5182 Invited Teacher
Online: Suicide Prevention Training: Words that Save Lives
With Brett Cotter
November 9, 2025
Online
As more clients express their mental health crisis, mental health professionals absorb more stress. Quickly reverse empathy fatigue and burnout with this new approach to your toughest sessions. Three online afternoon programs may be taken together or individually.
Yoga Retreat for Women: Calm in the Whirlwind, November 2025
With Ingrid A. Marcroft
November 14 - 16, 2025
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.
Triratna Fall Retreat
With Samayasri and Suryapala
November 21 - 24, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
This weekend retreat is offered in the context of our 2025 theme on the blue Buddha: Akshobhya, the Buddha of joy, groundedness and confidence. We will focus on cultivating all these qualities through meditation, ritual, discussion and living in community.
Hudson Valley Guild for Mental Health Professionals 2025 Annual Meeting
With Ronald D. Whitmont, MD, Antonieta Contreras, Andrea Fiuza Hunt, Eric Fraser (LCAT, MA, MT-BC), Donna Nisha Cohen and Katie Down, LCAT, MT-BC
December 6, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
A full-day program exploring holistic modalities that support Mental Health; exclusive to members of the Hudson Valley Guild for Mental Health Professionals.
Year-End Reset & Renewal Retreat
With Amy McTear
December 11 - 14, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
This powerful in-person immersion is designed to help you step into the new year aligned, energized, and transformed. In a small, intimate group you will uncover the core distortion that has been holding you back, so you can close out 2025 with clarity and gratitude, then vision, plan, and strategize your next chapter. It's deep transformational work that simply isn’t possible online.
A Winter Solstice Iyengar Yoga Retreat
With Leah Katz
December 19 - 21, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
The winter solstice is a time of transition, the cycle from darkness to light. An opportunity to honor this sacred time, 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.
Sacred Portals: Prayer and Blessing Triptychs for the New Year
With Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW, Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, Jaquel Theis and Lisa Martinelli
December 30, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Enter 2026 renewed and refreshed from a tapestry of experiences designed to access and reveal core guidance at this most pregnant time: Silent, Guided and Walking Meditation, SoulCollage®, Spiritual Practices and Embodied Wisdom.
Digital Detox Retreat
With Sama Shakti and Cait Fields
January 2 - 4, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 15% off listed prices. Offer valid until Nov 10, 2025.
Begin the New Year by unplugging from the digital world and realigning with your body’s natural rhythms as you slow down, turn inward, and set clear intentions for the year ahead. You’ll reconnect mind, body, and spirit—leaving renewed, grounded, and aligned with your natural flow.
Bodhidharma's Teaching: Intro to Zen and QiGong
With Charles Ryoshin Kalmanek and Bob Blanton
January 30 - February 1, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Dec 30, 2025.
Let go of your day-to-day concerns—come walk with us on Bodhidharma’s path of awakening at this powerful weekend retreat. We will learn and practice zazen, or seated meditation, and kinhin or walking meditation, as well as the QiGong practices of Yi Jin Jing and Xi Sui Jing.
Resting in the Warm Heart of Compassion
With Ramananda John E. Welshons
February 6 - 8, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $70.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 17, 2026.
A Winter Retreat For Going Within: Accept Winter’s invitation to settle into stillness and peace, to go within to restore your body and spirit as you immerse yourself in the timeless wisdom of the Four Noble Truths, and their application to the unique sources of suffering in our modern world. You will leave feeling inspired, uplifted, and supported, equipped with new tools for living in peace.
Raise Your Vibration ~ And Why It Matters
With Carol Schoffmann and Anne DeBevoise
February 27 - March 1, 2026
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.
Yoga Retreat for Men: Cultivating Our Power and Inner Calm, Spring 2026
With Stephan W. Kolbert
March 13 - 15, 2026
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.
Manifesting Motherhood - Fertility Support Retreat
March 20 - 22, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Bring Wisdom and Peace to the Body: Selfcare Practices from Qigong and Reiki Traditions
With Bob Blanton and Madalina Blanton
March 27 - 29, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Feb 9, 2026.
Learn to create peace both within and without through the combined practices of Qigong and Reiki. While Qigong practice helps you improve the function of the internal organs, Reiki helps you channel universal energy to recreate internal order that in turn facilitates self healing.
Poetry, Prayer, and Inner Peace
With Anne Sussman
April 9 - 12, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $90.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Dec 31, 2025.
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.
A Mindful Life Retreat
With Jean Vitrano
April 17 - 19, 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.
Annual Spring Iyengar Yoga Retreat
With Matt Dreyfus
May 1 - 3, 2026
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.
The Practice of Yoga, the Iyengar Way with Amy Hamilton
With Amy Hamilton
May 15 - 17, 2026
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.
Yoga Retreat for Women: Calm in the Whirlwind, November 2026
November 13 - 15, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing