Upcoming Events

A Literary Society retreat for members designed to discuss the 900-page biography of Alain Locke with time for quiet enjoyment and group activities.

This 3-day retreat will include a variety of contemplative practices that support self-soothing, including guided somatic meditations, dharma talks, relational exercises, and movement techniques. There will be multiple opportunities to ask questions of teachers, as well as times set aside to explore the beautiful hiking trails surrounding the retreat center.

Twining Vines Annual weekend retreat. This is an opportunity for us to spend a few days in silence together, with traditional daily Zen practice of seated and walking meditation, working together, Dharma talks, and chanting service.

Contemplative-Based Resilience (CBR) Training is an experiential skill-building program that will help you develop practices that enhance and sustain physiological and psychological resilience. Our innovative curriculum incorporates secular, non-religious meditation practices; education about the effects of acute and chronic stress on the body and mind; yoga-based and other movement practices; and facilitated discussions and exercises to help you understand your experiences and connect with peers. An outstanding faculty, including former and current humanitarian aid workers, will lead the workshop. The techniques covered are all grounded in cutting-edge research on human resilience For Humanitarian Aid Workers, Human Rights Workers, and Journalists in the field and at headquarters.

Neelakantha Meditation is a contemporary meditation practice, based on ancient Svatantra teachings that is accessible to anyone and opens the deepest Self to access freedom, happiness, insight, creativity, and joy in daily life. It works to bring about transformation, healing, and benevolence in life. It is a daily meditation practice that is governed by the principle of effortlessness, which is easy to learn and practice.

A weekend retreat to expand our understanding of why we operate the way we do and how we can transform less than positive experiences into pathways to happiness and fulfillment.

Join us for a multi-day mindful leadership retreat to cultivate leadership power, presence and impact. We invite you to travel a master path to cultivate emotional intelligence and mindfulness as you lead yourself, others and your organizations.

Gain deep and powerful rest on this weekend meditation retreat. This is one of the best ways to fast-track your development — a four-day retreat can deliver the benefits of three to six months of regular meditation.

Boundless love, compassion, and joy fill the heart in the depths of meditation, flowing into everyday life. Through the inspired words of poet saints and mystics, along with various meditative practices, we will drench the mind and body in the state of union.

In his meetings, Rupert explores the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions, such as Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shivaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mystical Christianity, Sufism, Zen, and so on, and which is also the direct, ever-present reality of our own experience.

It’s never been more relaxing to become a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional! In 5 days, you’ll discover how a whole-client approach, integrating contemplative practices, functional medicine tools, cognitive techniques and artistic expression can quiet the mind, cultivate well-being, and wire-in recovery from anxiety and co-morbid depression.

The 11th annual Contemplative Care Retreat explores how we can wholeheartedly turn greed, resentment and delusion into generosity, compassion and wisdom in relationship. Through meditation, dharma talks, personal meetings with Teachers, and experiential learning exercises, we will consider ways of caring for each other while cultivating our unique expressions of compassion, courage, and joy. With NYZCCC teachers Sensei Robert Chodo Campbell and Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, their teacher, Sensei Dorothy Dai-En Friedman, and Guest Teacher Leslie Booker.

What is it to be fully awake, free from illusion yet with a heart full of compassion? Rinpoche will share with us, from a Dzogchen perspective, how to cultivate and bring together a grounded body, an open and loving heart with a sharp, clear mind so that authentic transformation can happen.

A time apart to listen, to reflect, to be still, and come to know deeply that the Christian contemplative journey is about opening and consenting to the divine presence and action in a process of interior transformation. Centering Prayer is about transferring the will to the heart; it might be called the practice of “Heartfulness.”

A silent, unstructured personal retreat for meditators with a developed practice and those seeking renewal in the serenity of a contemplative environment.

A limited number of Hemera Contemplative Fellowships are available in support of this program. For more information, please refer here. This weekend of silent meditation, which includes an Introduction to Zen component, consists of sitting and walking meditation, dharma talks, and an opportunity to meet privately with one of our teachers. There is also time for rest, exercise and outdoor…

Mindfulness practice helps us welcome each moment of our experience with kindness, balance, and discernment. In this way, we learn to make friends with our own minds, open our hearts to the fullness of life, and show up more lovingly and wisely in relationships. On retreat, these new ways of being with our experience are facilitated by periods of silent sitting meditation, walking meditation, mindful eating, and soulful communal prayer.

