A long-term experiential training programme specifically for people who want to make a positive impact in the world. This course is designed to empower you as an insightful, sensitive, and effective cultural creatives and agent of change.

Explore the power of mindfulness in returning home to yourself and the present moment. This engaging residential retreat presents creative and unique practices, including singing meditation, walking meditation, mindful eating, and deep relaxation. These practices are simple yet transformative, enabling us to cultivate a calm and clear mind, open our hearts to compassion, and find joy in the simple acts of daily life.

A four-day residential retreat exploring creative practices to connect with nature and Expressive Arts, for enhanced well-being. This experience will help nurture your creative expression and help you to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and the world. No special artistic skills required, just a willingness to connect to our innate human capacity to create.

A two-week residential carpentry workshop, aimed to explore the intersection of contemplative practice, craft and sustainability through hands-on work doing roofing with slate, a natural material used traditionally in this region of the Himalayas.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A ten-day workshop-retreat providing a contemplative exploration of the creative process in many forms, from art (e.g. music/design/architecture/etc.) to manifesting a new project or bringing any kind of inspiration to life.

A two-week contemplative workshop-retreat exploring foundational practices for manifesting creativity and accomplishment from a place of profound ease and inspiration, both as an individual and in collaboration with others.

A contemplative workshop-retreat series exploring foundational practices for manifesting creativity and accomplishment from a place of profound ease and inspiration, both as an individual and in collaboration with others, followed by an optional extended practicum.

A online gathering (via Zoom) hosted by Dharmalaya cofounder Mark Moore to discuss the Building a Better World programme. This chat will be an opportunity to chat with Mark about the programme, ask questions, and get a sense of how the programme might support your aspirations.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

Note: this programme is closed and not accepting applications. Please see our March 2024 event schedule for the next related programmes.

A week-long retreat exploring the theory and practice of wise and compassionate leadership.

NOTE: THIS PROGRAMME IS FULL AND REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

Explore the power of creativity and learn to enhance your creative process through meditation. This engaging residential retreat presents wisdom and practices from Tibetan Bön Buddhist master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

A four-day meditation retreat designed by world-renowned meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, with special features unique to Dharmalaya Institute, including mindful movement practices, set in a beautiful Himalayan eco-campus with earthen buildings, healthy meals, and more.

A four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices, primarily through hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens.

The Compassionate Living Workshop is a hybrid of a contemplative retreat and a training workshop. We explore the core principles and practices of a life of informed and engaged compassion: to understand, to care, and to act. This includes both the inner and outer aspects, providing a broad conceptual overview and deeper topical explorations supported by hands-on practice.

A volunteer work period providing a precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living — with a specific focus on permaculture landscaping, and building and maintaining our organic gardens — all in a supportive community atmosphere.

A four-week residential carpentry workshop, aimed to explore the intersection of contemplative practice, craft and sustainability. The programme is structured as a two-week intensive period, followed by a two-week practicum, with an option to stay on longer to refine your skills.

An exploration of creativity as expressed through music, and of the nature of reality as expressed through the vibrations of sound. All levels welcomed. No experience required.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A six-week residential carpentry workshop, aimed to explore the intersection of contemplative practice, craft and sustainability. The programme is structured as a three-week intensive period, followed by a three-week practicum, with an option to stay on longer to refine your skills.

A four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices, primarily through hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

A four-week immersive service-learning programme providing opportunities to explore natural garden design and permaculture principles and practices, primarily through hands-on work in Dharmalaya Institute’s beautiful organic gardens.

A precious opportunity to offer service to the common good while practicing some of the foundational skills of sustainable and compassionate living, including organic gardening, natural building and permaculture landscaping.

An eight-week immersive service-learning programme providing a unique opportunity to offer service while exploring practices of compassionate living — all in an environment carefully designed for safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Explore the power of creativity. Learn to enhance your creative process through meditation. This engaging online course presents wisdom and practices from Tibetan Bön Buddhist master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

Over the course of two afternoons we shall explore aspects of pattern, proportion and symmetry, and our relation with them. This is an applied course and shall consist of conversations, drawing and introspection.

A year-long residential course conducting a deep exploration of natural design, the power of space and form, geometry, the creative process, and our relationship with these. The course will integrate theory and practice, supported by a rich syllabus structured to support the interdisciplinary breadth of the course.