![]() Offerings: All programs fall into the monastery’s training schedule, which is highly structured the Sunday morning program is a good way to first experience the monastery, learn to meditate and discover the offerings. Go: Graymoor Spiritual Life Center, Kennedy Lounge, 4th floor, 1320 Route 9, (40 Franciscan Way for GPS navigation) Garrison and The Garrison Institute, 14 Mary's Way, Route 9D at Glenclyffe, Garrison. Saturdays for $35, weekend retreats with two-night stays and five meals vary, but can be between $150 and $225 at the Garrison Institute, rooms are $290 to $330 with partial scholarships available. Prices and packages: Graymoor has one-day mini retreats 8:30 a.m. Meals are included for retreats Garrison institute offers single and double bedrooms, along with vegetarian meals, walking trails, a gazebo, gardens and a labyrinth. It has miles of picturesque grounds with trails and a labyrinth. It’s on 95 acres of Glenclyffe property, formerly the estate of Hamilton Fish, New York governor and President Grant’s secretary of state.Īccommodations: Located on a mountaintop overlooking the Hudson River Valley, Graymoor is open to the public dawn to dusk year-round. Go: 22 Hillcrest Lane, Rosendale, 84, ĭid you know? Garrison Institute is a castle that was the former Capuchin monastery overlooking the east bank of the Hudson River across from West Point. The center's Spring Kado Retreat: The Way of Flowers (June 2-6) is an an intensive 4-day program including flower arranging demonstrations, sitting, Dharma talks, Kado practice, outside walks and evening events.Īccommodations: There are a few different overnight options including a few private rooms, shared room, shrine room or tent camping in summer. Rates are per person and include three meals a day for 1-2 week programs and breakfast and lunch only for Shambhala training weekend programs. Guests can walk in the woods, hike trails at nearby Mohonk Preserve, scale the Gunks or take a stroll around the spring-fed pond. Meditation instruction is available, from free introductory instruction and follow-up instruction to guided programs that incorporate nature such as a Mindfulness Kayaking program (May 24-25). Offerings: Located in the Shawangunk Mountains, Sky Lake is the the rural sister retreat to New York center and offers meditation, arts and mindfulness retreats. Go: 118 West 22nd St., 6th floor, New York, 21, ny. Center at Sky Lake, Rosendale Tuesdays involves a group meditation practice, a talk by a senior teacher, discussion and a light reception meditation instruction is also provided there are also Shambhala Training Weekend retreats with various themes, led by different shastras Friday night, all day Saturday and half of Sunday.Īccommodations: No overnight stays are available in New York City.Ĭost: Dharma Gatherings are $10 for general admission and $5 for students Learn to Meditate has a suggested $10 donation other sessions are by donation Shambhala Training Weekend retreats range from $180 to $330, with a generosity policy for those with financial hardship who make advance arrangements. ![]() Sundays Weekly Dharma Gathering at 7 p.m. Sundays Public Sitting Meditations are drop-in, silent, sitting meditation sessions typically hosted by a timekeeper, interspersed with brief periods of walking meditation 6 to 7 p.m. Offerings: Learn to Meditate classes for beginners are 6 to 7 p.m. Go: 2020 Route 301, Carmel, 84, Shambhala Meditation Center of New York But we want to learn how to apply compassion and mindfulness in everyday life,” Nichtern says.Ĭost: The May 21 class has a suggested $15 donation donations are accepted also for other programs registration for overnight retreats is dependent on acceptance as space is limited register for summer camp before June 11. “It's not that people are trying to … be yogis living in caves and all that. He leads weekend retreats at the Shambhala Center of New York, where there’s no cloistering away from reality.Īn urban retreat is a good middle ground between a 10-minute practice in the morning at home and a full-on, deep retreat in which silence and no cellphones is enforced. “It's not about getting away from real life but making friends with yourself so you can be more present in your life,” says Ethan Nichtern, a shastri (or senior teacher) in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, and an award-winning author. You can reap the benefits of meditation anywhere in everyday life. She also leads a meditation class at Graymoor Spiritual Life Center in Garrison using the Tergar philosophy, which translates the ancient practice of meditation for a modern world for people of all backgrounds.īut you don’t have to be a teacher or go out of state to take a breather in Buddhist monk fashion. She’s the founder of the Art of Living Slowly and leads a compassion meditation class in Croton-on-Hudson.
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