LGBTQIA+ Retreat: Waking Up Fabulous – Taking Refuge & Care (2025)

Garrison Institute 14 Mary's Way, Route 9D, Garrison, New York, United States

Open to all who identify as: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, or Queer +. This retreat is an opportunity for us to come together as an LGBTQIA+ community and care for ourselves: to remember who we really are and to recollect our true inner goodness.

Mind & Life Summer Research Institute 2025

Garrison Institute 14 Mary's Way, Route 9D, Garrison, New York, United States

The Mind & Life Summer Research Institute (SRI) is a weeklong immersive program designed for deep, interdisciplinary dialogue and personal reflection.

Peace through Exceptional Wisdom and Compassion

Garrison Institute 14 Mary's Way, Route 9D, Garrison, New York, United States

Explore how deepening our understanding of interdependence cultivates both right view and right conduct, guiding us toward authentic spiritual realization with Khandrola Rinpoche.

Wholehearted Sesshin: Summer Silent Retreat 2025

Garrison Institute 14 Mary's Way, Route 9D, Garrison, New York, United States

Join us for an eight-day intensive silent retreat focusing on rediscovering our values and living life to the fullest, with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.

New York Zen Center Contemplative Care Retreat 2025

Garrison Institute 14 Mary's Way, Route 9D, Garrison, New York, United States

This retreat will offer a time of community exploration, grounded in the practice of the Six Paramitas (sometimes referred to as the Six Perfections). As we dive into the teachings of generosity, ethical conduct, patience, diligence, meditative concentration, and wisdom, we uncover their relevance in our relationships with both ourselves and others.

Becoming Bodhisattvas – Confidence and Lineage

Garrison Institute 14 Mary's Way, Route 9D, Garrison, New York, United States

This retreat will focus on practices and teachings related to the path of the Bodhisattva, a body of teachings all about a compassionate and wise way of being in world in turmoil. This year we will focus on the theme of Confidence with teacher Ethan Nichtern. 

Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute with Rupert Spira (October 2025)

Garrison Institute 14 Mary's Way, Route 9D, Garrison, New York, United States

Please join us for this Seven Day retreat with Teacher Rupert Spira. Each day will feature a guided meditation in which we rest in being, as well as a dialogue where we will discuss the non-dual understanding.