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In this retreat, Bruce D. Schneider and Luke Iorio will guide you through the “Uncover” process, where you will learn through dialogue and experiential teaching how to remove the layers of all that you are not, to reveal the truth of who you are.

This seven-night silent retreat with Adyashanti includes talks, dialogue sessions, and several periods of meditation.

During Passover, the Festival of Liberation, we are urged to feel as if we too are being brought into a wide expanse of freedom and possibility. On this pre-Pesach retreat, we will engage in practices to lift our spirits, soften our hearts, and expand our awareness so that courage, inspiration, and connection can rise and guide us forward. This retreat is open to people of all faiths, traditions, and practice. We hope you can join us.

The Spiritual Healer stands within Self-Knowing and knows who he is in Self, in relation to God, and in Spirit. In this knowing there is no distance between the Spiritual Healer, God, and Spirit; there is no mask to hide behind, no posture of superiority, and no acts of judgment. He is the bearer of a great treasure–The Medicine of Spirit.

In this workshop for writers of all levels, we’ll explore the connection between resilience and storytelling, and how reframing personal narratives can free us from limiting beliefs and help us create a happier future.

In this program we will look closely at our personal kyudo practice. The challenges of engaging the kyudo form with deeper effort allows us to experience our practice in a more intimate way. These very challenges are the means by which our intentions and motivations to practice are exposed.

This retreat is designed to provide support for living an awakened life. You will be introduced to ways to shift from head to heart-mind and learn to walk, talk, create, and relate from this new, loving operating system.

“Making the Invisible, Visible: A Multimedia Exploration of Race and Racism in the U.S. through a Buddhist Lens" led by Dr. Jan Willis, Professor Emerita of Religion at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Dr. Wills' doctoral work was in Indic and Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and has published books and numerous articles and essays on Buddhist meditation, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race.

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.

The Self Realization Fellowship's Regional Weekend Retreat is a silent retreat conducted by its monastics and includes classes on Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings, group meditations, kirtan, and inspirational talks. Students are encouraged to use the ample free time for personal meditation, introspection, and deep reflection.

The Workplace Wellness Leadership Summit brings together leaders across all sectors who are focused on the health and well-being of their company’s employees to connect and share best practices. Together, we’ll hone new strategies for improving employee engagement, build a community of like-minded peer leaders, and learn from other industry innovators who are developing new ways to help their organizations thrive.

This retreat is an opportunity for us to come together as an LGBTIQ community and care for ourselves: to remember who we really are and to recollect our true inner goodness. We will explore ways of sustaining a kind heart, a clear open mind, and a strong body. We will engage with the ancient teachings and practices offered by the Buddha that cultivate compassion, wisdom, and skillful actions.

The Garrison Institute Writer’s Circle seeks to hold space in our busy lives for creative practice. We meet monthly for a collaborative writing workshop that includes time for meditation, reflection, writing, and sharing. All writers are welcome to attend this free, ongoing program.

This unique “Qi Weekend” brings together students who are studying Wu Ming Qigong under the guidance of Grand Master Nan Lu, OMD.

The Mind & Life Summer Research Institute (SRI), now in its sixteenth year, is a week-long immersive, residential program designed to foster collaborative research across the sciences and humanities, based on a process of inquiry and dialogue with contemplative practitioners and professionals engaged in applied work. The program incorporates academic presentations, informal breakout groups, poster presentations, and regular contemplative sessions, including daily yoga and a full-day silent retreat.

During this workshop, award-winning writer, psychologist, and mythologist Dr. Sharon Blackie will guide participants through an exploration of the many ways in which myth and fairy tales can inform our journeys through life. We’ll delve deeply into beautiful old stories, come to understand the mythic patterns which underpin our lives, and learn how to work with the archetypal characters, places, and situations which influence the choices we make. (For women only.)

This retreat, specially tailored for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and mental health practitioners, integrates Buddhist principles, psychoanalytic concepts, social dreaming, extensive meditation practices, and discussions on the interrelation between Buddhism and psychoanalysis within the structure of a traditional Zen Buddhist retreat format.

