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ALL PROGRAMS

 

Online: Sunday Meditation and Study Group

Open Dates
Online
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.
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Personal Retreat Package

Flexible Dates
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Turn off your phone. Log off the internet. And join us for a restorative retreat—a time to relax, refresh, and deepen your practice.
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Personal Retreat

Flexible Dates
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Turn off your phone. Log off the internet. And join us for a restorative retreat—a time to relax, refresh, and deepen your practice.

Tuesday Night Group Meditation

Package Dates
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Milarepa Hall is open for group meditation from 7:00-8:00 PM every Tuesday, with monthly Q&A sessions. Free and open to all.

Full Moon Meditation

Package Dates
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Milarepa Hall is open for a guided group meditation practice from 7:00-8:00 PM on the full moon. Free and open to all.

Raise Your Vibration ~ And Why It Matters

With Carol Schoffmann and Anne DeBevoise

February 21 - 23, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Using meditation, sound healing, reiki, yoga, journaling, self reflection and group sharing, connect with your higher self, tuning your mind, body, spirit to vibrate at its highest frequency.

Journey Through the Chakras

With Anna Winkler and Madalina Blanton

February 28 - March 2, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Chakras—the 7 energy centers in your body—help govern your physical and emotional wellbeing. Gain practical information to help maintain energetic cohesiveness, opening to greater ease and peace in your personal life.
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Nowhere To Go, Nothing To Do: A Buddhist Silent Retreat

With Gary Wheaton

March 7 - 9, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
As the possibility of spring brings a desire for renewal, a weekend of communal silence sets the plate for inner transformation; it provides the opportunity to be present with yourself and the opening to mindfully observe and release the thoughts and emotions that arise.

Yoga Retreat for Men: Cultivating Our Power and Inner Calm, Spring 2025

With Stephan W. Kolbert

March 14 - 16, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
A weekend filled with yoga practices, breathwork, meditation, and rest. We’ll devote time for shared discussion, community support, and connection.

Inner Transformation: Be Present at Every Moment

With Anne Sussman and Heather Berg

March 20 - 25, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 15% off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 19, 2025.
Combine two programs (Changing Aging and Journey Within) for a powerful 6-day transformational experience, filled with meditation, reflection, teachings, gentle yoga, and inner silence.

“Changing Aging” for Women 50ish and Beyond

With Anne Sussman and Heather Berg

March 20 - 22, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
We live in a youth-obsessed society that offers us only the “Declinist Paradigm” for aging. It’s time to change that! Learn how daily spiritual practices can help you to age with grace, joy and resilience—even in the face of the loss and change that inevitably come as we age.

Journey Within Silent Retreat

With Anne Sussman and Heather Berg

March 22 - 25, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Throughout four days of “Noble Silence,” Anne guides you through a variety of meditation practices and a daily deep restorative yoga class.

From Heart Fatigue to Heart Warrior

With Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW, Kim Schneiderman, MSW, LCSW, Ben Brown and Celeste Cipriano, LCSW

March 28 - 30, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Open by application, this free program provides training in resilience and restorative practices for 18 veterans. Within the safe space created by skilled practitioners and in the comfort of a beautiful and restorative setting, veterans will learn how to move from being reactive to being responsive and to catching a glimpse of their own wholeness.

A Mindful Life Retreat

With Jean Vitrano

April 4 - 6, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Healer Heal Thyself, An Expressive Arts Retreat

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.

Compassion at the Heart of Liberation: An End of Passover Retreat

With Roberta Wall and Rabbi Karen Levine

April 18 - 21, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
The end of Passover is an especially rich time for spiritual deepening. Explore teachings, discussion, music, and movement drawn collectively from Jewish, Buddhist and Nonviolent Communication practices, with special attention on loving kindness as the quality that permeates the Passover week.
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Spring Detox: Unplugged Meditation and Movement Retreat

With Anna Winkler, John Henderson, Madalina Blanton, Bob Blanton and Kati Walker

April 25 - 27, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 10, 2025.
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.

A Spring Retreat: Iyengar Yoga

With Matt Dreyfus

May 2 - 4, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.
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Self Care & Energy Repair

With MJ Watkins and Lucas Hall

May 9 - 11, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Online: 100,000 Songs of Milarepa

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

May 16 - 18, 2025
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.

100,000 Songs of Milarepa

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

May 16 - 18, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Just Be: A Springtime Personal Retreat

With John Henderson

May 23 - 26, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 23, 2025.
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 under the guidance of a retreat master, enjoying the solitude of the Center—and delicious vegetarian cuisine. Just be.

The Practice of Yoga, The Iyengar Way

With Amy Hamilton

May 30 - June 1, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Sadhana Practice: Expanding Our Compassion for All Beings

With Tulku Sherdor

June 4 - 8, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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. 

18th Annual Rimay Monlam

With Tulku Sherdor

June 8 - 11, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Wellness, Tai Chi, Meditation Retreat: Body As Medicine

With Dr. Tedi Zeng, DACM

June 13 - 15, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 31, 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.
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Buddhist Meditation: Cultivate Wellbeing through the Skills of Awareness

With John Henderson

June 20 - 22, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

What’s for Dinner? Fresh, Flavor-packed Meals Every Day

With Chef Eytan Kurland

June 27 - 29, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Just Be: A July 4 Personal Retreat

July 3 - 6, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Soul Spa Wellness Weekend for BIPOC Leaders

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.

Digital Detox: A Circadian Rhythm Reset

With Cait Fields and Sama Shakti

July 25 - 27, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do: A Buddhist Silent Retreat

With Gary Wheaton

August 22 - 24, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

SELF-KNOWLEDGE: Find Freedom Through Connection

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

August 29 - September 3, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Continuum Retreat: Swimming in the Light of the Big Bang

With Elaine Colandrea

September 4 - 7, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.
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Fall Reset: Come into yourself

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.

Manifest Your Authentic Career and Life Path

With Amanda Baudier

September 19 - 21, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

The Power of Silence: A Silent Retreat for Body, Mind, and Spirit

With John Henderson

October 13 - 17, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Self Care & Energy Repair

With MJ Watkins and Lucas Hall

October 24 - 26, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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..

Just Be: A Thanksgiving Personal Retreat

November 26 - 30, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.
Milarepa Hall in snow

Just Be: A Year-End Personal Retreat

December 26, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.
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Cragsmoor, New York 12566
845.640.4593

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191 Cragsmoor Road Cragsmoor, New York 12566
845.640.4593

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© 2019 Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing. All rights reserved