Building a Better World: Empowerment for Compassionate Creativity in Action
A long-term experiential training programme specifically for people who want to make a positive impact in the world. This course is designed to empower you as an insightful, sensitive, and effective cultural creatives and agent of change.
Volunteer Work Period April - June 2024
A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.
Harmony in Motion: Contemplative Creation & Collaboration
A two-week contemplative workshop-retreat exploring foundational practices for manifesting creativity and accomplishment from a place of profound ease and inspiration, both as an individual and in collaboration with others.
Online Chat with Dharmalaya Cofounder Mark Moore about Building a Better World
A online gathering (via Zoom) hosted by Dharmalaya cofounder Mark Moore to discuss the Building a Better World programme. This chat will be an opportunity to chat with Mark about the programme, ask questions, and get a sense of how the programme might support your aspirations.
Volunteer Work Period
A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.
Opening the Heart: Joy of Living 2 Meditation Retreat
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.
Permaculture & Organic Garden Design
A four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices, primarily through hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens.
Compassionate Living Workshop
The Compassionate Living Workshop is a hybrid of a contemplative retreat and a training workshop. We explore the core principles and practices of a life of informed and engaged compassion: to understand, to care, and to act. This includes both the inner and outer aspects, providing a broad conceptual overview and deeper topical explorations supported by hands-on practice.
Organic Gardening & Natural Landscaping - Volunteer Work Period
A volunteer work period providing a precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living — with a specific focus on permaculture landscaping, and building and maintaining our organic gardens — all in a supportive community atmosphere.
Carpentry: A Contemplative Approach to Craft
A four-week residential carpentry workshop, aimed to explore the intersection of contemplative practice, craft and sustainability. The programme is structured as a two-week intensive period, followed by a two-week practicum, with an option to stay on longer to refine your skills.
Volunteer Work Period
A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.
Carpentry: A Contemplative Approach to Craft
A six-week residential carpentry workshop, aimed to explore the intersection of contemplative practice, craft and sustainability. The programme is structured as a three-week intensive period, followed by a three-week practicum, with an option to stay on longer to refine your skills.
Permaculture & Organic Garden Design
A four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices, primarily through hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens.
Volunteer Work Period
A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.
Volunteer Work Period
A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.
Volunteer Work Period
A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.
Permaculture & Organic Garden Design
A four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices, primarily through hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens.
Volunteer Work Period
A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.
Compassion, Community & Creativity
An eight-week immersive service-learning programme providing a unique opportunity to offer service while exploring practices of compassionate living — all in an environment carefully designed for safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Compassion, Creativity & Community
A four-month immersive service-learning programme providing a unique opportunity to offer service while exploring practices of compassionate living — all in an environment carefully designed for safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Compassion, Creativity & Community
A four-month immersive service-learning programme providing a unique opportunity to offer service while exploring practices of compassionate living — all in an environment carefully designed for safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Compassion, Creativity & Community
A four-month immersive service-learning programme providing a unique opportunity to offer service while exploring practices of compassionate living — all in an environment carefully designed for safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Calming the Mind : Joy of Living 1 Meditation Retreat
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.
Sustainable Thriving Intensive Workshop
The Sustainable Thriving Intensive is a training workshop in which we explore the core principles and practices of compassionate living, including food, shelter, water, energy, consumption and waste, leadership, communication, personal development, providing a broad conceptual overview supported by practice.
Compassionate Living Intensive
The Compassionate Living Intensive is a hybrid of a contemplative retreat and a training workshop. We explore the core principles and practices of a life of informed and engaged compassion: to understand, to care, and to act. This includes both the inner and outer aspects, providing a broad conceptual overview and deeper topical explorations supported by hands-on practice.
Compassionate Living Intensive
The Compassionate Living Intensive is a hybrid of a contemplative retreat and a training workshop. We explore the core principles and practices of a life of informed and engaged compassion: to understand, to care, and to act. This includes both the inner and outer aspects, providing a broad conceptual overview and deeper topical explorations supported by hands-on practice.