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.

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 Oct 7, 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
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.

The Wisdom of the Turning

With Heidi Leabman, LCSW, SEP and Marci Wenn, LCSW, RYT

December 31, 2026 - January 3, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $50.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Nov 29, 2026.
As one year closes and another opens, we stand at a threshold — a turning point rich with reflection, release, and renewal. This retreat invites you into that liminal space. Through image, breath, movement, and word, we'll explore what wants to be released from the year behind us and what wisdom wants to guide the year ahead.

Healthy Intentions: Delicious Food to Start the New Year Right

With Chef Eytan Kurland

January 8 - 10, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
You made your resolution to eat healthier—and now that the excess of the holidays is over, you intend to keep it. Make it easy on yourself, by mastering a few techniques that help make delicious food healthy and healthy food delicious. Hands-on cooking so class size is limited to 10.

Anniversary Pujas for Khenchen Rinpoche’s Parinirvana

January 15 - 17, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
On the fifth 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.
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Discovering the Dharma V, Part 1

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

January 17 - 24, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Multiply the benefits of all previous Discovering the Dharma sessions by by moving through refuge with prostrations, Vajrasattva Practice, Mandala Offerings, and Guru Yoga practice.

Path of Herbal Medicine & Earth Spirit Wisdom

With Robin Rose Bennett

January 29 - 31, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
This Herbal Apprenticeship program is multidimensional, inviting participants to experience profound, life-enhancing growth and transformation by empowering their authentic self and cultivating their gifts through reconnection with the Earth, her plants, and one another.

Winter Pause: A Silent Retreat for Body, Mind, and Spirit

With John Henderson

February 12 - 15, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Dec 28, 2026.
In the deep of winter, join us for a long weekend 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.

Raise Your Vibration ~ And Why It Matters

With Carol Schoffmann

February 26 - 28, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $40.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Dec 14, 2026.
Unplug your devices and slow down for a Mind, Body, Spirit Tune-Up! Raise your vibration in a sacred container of healing practices in community. If you are on a spiritual journey this retreat will help accelerate your path—and if you have not yet started it may be the beginning. BONUS option for an additional program day.

The 3rd Annual Yoga Retreat for Men: Cultivating Our Power & Inner Calm, Spring 2027

With Stephan W. Kolbert

March 12 - 14, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
A weekend for men filled with yoga practices, breathwork, meditation, and rest. We’ll devote time for shared discussion, community support, and connection.
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Spring Detox: Unplugged Meditation and Movement Retreat

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

March 19 - 21, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 17, 2027.
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.

Journey Within Silent Retreat

With Anne Sussman and Diana Schlobohm

April 15 - 18, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $90.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Dec 31, 2026.
Words have energy—and the power to stir something deep within us. So does the profound peace that comes from wordless silence. This retreat will explore the yin/yang of both, combining "spiritual listening" with Noble Silence.

Inner Transformation: Be Present at Every Moment

With Anne Sussman and Diana Schlobohm

April 15 - 20, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $190.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Dec 31, 2026.
Combine two programs (Journey Within and Changing Aging) 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 Diana Schlobohm

April 18 - 20, 2027
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $75.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Dec 31, 2026.
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.

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