This November 8th-11th, 2018, the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, in partnership with The Garrison Institute, will host the fourth biennial Contemplative Care Symposium. Since 2012, this Symposium has brought together leading voices in contemplative, end-of-life, and palliative care for four days of experiential learning and collaboration around a partnership model of care. Contemplative Care is a multi-faith,…
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Jocelyn Apicello is a local farmer who is trying to redefine who farmers are. She’s well-educated, with a Bachelor’s from Brown and a Doctorate from Columbia University, and she spends half her year farming her micro-farm in Phillipstown, New York. Longhaul Farm is the result of a conscious effort by Jocelyn and her partner, Jason Angell, to find a new…
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As spring arrived in the Hudson Valley, the Garrison Institute staff was lucky enough to participate in a First Shot lesson with Toko Kyudojo to deepen our understanding of kyudo as a contemplative practice. We were taught by Don Symanski and instructors from Toko Kyudojo before they hosted their own private daylong kyudo retreat. Kyudo is an ancient Japanese archery technique…
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When experience is shaped by thought, one’s predominant perspective is that of a self and world divided into shoulds and shouldn’ts, rights and wrongs, desires and aversions. Questioning this paradigm of living through the lens of divided thought can give way to our natural state, the ever-present mystery of being — free of judgment, lack, fear, and separation. You are…
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The Cold Spring Chamber of Commerce honored local businesses and organizations at its annual dinner on Wednesday, April 25, at Dutchess Manor on Route 9D. The Garrison Institute was named Nonprofit of the Year. Katie Liberman, Managing Director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, serves as the Chamber of Commerce president, and she presented the award for Nonprofit of the…
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On April 17-19, 2018, as part of our focus on Transformational and Contemplative Ecology, the Institute hosted a special symposium to explore the intersection between, and interdependency of, various systems perspectives that are working to restore our planet’s health and frame them within a framework of ethical equality.
Read MoreFor the seventh year in a row, the Garrison Institute hosted their annual “Waking Up Fabulous” retreat for the LGBTIQ community. 114 practitioners from up and down the east coast and beyond joined our teachers for four days of rare silence and a slowing down to turn inward from the outside world.
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A Q&A with Storm King Art Center curator Nora Lawrence, co-curator of Storm King’s new exhibit “Indicators: Artists on Climate Change.”
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