Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi with H.H. the Dalai Lama On July 3rd, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, one of the Garrison Institute’s three spiritual advisers passed away, at home and in peace at the age of 89. Rabbi Zalman Schechter had a voracious mind and an enormous heart. He was the ultimate integrator, deeply grounded in the Jewish Tradition that he was raised…
Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi, born in Poland in 1924, fled Nazi genocide and came to the United States when he was 17. Already learned in traditional Judaism, he had become a disciple of the leading Chabad rabbi and was sent as an emissary to bring Jewish mystical wisdom and orthodox practice to small town congregations and college…
There has been a spate of mainstream media coverage of mindfulness over the past year, including a recent Time magazine cover story entitled “The Mindful Revolution.” It featured colleagues and collaborators of ours like Janice Marturano, a leader of the mindfulness-at-work trend, who teaches many retreats at the Garrison Institute and presented at our Mindfulness at Work forum…
Dr. Daniel J. Siegel In May, Garrison Institute International, the Flow Foundation and Erasmus University co-sponsored a fascinating conference in the Netherlands, “Education of the Heart: A Fundamental Change in Education and Didactics.” Held at Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management and organized by our colleague Sander Tideman, an international sustainability and leadership advisor, featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama in dialog…
Shelley Boris has been chef to Mayor Ed Koch, the Rainbow Room and Windows on the World, and for the past decade, to the Garrison Institute, where she weaves local and sustainable ingredients, including from the herb garden in our courtyard, into a supportive and memorable part of the retreat experience. Now she’s written about it in her new book…
Brother David Steindl-Rast and Jack Kornfield The Institute is grateful to be connecting with the The Greater Good Science Center of US Berkeley and co-sponsoring their Greater Good Gratitude Summit: A Day of Science, Stories and Inspiration, June 7 in Richmond, California. Among the presenters are contemplatives Jack Kornfield and Brother David Steindl-Rast, leading gratitude researcher Robert Emmons,…
Rachel Cowan and Norman Fischer Contemplative practice has many personal benefits and cultivates qualities such as resilience, compassion and altruism that enable positive social change. We offer a wide range of retreats with a social change focus for everyone from first-time meditators to artists to professionals in specific fields. Below are few examples. For a full list of…
Thomas Moore We recently hosted a retreat and public talk by Thomas Moore, bestselling author of Care of the Soul and 14 other books, including his latest, A Religion of One’s Own. In this interview he describes about how he has come to understand distinctions between religion and spirituality, soul and spirit, and how to infuse them into…