A four-day residential retreat exploring creative practices to connect with nature and Expressive Arts, for enhanced well-being. This experience will help nurture your creative expression and help you to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and the world. No special artistic skills required, just a willingness to connect to our innate human capacity to create.

Note: this programme is closed and not accepting applications. Please see our March 2024 event schedule for the next related programmes.

A week-long retreat exploring the theory and practice of wise and compassionate leadership.

NOTE: THIS PROGRAMME IS FULL AND REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

Explore the power of creativity and learn to enhance your creative process through meditation. This engaging residential retreat presents wisdom and practices from Tibetan Bön Buddhist master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

A four-day meditation retreat designed by world-renowned meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, with special features unique to Dharmalaya Institute, including mindful movement practices, set in a beautiful Himalayan eco-campus with earthen buildings, healthy meals, and more.

An exploration of creativity as expressed through music, and of the nature of reality as expressed through the vibrations of sound. All levels welcomed. No experience required.

Awareness meditation empowers us to use any situation or experience, even difficult emotions and pain, as a gateway to joy and inner peace. In this first retreat in the Joy of Living series, we explore ways in which awareness meditation can be used to create a peaceful mind and joyful heart.

A unique 12-day retreat venturing deep into the heart of yoga and the essence of nature. Through yoga, meditation and natural living we will direct our senses toward the five elements both around and within us.

Awareness meditation empowers us to use any situation or experience, even difficult emotions and pain, as a gateway to joy and inner peace. In this first retreat in the Joy of Living series, we explore ways in which awareness meditation can be used to create a peaceful mind and joyful heart.

Description: A two-part exploration of meditation and inner and outer sustainability: First, a one-week, (mostly) silent meditation retreat in the Insight Meditation tradition (18-26 March), followed by an optional ten-day service retreat providing opportunities to put meditation into action through work.

A three-day planning retreat for Dharmalaya Institute’s Board of Directors, faculty, staff, and other members of the Dharmalaya Leadership Council.

A twelve-day workshop exploring some of the finer points of earthen building and collaborative community living as practiced at Dharmalaya Institute, bridging skill development and personal development.

A five-day training programme exclusively for facilitators of Tergar International’s meditation programs developed by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (By invitation only).

A gentle retreat in which we will explore how silence can support us in opening up to our inner and outer experiences. The days will begin with yoga, followed by guided and silent meditations. We will meditate in the four postures: sitting (on chair or cushion), standing, walking and reclining.