Menla

Tibet in the Catskills. Retreat center, spa and resort. Menla Retreat is a part of Tibet House US,
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Surrounded by thousands of acres of Catskills forest preserve, Menla's magical mountain valley features a stunning retreat center & destination spa that offers annual wellness and spiritual retreats, custom personal getaways, and full service group retreat hosting. Menla's facilities include deluxe private and standard shared accommodations; a world-class Tibetan destination and day spa offering a full menu of services and specializing in ancient Tibetan and Ayurvedic therapies; two yoga studios; a meditation sanctuary; and the largest conference center in the region. Other amenities include on-site and local mountain hiking, outdoor pool, tennis courts, fitness room, healthy delicious cuisine, clean air and artesian spring water, and central access to the entire Catskill region with numerous cultural and natural attractions!

02/06/2026

Clearlight Yoga Nidra Retreat
March 5–8, 2026

Join beloved teacher Michele Loew for a four-day, in-person immersion into Clearlight Yoga Nidra—the enlightened sleep practice—and its sister sciences of Tibetan dream and clearlight sleep yoga.

Each day includes nourishing teachings and guided yoga nidra sessions designed to support deep rest, insight, and genuine restoration. This retreat is for those in need of healing and renewal, as well as practitioners and teachers seeking to deepen their relationship with this profound inner science.

✨ Attend the 4-day retreat on its own, or add the optional 100-hour live-stream + on-demand intensive
✨ Yoga Alliance CEUs available

“This was a life/practice-changing course for me… Michele’s deep spiritual wisdom made the class profoundly transformative.”
— Marguerite Ogle, MS, RYT

This gathering is a rare opportunity to receive Michele’s teachings in person, held in the quiet support of Menla’s land and community.

🔗 Link in bio to learn more & register

02/05/2026

Step into deep restoration at Dewa Spa at Menla.

Rooted in ancient Tibetan healing traditions, Dewa is one of the few places in the West where you can experience KuNye massage, a profoundly nourishing therapy that works with oil, heat, and subtle energy to restore balance in body and mind.

From KuNye and personalized wellbeing massage to acupuncture, Ayurveda, herbal baths, sound therapy, and steam & sauna rituals, each offering is designed to help you slow down, soften, and reset.

Come for a few hours. Stay for a day. Or linger for a weekend. Leave feeling renewed, grounded, and deeply cared for.

✨ Book your spa time via the link in bio

02/04/2026

There is a moment when the mind softens and the body remembers.
When you move to Yawanawá music, something ancient stirs—not as an idea, but as a lived experience.

The music invites you to listen. To feel. To let the earth rise through your feet and meet your heart, liberating what lives within you. As you dance, layers begin to fall away—stories you’ve been carrying, tensions you didn’t know how to name. What remains is presence. Breath. A quiet remembering of what is sacred within you.

You can witness this transformation unfolding in the video: energy rooting downward while opening outward at the same time. This is not just dance—it is prayer in motion. A living bridge between earth and spirit, between cultures and distant places on the planet, forming a shared field of prayer through movement and connection in this moment on Earth.

This is the heart of Sacred Bridge Online.
A space to reconnect with Indigenous wisdom, embodied practice, and the deep intelligence that lives within your own body. A place to remember that what you are seeking has always been inside you—waiting for rhythm, relationship, and reverence to bring it alive.

✨ Step onto the bridge. Let the music move you home. ✨

For more information on how to experience Sacred Bridge Online, please visit the link in our bio.

02/03/2026

INTO THE FIELD OF STILLNESS: Deep Space
A Yoga, Breath, and Sound Immersion
May 22–24, 2026
with John Minks & Billy Pinkerton

“Sound reveals where words dissolve.”
— inspired by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Step beyond the familiar and enter a realm of resonance, presence, and deep listening. This three-day immersive retreat invites you to slow time, soften the body, and open into expanded states of awareness through the alchemy of yoga, breathwork, meditation, and sound.

Each day unfolds as a carefully curated journey—flowing vinyasa to awaken vitality, restorative practices to nourish the nervous system, and immersive sound experiences designed to quiet the mind and attune the body to subtle frequencies. Through yogic sound meditation and expansive Deep Space sound baths, vibration becomes a guide—supporting release, clarity, and a felt sense of inner vastness.

This retreat offers a balance of guided practice and open space. Between sessions, you’ll have time to wander forest trails, enjoy the spa, rest deeply, or simply sit with the beauty of the surrounding mountains. Nature, silence, and community weave together to create a container for genuine renewal.

Rooted in warmth, ease, and a spirit of curiosity, this gathering is designed to support physical restoration, emotional balance, and mental spaciousness—without striving or pressure. Come as you are. All levels of experience are welcome.

This is an invitation to listen more deeply—to your breath, your body, and the quiet intelligence within.
Please go to our web site for more information.

02/02/2026

“Doing this work helps you understand how to live your life long before you come to the point of dying.” — Henry Fersko-Weiss

Learn from Henry Fersko-Weiss, the pioneer who helped spark the contemporary end-of-life doula movement.

End-of-Life Doula Training
February 23–27, 2026
Menla Retreat & Dewa Spa

This immersive training explores how to accompany dying with dignity, compassion, and presence, supporting individuals and families through one of life’s most profound thresholds.

