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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.