A Return Home
Explore the power of mindfulness in returning home to yourself and the present moment. This engaging residential retreat presents creative and unique practices, including singing meditation, walking meditation, mindful eating, and deep relaxation. These practices are simple yet transformative, enabling us to cultivate a calm and clear mind, open our hearts to compassion, and find joy in the simple acts of daily life.
We Are Nature Retreat
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.
Compassionate Leadership Retreat
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.
Spontaneous Creativity: Meditation for Manifestation
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.
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.
Nada Brahma: Music & Meditation Retreat
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.
Spontaneous Creativity: Meditation for Manifestation
Explore the power of creativity. Learn to enhance your creative process through meditation. This engaging online course presents wisdom and practices from Tibetan Bön Buddhist master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.
Reflections on the Past Year, Aspirations for the New Year
2020 has brought a lot of both challenges and opportunities. For all of us, it has been an intense and unique experience. As we are nearing the end of the year, we propose to take a few moments together to reflect on what we gained and what we let go of, the baggage we don’t need or want to carry through the threshold into the new year.
Spontaneous Creativity : Meditation for Manifestation
Explore the power of creativity. Learn to enhance your creative process through meditation. This engaging online course presents wisdom and practices from Tibetan Bön Buddhist master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.
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.
The Yoga of Nature - Embracing the Boundless Universe
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.
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.
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.
Meditation & Service Retreat with SanghaSeva
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.
Meditation Retreat with Ellen van Lersel
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.