In this in-depth retreat based on his book, "Our Pristine Mind: A Practical Guide to Unconditional Happiness,"renowned meditation master Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche will provide precise, experiential instructions and guided meditations drawn from the Dzogchen mind-class teachings in order to make the life-transforming realization of the pristine nature of mind attainable for all. These teachings are deeply relevant whether we are just seeking a happier life or are pursuing the spiritual journey all the way to enlightenment.

For many women of color, the practice of self-care is perceived as a luxury. Our lives are full and our stressors are innumerable. Taking time to replenish body, mind, and spirit is a radical form of activism that is directly related to how well we can take care of yourself, your family, and your community. This yoga and mindfulness retreat is designed by and for women of color.

This workshop is for anyone that wants to write a song that counts: for ourselves, for the people (or pets) we love and for the world. Our songs can be funny, heavy, catchy or sappy. We’ll just be looking for ways to say what we really want to say.

This will be a weekend retreat of spiritual initiation, based in the tradition of Incan Shamanism. Learn to dream your world into being, to journey into the non-ordinary realms, and to work with the forces of nature, and inner guides to transform your reality as planetary consciousness awakens.

The Mindful Schools' Mindful Teacher Certification Program is designed for educators who are passionate about deepening their personal mindfulness practice and gaining the skills and experience necessary to effectively share their mindfulness practice with students and peers.

A time apart to listen, to reflect, to be still, and refresh the soul. Within a container of deep silence we will come to know deeply how contemplative prayer unfolds into a way of life.

Sesshin means “touching the heart-mind.” It is a cornerstone of Zen practice. Sesshin is an intensive practice period offering an opportunity to experience your essential nature. At our annual summer silent retreat, we will practice zazen together under the guidance of NYZCCC teachers Sensei Robert Chodo Campbell and Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, their teacher, Sensei Dorothy Dai-En Friedman, and Guest Teacher Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma.

We invite you to join us for a glorious week of awakening to the joy of naturally-arising awareness and discovering the timeless and inspiring heart-essence instructions of Dzogchen; the View, Meditation and Action of the Great Perfection. Led by Dzogchen lineage holder Lama Surya Das, our annual Summer Dzogchen Meditation Retreat is open to all, regardless of your level of practice.

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

This three-day silent retreat will be held in the traditional insight meditation style. The retreat will include sitting and walking meditation. Experience in insight meditation is required.

Join us for two beginning days in silent practice, then moving into community building and workshopping on creating a mindful school. Program open to Mindful Schools Certification graduates.

The Mindful Schools' Mindful Teacher Certification Program is designed for educators who are passionate about deepening their personal mindfulness practice and gaining the skills and experience necessary to effectively share their mindfulness practice with students and peers.

Professional development training for teachers, promoting mindfulness through contemplative practices, helping teachers better manage students' and their own emotions.

This workshop is for anyone that wants to write a song that counts: for ourselves, for the people (or pets) we love and for the world. Our songs can be funny, heavy, catchy or sappy. We’ll just be looking for ways to say what we really want to say.

This unconference-style retreat is presented by Mindful Leader and the Garrison Institute. We will dive deep into the day-to-day realities of consulting and coaching for successful implementations of mindfulness-based programs. The format will be highly participatory and generative.

This unconference-style retreat is presented by Mindful Leader and the Garrison Institute. We will dive deep into the day-to-day realities of consulting and coaching for successful implementations of mindfulness-based programs. The format will be highly participatory and generative

This retreat is an invitation for experienced and new practitioners to deepen in wisdom and compassion. Join us in practice—in the midst of success and difficulty, collective and personal—to quiet the mind, open the heart, and awaken to courage, joy, and steady compassion together. Through heartfelt teachings, dialogue and questions, wisdom practices, delicious silence, and the psychology of the awakened heart, we will learn how to live with inner freedom and love and to bring these blessings to the world.

This unique “Qi Weekend” brings together students who are studying Wu Ming Qigong under the guidance of Grand Master Nan Lu, OMD.