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.
Integrate mindfulness practices from Judaism, Buddhism, and Nonviolent Communication into your daily life by leveraging community, music, ritual, and teachings that encourage deep reflection and connection. It's a perfect way to celebrate and honor this season.
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.
With Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW, Eric Archer and Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee
December 30, 2024 - January 1, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
New Year’s Eve offers a portal into a Sacred Time, a threshold that invites insights and expanded consciousness as energies are heightened. Welcome 2025 by coming into closer alignment with your fundamental wholeness and your inner radiance, using kintsugi as a path of wholeness.
On the third anniversary of Khenchen Rinpoche Drupon Trinley Paljor's parinirvana, the Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing will hold a special weekend of commemoration. Kagyu masters will perform pujas beginning Friday afternoon, throughout the day on Saturday, and on Sunday morning. Open to all.
In the deep of winter, with the holidays safely behind you, join us for a week of deep quiet. You’ll return to your life more grounded, more centered, more wise—filled with an inner ease that is unshaken by outer circumstances.
Get your 200 hour yoga teacher certificate in this three-week immersive teacher training program. You'll gain a strong foundation in a variety of yoga forms and an overall understanding of how to teach these forms.
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.
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 20, 2025.
In this hectic holiday season, 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.
Book now and get 20% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 15, 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.
Book now and get 15% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 15, 2025.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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
