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.

Virtual Forum: A Conversation with Author Ethan Nichtern

Join Steve Varley, Garrison Institute’s managing director, for an engaging conversation featuring renowned Buddhist teacher and author Ethan Nichtern, exploring how to navigate a relationship with the world with a spirit of assurance and resilience.

Virtual Conversation: Apprenticing to the Wild

What if engaging with the wild – both within us and around us – could radically transform how we live in the world? Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Kurt Hoelting, author, long-time Zen practitioner, mindfulness teacher, and founder of Inside Passages – an organization that provided mindfulness and nature-based expeditions in Alaska.

Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education

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

Create for Education will offer this innovative in-person training for educators. It will introduce an evidence-based set of practical skills, to support wellbeing.

Healing-Centered Futures: Education, Business, and Technology Summit

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

The Healing-Centered Futures Summit invites educators, entrepreneurs, technologists, and changemakers to gather in a shared exploration of the future of education, business and technology through a healing-centered lens.

Synthesis For a Changing World: A Summit & Festival of Synthesis

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

This event is convened by the Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis. Recognizing the limitations of anthropocentric notions of separation, Synthesis for a Changing World invites us to move beyond the familiar patterns and silos of our thinking, training and disciplines.

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.

Building Resilience for Communities

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

Join an upcoming, experiential workshop designed for those on the front lines of climate adaptation, community regeneration, conservation, and regional response and recovery efforts in the Hudson Valley. Participants will deepen their personal and collective capacities for resilience, drawing from science and the skills and wisdom cultivated through contemplative practices.

Beyond the Mirror: Opening to a Boundless Sense of Self

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

Join us for an in-person retreat over Labor Day weekend as we turn our collective attention toward one of the most liberating inquiries of the Buddhist path, with teachers Josh Korda and Kathy Cherry of Dharma Punx.

A Taste of Liberation – A Dzogchen Approach: A Retreat with Tsoknyi Rinpoche

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

Join us for this retreat with teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche. The curriculum follows a progression through Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s Fully Being practices, including Dropping, Handshake, Essence Love, Gentle Vase Breathing, Shamatha, and Vipassana.

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

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.

Refuge in the Ark: A Jewish Mindfulness Retreat

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

Join us for a Jewish mindfulness meditation retreat led by IJS faculty and other experienced, beloved instructors. Over five days, we will focus on deepening our practice through silent meditation enhanced with Jewish teachings.