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ALL PROGRAMS

 

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Online: Sunday Meditation and Study Group

Open Dates
Online
These Sunday morning programs begin with a discussion of various Buddhist topics, 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.

Full Moon Meditation

Package Dates
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Milarepa Hall is open for group meditation from 7:00-8:00 PM on the full moon and 7:00-8:00 AM the following morning. Free and open to all.
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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.
Large copper Buddha

Just Be: A Time for Personal Renewal

With Gary Wheaton and Kati Walker

April 7 - 9, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Leave the pressures of your normal life and immerse yourself in the tranquil environment of our Center. Focus on yourself and your practice, spending the weekend on personal retreat, enjoying the solitude of the Center—and delicious vegetarian cuisine. Just be.
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To Begin, Begin: An Introduction to Traditional Buddhist Meditation

With Gary Wheaton

April 14 - 16, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Spend a weekend exploring the fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhist meditation, including how it differs from other types of meditation and how to establish an effective practice.

Journey Within: A Long Weekend of Silent Meditation

With Anne Sussman and Stefanie Haberman

April 20 - 23, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Throughout this weekend, as you practice “Noble Silence,” Anne guides you through a variety of meditation practices and a daily deep restorative yoga class,
a man stands with his back to the camera in a prayerful pose taking in the morning light

Spring Detox: Unplugged Meditation and Movement Retreat

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

April 28 - 30, 2023
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, personal outdoor meditation, reiki, qi gong, and singing bowls.

A Spring Retreat: Iyengar Yoga for Lightness and Ease

With Matt Dreyfus

May 5 - 7, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
This weekend of 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.
3 pairs of women and an observer practicing somatic yoga

Wisdom of the Body

With Gena Rho and Kati Walker

May 12 - 14, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Gentle, powerful somatic movement helps strengthen muscle control and the power of self-healing. As you improve, you gain insights into the body-brain connection and awaken your creative flow. With sound healing.
Blond woman in black tshirt and yoga pants meditating

Self Care and Energy Repair

With MJ Watkins and Lucas Hall

May 19 - 21, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.

Dharma Wheel and Deer Installation Ceremony

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

May 27 - 28, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a special, morning-long ceremony related to the installation of the Dharma Wheel and Deer over Milarepa Hall. This will include a special teaching by Rinpoche.
Image of the Tibetan yogi Milarepa

100,000 Songs of Milarepa

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

May 27 - 29, 2023
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.
Image of the Tibetan yogi Milarepa

Online: 100,000 Songs of Milarepa

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

May 27 - 29, 2023
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.
Woman in a purple yoga top and black yoga pants does a handstand against a tree in a green lawn

The Practice of Yoga, the Iyengar Way

With Amy Hamilton

June 2 - 4, 2023
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.
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Buddhist Meditation: Bringing Your Practice into Daily Life

With John Henderson

June 16 - 18, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Explore how to bring the core Buddhist teachings on compassion, wisdom, karma, emptiness, and impermanence into your daily life. Interactive discussion and guided meditation.

16th Annual Rimay Monlam

With Tulku Sherdor

June 30 - July 4, 2023
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.

Green Goddess Healing Retreat

With Melissa Mauro

July 7 - 9, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $75.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 14, 2023.
A healing retreat for women. Through nature, ritual, movement, and introspection, you will learn the art of surrender—and how to work with the flow of life, instead of against it.

Soul Spa Wellness Weekend for BIPOC Leaders

With Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim, Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, Rev. Therese Bimka, Program Initiator and Weaver and Ben Brown

July 21 - 23, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
While COVID has been challenging for all Americans, the pandemic has had an outsized impact on communities of color. This program offers a weekend of restorative practices in a peaceful spiritual setting for 12 BIPOC Leaders. The program is free of charge, and open by application.
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Buddhist Meditation: Immersive Practice Weekend

With John Henderson

August 25 - 27, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Join us for a weekend dedicated to meditation of all kinds—calming meditation, analytic meditation, and generative meditation.

Discovering the Dharma III and IV

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

September 1 - 10, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
We are offering the combined programs at a discounted rate.
In this combined program, retreatants have a rare opportunity to spend ten days studying the dharma with H.E. Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche.

Online: ACCOMPLISHMENT Unveil Your Awakened Nature

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

September 1 - 6, 2023
Streaming Live from the Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Offered Online: H.E. Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche outlines the entire Tibetan Buddhist path using teachings from Gampopa’s Jewel Ornament of Liberation. He discusses the mind of ignorance and insight, the path of practice and the teacher-student connection, all over five days of engaged learning and guided practice.

ACCOMPLISHMENT: Unveil Your Awakened Nature

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

September 1 - 6, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
H.E. Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche outlines the entire Tibetan Buddhist path over five days of engaged learning and guided practice. With guided meditation, Tibetan yoga, Q&A.

ACCELERATION: Move Swiftly Towards Enlightenment

With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

September 7 - 10, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Explore a broad overview of the four classes of tantra, learning what tantra is, how it works, and why it is such a powerful way to open your mind.
Elaine Colandrea practices Continuum Movement Practice outdoors.

A Continuum Immersion: Life-Nourishing Breath, Sound, and Movement

With Elaine Colandrea

September 14 - 17, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Over a long weekend, the somatic practice of Continuum empowers a deep knowing of how to live with fluid grace in a mutable world – whether we are adapting to cultural shifts, health concerns, the aging process, or simply life's changing circumstances.
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Just Be: A Time for Personal Renewal

With John Henderson

September 22 - 24, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Leave the pressures of your normal life and immerse yourself in the tranquil environment of our Center. Focus on yourself and your practice, spending the weekend on personal retreat, enjoying the solitude of the Center—and delicious vegetarian cuisine. Just be.
Woman in a purple yoga top and black yoga pants does a handstand against a tree in a green lawn

The Practice of Yoga, the Iyengar Way

With Amy Hamilton

October 13 - 15, 2023
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.
Blond woman in black tshirt and yoga pants meditating

Self Care and Energy Repair

With MJ Watkins and Lucas Hall

October 20 - 22, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.
A man meditates silhouetted against the sunset

Fall Reset: Come into Yourself

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

October 27 - 29, 2023
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.

Journey Within: A Long Weekend of Silent Meditation

With Anne Sussman and Stefanie Haberman

November 2 - 5, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $90.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 31, 2023.
Throughout this weekend, as you practice “Noble Silence,” Anne guides you through a variety of meditation practices and a daily deep restorative yoga class,
A cropped image of a large bronze statue depicting Buddha's hand touching a lotus flower. a shaft of sunlight crosses the image

Noble Silence: A Silent Retreat Weekend of Buddhist Meditation, Reflection, and Rest

With Gary Wheaton

December 1 - 3, 2023
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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.
Milarepa Hall in snow

Just Be: A Year-End Personal Retreat

December 26, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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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2024 Yoga Teacher Training

With Anna Winkler and Donna Amrita Davidge

January 26 - February 16, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $300.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jun 30, 2023.
This three-week immersive teacher training program provides a strong foundation in a variety of yoga forms. Students will gain an overall understanding of and ability to teach these forms and to specialization after the training.
Dharmakaya Center For Wellbeing
191 Cragsmoor Road

Cragsmoor, New York 12566
845.640.4593

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Dharmakaya Center For Wellbeing
191 Cragsmoor Road Cragsmoor, New York 12566
845.640.4593

Privacy Policy

© 2019 Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing. All rights reserved