Programs
Online: Sunday Meditation and Study Group
Open Dates
Online
These Sunday morning programs begin with a discussion of a Tibetan Buddhist text, followed by sitting meditation and compassion practice, which help participants nurture their inner strength and grow spiritually. This free program is open to the public and suitable for all; you may join for one or both sessions.
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.
Full Moon Meditation
Package Dates
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Milarepa Hall is open for group meditation from 7:00-8:00 PM on the full moon and 7:00-8:00 AM the following morning. Free and open to all.
ONLINE: The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom
With Lara Braitstein
March 30 - 31, 2024
Streaming Live Over Zoom
Condensed, complex, and profound, the Heart Sutra's capacity to illuminate the profound doctrine of emptiness is unparalleled. Join us in exploring some of the many uses and interpretations of this short, brilliant text.
Discovering Your Inner Resilience: A Buddhist Perspective
With John Henderson
April 5 - 7, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Learn how to work with your most challenging emotions—grief, loss, anxiety—so that you can stop being overwhelmed and learn instead to face into difficulties from a place of resilience, inner calm, and strength.
Journey Within: A Long Weekend of Silent Meditation
With Anne Sussman and Jenny Hoffman
April 11 - 14, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Throughout this weekend, as you practice “Noble Silence,” Anne guides you through a variety of meditation practices and a daily deep restorative yoga class,
Awakening the Inner Healer
With Tedi Zeng
April 19 - 21, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
The answer to health and longevity is within you. During this restorative weekend, you will gain tools from Eastern medicine—including acupressure, somatic nutrition, myofascial release, meditation, yoga, qigong, and taichi—to better connect with your body, mind, and soul.
Spring Detox: Unplugged Meditation and Movement Retreat
With Anna Winkler, Bob Blanton, Madalina Blanton, Carol Schoffmann and Gary Wheaton
April 26 - 28, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
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, personal outdoor meditation, reiki, qi gong, and singing bowls.
Loving Kindness at the Heart of Liberation: An End of Passover Retreat
With Roberta Wall and Reb Karen Levine
April 28 - 30, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
The end of Passover is an especially rich time for spiritual deepening. Explore teachings, discussion, music, and movement drawn collectively from Jewish, Buddhist and Nonviolent Communication practices, with special attention on loving kindness as the quality that permeates the Passover week.
A Spring Retreat: Reconnecting
With Matt Dreyfus
May 3 - 5, 2024
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.
Strengthening Self-Kindness Mindfulness Retreat
With Jean Vitrano
May 10 - 12, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Research show that self-compassion is a primary ingredient in our wellbeing. Re-pattern habitual behaviors and strengthen the tools for self-care by cultivating awareness and taking time to meditate, listen, share, and remember what matters.
Self Care and Energy Repair
With MJ Watkins and Lucas Hall
May 17 - 19, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 16, 2024.
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.
100,000 Songs of Milarepa
With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche
May 25 - 27, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Milarepa, Tibet’s renowned and beloved enlightened master, was known for teaching through the medium of song and poetry. This weekend program will trace the story of his life, accompanied by many of his songs and additional commentary by Rinpoche, who is considered an emanation of Milarepa.
Online: 100,000 Songs of Milarepa
With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche
May 25 - 27, 2024
Streaming Live from the Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Offered Online: Milarepa, Tibet’s renowned and beloved enlightened master, was known for teaching through the medium of song and poetry. This weekend program will trace the story of his life, accompanied by many of his songs and additional commentary by Rinpoche, who is considered an emanation of Milarepa.
Dharma Wheel and Deer Installation Ceremony
With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche
May 25, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a special, morning-long ceremony related to the installation of the Dharma Wheel and Deer over Milarepa Hall. This will include a special teaching by Rinpoche.
Online: Dharma Wheel and Deer Installation Ceremony
With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche
May 25, 2024
Streaming Live from the Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Offered Online: We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a special, morning-long ceremony related to the installation of the Dharma Wheel and Deer over Milarepa Hall. This will include a special teaching by Rinpoche.
