Are you a caregiver, a health professional, someone with an aging or ailing family member? Samye Hermitage in Cooperstown, New York is offering an annual ongoing training and support to caregivers.  Come join us on our beautiful land.  Take refuge in the sanctuary of care and compassionate reflection with peers as we explore this healing journey, we call life. In this training we will explore all the ways that caring for others can enrich our lives and the lives of those we care for. Learn skills to maintain resilience and calmness.  Share in the experiences of those who care for others.  Find community and sanctuary.

NOBLE LIVING: Learn skills for caring for yourself as we care for others.  Experience what resilience is and how to cultivate it.  Discover how we can we live fully with compassion, kindness, meaning and appreciate our precious human life.

NOBLE CARING: Caring for others is a primary thread throughout life.  Understand the skills of attending at the bedside and deep listening.  Join us in the exploration of the skills of deep contemplative practice, presence, gentleness, and connection as we journey with others in their dying. Build skills to integrate self-care into your caregiving.

NOBLE DYING: Each culture has its own beliefs about death and dying. Learn how we can support the dying and the bereaved so that death has meaning, tenderness and compassion.  Support others through the dying process so that all die knowing that they are loved and that their life mattered. So that we can live and die without regret.

This program is a collaborative effort between Samye Institute and Samye Hermitage New York to offer the onsite experiential practice of topics contained in the Noble Living, Noble Caring, Noble Dying online program at Samye Institute.

Schedule Details:

Further retreat details and a daily schedule will be shared in late June.

Financial Support:

This retreat has been priced to cover the many costs that go into organizing such an event, which includes food, labor, supplies, and, of course, time. We strive to price our retreats to cover these costs, while leaving a modest amount of surplus to help us maintain our physical campus year-round.

We are also committed to making our retreat as accessible as possible, so for those who are in need of financial assistance for either the online or onsite retreat, please send a message to [email protected] for details on how we can help.