very generous and helpful to me.

Do you perhaps know of a place in the US or abroad that could meet my interests of leading such a monastic life? Perhaps a place where I can do a work retreat? Or perhaps any retreat at all? I don't have the luxury to pay for a retreat, I know many of them cost a lot of money that I don't have. I'm hoping there is some place in a far off land where I can just jump in and never look back. Any feedback or insight would be greatly appreciated."

www.bhavanasociety.org/

I think a KFD'er was here for a few months. Might be worth checking out.

Ryguy913 was the yogi who went there.

If he is looking for a cheap place to do intensive practice which will lead to Stream Entry, with great instruction,
Kenneth reccomended Panditarama in Lumbini, Nepal (he said his friend got Stream Entry there) - the resident teacher, Sayadaw U Vivekananda, is a very technical Mahasi teacher, and guides people to stream-entry very efficiently (just met two of those a few days ago).

I also sat a retreat with him (a short one), and he's great.

www.panditarama-lumbini.info/