Other Retreats at Menla
A Midsummer Yoga, Meditation, and Pranayama Camp
With Rebecca Gordon
An all-inclusive 3-day weekend of yoga, pranayama, and meditation, featuring six curated, immersive practices designed to cultivate a deeper connection to your body, nature and joyful community. Join us in the Catskill mountains to learn, play, practice, unplug and connect . The days are long and the experience is expansive. Schedule: Thursday, July 16 3 […]
Spiritual Summer Camp: Soul & Stars
With Deborah Hanlon
A cosmic sleepaway where inner landscapes meet open skies—days grounded in nature, nights under the stars. This isn’t about learning something new. It’s about returning to what’s already familiar beneath the noise. Guided by Deborah Hanlon—intuitive medium, teacher, and steady, grounded presence—Celestial Camp is a gentle step away from constant input and urgency and into […]
Soul Journey: Awakening A New Paradigm of Consciousness
With Irene Siegel, Ph.D., LCSW
WE HAVE ENTERED A NEW PARADIGM CONSIDERED TO BE THE GREAT AWAKENING. This is a time of transformation and the evolution of higher consciousness and soul awareness. Amidst great planetary confusion and upheaval, we are on the cusp of profound change. Ancient wisdom traditions, mystics, and modern astrologers have long predicted this era of awakening. […]
Embodied Radiance: Aliveness, Sacred Play and Creative Expression
With Natasha Adele
What does it feel like to truly live in your body; not just moving through life, but fully embodying it? A yoga retreat that explores our relationship to embodiment through the chakras, playfulness and intuitive creative expression. The seed of wholeness is our relationship with ourselves, to fully embody our lives is the fruit that […]
ELEVATE: Here and Now Yoga
With Michelle Ingkavet Cavanagh
ELEVATE: A Transformational Yoga & Wellness Experience at Menla Raise Your Consciousness. Rewrite Your Patterns. Yoga • Alexander Technique • Spa • Sound Bath • Bonfire Our ninth retreat — and our fourth time returning to sacred Menla Thursday, August 6 3 - 4:30 pm Arrival & Check-in 4:30 - 5 pm Welcome Circle - […]
Summer Soul Camp: A Holotropic Breathwork Retreat
With Dr. Laurane McGlynn and Dr. Tom Francescott
Are you ready to rekindle your sense of joy and adventure? In this retreat we invite you to take some time for fun, relaxation, healing and connection. Join us for a five-day Holotropic Summer Soul Camp: Four Holotropic Breathwork sessions (two as a breather/two as a sitter) Sound Healing Session Nature-Based Mask Making Learn to […]
Through the Gateless Gate
With Henry Fersko-Weiss
This unique retreat draws from two profound traditions, End-of-Life Doulas and Zen Buddhism. They offer different perspectives, but share a deep commitment to exploring fundamental questions: Who are you really? What does it mean to die? and, How do you live—and even die—with a deep sense of meaning? The end-of-life doula approach carries wisdom that […]
The Feminine Flow: Past Life Regression, Sound Healing, Yoga & Meditation & Spiritual Painting
With Lisa Annese and Alica Fuks
Join Lisa Annese and Alica Fuks for a weekend of Divine Feminine awakening, where women are invited to reconnect with their spiritual essence, inner wisdom, and creative soul. Through Past Life Regression, Tibetan sound healing, Kundalini yoga, meditation, spiritual painting, and sacred ceremony, participants will be guided to release energetic blocks, deepen intuition, and flow […]
OUR DESTINY LIES IN OUR ORIGINS: A Weekend Intensive for Enhancing Our Shamanic Service
With Don Oscar Miro-Quesada Solevo
This singular apprenticeship experience with don Oscar Miro-Quesada is intuitively designed to serve as an immersive, soul-deepening exploration of the Pachakuti Mesa TraditionTM: its relational intelligence, ritual practice, and communal re-Membering during these transformative times of Pachakuti. ‘Pachakuti’ means ‘world reversal’ in Quechua, and it refers to the time of transformation we are living now. […]
Deepening The Way
With Henry Shukman
This September, join Henry Shukman at Menla Retreat Center, nestled in the Catskill Mountains, where autumn’s turning provides the perfect backdrop to settle into and deepen our practice. The retreat includes daily meditations, dharma teachings from Henry, and extended Q&A sessions, while immersing yourself in a committed community of meditators. Our schedule offers as much […]
Embodied Self: A Yoga and Internal Family Systems Retreat