The Practice of Yoga, the Iyengar Way
With Amy Hamilton
May 31 - June 2, 2024
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.
Relationships Are Complicated: The Buddhist Path to an Open Heart
With John Henderson
June 7 - 9, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Apr 22, 2024.
Navigating relationships is the perfect opportunity for practice. In this weekend we will explore the ways that key Buddhist teachings can help enhance our relationships, while helping build greater personal resilience and equanimity.
Divine Alignment: Balancing the Divine Masculine and Feminine
With Gena Rho and Lori Dalvi
June 13 - 16, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get $100.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Mar 30, 2024.
Explore the inner balance of your masculine and feminine energies during an extended three-day retreat of shamanic ritual, energy healing, and somatic movement practices.
Buddhist Meditation: Immersive Practice Weekend
With John Henderson
June 21 - 23, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until May 6, 2024.
Join us for a weekend dedicated to meditation of all kinds—calming meditation, analytic meditation, and generative meditation.
Soul Maps: Living Into Your Soul's Purpose
With Rev. Therese Bimka, LCSW
June 28 - 30, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Moments of awakened possibility invite us to create a life that is in closer alignment with our deepest spiritual values. In this powerful weekend, learn to identify the touchstones along your own spiritual journey that are pregnant with meaning and opportunity.
Creating Sacred Spaces
With Justin Ram Das Logan, LMT, IKYI and Michael "Pondhawk" Gulbrandsen
July 12 - 14, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
There is a unwavering connection between sacred spaces and the renewal of our inner self and spirit. During this weekend, you will learn time-honored practices and techniques—including Kundalini yoga, meditation and breath work, clearing and blessing sacred spaces—that help keep you and your surroundings clear and revitalized.
Soul Spa Wellness Weekend for BIPOC Leaders
With Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim, Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, Ben Brown and Rev. Therese Bimka, Program Initiator and Weaver
July 19 - 21, 2024
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.
Death, Afterlife and the Journey of Transformation in Tibetan Buddhism and Kabbalah
With Simcha Raphael
August 16 - 18, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Explore teachings from the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Kabbalah as transformational maps of consciousness providing wisdom in encountering the enigmatic mysteries of living and dying, bereavement and healing.
RESILIENCE: Build Strength Through Inner Joy
With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche
August 30 - September 4, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Discovering the Dharma I. H.E. Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche sets the foundation for Buddhist study over five days of engaged learning and guided practice. With guided meditation, Tibetan yoga, Q&A.
ONLINE: RESILIENCE: Build Strength Through Inner Joy
With Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche
August 30 - September 4, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Discovering the Dharma I. H.E. Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche sets the foundation for Buddhist study over five days of engaged learning and guided practice. With guided meditation, Tibetan yoga, Q&A.
Continuum In-Depth Retreat: The Nourishing Waters Within
With Elaine Colandrea
September 5 - 8, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Over a long weekend, the somatic practice of Continuum empowers a deep knowing of how to live with fluid grace in a mutable world – whether we are adapting to cultural shifts, health concerns, the aging process, or simply life's changing circumstances.
Fall Reset: Come into yourself
With Anna Winkler, Bob Blanton, Madalina Blanton, Kati Walker and John Henderson
September 13 - 15, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Jul 29, 2024.
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.
Spiritual Awakening Anfrinit Retreat
With Adrienn Light
October 11 - 18, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Start your inner journey towards self-mastery, helping you activate your divine structure and awaken to your true self. Through guided meditation, workshops, conscious movement and breathing. you'll discover how to harness your connection to your authentic field, and read, unblock and transform energy.
Noble Silence: A Silent Retreat Weekend of Buddhist Meditation, Reflection, and Rest
With Gary Wheaton
December 6 - 8, 2024
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
Book now and get 10% off listed prices. Offer valid until Oct 21, 2024.
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.
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.