These Sunday morning programs begin with a discussion of a Tibetan Buddhist text, followed by sitting meditation and compassion practice, which help participants nurture their inner strength and grow spiritually. This free program is open to the public and suitable for all; you may join for one or both sessions.
An immersive mindfulness retreat strengthens the tools needed to live with more presence, ease, and joy. With an emphasis on slowing down, this time away will allow for plenty of rest and space to meditate, listen, share, and remember what matters to you within a warm, supportive community of individuals.
With Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW, Lucy Barbera, PhD, LCAT and Katie Down, LCAT, MT-BC
April 11 - 13, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Open by application, this free program is for therapists and social workers who support individuals that are deeply burdened by trauma, grief, and debilitating physical and mental conditions. Harnessing the expressive arts to provide respite, restoration and meaningful self-discovery, the retreat is a regenerative invitation for sustainability in a field that offers services to the most vulnerable.
With Anna Winkler, John Henderson, Madalina Blanton, Bob Blanton and Kati Walker
April 25 - 27, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Disconnect from your devices and reconnect with nature, the present moment, and your inner being as you explore a wide range of meditative practices—including shamata, yoga, walking meditation, guided compassion meditation, reiki, qi gong, and singing bowls.
This weekend of Iyengar Yoga is an opportunity to reconnect with yourself and with nature, to approach your practice and your life in a positive, engaged way. With a particular emphasis on breath, we’ll study integration through asana and pranayama, becoming more refined in how we apply effort toward our aims.
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 8, 2025.
Each day of this restorative retreat offers a tool box of wellness offerings: uplifting vinyasa yoga, guided metta meditations, breath work, meridian energy work, sound baths, somatics and strength and mobility training. You will leave feeling clear, relaxed and rejuvenated.
Streaming Live from the Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Offered Online: Milarepa, Tibet’s renowned and beloved enlightened master, was known for teaching through the medium of song and poetry. This weekend program will trace the story of his life, accompanied by many of his songs and additional commentary by Rinpoche, who is considered an emanation of Milarepa.
Milarepa, Tibet’s renowned and beloved enlightened master, was known for teaching through the medium of song and poetry. This weekend program will trace the story of his life, accompanied by many of his songs and additional commentary by Rinpoche, who is considered an emanation of Milarepa.
At the cusp of summer, leave the pressures of your normal life and immerse yourself in the tranquil environment of our Center. Focus on yourself and your practice, spending a long weekend on personal retreat, enjoying the solitude of the Center, our beautiful woods, the library—and the mouthwatering cuisine. Just be.
This Iyengar yoga weekend retreat—with asana and pranayama classes and guided meditation—will help you gain greater awareness of body, breath, and how to retain focus.
This intensive retreat will be an exceptional opportunity to deepen your understanding and experience of development-stage sadhana practice, and includes teachings on a range of relevant topics, as well as an empowerment.
Monlam means a way to give voice to and realize our highest aspirations. We will gather over these four days to harness, focus, and direct the natural power of our own minds, and invoke the power of the reality of interdependence, concluding with a Saga Dawa celebration.
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 30, 2025.
Discover how to unlock your innate power to self-heal, as you embark on a weekend journey of self-discovery, movement, acupressure, and heart-opening exercises. Think of this retreat as a getaway date with yourself.
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until May 5, 2025.
What is the best way to meditate? Is it the same thing as mindfulness? What are the practical benefits? In an easy-to-digest approach we will discuss the many concepts and meditation practices in Buddhism and how they form an interlocking and cohesive spiritual path toward greater awareness.
Learn to make the same delicious, nourishing food you enjoy while on retreat at the Center—then go home with the recipes and some meals-to-go. Hands on cooking, plus demonstrations, and discussion.
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until May 3, 2025.
Over the long holiday weekend, leave the pressures of your normal life and immerse yourself in the tranquil environment of our Center. Focus on yourself and your practice, spending a long weekend on personal retreat, enjoying the solitude of the Center, the cool breezes on our beautiful woods trails—and our delicious vegetarian cuisine. Just be.
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until May 8, 2025.
