The Natural World
Our Natural World is a gift and a treasure. Connecting with the Natural World around us, learning new ways to care for and reciprocate the gifts of nature can be incredibly invigorating and healing. Join us in exploring nature, how nature supports us, and how we can best support nature in return.
Quiet Mind, Open Heart: Cultivating Loving Kindness
Brooke Binstock, Marissa Knox and Kelly Lindsey
Come home to yourself. Say YES to a spacious retreat designed to nurture your body, heart, and mind. This retreat will offer opportunities to explore Buddhist teachings on six fundamental practices that can help us to awaken our hearts and invite more loving kindness, compassion, and joy into our everyday lives. The daily schedule will […]
Family Camp: Compassion in Family Life
Kelly Lindsey, Rachel Steele, Tessa Ladendorf and Judith Simmer-Brown and Richard Brown
Registration for Program Staff families is open until Tuesday, June 17th. The participant waitlist is full. Nurture family connections while rejuvenating your spirit in the beautiful terrain of Drala Mountain Center. Family Camp is a creative and contemplative retreat the whole family can enjoy. Take time for yourself in the mornings to practice meditation, yoga, […]
Coming to Your Senses in Nature!
Kim ("Kimla") Desrosiers
When: August 7th – 10th, 2025 Tuition Cost: $333 This program will seem like magic, and a dream. You will come into all of your senses, including your “Mind Sense,” to see beyond our current understanding, and to connect into the beings of the Earth and Sky. Drala Mountain Center was named for the “Dralas”: […]
A Family Nature Retreat: Carrying The Light
Laura Goodrich
Program Start Date & Time: August 15th | 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: August 17th | 1:00 pm Carrying the Light: A Family Nature Retreat before the School Year Begins As the summer wanes and the new school year begins, join us for a rejuvenating weekend immersed in nature designed to help families […]
Mindful Birding
Dr. Barb Patterson
Program Date & Time: August 16th | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Practice Mindful birding and learn about the beautiful relationship of birds and the plants and trees they depend on. This approach blends birdwatching with mindfulness techniques, fostering a practice centered on heightened awareness. The focus is not on identifying or labeling birds, but […]
Wild Tending: Nature and Forest Therapy
Laurie Fonken, Ph.D.
Program Date & Time: August 16th | 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Connect with the natural world in a respectful and reciprocal way while using your senses to engage with and experience the richness, magic and complex beauty that lies within. Wild Tending is a fundamental principle of forest therapy and is an act of […]
Deepening Kinship & Sharing Wild Wisdom: A Weekend of Ecospiritual Nature Connection
Shea Armstrong, M.A and Tina Fields, Ph.D
Program Start Date & Time: September 18th | 5:00pm Program End Date & Time: September 21st | 1:30 pm Gather in the spirit of the autumnal season to pause from the stress and pace of life with a supportive eco-spiritual community of practice, nourishing and celebrating your connections with ‘nature’ – our oldest kin and […]
ONLINE: Sensing Earth Energies: Introduction and Somatic Practice
Anne Z. Parker PhD
Program Start/End Date & Time: September 21, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm MT During this introductory talk, we will open a doorway to earth energies and sacred geometry. We will use somatic connection and contemplative practice to sense the energies that were known to all our ancestors. Working with earth energies realigns […]
Mastering Light: A Photographic Journey
David Snyder
Program Start Date & Time: September 26th | 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: September 28th | 12:30 pm Photo Taken By David Snyder Let light become your language and photography your expression. Mastering Light: A Photographic Journey is an immersive workshop designed for passionate photographers […]
Yoga and Nature: Gifts of the Season
Melissa Lago
Program Start Date & Time: October 10th | 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: October 12th | 12:30 pm Replenish your body, mind, heart and spirit and bring it into harmony and balance with the seasons through yoga and spending time in the natural world. Many of us spend more time staring into screens, […]
Sensing Earth Energies – A Somatic and Contemplative Doorway into Communing with the Earth
Anne Z. Parker PhD
Program Start Date & Time: November 21st | 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: November 23rd | 12:30 pm During this enriching 3-day, 2-night program on the land, we will dive into somatic connection with the earth. By engaging with earth-based practices such as feeling and working with telluric earth energies, entering the energy fields […]
Yoga and Nature: Gifts of the Season
Melissa Lago
Program Start Date & Time: January 9th | 5:30 pm Program End Date & Time: January 11th | 12:30 pm Replenish your body, mind, heart and spirit and bring it into harmony and balance with the seasons through yoga and spending time in the natural world. Many of us spend more time staring into screens, […]