WMC’s Annual Retreat
Garrison Institute, February 19 - 26, 2027
Westchester Meditation Center’s Fourteenth Annual Winter Retreat
February 19-26, 2027
Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY
Many people are drawn to meditation as a means to develop more serenity and clarity. But a deeper transformation of our experience is possible. A well-established meditation practice grounds us deeply in an openness that is also clear, flexible and resilient. We are then better able to rise to life's challenges with the kindness of an open heart.
A week-long immersive retreat is a powerful way to deepen our relationship to meditation and see its benefits. With a settled mind, we can tune into our innate wellbeing and our open heart. Mindfulness-awareness meditation, fully understood, can directly support overcoming our fixed, inflexible patterns, and allow the emergence of a more stable attitude of acceptance and kindness. We hope you can join us in exploring and fine-tuning these qualities that our world needs more than ever.
We are committed to making our programs affordable to all. Scholarship applications will soon be available for 2027.
Surrounded by natural beauty and far from the clamor of our busy lives, Garrison Institute offers the ideal environment for deep contemplative practice. We welcome both new and experienced practitioners to attend this retreat.
The retreat will be jointly led by Judy Lief, a senior teacher in the tradition of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and master editor of his works, and the senior teachers of the Westchester Meditation Center, Derek and Jane Kolleeny, and Gene Bobker.
This mostly silent retreat will be primarily focused on sitting meditation, but the daily schedule will also include walking meditation, dharma talks, discussion groups, two individual meetings with a meditation instructor, yoga, and free time.
*Separate shrine rooms for prostrators, ngondro and sadhana practitioners will be available. If you are a Vajrayana practitioner and want to participate in this track, please email westchestermeditationcenter@gmail.com
New to the retreat experience?
This retreat is perfect for both new and experienced practitioners. If a week-long retreat would be new experience for you, there will be a form e-mailed to you, after registration, where you can indicate that, and/or you can ask us anything using the link below: