An annual pilgrimage of sorts- Join us as we turn toward a deeper, freer way of being—one rooted not in self-concept, but in presence, compassion, and awareness.
GARRISON WEEKEND RETREAT JUNE 26-28, 2026
Beyond Calm: The Intelligence of Presence
Awakening Body–Mind Wisdom through Buddhist Meditation and Somatic Awareness
This weekend retreat explores the intersection of Buddhist Insight Meditation practices and Somatic Experiencing.
Drawing on both traditions, we’ll explore well-being not as a static state but an ongoing collaboration between the body and mind. Rather than striving to become calm or free from discomfort, we’ll learn to trust our nervous system’s ability to move, settle, mobilize, and restore in response to changing conditions.
Together we’ll look at how stress and our emotional histories shape perception, emotion, and thought, fueling rumination and vigilance, causing us to struggle or abandon practice. Through somatic practices, gentle awareness exercises, and periods of guided meditation, we’ll learn to:
• sense and track subtle shifts in the body,
• recognize patterns of activation and settling,
• and meet experience with greater steadiness and curiosity.
Throughout the weekend, the emphasis is on direct experience: feeling the movement of our own system, discovering pathways into presence and cultivating ways to make meditation accessible and sustainable. We’ll challenge the habit of striving towards inner peace and instead explore a compassionate and liberating view: that freedom emerges through community, mindfulness and trusting the unfolding intelligence of body, heart, and mind.
Participants will leave the retreat with adeeper understanding of how meditation and nervous system wisdom support one another; practical tools for working skillfully with stress; an embodied sense of trust in the body–mind’s natural intelligence, supporting flexibility, presence, and sustainable practice in daily life.
Buddhist summer camp for grown-ups: unplug, meditate, play, and reconnect with nature, community, compassion, and your own spacious heart.
In Buddhist teachings, the image of someone swept down a fast-moving river—grasping at reeds and branches that cannot hold—mirrors how we cling to familiar thoughts, emotions, and identities when safety feels uncertain. In this daylong retreat, we will explore this metaphor as a doorway into understanding our own nervous system. We’ll use the spirit of these teachings to illuminate how our survival responses express an intelligent body seeking stability.
Throughout the day, you’ll have repeated opportunities to slow down, practice, and directly experience how safety becomes more available through embodied awareness. Through somatic meditation, mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing® techniques, gentle movement, guided inquiry, and shared reflection, you’ll learn to listen to sensation, pace your experience, and allow your system to settle.
As groundedness grows, clarity and choice naturally emerge. This retreat is open to all; practices are gentle, invitational, and adaptable to your needs.
Join us for a deeply nourishing weekend of spiritual exploration and renewal at the Wilson House, the birthplace of Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Rooted in the transformative principles of the 11th Step — Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him…”— this retreat invites you into a sacred space to deepen your connection with your Higher Power.
Over the course of the weekend, you will be guided through a variety of practices designed to quiet the mind, open the heart, and awaken the spirit.
In Buddhist teachings, the image of someone swept down a fast-moving river—grasping at reeds and branches that cannot hold—mirrors how we cling to familiar thoughts, emotions, and identities when safety feels uncertain. In this daylong retreat, we will explore this metaphor as a doorway into understanding our own nervous system. We’ll use the spirit of these teachings to illuminate how our survival responses express an intelligent body seeking stability.
Throughout the day, you’ll have repeated opportunities to slow down, practice, and directly experience how safety becomes more available through embodied awareness. Through somatic meditation, mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing® techniques, gentle movement, guided inquiry, and shared reflection, you’ll learn to listen to sensation, pace your experience, and allow your system to settle.
As groundedness grows, clarity and choice naturally emerge. This retreat is open to all; practices are gentle, invitational, and adaptable to your needs.
Note: This program will be recorded. The recording will be sent to all registrants after the program, so please feel free to sign up even if you cannot join in real time.
Save the date- I’ll be doing another Somatic Meditation daylong at NYIMC March 22nd. It will be in person and online.
Save the date- I’ll be doing another Somatic Meditation daylong at NYIMC March 22nd. It will be in person and online.
Save the date- I’ll be doing another Somatic Meditation daylong at NYIMC March 22nd. It will be in person and online.
