Upcoming Retreats
On this seven-day retreat we’ll learn that these three foundations, and the traditional dhyāna factors they correspond to, are not things that we make happen, but are instead experiences that arise naturally as we let go of striving to focus, and instead let the mind come into a state of complete rest and openness. We’ll also experience more clearly how the three dhyāna foundations provide an ideal basis for exploring insight.
Our Fall 2026 retreat will engage with the theme of the Wisdom Buddha Figure associated with the element earth and the Wisdom of Equality, Ratnasambhava, through imagination and creativity, meditation, warm-heartedness, connection with community and the natural world, embodied practice, music, rituals and movement. There will be periods of silence as well as space for mindful conversation.
In this three day retreat, we’ll explore how awareness, discrimination, and energy can support the conditions to enter into the dhyānas. And how wellbeing, serenity, samādhi (full integration), and equanimity successively come to fulfillment. However far we get with this, the exploration and play with possibilities on this retreat will enrich your meditation practice.
Past Retreats
In this home retreat, Karunadevi, and team, will lead us in meeting the five Buddha pairs in meditation and visualization. The symbolism of each pair of Buddhas is vast, comprehensive, and multifaceted. We will explore how these symbols relate to our human qualities and tendencies through meditations, talks, readings, discussions, and devotional practices.
On this retreat, we will explore some of the mythic imagery and nature themes in the Buddha's story, looking at how these unfold both in his teaching and within the Buddhist tradition, and are deeply relevant to our lives today.
Through meditation, imaginative exploration, ritual, chanting, discussion and reflection (with time each day away from our devices!) we’ll hear how images and teachings rooted in nature can be deeply connecting, revealing a path we can travel to find our own ground.
Drawing on an approach developed by Vidyamala over many years of teaching at Taraloka, this weekend retreat invites you to train as a compassionate warrior — courageous, tender, and open-hearted.
Five days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a safe space to go deeper into experience and practice.
A Meditation Home Retreat led by Dhammarati.
Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a safe space to go deeper into experience and practice.
A Home Retreat led by Paramananda, in collaboration with Melbourne Buddhist Centre.
Join us in a collective exploration of our moment-by-moment embodied experience and the potential for freedom inherent there.
Many people come to mindfulness seeking relief from stress, pain, or emotional overwhelm—only to find that simply “watching the mind” isn’t always enough. This weekend retreat offers a restorative and practical approach to mindfulness as an emotion regulation strategy, drawing on both contemplative wisdom and evidence-based, trauma-sensitive practices.
The Four Noble Truths were the Buddha’s first teaching, yet they never grow old. Each time we return to them with fresh eyes, they meet us exactly where we are. Just as in the Buddha’s time, there is suffering in our lives—stress, fear, confusion —that we can do something about.
Connecting to creativity and the imagination through art, mindfulness and nature.
Discover the Imagination as a source of deep enrichment and how it can be a path of awakening into an expansive, loving and insightful awareness.
Balajit, Singhashri and Viveka joining forces to offer another wonderful embodied opportunity toward collective liberation.
At our Winter 2026 retreat, we will engage meditation practices that cultivate grounded awareness, receptive attention, and the integration of subtle energies. Through somatic sensing, movement, and energy-based inquiry, we learn to listen beneath conceptual thought, attuning to the profound intelligence always present in our bodily experience.
Join us for five days of practice, dialogue, storytelling and contemplation as we explore the life and teachings of Sangharakshita, the founding teacher of the Triratna Buddhist Community. Through talks, meditation and discussion we will trace how one man’s journey—from post-war Britain to the foothills of the Himalayas—helped ignite a global movement grounded in the Buddha’s teachings.
The Triratna NY-NJ Sangha holds monthly in-person practice days in New York City, and May’s will be a day retreat with senior order members. Join us at NY Zendo Shobo-ji for a day of practice and community.
On this residential retreat at the Pendle Hill Quaker Retreat Center, we will focus on deceptively simple practices that can take us deep into meditation, opening us to delight, joy, and play and nourishing us to face challenges.
As a community, we will reflect on Ambedkar’s legacy and what we might integrate from his teachings and example for our times. To support deeper engagement, there is an intention to form affinity groups based on race/caste during the program.
Please note that half of the program spaces have been reserved for BLAIPOC (Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous & People of Color) attendees.
This three-day meditation retreat for experienced meditators within the Triratna tradition is designed for practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of insight-oriented approaches to meditation — practices that illuminate the nature of experience and reality. This retreat will be oriented to experiential learning rather than study.
During this weekend, we’ll explore how our experience as fellow human travelers can meet the huge challenges we’re presented with — personal, cultural, and political — and how the Buddha’s message of practical hope, radical responsibility, and deep kindness can help us make a difference in society and build a better America for those to come.
Led by Candradasa and Ananta, this 3-day residential retreat is offered in the context of meditation, reflection, and community as key aspects of practice to support transcendence, freedom, and awakening.
🧘♀️ 🧘♂️ Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a gently held space to go deeper into experience and practice.
On this Triratna NY-NJ retreat, led by Viveka, we will practice and play with living with the pressures of our times and explore how to respond with mindfulness, metta (loving kindness), and compassion.
Join participants at Aryaloka in NH in the new year for four day retreats exploring the Vimalakirti Nirdesa! The day retreats will include meditation, discussion groups, dramatic readings of the text, and creative ritual. A vegetarian lunch will be provided.
This day retreat from Triratna NY-NJ complements the 8-week, Monday evening course, and is accompanied by another day retreat in April. It can be attended in conjunction with the course, or as a stand-alone event.
This retreat is for experienced practitioners wishing to go deeper in their practice of meditation and insight. Participants should have at least a year’s regular practice of Buddhist meditation and be familiar with Triratna’s approach to meditation.
This retreat is open to all sangha members from Aryaloka, Boston, Lubec, Portland, Portsmouth, New York and New Jersey. Born from a desire to bring our east coast sanghas together, the Regional Retreat has been running for 15 years! This is a wonderful opportunity to meet Buddhists from across the region and make new friends.
There is a Zoom option for some sessions of the retreat if you would prefer to attend from home.
Join us for a long weekend exploring the road or roads to freedom. What does freedom look like? How is it different for different people? What steps can I take to become free?
Led by Samayasri and Ananta, this 3-day residential retreat at Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing is offered in the context of meditation, reflection and community as key aspects of practice to support freedom and awakening.
We invite you once more to take part in a day of exploration and practice through meditation and reflective writing with Yashobodhi and others. We will gently delve into our experience following writing prompts and working with images and metaphors.
The Buddha in the Dark is Triratna NY NJ’s summer sangha residential retreat. Join us for a long weekend offered in the context of meditation as a key practice to support our growth and awakening. The emphasis of the retreat will be on silent meditation, offering a chance to sink deeper into our experience. At Dharmakaya Retreat Center.