Menla Retreat (all retreats)
Friends/Family/Press/Program Staff 2026
This is for friends and family. Use the Quick add register button and choose the room and then choose the dates and room type. For friends and family adjust the price for friends and family rate to 50 a night, plus half the cost of meals.
Menla Create-Your-Own Getaway
Build a custom escape vacation by choosing activities à la carte. Only two hours from New York City, Menla lies in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. De-stress on more than 300 acres of private wilderness. Unspoiled natural beauty adjoins state land, creating endless opportunities for wildlife spotting and discovering secret hideaways. Let fresh air, light, […]
Clearlight Yoga Nidra Retreat
With Michele Loew
An in-person retreat at Menla on the enlightened sleep yoga practice of yoga nidra and comparative Tibetan sister sciences. Join us for this four-day retreat on the enlightened sleep yoga practice of yoga nidra and the sister sciences of Tibetan dream and clearlight sleep yoga. Michele will share inspiring talks and a yoga nidra practice […]
Raised By This Place A Spring Equinox Retreat of Ritual Theater, Play & Ecological Belonging
With Katie Garcia
“I was raised by strawberries, fields of them… it was the wild strawberries, beneath dewy leaves on an almost-summer morning, who gave me my sense of the world, my place in it." -Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass What place raised you? What sounds, smells, textures, and people shaped the way you move through the […]
Vajra Yoga™: The Wisdom Therapeutics Immersion
With John Campbell, Paulina Daemmrich and Robert A.F. Thurman
Join us for a joyful, week-long immersion in yoga, meditation, and dharma with master teachers of Vajrayoga™, Tibet House US’s school of yoga and Indian inner science, integrating physical, meditative, and philosophical disciplines common to Hatha Yoga and the Indo-Tibetan Hindu and Buddhist traditions. This retreat is an opportunity to locate your yogic practice within […]
Meisou Meditation for Those on the Path to Awakening Program
With Seiji Yamamoto
Menla is excited to welcome Seiji Yamamoto Sensei from Japan for a first ever US workshop on Meisou Meditation. His method of Meisou Meditation literally means “Clear Light” meditation in Japanese. It is a method to directly awaken to the Light which is our true nature from the beginningless time. We will start by learning […]
Time to Meditate: A Five Day Meditation Retreat - Sponsored by Tibet House US
With David Nichtern
Presented by Dharma Moon In the rush of daily life, it’s easy for meditation practice to get squeezed into the margins — a few minutes here, a half hour there. But something profound happens when we step away from the constant pull of our schedules and devote ourselves fully to practice. In the arc of […]
Eliminating Obstacles Through Reconnection with the Five Elements
With Bair Manzarkhan, LMT
Rejuvenation & Self-Healing Through Ancient Tibetan Wisdom This retreat aims at Eliminating Obstacles (Geksel) through reconnecting with the Five Elements, Five Chakras, and Five Inner Lights, which help us to understand our nature and supports us in meeting life’s challenges with clarity, balance, and awareness. Rooted in the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism and Sowa Rigpa (Science of Healing), participants are guided […]
The Deep Space Experience: Into the Field of Stillness
With John Minks and Billy Pinkerton
A Yoga, Breathwork, and Sound Immersion “Sound reveals where words dissolve.” - inspired by Hazrat Inayat Khan Step beyond the familiar and enter a realm of resonance, presence, and deep listening. This three-day immersive retreat invites you to slow time, soften the body, and open into expanded states of awareness through the alchemy of yoga, […]
Vajra Yoga Mahasiddha Reunion 2026
With Dr. Robert Svoboda, Krishna Das, Nina Rao, Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton, Michele Loew, John Campbell and Robert A.F. Thurman
Join the third reunion of this usually far-flung all-star gathering of teachers and practitioners of Indic yogic sciences and spiritual traditions! This inspiring weeklong immersion, an aspiring annual tradition, brings together Dr. Robert Svoboda, Krishna Das, Nina Rao, Chandra Easton, Michele Loew, John Campbell, and Prof. Robert Thurman for a stand-alone hybrid retreat weaving Ayurveda, […]
Reclaiming The Sacred Feminine: A Path to Personal and Collective Renewal
With Isa Gucciardi Ph.D.