An annual pilgrimage of sorts- Join us as we turn toward a deeper, freer way of being—one rooted not in self-concept, but in presence, compassion, and awareness.
Guided by mindful awareness and SE’s focus on nervous system resilience, you’ll cultivate your “felt sense”—an intuitive way to tune into your body’s sensations and emotions as reliable guides.
Learn ancient Buddhist practices and modern techniques to cultivate inner calm amid life's uncertainties in this immersive retreat with meditation teachers Josh Korda and Kathy Cherry
Without tools to ground ourselves, we often miss the inner guidance that fosters resilience, clarity, and peace. Over the course of this evening, you’ll learn somatic meditation, Buddhist mindfulness, and Somatic Experiencing® (SE) techniques to help you reconnect deeply with yourself.
In this retreat we’ll review a wide array of contemplative and somatic embodiment practices as well as contemporary psychological based tools to overcome self-fixation and gain access to a core drive to connect with the transpersonal serenity of being, getting curious with existence, and being kinder to our core beings.
We will also offer yoga/movement taught by Lindsey Liberatore.
This is an in-person retreat appropriate for both new and experienced practitioners.
Josh’s Tuesday night class- IN PERSON- on the first Tuesday of the Month.
Register with the link. Please select your donation amount when you register.
Josh’s Tuesday night class- IN PERSON- on the first Tuesday of the Month.
Register with the link. Please select your donation amount when you register.
Josh’s Tuesday night class- IN PERSON- on the first Tuesday of the Month.
Register with the link. Please select your donation amount when you register.
Josh’s Tuesday night class- IN PERSON- on the first Tuesday of the Month.
Register with the link. Please select your donation amount when you register.
This 2.5 hour workshop lead by Kathy Cherry and Mikella Millen is a mini-retreat, beginning with a fast-paced Breathwork group to drop deep into your body and move through a process of release and recalibration.
After 45 mins of Breathwork you will be guided into rest with an extended sound and reiki experience. Live and recorded sound will be offered along with some individual attention, and hands-on reiki placements to help you ground and return to the present moment.
Finally we will shift into journaling and expression to integrate the experience.
Sliding scale exchange for the event- please offer at the highest level accessible.
$55
$45 Use code BRR45
$35 Use code BRR35 (limited number of spots at this rate)
Ego transcendence occurs when an individual attains a state of consciousness wherein the burdens of one’s personal history, fears, concerns are released, allowing each moment to be experienced from a transpersonal perspective.
The perceptions of being alone and separate from others vanishes, replaced by a lightness of being and a relaxed awareness.
Who am I really?
Ego Transcendence & Spiritual Growth- A day-long workshop
Who am I really?
Ego Transcendence & Spiritual Growth- A day-long workshop
Tapping Into Your Resilience
Using nothing but your breath, you can open up your perceptions, empty out assumptions and make contact with a deep state of peace and ease.
This class is being offered on a sliding scale basis. If you need assistance beyond the sliding scale please reach out.
Tapping Into Your Resilience
Using nothing but your breath, you can open up your perceptions, empty out assumptions and make contact with a deep state of peace and ease.
This class is being offered on a sliding scale basis. If you need assistance beyond the sliding scale please reach out.
Register on the Center Yoga Website.
We’ll have a limited number of props. Please consider bringing your own.
Tapping Into Your Resilience
Using nothing but your breath, you can open up your perceptions, empty out assumptions and make contact with a deep state of peace and ease.
This class is being offered on a sliding scale basis. If you need assistance beyond the sliding scale please reach out.
We are away for a winter break. DailyPause will resume March 6th
Josh’s class will Resume March 7th
Tapping Into Your Resilience
Using nothing but your breath, you can open up your perceptions, empty out assumptions and make contact with a deep state of peace and ease.
This class is being offered on a sliding scale basis. If you need assistance beyond the sliding scale please reach out.
Tapping Into Your Resilience
Using nothing but your breath, you can open up your perceptions, empty out assumptions and make contact with a deep state of peace and ease.
This class is being offered on a sliding scale basis. If you need assistance beyond the sliding scale please reach out.
✨ 9 - 10PM: [Optional] Gentle Yin Yoga with Kacper
✨ 10:30 - 11PM: Meditation
✨ 11 - Midnight: Dharma Talk & Buddhist Intention Setting Ritual
✨ Midnight: Sober toast & midnight snacks
