Earthville Programs & Events

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Natural Design & Contemplative Architecture: 1-year Residential Course

Natural Design & Contemplative Architecture: 1-year Residential Course

A year-long residential course conducting a deep exploration of natural design, the power of space and form, geometry, the creative process, and our relationship with these. The course will integrate theory and practice, supported by a rich syllabus structured to support the interdisciplinary breadth of the course.

Nov 4, 2024 - Nov 29, 2025     all day




Creative Compassion in Action: Workshop Retreat in the Himalayas

Creative Compassion in Action: Workshop Retreat in the Himalayas

A five-week contemplative workshop-retreat series 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, followed by an optional extended practicum.

Mar 6, 2024 - Apr 10, 2024     all day




Building a Better World: 15-month Course

Building a Better World: 15-month Course

A fifteen-month training course designed for caring people who want to make a positive impact in the world. This course is designed to empower you as an insightful, sensitive, and effective agent of change.

Mar 6, 2024 - Jun 14, 2025     all day




Building a Better World: Online Chat with Mark Moore

Building a Better World: Online Chat with Mark Moore

A free online chat hosted by Dharmalaya cofounder Mark Moore to discuss the Building a Better World program. This chat will be an opportunity to chat with Mark about the program, ask questions, and get a sense of how the program might support your aspirations.

Feb 24, 2024     6:30 pm - 7:30 pm




Volunteer in the Himalayas

Volunteer in the Himalayas

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, including organic gardening, natural building, permaculture landscaping, and more, all in a supportive community atmosphere.

Dec 18, 2023 - Feb 29, 2024     all day




Compassionate Leadership: A Retreat for Changemakers

Compassionate Leadership: A Retreat for Changemakers

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

Nov 27, 2023 - Dec 2, 2023     all day




Spontaneous Creativity: Six-day Retreat

Spontaneous Creativity: Six-day Retreat

Six-day meditation retreat exploring the power of creativity. Learn to enhance your creative process through meditation. Based on wisdom and practices from Tibetan Bön Buddhist master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

Nov 20, 2023 - Nov 25, 2023     all day




Opening the Heart — Joy of Living 2 Retreat

Opening the Heart — Joy of Living 2 Retreat

A six-day meditation retreat designed by world-renowned meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, with special features unique to the retreats at Dharmalaya, including a yoga programme integrated with the meditation instruction. Meditation empowers us to use any situation or experience, even difficult emotions and pain, as a gateway to joy and inner peace. In this second retreat in the Joy of Living series, we explore ways in which meditation can be used to create an open and joyful heart.

Nov 8, 2023 - Nov 11, 2023     all day




Touching Earth: Natural Building Workshop in Colorado

Touching Earth: Natural Building Workshop in Colorado

A week-long residential workshop-retreat exploring earthen building techniques and our connection to nature. Touching Earth will provide opportunities to learn and practice some of the foundational skills of earthen building and contemplate living in harmony with nature while enjoying a healthy and sustainable lifestyle in a beautiful part of Colorado.

Sep 10, 2023 - Sep 16, 2023     all day




Nada Brahma: Music & Meditation Retreat

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. The retreat will include workshops in individual and collaborative songwriting as well as instruction in sound meditation with daily practice. Open to everyone!

May 15, 2023 - May 27, 2023     all day




Carpentry: A Contemplative Approach to Craft

Carpentry: A Contemplative Approach to Craft

A six-week residential workshop aimed to explore carpentry at the intersection of contemplative practice, craft and sustainability. The programme is structured as a three-week intensive training period followed by a three-week practicum. The practical focus will be hands-on work to assist in the creation, maintenance and furnishing of Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful natural buildings.

Mar 20, 2023 - Apr 29, 2023     all day




Permaculture & Organic Garden Design

Permaculture & Organic Garden Design

Four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices. The practical focus will be on hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens, supported by a healthy lifestyle with time for daily contemplative practice (e.g. yoga, meditation).

Mar 6, 2023 - Apr 1, 2023     all day




Volunteer in the Himalayas

Volunteer in the Himalayas

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, including organic gardening, natural building, permaculture landscaping, and more, all in a supportive community atmosphere.

Jan 3, 2023 - Jan 21, 2023     all day




Touching Earth: Natural Building Workshop in Colorado

Touching Earth: Natural Building Workshop in Colorado

A five-day residential workshop-retreat exploring earthen building techniques and our connection to nature. Touching Earth will provide opportunities to learn and practice some of the foundational skills of earthen building and contemplate living in harmony with nature while enjoying a healthy and sustainable lifestyle in a beautiful part of Colorado.

