Keely Rakushin Garfield

Rev. Keely Rakushin Garfield is a certified E-RYT 500, YACEP yoga teacher, and a highly regarded YTT instructor. She is an Urban Zen Integrative Therapist (UZIT), a Reiki Master, and an ordained Buddhist chaplain, board-certified by the Association of Professional Chaplains. Keely practices Zen Buddhism in the White Plum Asanga lineage at The Village Zendo. She has served on the faculty of many yoga centers, and her career highlights include leading UZT trainees in Haiti, creating a popular online restorative yoga training for YogaRenew, teaching yoga and Reiki for Yoga Journal NYC, and facilitating a pranayama workshop for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Alongside her wellness work, she is an acclaimed choreographer, dancer, and educator with her own company, Keely Garfield Dance. She currently serves as a Director of Spiritual Care and palliative care chaplain in a hospital setting. Keely’s broad experience provides her with exceptional insight into how health and vitality are deeply rooted in mind-body awareness. She centers a spirit of philosophical inquiry and compassionate concern at the heart of all her endeavors.

www.keelygarfield.nyc

Upcoming Programs by Keely Rakushin Garfield

Serene in the Oneness of Things: A Restorative Winter Retreat

Also With Charles Ryoshin Kalmanek

February 5 - 7, 2027
In this final month of winter, be serene in the oneness of all things. This restorative weekend retreat offers each of us an opportunity to reconnect with our bodies through gentle yoga and movement, and to reconnect with our mind through Zen meditation or zazen. Together, we will learn to trust the wisdom and compassion of our own heart-mind—a strong foundation for whatever challenges we face in our everyday life.