Weekend Retreat at Omega in Rhinebeck, NY
Friday – Sunday, September 26-28, 2025
In-person
A weekend retreat on Original Love
Find your own felt experience of fundamental peace and unconditional love through a simple approach to meditation, with Henry Shukman.
It is possible for each of us to find boundless love. There is a fundamental peace within us, a core of peace and love. This core loves us, loves the world, and loves our fellow beings. And we can all get in touch with that part of ourselves, that unconditional love, through the simplest practice in meditationโlearning to release and let go, in a space of safety.
The four inns on the path of awakening
Original Love offers a map of four “inns” of growth along the meditation journey:
- Mindfulness, which teaches us how to be with our thoughts and emotions, and learn self-love
- Support and connection, which shows us how totally interdependent we are with the world around us
- Flow, which reveals how little we need to be profoundly happy and fulfilled
- Awakening, where we discover how we are not separate from anything, and everything is made of an unconditional love
The felt experinece of being beloved in this world
The writer Raymond Carver once asked what he wanted from life and he said, “to feel myself beloved on the Earth.” That’s what this workshop seeks to offerโfinding your own felt experience of being beloved in this world.
About Omega Institute
Omega is a nonprofit, donor-supported, educational organization at the forefront of holistic studies. Located on more than 250 acres in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley, Omega offers a wide variety of workshops, retreats, conferences, and professional training, in-person and online.
More than simply a place, Omega is a global community that awakens the best in the human spirit and cultivates the extraordinary potential that exists in us all.
Questions?
If you have any questions about this retreat, please contact our programs manager, Jeremy. Weโre happy to answer any questions and look forward to having you join us!
About your teacher
Henry Shukmanย
Henry is an authorized Zen Master in the Sanbo Zen lineage, the co-founder of The Way meditation app, and the Spiritual Director Emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In addition to teaching meditation, Henry is an award-winning author and poet. His struggles and traumatic experiences as a youth, combined with a spontaneous awakening experience at 19, paved the way for Henry to develop a well-rounded approach to healing and awakening through meditation.
