This 5-week program invites social impact leaders into an exciting exploration of inner development practices through different angles and methods. Eight renowned speakers will answer your questions live and pique your interest in the varied ways that you can engage in inner transformation.
For those of us who love to dive deeply into the heart of the non-dual understanding, retreats offer an unprecedented opportunity: seven days with Rupert and friends, nestled in a beautiful location in nature, where we steep together in the peace of our true nature. Retreats gather us in the heart of being, where we spend our days in self-abidance, friendship and creativity.
What does it mean to attend to our suffering in body, heart, and mind when racism has caused such intense hurt and pain; individually and collectively? In this 3-part series, we’ll begin our journey on the Path of restoration from the results of the dominant culture’s racism by examining deeply and fully individual and collective conditioning. With courageous honesty, we investigate how we may have been misled, misinformed, perhaps, even colluded in perpetuating or creating hurt and harm.
This retreat will delve into the heart of our existence, as life Itself. Mukti will point participants to their essential Self, prior to personal identities, roles, history, or future. She’ll also focus on how to nurture remembrance of Self nature—free of definitions and divisions. To support this remembrance, Mukti will offer talks, periods of satsang (Q&A sessions exploring the nature of essential Truth), and guided meditations. This retreat will also provide several periods of daily, silent group meditation, as well as time to rest and enjoy the natural surroundings.
Kim Nolan and Stephen Posner will explore what it means to find awe in nature and to regard nature as teacher and source. This refreshing conversation will weave together insight and experience across sectors, including passion for social justice, appreciation for the power of business, and commitment to education for the next generation of sustainability leaders.
This in-person retreat is a rare chance to immerse in a way of being that honors nature as the source of all life, promoting humanity’s right relationship with Earth. Co-Facilitated by Tiokasin Ghosthorse, and Melanie Goodchild, PhD, we will gather on sacred land on the banks of the Hudson River to engage “the precious and vanishing world behind the human-made world.”
This is a retreat for women of color. Our focus will be the book Healing Our Way Home and the importance of ancestors, joy, and liberation. Join us for an exploration of how we can see ourselves in each other’s path of joy and liberation, and take refuge in our individual and collective healing.
Sharon Salzberg along with Ali Smith, Atman Smith and Andres Gonzalez (Co-Founders of The Holistic Life Foundation) offer this virtual retreat exploring the immense resilience of the human spirit, and how to find greater balance when serving others. Recharge physically, mentally, and emotionally in a community of caretakers from all walks of life with meditation, yoga, and contemplative practices.
Meredith Monk and Ellen Fisher return to the Garrison Institute for this in-person workshop where voice, movement, and image intersect to create an opportunity for us each to discover our own personal richness.
In collaboration with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe / Dancing with Mountains and Ayin Press, we offer a short course exploration, and an in-person retreat called ‘Selah’. Selah is a series of retreats crafted around Dr. Akomolafe’s thesis that contemporary times call for something more than healing, justice, resolution, or solution. The core invitation of Selah is to make art together, to test the limits of normal perception, to interrogate the peri-feral where representation fails to carry its weight, and to amplify desirous lines and minor gestures that are alive as potentials in the air. Garrison Institute is pleased to host the first in the series of these Selah retreats.
