Meditation & Spirituality
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.
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.
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.
Work Practice
Flexible Dates
Full Moon Meditation
Package Dates
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Milarepa Hall is open for a guided group meditation practice from 7:00-8:00 PM on the full moon. Free and open to all.
Just Be: A Thanksgiving Personal Retreat
November 27 - December 1, 2024
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 under the guidance of a retreat master, enjoying the solitude of the Center—and delicious vegetarian cuisine. Just be.
Noble Silence: A Silent Retreat Weekend of Buddhist Meditation, Reflection, and Rest
With Gary Wheaton
December 6 - 8, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
In this hectic 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.
Hudson Valley Guild for Mental Health Professionals 2024 Annual Meeting
December 8, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER PART RETREAT ~ PART MEETING ~ PART SOCIALIZING Many of you have voiced the desire for more socializing opportunities – and we heard you! Our response? A new format and new location for our annual meeting: the beautiful campus of The Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing. We know it is a bit […]
Finding Illumination in the Darkness: Judaism, Buddhism, and Nonviolent Communication
With Rabbi Ben Newman and Roberta Wall
December 20 - 22, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Integrate mindfulness practices from Judaism, Buddhism, and Nonviolent Communication into your daily life by leveraging community, music, ritual, and teachings that encourage deep reflection and connection. It's a perfect way to celebrate and honor this season.
Just Be: A Year-End Personal Retreat
December 26, 2024 - January 1, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Nov 25, 2024.
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.
Kintsugi for New Year's Eve: Following the Golden Thread
With Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW, Eric Archer and Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee
December 30, 2024 - January 1, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
New Year’s Eve offers a portal into a Sacred Time, a threshold that invites insights and expanded consciousness as energies are heightened. Welcome 2025 by coming into closer alignment with your fundamental wholeness and your inner radiance, using kintsugi as a path of wholeness.
Winter Pause: A Silent Retreat for Body, Mind, and Spirit
With John Henderson
January 24 - 31, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
In the deep of winter, with the holidays safely behind you, join us for a week 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.
Nowhere To Go, Nothing To Do: A Buddhist Silent Retreat
With Gary Wheaton
March 7 - 9, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 20, 2025.
In this hectic 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.
“Changing Aging” for Women 50ish and Beyond
With Anne Sussman and Heather Berg
March 20 - 22, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 15% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 15, 2025.
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.
Inner Transformation: Be Present at Every Moment
With Anne Sussman and Heather Berg
March 20 - 25, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 20% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 15, 2025.
Combine two programs (Changing Aging and Journey Within) for a powerful 6-day transformational experience, filled with meditation, reflection, teachings, gentle yoga, and inner silence.
From Heart Fatigue to Heart Warrior
With Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW, Kim Schneiderman, MSW, LCSW, Ben Brown and Celeste Cipriano, LCSW
March 28 - 30, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Open by application, this free program provides training in resilience and restorative practices for 18 veterans. Within the safe space created by skilled practitioners and in the comfort of a beautiful and restorative setting, veterans will learn how to move from being reactive to being responsive and to catching a glimpse of their own wholeness.
A Mindful Life Retreat
With Jean Vitrano
April 4 - 6, 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.
Spring Detox: Unplugged Meditation and Movement Retreat
With Anna Winkler, John Henderson, Madalina Blanton, Bob Blanton and Kati Walker
April 25 - 27, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 10, 2025.
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.
Just Be: A Springtime Personal Retreat
With John Henderson
May 23 - 26, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 23, 2025.
At the cusp of summer, leave the pressures of your normal life and immerse yourself in the tranquil environment of our Center. Focus on yourself and your practice, spending a long weekend on personal retreat under the guidance of a retreat master, enjoying the solitude of the Center—and delicious vegetarian cuisine. Just be.
Wellness, Tai Chi, Meditation Retreat: Body As Medicine
With Dr. Tedi Zeng, DACM
June 13 - 15, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 31, 2025.
Discover how to unlock your innate power to self-heal, as you embark on a weekend journey of self-discovery, movement, acupressure, and heart-opening exercises. Think of this retreat as a getaway date with yourself.
Buddhist Meditation: Cultivate Wellbeing through the Skills of Awareness
With John Henderson
June 20 - 22, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until May 5, 2025.
What is the best way to meditate? Is it the same thing as mindfulness? What are the practical benefits? In an easy-to-digest approach we will discuss the many concepts and meditation practices in Buddhism and how they form an interlocking and cohesive spiritual path toward greater awareness.
Just Be: A July 4 Personal Retreat
July 3 - 6, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until May 3, 2025.
Over the long holiday weekend, leave the pressures of your normal life and immerse yourself in the tranquil environment of our Center. Focus on yourself and your practice, spending a long weekend on personal retreat, enjoying the solitude of the Center, the cool breezes on our beautiful woods trails—and our delicious vegetarian cuisine. Just be.
Soul Spa Wellness Weekend for BIPOC Leaders
With Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim, Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, Ben Brown and Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW
July 18 - 20, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
BIPOC Leaders who must not only navigate their own racialized trauma, but who also hold, support and offer inspiration to the communities they serve. Open by application, this free program provides training in resilience and restorative practices for 12 BIPOC leaders.
Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do: A Buddhist Silent Retreat
With Gary Wheaton
August 22 - 24, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 7, 2025.
Before launching into the chaos of fall, pause for a weekend of communal silence; it provides the opportunity to be present with yourself and the opening to mindfully observe and release the thoughts and emotions that arise.
Fall Reset: Come into yourself
With Anna Winkler, Bob Blanton, Madalina Blanton, Kati Walker and John Henderson
September 12 - 14, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 28, 2025.
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.
The Power of Silence: A Silent Retreat for Body, Mind, and Spirit
With John Henderson
October 13 - 17, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Feeling besieged by noise and clatter? Travel through the doorway of silence, to the peace 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.
Just Be: A Thanksgiving Personal Retreat
November 26 - 30, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Sep 26, 2025.
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 under the guidance of a retreat master, enjoying the solitude of the Center—and delicious vegetarian cuisine. Just be.
Just Be: A Year-End Personal Retreat
December 26, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Nov 25, 2025.
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.