Many of us feel called to help create a more compassionate, balanced, and inclusive world. Bringing about this kind of paradigm shift begins with a profound transformation in how we understand and embody the Sacred Feminine in our own lives. For much of human history, this power has been honored as essential to balance, creation, […]
The Wisdom Path: Buddhist and Shamanic Practices for Healing Ourselves and the Earth
With Isa Gucciardi Ph.D. and Robert A.F. Thurman
In a time of rapid change, uncertainty, and ecological disruption, Spiritual Wisdom offers a path to clarity, resilience, and purpose. This experiential course brings together the profound insight of enlightening practice—mindfulness of everythingness, loving compassion, and open-hearted generosity—with earth-gracing shamanic traditions that honor balance, interdependence, and the living intelligence of the natural world. Through worldview […]
16th Annual Sage Academy Sound Healing Retreat Intensive
With Silvia Nakkach, M.A., MMT, Lea Garnier, Peter Blum, Nicholas Petrucco and Katya Valomova
In 2010 Sage Academy of Sound, located in Woodstock NY, created the 1st annual Sound Healing Retreat Intensive at Menla. After directly experiencing the healing benefits of sound, and dedicated to sharing this with others, the founders created a platform that would give sound pioneers a beautiful environment to share their knowledge, as well as a […]
Radiant Rest Yoga Nidra Retreat
With Tracee Stanley
Join author and yoga nidra facilitator, Tracee Stanley, for five days of deeply nourishing rest. In this retreat, inspired by the work of her bestselling book Radiant Rest, you will learn how to dissolve resistance to deep rest and rewrite your rest legacy. You will receive tools to enhance your experience of deeper sleep, inner […]
Inner Medicine: Tibetan Yoga for Healing, Longevity and Rejuvenation - Sponsored by Tibet House US
With Dr. James Bae DACM, E-RYT, C-IAYT
In this retreat we will explore three aspects of Buddhist Yoga and inner science - meditations from the healing tradition, yogic rejuvenation or Chulen breath practices and longevity rituals for summoning our lost or declined vitality. The traditional Buddhist Yogic techniques of subtle breath, meditation and sound are applied for healing from within or contacting […]
Dragon Heart: A Women’s Retreat
With Alison Sinatra and Lynn Schauwecker
Awaken the feminine witness. Ignite the sacred fire within. Dragon Heart is an immersive women’s retreat dedicated to descending into the deepest chambers of the heart — where truth, instinct, and ancient feminine wisdom converge. In many traditions, the dragon is not a creature of fear, but a guardian of untapped power, the keeper of […]
UPLIFT Festival
With Tasha Blank, Michael V, The Yoga House, Reggie Hubbard, Chynna Dee Andrada, Tracy LJ Robertson, Ben Brown, Rose Stoller, Pamela Kalechofsky, Amy Reed, Joyce San Pedro, Alex Tse, Jenny Papo and Olga Choedron
UPLIFT is a joyful and deeply embodied festival mindfully curated to inspire connection with community and self through Ecstatic Dance, Yoga, Sound Baths, Cacao Ceremony, Circle Singing, Bonfire Sing-Alongs, Somatic & Wisdom Workshops, & more! Guided by an extraordinary team of facilitators, this sacred weekend is a living reminder that what we create together isn’t […]
Alchemy of Oneness: Sacred Dance & the Third Force
With Banafsheh Sayyad, MFA, LAc
Discover how compassionately weaving paradoxes together creates a third force — one that initiates ecstatic embodiment, healing, and transfiguration, a profound spiritual process Sufi mystics described as the alchemy of the heart, Rumi called the meeting place beyond opposites, and modern quantum physics understands as emergence through coherence and superposition. At a time when our […]
Cultivating Joy: A Silent, Mindfulness Retreat
With Jayne Gumpel, LCSW, Michael G. Burbank and David Gumpel M.A
Join us at Menla for a gentle, joy inspired, silent retreat consisting of meditation, self compassion, mindfulness and walks in nature with Jayne Gumpel LCSW, Michael Burbank, & David Gumpel MA. We will begin to gather as a group at 3pm Friday for check in and will enjoy our first dinner together at 6pm. Silence […]
Lifting the Gaze
With Cyndi Lee
Lifting the Gaze is an opportunity to withdraw from the demands of your life and gather yourself together within the beauty of Menla and the warmth of community. Traditionally, a spiritual retreat is a time to touch your mind and touch your heart. It offers you a concentrated period of practice to help you get […]
Finding Goodness in a World on Fire
With Lodro Rinzler
In a time when the world often feels chaotic, divided, and overwhelming, it’s easy to lose touch with our own sense of goodness—let alone the goodness in others. This weekend retreat, Finding Goodness in a World on Fire, offers a refuge of connection. Through guided meditations, contemplative practices, dharma talks, and heartfelt discussion, we will […]
Awakening the Inner Healer-Leader
With Master Mingtong Gu
A Living Exploration of the Four Noble Truths Through the Body When wisdom lives in the mind and leaves the body, even the most dedicated healers begin to feel tired. You may recognize this quietly. You serve. You hold space. You offer clarity, care, and guidance. And somewhere beneath your skill, training, and devotion, the […]
Dzogchen Retreat: Revealing the Great Inner Connection
With Dr. Nida Chenagtsang and Robert A.F. Thurman
Join world-renowned Tibetan Medicine doctor, yogi, and Yuthok Nyingthig master Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, together with renowned scholar-practitioner and leading figure on Tibetan Buddhism in the West Robert A.F. Thurman, PhD, for a rare Dzogchen retreat. This retreat offers an accessible yet profound path to Dzogchen, the Great Perfection teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. Rooted in the […]
Clearlight, Darkness, and Nonduality
With Andrew Holecek and Robert A.F. Thurman
The path to the Clearlight—or prabhāsvarā in Sanskrit—points to the indescribable essence of ultimate freedom, a nondual reality only accessible through direct experience. Enlightened beings speak of this radiant transparency as the very nature of mind. Join Andrew Holecek and Robert Thurman for a transformative retreat where the subtle teachings of yogas, tantras, and texts […]