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.
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.
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.
Just Be: A Thanksgiving Personal Retreat
November 26 - 30, 2025
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.
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.
Winter Pause: A Silent Retreat for Body, Mind, and Spirit
With John Henderson
January 23 - 28, 2026
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.
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.
Buddhist Meditation: The Core Teachings and Practices
With John Henderson
March 6 - 8, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 4, 2026.
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.
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.
“Changing Aging” for Women 50ish and Beyond
With Anne Sussman
April 9 - 11, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 15% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 30, 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.
Journey Within
With Anne Sussman
April 11 - 14, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $90.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Jan 30, 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.
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.
Spring Detox: Unplugged Meditation and Movement Retreat
With Anna Winkler, John Henderson, Madalina Blanton, Bob Blanton and Kati Walker
April 24 - 26, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 9, 2026.
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 22 - 25, 2026
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 22, 2026.
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, enjoying the solitude of the Center, our beautiful woods, the library—and the mouthwatering cuisine. Just be.