With Donna Farchione, MS, MA, CCC-SLP, LMFT, RYT-500 and Maddi Farchione, PA-C, RYT-500
Meet yourself here. This three-night retreat is an invitation to turn toward your inner world with curiosity, structure, and care. Through a carefully woven blend of Internal Family Systems-guided self-inquiry, group healing circles, and yoga, you will develop a real and intimate relationship with the parts of yourself that have been waiting to be heard. […]
The Reset
With Matthew LeBaron
Three days in the Catskills to rediscover your creative joy The Reset is a three-day retreat for people who build things, makers, creatives, founders, and anyone whose work runs on imagination. It is made for the moment when you are still creating and still delivering, but the joy has gone quiet, and you feel strangely […]
Gratitude Yoga Fall Yoga & Meditation Retreat: Inviting the Qualities of an Awakened Heart
With Gemma Farrell
Please join us for an immersive weekend of yoga, meditation, and renewal. As autumn turns quietly toward stillness, we take time together to soften and listen inwardly as our shared practices guide us to the qualities of an awakened heart: kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity, generosity, gratitude, authenticity, vulnerability, and forgiveness. Our days will open with […]
Ignite the Sacred: A Transformational Retreat at Menla
With Scott Dennis, Christine Davison, Kaitlin Western and Christopher Gebiya
Step into the mountains this fall for a deeply immersive retreat designed to awaken vitality, creativity, courage, and the magnetic energy that draws meaningful experiences into your life. Surrounded by the natural beauty of Menla, this retreat offers space to reconnect with your deepest vitality, align with your purpose, and cultivate the inner magnetism that […]
Autumn Iyengar Yoga Retreat
With Eve Holbrook
Yoga asanas and pranayama offer us the tools to move from the periphery to the core of our being, a lifetime practice that continually deepens our understanding and ability to touch the inner layers of ourselves. Join Iyengar teacher Eve Holbrook for a progressive practice and the settling that occurs while on retreat at Menla, […]
Awakening the Wisdom of the Body
With Bobbie Ellis and Karin Weinstein
A Somatic Yoga & Movement Retreat Nestled in the healing landscape of Menla in the Catskills, Awakening the Wisdom of the Body is a four-day somatic yoga and movement retreat with Bobbie Ellis and Karin Weinstein. Through gentle movement, breath awareness, guided rest, and creative exploration, participants are invited to slow down, listen deeply, and […]
Shifting Reality
With Paul Selig
6 Days of Learning, Relaxation & Transformation Join award-winning author and channel Paul Selig for a six-day channeled retreat at Menla, a stunning sanctuary nestled deep within New York’s Catskill Mountains. Experience the Guides’ newest teachings on transforming consciousness and aligning to a higher octave of reality in one of the most beautiful times of […]
Deepening Our Relationship to Practice
With Bibi Lorenzetti and Alex Tse
Known for its healing power and vision of fearlessness, the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya mantra serves as a profound tool for inner freedom. We will journey back to the Ṛgveda to discover this powerful hymn to Rudra—the "stormy" aspect of Shiva—in his most benevolent form: Tryambaka. As the Three-Eyed One, he nourishes, protects, and guides us toward the […]
Inner Sanctuary
With Daphne Lyon and Stacia Nero
A Weekend Rooted in Practice, Strength, and Deep Rest Arrive in the wooded mountains of Menla and return home feeling centered, strong, and deeply restored. Over three nourishing days, you’ll engage in practices that cultivate steadiness, strength, and deep rest. Drawing inspiration from the rhythms of the natural world, this retreat integrates yoga, breathwork, meditation, […]
Breath As Medicine: Connecting to the Healer Within - A Holotropic Breathwork Workshop
With Dr. Laurane McGlynn and Stephenie Purnell
This workshop will explore how Holotropic Breathwork® can facilitate healing from trauma, addiction, mental health issues and our desire for transcendence and wholeness. The New York Times described Holotropic Breathwork® as “heart opening” and a way to heal yourself and improve mood. For centuries, and across many cultures, non-ordinary states of consciousness have been used […]
The Life-Force Academy Immersion
With Jai Dev Singh
