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.
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.
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.
Nowhere To Go, Nothing To Do: A Buddhist Silent Retreat
With Gary Wheaton
November 7 - 9, 2025
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
At the cusp of the 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.
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.
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 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.
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 Copy
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.