Program Categories 5182 Invited Teacher Archive | Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing

A Mindful Life Retreat

With Jean Vitrano

October 17 - 19, 2025

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 24 - 26, 2025

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..

Poetry, Prayer, and Inner Peace

With Anne Sussman and Diana Schlobohm

October 30 - November 2, 2025

Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing

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.

Suicide Prevention Training: Words that Save Lives

With Brett Cotter

November 9, 2025

Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing

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 afternoon programs may be taken together, individually, and online.

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

Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 18, 2025.

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.