THE IMMERSION EXPERIENCE There is nothing quite like an LFA Immersion. It is potent, transporting, intelligent, a little bit of hard work, and incredibly fun. By the end, you will not want it to stop. The first task is to drop the mind below the choppy surface into the deeper water where bliss lives. The […]
Om Tara Yoga
With Jacqueline Deflorio-Reid
Jacqui is honored and excited to lead Om Tara Yoga Studio’s 8th annual retreat at the serene and sacred Menla Mountain Retreat Center. To retreat means to withdraw; Jacqui invites you to withdraw from your routine and possibly stressful lives, immerse yourself in nature while practicing Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation. Embrace the deeper study of […]
Alchemical Constellations Training & Facilitator Certification
With Emily Blefeld, LICSW and Dan Cohen, PhD
See with Your Heart. Live from Your Heart. Lead Through Your Heart. The Seeing with Your Heart Alchemical Constellations Training and Facilitator Certification is for individuals ready to untie the tangled threads of past generational sorrows, free themselves to live into the possibilities of spontaneous creation, and expand their lives, healing practice, and work. The […]
Radiance Retreat: Annual Women’s Retreat
With Connie Viglietti
The fall season on the gorgeous grounds at Menla offers the perfect opportunity to slow down, tune in, and let go. Nature cushions our release as the sisterhood holds our rising spirits and celebrates the return of our radiance. We reclaim our divine feminine nature, remember who we are, and step into who we are […]
Connecting with the Earth to Connect with Self
With Lydia Boaz
Lydia believes that anxiety, depression and other mental health imbalances can be healed through connecting with the earth. The earth can hold and support us through the spectrum of experiences, from grief to joy, and helps us see into ourselves to know what we truly desire and find a way forward. It can be hard […]
Iyengar Yoga Autumn Retreat
With Rebecca Hooper
Retreat from the worldly gravities and let yourself settle in the halcyon environment of Menla, a spiritual hermitage and spa in the middle of the Catskills Forest Preserve. We will soak in the sacred practices of Asana, Pranayama and seated meditation, take refuge in the philosophy and practice of Yoga, and immerse ourselves in the […]
Cultivating Joy: A Ketamine-assisted Mindfulness Retreat
With Jayne Gumpel, LCSW and David Gumpel M.A
This is a safe, structured retreat led by a staff of licensed and experienced therapists and physicians in the beautiful Catskill Mountains at MENLA Retreat and Spa. Join us for a safe, structured, and deeply nourishing four-day retreat at the intersection of science and spirituality, held in the serene beauty of the Catskill Mountains at […]
Autumn Reset: A Grounding Yoga Retreat in the Catskills
With Gabrielle James and Maureen Ferry
Escape to the Catskills this fall for a grounding weekend of yoga, nourishing meals, and meaningful connection. Surrounded by crisp mountain air and peak foliage, you’ll begin and end each day with intentional movement: sunrise flows to awaken the body and sunset practices to unwind, each woven with meditation and breathwork to help you fully […]
ENCHANTED
With Ariel Kiley
A 4-Day Immersion Into Embodiment & Wonder Take a somatic journey into your own enchantment — held in the Catskill Mountains as the season turns from gold to dusk. Through embodied movement, breathwork, meditation, and creative practice, you'll access the deeper consciousness that connects to that which is beyond yourself. You'll reawaken your sense of […]
Into the Depths of Yoga
With Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee
Immerse yourself in a transformative weekend of yoga led by Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee, where you’ll explore how a consistent practice can help you listen more deeply, pause with intention, and respond to life with clarity and wisdom. Whether your days feel steady or full of unexpected highs and lows, this experience offers […]
Transformative Weekend Yoga Retreat with LUMINOUSbody
With Jennifer Chin
Jennifer Chin’s LUMINOUSbody practice is based in the Hatha Iyengar tradition and influenced by her lifetime of dance training. Her approach is designed to empower you to move through your life with as much freedom as possible. She will help you unlock physical limitations that might inhibit your activity level. Whether it’s climbing a mountain […]
PhDJ: An Immersion in Movement + Sound with Tasha Blank
With Tasha Blank
