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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.
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.
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.
Sustainable Thriving Intensive Workshop
Eighteen-day residential training workshop exploring key principles and practices of ‘sustainable thriving’, including voluntary simplicity, permaculture, earthen building, and creative life design. The first six days will provide initial training with hands-on workshops during the day and presentations/discussions in the evenings; the middle six days will be a practicum for improving skills and deepening understanding through morning and afternoon work sessions, while continuing our discussions and explorations in the evenings; and the final six days will be organized according to the needs on site and the interests of the group.
Humanity in Action: Supporting a Safe Haven, with SanghaSeva & Help Refugees
An opportunity to embody our humane response to crisis, and take the chance to care for others. To embrace our shared humanity and see the person beyond the label ‘refugee’. To open to this painful reality and make a difference by helping create a safe haven for those who have seen the worst of humanity.
Compassionate Living Intensive Workshop
Nine-day residential workshop-retreat focused on creating a more compassionate life, through opening the heart, informing the mind, developing our innate qualities of sensitivity and compassion, and putting that compassion into practice by reducing our harm footprints and increasing our help footprints in all spheres of life.
Calming the Mind — Joy of Living 1 Retreat
A three-day meditation retreat in the Indian Himalayas designed by world-renowned meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. 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
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 on earthen building, organic gardening, and permaculture landscaping, while also continuing formal meditation practice in the mornings and evenings (27 March – 6 April).
Building the Builders Workshop
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 workshop is open to interns and long-term volunteers of Dharmalaya Institute as well as current and past participants of Dharmalaya workshops, so a prerequisite is having attended a prior programme at the Institute.
The Way of Compassion, with SanghaSeva
An opportunity to open to joy and sorrow and see where and how they meet. To share care and love in different ways; experiencing how much we receive when we express natural compassion. To inquire into what is really helpful and how love comes through us when all of us shows up. To explore remaining open to all the inner qualities we may have outcast, while supporting those who know this in the world.
Tergar Core Facilitator Training
A five-day training programme exclusively for facilitators of Tergar International’s meditation programmes developed by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. (By invitation only; the Dharmalaya campus will be closed to the public during this time.)
Sustainable Thriving Intensive Workshop
A twelve-day residential training workshop exploring key principles and practices of “sustainable thriving,” including voluntary simplicity, earthen building, and permaculture, as expressed in the Kangra vernacular.
Compassionate Living Intensive Workshop
Nine-day residential service-learning programme in a workshop-retreat format, exploring both the outer and inner aspects of a compassionate and sustainable life, including organic gardening and permaculture, natural building, healthy cooking and eating, meditation, mindful movement (yoga/chi kung), and more.
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.
Interconnectedness Weekend in Sheffield, UK
This retreat offers us the opportunity to nourish and express our care for life on Earth and our wish for a more sustainable world.
Simplicity & Sustainability Retreat in the Pyrenees
This work retreat offers us the opportunity to nourish and express our care for life on Earth and our wish for a more sustainable world.
Deep Rest Retreat — Le Moulin, France
Open Dharma deep rest and meditation retreat at Le Moulin, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France
Working Toward a Sustainable Future at CAT, Wales
This work retreat offers us the opportunity to nourish and express our care for life on Earth and our wish for a more sustainable world.
Being Peace Day in Walaja with SanghaSeva
This day is an opportunity to reach out beyond the walls that separate Israelis from Palestinians; both walls built by human hands and those built within us. By not allowing ourselves to be limited by the constructed roles we play, we can directly express our basic human goodness.
Open Dharma Events in Israel
Open Dharma meditation talks and retreats in Israel, May 29 through June 7, 2014
Silent Meditation Retreat with SanghaSeva
Residential silent meditation retreat at the Dharmalaya Institute in Bir (HP, India), led by Zohar Lavie and Nathan Glyde of SanghaSeva (March 17-24, 2014)
Vernacular Eco-architecture of the Himalayas Workshop
Residential service-learning programme at the Dharmalaya Institute with hands-on training in green building and more. Learn to build earthen structures in the style of esteemed eco-architect Didi Contractor, while contemplating our relationship with nature and the value of sustainable and compassionate living.
Open Volunteer Period for Sustainable Living in the Himalayas
Informal volunteer opportunities at the Dharmalaya Institute open to both residential and non-residential participants. During this period, there is no structured educational or training program as such, but there is plenty of physical work to do — including green building, organic gardening, natural landscaping and possibly some tree planting — and Dharmalaya is a beautiful place to get your hands dirty and learn a bit about green living and Himalayan culture in the process.
Sustainable Living in the Himalayas: A Service-Learning Retreat
Informal, semi-structured program at the Dharmalaya Institute open to both residential and non-residential participants. We will be doing fun, physical work, including green building, organic gardening, tree planting, and more.