Sep 19, 2022 - Sep 23, 2022     all day




Permaculture & Organic Garden Design

Permaculture & Organic Garden Design

Four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices. The practical focus will be on hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens, supported by a healthy lifestyle with time for daily contemplative practice (e.g. yoga, meditation).

Aug 29, 2022 - Sep 24, 2022     all day




Natural Building & Inner Exploration Workshop Series in Colorado

Natural Building & Inner Exploration Workshop Series in Colorado

Over the course of 27 days we’ll be offering an incredible opportunity for a fully immersive retreat experience. Not only will you have the chance to attend 3 phenomenal, hands-on construction workshops, but you’ll also be able to join us in our brand new Journey Back to Center Experience. If you’ve been feeling ready for a truly transformational experience, we hope you’ll join us for this 27 day retreat.

Aug 28, 2022 - Sep 23, 2022     all day




Volunteer in the Himalayas

Volunteer in the Himalayas

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, including organic gardening, natural building, permaculture landscaping, and more, all in a supportive community atmosphere.

Jun 13, 2022 - Jul 22, 2022     all day




Compassion, Creativity & Community: Service-Learning Course

Compassion, Creativity & Community: Service-Learning Course

Immersive service-learning programme providing a unique opportunity to offer service to the greater good while exploring practices of compassionate living. The practical focus will be on volunteer work in the areas of permaculture, natural building, and organic gardening, supported by a healthy lifestyle with time for daily contemplative practice (e.g. yoga, meditation).

May 30, 2022 - Jul 22, 2022     all day




Natural Design & Contemplative Architecture: 1-year Residential Course

Natural Design & Contemplative Architecture: 1-year Residential Course

A year-long residential course conducting a deep exploration of natural design, the power of space and form, geometry, the creative process, and our relationship with these. The course will integrate theory and practice, supported by a rich syllabus structured to support the interdisciplinary breadth of the course.

Feb 7, 2022 - Feb 4, 2023     all day




Natural Harmony: Mind, Body, Space & Form

Natural Harmony: Mind, Body, Space & Form

This three-week immersion is a rare opportunity to conduct a deep exploration of the power of the sacred, and to cultivate our relationship with it. The programme’s rich syllabus will guide us through a study of fundamental principles of harmony as we retreat inward to define our own sense of what ‘sacred’ means and dedicate time to nourishing it.

Jun 12, 2020 - Jul 2, 2020     all day




Training and Volunteer Work Period

Training and Volunteer Work Period

Volunteer work period, beginning with a six-day residential workshop to provide introductory hands-on training in some of the foundational skills of compassionate living as practiced at Dharmalaya Institute, including meditation, earthen building, organic gardening, and permaculture landscaping, followed by two weeks of volunteer work (which optionally can be extended for another one or two weeks if you wish, until as late as 9th May). The actual training activities will depend on weather and the needs on site at the time. There will be a two-week practicum after the initial training workshop to support participants to deepen your skills and understanding further through practice on site.

Apr 6, 2020 - Apr 25, 2020     all day




Moore Humanities Symposium: What Is Well-Being?

Moore Humanities Symposium: What Is Well-Being?

The Ronald E. Moore Humanities Symposium provides an academic forum for invited speakers to present on the fundamental issues and questions about the human experience and to promote discussion that advances human understanding of local and global concerns. The 2020 Symposium is dedicated to a discussion of the question, What is well-being?

Mar 25, 2020 - Mar 27, 2020     7:15 am - 7:30 pm




Calming the Mind — Joy of Living 1 Retreat

Calming the Mind — Joy of Living 1 Retreat

A six-day meditation retreat designed by world-renowned meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, with special features unique to the retreats at Dharmalaya, including a yoga programme integrated with the meditation instruction. 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.

Mar 9, 2020 - Mar 14, 2020     all day




Being Peace Service Retreat in Israel & Palestine

Being Peace Service Retreat in Israel & Palestine

“Being Peace” is an opportunity to open your heart to the complex situation in Israel and Palestine. We will be spending time both in Palestine and in Israel, meeting Palestinians and Israelis whose lives are directly affected by the conflict. We will harvest olives with Palestinian villagers who have difficulties accessing their olive groves due to the Israeli army and settlers.

Oct 16, 2019 - Oct 27, 2019     all day




Calming the Mind — Joy of Living 1 Retreat

Calming the Mind — Joy of Living 1 Retreat

A six-day meditation retreat designed by world-renowned meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, with special features unique to the retreats at Dharmalaya, including a yoga programme integrated with the meditation instruction. 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.

Oct 7, 2019 - Oct 12, 2019     all day




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