Most people think dance is about having the right moves. Forget that. Music is medicine—and this immersion is an invitation to experience what becomes possible when sound, rhythm, and movement are used as tools for transformation, grounding, and connection. This 4+ day in-person immersion is a core component of the 8-month PhDJ training program. Together, […]
Woman's Strength and Ancestors Retreat for Women
With Elizabeth Pyjov and Larisa Forman
This autumn, you are invited to connect to ancestors and your female strength in new, deeper ways. The goal of the retreat is to come away feeling all the support of your female line. We'll also access inner calm and build a community of women. Elizabeth Pyjov (15 years of experience teaching these practices) will […]
Softening Into Ourselves: Nourishing Spirit, Deepening Connection
With Sue Lembeck-Edens and Rachel Mefferd
Much of our lives ask us to lean forward—to respond, manage, and care for others. This retreat offers a different rhythm. Together, we will practice leaning back into support, cultivating receptivity and trusting stillness. We will explore what becomes possible when we shift from effort to presence, from yang to yin, and from holding ourselves […]
YOGIC LIFESTYLE RETREAT: A Weekend Immersion into Yoga, Meditation, Ayurveda, Nature
With Sue Bonanno
Weekend Immersion into Yoga, Meditation, Ayurveda, Nature In a world spinning faster than our nervous systems can track, what does it actually mean to be well? The ancient traditions of Meditation, Yoga and its sister science of Ayurveda offer ancient wisdom to our modern lifestyle - practices that balance, heal and transform mind and body […]
Inner Knowing: Gentle Breathwork for Conscious Creative Living
With Amy Greco and Libby Garofalo
“Breathwork is the process of revealing ourselves, to ourselves” ~ Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery founder Alakh Analda What happens when you approach the deeper parts of yourself with curiosity? What becomes possible when you open to listening and allowing your inner knowing to guide you? Join us for a weekend of exploration through Breathwork Mastery RBM […]
Coming Home To Self, A Restorative Weekend Exploring The Innate Wisdom of Self Care and Compassion
With Paula Evans
Mindful self-compassion allows us to build a greater sense of our own self-worth and awareness, creating a greater connection with our bodies and emotions and a stronger presence with all that surrounds us, right here, right now. Strengthen your ability to be present with yourself, just as you are, with loving-kindness. Just imagine a life […]
The Great Sound Escape: A Winter Retreat for Hibernation
With Lisa Annese and Michele Marason
Join Lisa Annese and Michele Marason for a weekend of deep reflection, surrender and a safe sanctuary to hibernate as 2026 comes to completion. Through Tibetan sound healing, mantra, meditation, yoga and sacred ceremony, participants will be guided to honor with gratitude the journey lived thus far and plant blessings of intention as our journey […]
Awakening Your Inner Warrior Goddess
With Nina De Santo
She has always lived within you—fierce, radiant, powerful, and unapologetically divine. Now is the time to awaken her. This is more than a retreat—it is a sacred return to yourself. Awakening Your Inner Warrior Goddess is an immersive weekend experience designed to help women reconnect with their deepest truth, reclaim their power, and rise fully […]
The Myth and Mystery of Sacred Geometry and the Healing Nature of Mandalas: A Holotropic Breathwork Workshop
With Dr. Laurane McGlynn, Geoff Fitzpatrick and Sarah Hirigoyen
This workshop will explore how Holotropic Breathwork®, Sacred Geometry and creating a sand mandala can facilitate healing, our desire for transcendence, wholeness and connection to our Divine Nature. You are invited to join us to experience the remarkable healing potential and therapeutic benefits of Holotropic Breathwork®, a powerful breathwork practice that allows for self-exploration, transformation […]
The Art of Manifestation: Past Life Regression, Sweat Lodge, Sound Healing, Yoga & Meditation
With Lisa Annese and Alica Fuks
Join Lisa Annese and Alica Fuks this spring for a nurturing and transformative retreat designed to support your manifestation journey. In the tranquil setting of the beautiful Menla Resort & Spa, you’ll learn how to access your subconscious mind to align your spiritual path and destiny with your actions. This retreat offers a safe and […]