Link in bio for details and registration

02/01/2026

Matsini Yawanawá, chief and spiritual leader of Mutum Village, comes from an unbroken lineage of Pajés—master healers and ceremonial leaders of the Yawanawá people. He trained under the legendary Pajé Tata, who played a vital role in restoring Yawanawá traditions after years of cultural suppression.
Indigenous to the Amazon rainforest, the Yawanawá have fiercely protected their land, language, and spiritual heritage, surviving near extinction after early contact with outsiders.

Sacred Bridge online is an invitation to sit with the convergences between the peoples of the Amazon and the peoples of Tibet—to learn from cultures that are timeless and deeply relevant today. These traditions offer guidance on how to be guardians of the land, our communities, our families, and ourselves during times of profound change.
Across vast distances and radically different landscapes—the high mountains of Tibet and the world’s largest forest, the Amazon—two Indigenous cultures hold strikingly aligned understandings of the dream world, the plant realm, and humanity’s relationship with the living Earth. Though separated by geography, their cosmologies and symbols echo one another, reminding us that truth is not bound by place or time.

✨ Join Sacred Bridge virtually. For a limited time, receive this offering with $50 off using the code BRIDGE50.

01/31/2026

100-Hour Teacher Training — On-Demand Access Available In-Person Retreat at Menla: March 5–8, 2026 with Michele Loew

A comprehensive exploration of Yoga Nidra and the enlightened sleep sciences, including Dream Yoga and Clearlight Sleep Yoga.

The 100-hour training is now underway and available through recorded sessions, allowing you to begin (or continue) the journey at your own pace. Teachings include classical yogic and Buddhist inner science philosophy, dharma talks, guided Yoga Nidra practices, dream yoga techniques, and practical tools for safely guiding others.

The March retreat is in person at Menla and open to all — teacher training enrollment is not required to attend.
Yoga Alliance CEUs available.

Training & Retreat Structure

• Module 1 — On-demand (recorded)
• Module 2 — On-demand (recorded)
• Module 3 — March 5–8 — In person at Menla or Livestream

🔗 Learn more & join anytime — link in bio

01/29/2026

There is so much in the world right now that can feel difficult to understand. When we look outward, the pace of change, the instability, and the deep divisions can leave us ungrounded, searching for something steady to hold.

What we can anchor into is wisdom that has endured. Across vast distance and radically different landscapes—the high mountains of Tibet and the world’s largest forest, the Amazon, home of the Yawanawá—two Indigenous cultures carry strikingly aligned understandings of the dream world, the plant realm, and humanity’s relationship with the living Earth. Though separated by geography, their cosmologies, symbols, and teachings echo one another, reminding us that truth is not bound by place.

This shared language of dreams, plants, and sacred ecology offers a deeper orientation—one rooted in listening, reciprocity, and relationship. It reminds us that we are not alone, and that ancient wisdom continues to guide us toward balance, reverence, and care for all life.

Sacred Bridge is an invitation to sit with these convergences, to learn from them, and to remember what connects us—across cultures, lands, and time.

Join Sacred Bridge virtually. For a limited time, you’re invited to receive this offering with $50 off using the code BRIDGE50.

01/28/2026

Walking as prayer.
Presence as action.
Compassion as a path forward.

Since October 26, 2025, a group of nineteen monks from the Vietnamese Theravada Buddhist tradition have been walking—step by mindful step—from Texas toward Washington, D.C., on a 2,300-mile Walk for Peace.

Initiated by monks from the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, this 110-day pilgrimage is rooted in the teachings of Gautama Buddha, offering a quiet yet powerful response to a world in need of loving-kindness, patience, and clarity.

Moving through the southeastern United States and onward to the nation’s capital, the monks walk not as protest, but as practice—pausing in towns and cities to meet communities through silence, dialogue, and walking meditation. Some, including head monk Bhikkhu Pannakara, are completing the journey barefoot as an expression of humility and devotion.

Accompanied by a rescue dog named Aloka, their presence has become a living reminder that peace is not an abstract idea—it is something we embody, step by step.

At Menla and Tibet House US, we honor and uplift this offering of mindful action and compassionate presence in the world. May their walk remind us all that the path itself can be a teaching.

01/27/2026

A Call to Gather

Bring the teachings, prayers, and songs of the world’s largest forest and highest mountains into your living room. Connect with the Indigenous wisdom of the Tibetan and Yawanawá peoples, and receive the strength of their living traditions as a source of hope and encouragement during this time we are collectively holding on our planet.

Learn from teachings of dreamtime, plant wisdom, sacred art, and ecology—rooted in deep relationship with the Earth. Ground yourself in the wisdom that arises through listening to their stories, music, and living connection.

Be part of the Sacred Bridge—one that unites us across traditions and lands, bringing us closer together. Together, we amplify a shared call for peace, remembrance, and unified practices in service to the planet and all who call it home.

Join Sacred Bridge virtually. For a limited time, you’re invited to receive this offering with $50 off using the code BRIDGE50. Go to the link our bio for more info.

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375 Pantherkill Road
Phoenicia, NY
12464

Telephone

+18456886897

Website

https://menla.org/

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Tibet in the Catskills

Menla lies on 325 acres of private nature reserve at the head of a breathtaking glacial valley in one of the most beautiful parts of the Catskills. Stay in a range of deluxe accommodations or shared cabins set in fragrant woods & gardens with murmuring streams and trails nearby.

Experience Menla’s unique wellness facilities, from our Dewa Spa to fully equipped yoga & movement spaces, fitness room, tennis courts & hiking trails. Explore the surrounding Catskill Forest Preserve with guided hikes, river rafting, horseback riding and swimming.