Programs
For times when the support and commitment
of a live class or retreat feels most relevant
to your learning process
What We Provide
Group classes provide a community experience with a particular learning trajectory. Distinct from private services/consultations, which are individualized, and distinct from memberships, which are ongoing explorations of practice, classes last three, six or eight weeks and focus on a particular theme, which may be seasonal, theoretical or practical. See below to find a current class that’s right for you. Retreats are residential or at-home online immersions in particular practices. The Middle Path Healing Arts Approach includes silent retreats, mindful movement retreats and of practice and dialogue retreats. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you are sincerely interested in learning, but need financial assistance, please complete our contact form. We will reach out to you about possibilities for financial assistance.
Women’s Winter Wellness
Dates: November 19, December 3 & 17
Time: 10:00am – 11:30am ET
Group Size: 8 to 12
Location: Listening Wellness Center Yoga Studio
MBSR & CCT Classes
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Compassion Cultivation training are both evidence-based eight-week programs for a general audience.
Dates: 1/23, 1/29, 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/6 & 3/13
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm ET
Group Size: 10 to 20
Location: Online
Introduction to Breathing for Awareness & Wellness
In this free introductory program we will explore the basics of breathing both well and mindfully.
Date: Saturday, December 10th
Time: 10-11am ET
Location: Live-online
Group: Open to All
Living Mindfully, Embracing Kindness
Join us for a weekend of retreat practice with Éowyn Ahlstrom and Madeline Klyne. Mindfulness and kindness combined with wisdom can transform the way we live in these extraordinary times.
Dates: March 17-19, 2023
Group Size: 12 to 30
Location: Copper Beech Institute
Sharing the Refuge of Space & Simplicity
Location: Won Dharma Retreat Center, 361 State Route 23, Claverack, NY
More About Retreats
Meditation retreats provide a way to deeply cultivate, explore, and strengthen sustained mindfulness, kindness an compassion practices. There is simply nothing like a retreat to help connect with yourself and learn from your inner life.
Our retreats are open to and supportive of anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of mindfulness. Held in silence and relative simplicity, retreats support the growth of deeper wisdom and compassion. In addition, retreats are profoundly important for those training to teach mindfulness as well for established teachers since ultimately, a teacher must be able to teach based on their wisdom, which comes from their own direct experience.
Retreat Sample Schedule
6:30 AM – Greet the Day Sitting
7:00 AM – Mindful Meal and/or Informal Mindfulness Practice
8:00 AM – Guided Practice and Meditation Instructions
9:00 AM – Walking
9:45 AM – Lightly Guided Sitting
10:30 AM – Walking
11:15 AM – Sitting
12:00 PM – Mindful Meal and/or Informal Mindfulness Practice
2:00 PM – Lovingkindness Sitting
2:45 PM – Walking or Group Meeting
3:30 PM – Sitting
4:15 PM – Guided Mindful Movement
5:00 PM – Sitting
5:30 PM – Mindful Meal and/or Informal Mindfulness Practice
7:00 PM – Talk, Reflections on and Guidance around Practice
7:45 PM – Brief Walking or other Self-Guided Mindful Movement
8:00 PM – Sitting
9:00 PM – Goodnight
What to expect from a retreat
- Cultivating the ability to be with discomfort (physically, mentally and emotionally) and meet it with less reactivity, greater wisdom, and growing balance.
- Seeing and understanding more clearly the causes and effects of actions as well as their impacts on oneself and others.
- Identifying the subtle mental habitual patterns of reactions and mediating a wiser and kinder relationship with them.
