GROUP RETREATS

 

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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.

Awakening Amidst the World’s Turbulence: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

With Phyllis K. Hicks and Bart van Melik

September 11 - 17, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Cultivate the stillness of concentration and the brightness of mindfulness directly in contemplation with others, allowing the heart and mind to become clear and radically present. Through a blend of silent meditation, small group dialogue, mindful movement, and time in nature, all within the container of noble silence, you'll discover a path of awakening in the midst of the world’s turbulence.
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Fall Reset: Come Into Yourself

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

September 18 - 20, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Acceptance and Surrender: A Bhakti Yoga Retreat

With Vedaji and Keshavi Ma

September 24 - 27, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Dive deep into the innermost chambers of your heart in order to uncover your Soul’s inherent nature, purpose, and path in this lifetime. Using techniques derived from the ancient traditions of Bhakti yoga and Vedanta (self-inquiry), you will learn to cultivate openness, trust, and surrender to the unfolding of your life.

Cultivating a Healing and Generous Abundance

With Viveka and Silasiddhi

October 2 - 5, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Cultivate inner and outer worlds of abundance and generosity through this weekend of imagination and creativity, meditation, warm-heartedness, connection with community and the natural world, embodied practice, music, rituals and movement.

Embodied Aliveness: Reclaiming Presence, Vitality, and Joy

With Julia Abramova

October 8 - 11, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Reconnect with your body and your natural sense of vitality. Through a blend of lecture, movement, and embodied practices, you will be guided to slow down, step out of the constant doing, and reconnect with a more grounded, present, and alive way of being.

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

With John Henderson

October 12 - 16, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Feeling besieged by noise and clatter? Travel through the doorway of silence, to the serenity 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.

A Mindful Life Retreat

With Jean Vitrano

October 16 - 18, 2026
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.

Self Care & Energy Repair

With MJ Watkins and Lucas Hall

October 23 - 25, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 22, 2026.
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.

Autumnal Awakening Yoga Retreat

With Megan Martino, RYT-500 and Vicki Bannister, E-RYT-200

October 29 - November 1, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Step away from the relentless demands of a busy world to slow down, recharge, and reconnect with your deepest self. This is your invitation to embrace the season's natural rhythm, engaging in the introspection necessary to find clarity, stability, and your own unwavering inner light.

Grief, Presence, and Fierce Love

With John Henderson and Rabbi Ben Newman

November 6 - 8, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Learn how to carry grief without being crushed by it. This retreat is for people living with loss of any kind: the death of someone beloved, the end of a relationship, a change in health, the loss of work, identity, direction, or a version of the future that no longer exists.

Yoga Retreat for Women: Calm in the Whirlwind, November 2026

With Ingrid A. Marcroft

November 13 - 15, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Let your hair down in the safe haven of sister-friends and be refreshed by yoga, guided meditation, deep rest, fantastic food, juicy conversations, silence, tree hugging, and laughter.
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Nowhere To Go, Nothing To Do: A Buddhist Silent Retreat

With Gary Wheaton

November 20 - 22, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 5, 2026.
At the cusp of the 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.

Just Be: A Thanksgiving Personal Retreat

November 25 - 29, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 25, 2026.
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, enjoying the solitude of the Center—and delicious vegetarian cuisine. Just be.

Iyengar Yoga Winter Retreat

With Leah Katz

December 11 - 13, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 11, 2026.
As you head into the holiday season, 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.
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Just Be: A Year-End Personal Retreat

December 26, 2026 - January 1, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Nov 25, 2026.
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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