Join us for our sixth annual women's yoga retreat and be nourished by a warm and supportive circle of powerful women as we practice yoga, share our stories, enjoy wonderful meals, walk the labyrinth, explore Garrison Institute's natural beauty, and restore together. The intensity of the yoga practice will range from gentle/restorative to strong -- practitioners of all levels are welcome, and we will modify as needed.

This retreat will focus on meditation and the Practice of Tara in order to understand the interconnectedness of external difficulties of life as well as inner hopes and fears. The goal of this practice is to lead to the realization of the inner Tara which is beyond both hope and fear.

We are an independent group of Feldenkrais* educators and sponsored invitees committed to professional development.

The voice, the original human instrument, is an eloquent language of the heart that delineates energy for which we don’t have words. This workshop offers a place where voice, movement and image intersect to create a unique opportunity for participants to discover their own personal richness.

People who care for people play a vital role in our communities, whether in intimate family circles, larger social networks, or the wide array of helping professions in healthcare, education, social justice, and more. Often it is caregivers who support the front lines of our society: helping those who face challenges on a daily basis. However, this support can come at a high personal cost, leading to frustration, exhaustion, and a fast track to burnout. No prior meditation or yoga experience is necessary to attend.

This special retreat will focus on learning how to meditate, and include talks, sitting and walking meditation, yoga, guided meditation, group discussion, and optional one-on-one interviews with a meditation instructor. The classic meditation technique, mindfulness/awareness or cultivating inner stillness, will be the focus of the weekend. All levels of experience are welcome to attend.

This Winter Solstice weekend retreat offers you the opportunity for rebirth through deep reading of poems by women—including ourselves. Interweaving the poems with exercises in writing and self-discovery and with ceremony honoring the Divine Feminine, we will nourish the five core aspects of women’s lives: vision/manifestation, physical/abundance, social/emotion, passion/creativity, and intuition/spirituality.

The Village Zendo's year-end meditation retreat is the perfect place for meditation, reflection and deep silence. There are daily dharma talks and opportunities to meet with Village Zendo teachers, as well as time to rest and walk along the Hudson River.

Begin the New Year with a resolution and intention to become more aware of the body and trust in its innate wisdom.

This weekend of silent meditation, which includes an Introduction to Zen component, consists of sitting and walking meditation, dharma talks, and an opportunity to meet privately with one of our teachers. There is also time for rest, exercise and outdoor walks. All of this is held together by a warm and supportive community of dedicated practitioners.

Secular Dharma is a radical project to rethink the Buddha’s dharma from the ground up in order to address the condition of modernity. This workshop will explore the foundational insights of secular dharma and consider how they contribute to our contemplative, ethical and social practice of human flourishing.

OneDanceTribe is an international conscious dance gathering where teachers and dancers of different modalities and walks of life come together to celebrate the power of Moving as One.

Originally developed at Google by leading experts in neuroscience, business, and psychology, Search Inside Yourself teaches practical mindful leadership and emotional intelligence tools to help you bring out your best self at work and in life. The program has been proven to reduce stress, improve focus, raise peak performance, and improve interpersonal relationships.

This weekend retreat offers an innovative approach to communication and relationship, drawing on the tools of contemplative practice and Nonviolent Communication. Learn to speak your truth in a kind and caring way, build healthier relationships and have more meaningful conversations.

The spiritual path is full of stories of the journey to awakening, of dark nights and great discoveries. The Zen idea was that even hearing the stories of the journey can change your life.

How can our mindfulness practice support us in working together for a better world? Join us for a weekend of mindfulness practices, discussions, and planning to support you in finding a deeper ground for peaceful collaboration with others.

In times of uncertainty and change, we can draw on Buddhist teachings to help us move beyond constricting habitual patterns such as fear, denial, and despair. Awakening our inner capacities for compassion, wisdom, and joy, we learn to transform our worldview from one of isolation and confusion to one of connection and clarity. We can open to a power of faith and courage based on seeing things just as they are. By engaging in traditional practices of mindfulness and lovingkindness, we develop insight through greater awareness of the full range of our experiences, and deepen compassion for ourselves and others.