Dive deep into the innermost chambers of your heart in order to uncover your Soul’s inherent nature, purpose, and path in this lifetime. Guided by Vedaji, a lifelong yogi raised as a monk, you will learn strategies to uncover your truth and discover the beauty of what lies within. Using techniques derived from the ancient traditions of Bhakti yoga and Vedanta (self-inquiry), you will be guided on a path to help reveal your true nature in order to live a more purpose-filled life.
With Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim, Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, Ben Brown and Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW
July 18 - 20, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
BIPOC Leaders who must not only navigate their own racialized trauma, but who also hold, support and offer inspiration to the communities they serve. Open by application, this free program provides training in resilience and restorative practices for 12 BIPOC leaders.
Unplug, reset, and realign with your natural rhythms in this relaxing summer weekend. For stressed professionals and wellness enthusiasts alike, this weekend of yoga, breathwork, and sound healing (among other modalities) will restore balance and cultivate inner peace through nature, mindfulness, and circadian rhythm alignment.
Book now and get $50.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 29, 2025.
Immerse yourself in Kathak dance or vocal study as you detach from the world and reconnect with nature. Investing four days of quality time in your art is an effective way to connect with and understand your guru’s teachings—an essential step in perfecting your craft.
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 7, 2025.
Before launching into the chaos of fall, pause for a weekend of communal silence; it provides the opportunity to be present with yourself and the opening to mindfully observe and release the thoughts and emotions that arise.
In Discovering the Dharma II, H.E. Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche offers key Buddhist teachings on meditation, karma, dependent origination, death and rebirth, and emptiness over five days of engaged learning and guided practice. With guided meditation, Tibetan yoga, Q&A.
Lighten your density of being, as layers of tension, restrictive habits and patterns of holding melt away, liberating your life force. By broadening your awareness beyond everyday consciousness you will connects more deeply with yourself and with all of life.
With Anna Winkler, Bob Blanton, Madalina Blanton, Kati Walker and John Henderson
September 12 - 14, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 28, 2025.
Fall is often a time of new beginnings. Reset as you reconnect with nature, the present moment, and your inner being through a wide range of meditative practices—including stillness meditation, yoga, walking meditation, guided compassion meditation, personal outdoor meditation, reiki, qi gong, and singing bowls.
Book now and get 15% off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 30, 2025.
Through a blend of practices, this immersive retreat will enable you to crystalize your purpose and uncover work that feels deeply aligned. Includes coaching sessions, group discussion. Q&A, journaling, yoga, sound bath, and woods walk. Expect breakthroughs, deep clarity, and renewed enthusiasm for creating a life that feels authentically yours.
Stemming from the same lineage as the Kalachakra sect of Tibetan Buddhism, Agni Yoga blends Karma, Bhakti, Raja, and Jnani practices. Held over eight days, the retreat will combine meditation and study; attendance is restricted to Agni Yoga sangha members.
Feeling besieged by noise and clatter? Travel through the doorway of silence, to the peace of present moment awareness, when you spend four days in peaceful meditation and self-reflection surrounded by the peak foliage in the beautiful Hudson Valley.
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 23, 2025.
Each day of this restorative retreat offers a tool box of wellness offerings: uplifting vinyasa yoga, guided metta meditations, breath work, meridian energy work, sound baths, somatics and strength and mobility training. You will leave feeling clear, relaxed and rejuvenated..
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 26, 2025.
In this season of giving thanks and expressing gratitude, leave the pressures of your normal life and immerse yourself in the tranquil environment of our Center. Focus on yourself and your practice, spending five nights on personal retreat under the guidance of a retreat master, enjoying the solitude of the Center—and delicious vegetarian cuisine. Just be.
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 18, 2025.
The winter solstice is a time of transition, the cycle from darkness to light. An opportunity to honor this sacred time, this retreat will provide much needed relaxed time and space for reflection and healing, an opportunity to feel stronger and restored. Using the yogic postures and breath work to prepare the ground for inner peace, participants will develop confidence in their personal approach to yoga practice—and a sense of ease from a weekend of self-care within a safe community of fellow seekers.
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Nov 25, 2025.
Ring in the New Year from a calm, centered place, by leaving the pressures of your normal life and immersing yourself in the tranquil environment of our Center for a 6-night Personal Retreat. This is a time to focus on yourself and your practice.
Dharmakaya Center For Wellbeing
191 Cragsmoor Road Cragsmoor, New York 12566
845.640.4593
