2025 AT INDRALAYA
Whether at a program or a work party, you will be supported by the sanctity of Indralaya. It is a beautiful place to quiet yourself and enjoy the nature that surrounds you. Meal times and evening campfires in the grove or the lounge gather folks together in discussion, music, stories, and conversation.
Explore the options for the 2025 season and consider trying something new!
Registration opens February 1, 2025
Programs
2025 PROGRAMS AT INDRALAYA
Many of our beloved programs such as Family Camp, Connections, Deep Singing, Therapeutic Touch and the Levey’s meditation program are in the 2025 schedule. In addition, there are new programs to discover! These are highlighted in the list with *new*.
We hope to see you again or meet you for the first time at one of Indralaya’s many programs. Explore the options for the 2025 season and consider trying something new!
Nature Immersion: Reconnect, Rejuvenate, Renew
With Elizabeth Nelson
May 1 - 4, 2025
*new* Join us to cultivate a deeper appreciation for the natural world and experience the profound peace it offers. Enjoy forest bathing.
Connecting to your Awe-thentic Divinity
With Nichole DeMent
May 8 - 11, 2025
*new* Over this transformative weekend, we'll explore tools such as sound healing, meditation, journaling, and art experiences to help you reconnect with your inner voice and deepen your relationship with the greater spirit that connects all life.
Astrology and Tarot – Tools for Transformative Times
With Stephanie Austin and Callie French
May 15 - 18, 2025
*new* Select a focus on Astrology as a tool for personal and spiritual growth, or Tarot for developing insight and intuition. Experience both aspects in the evening programs.
Practical Theosophy: Finding Our Purpose in the Confusion
With Douglas Keene, President Theosophical Society in America
May 29 - June 1, 2025
*new* This program will look at a few practical aspects of Theosophy that might lend some stability in our chaotic milieu. Program with Douglas Keene,TSA President
Foundations of Therapeutic Touch
With Peggy Frank and Sandy Revesz
June 7 - 11, 2025
This program provides a foundation in the theory and practice of Therapeutic Touch. It is designed for anyone new to the practice of TT or anyone wishing to refresh their practice.
TT Mentorship
With Mary Lou Trinkwon, Cordy Anderson, Kathy Arquette, Lin Bauer and Chery Ann Hoffmeyer
June 7 - 13, 2025
The intent of these programs is to provide a rich opportunity to deepen understanding and the practice of TT. All participants will have many opportunities to enhance their efficacy as TT practitioners within a supportive environment.
Therapeutic Touch Healing Partners, Week 1
With Tama Recker (TT)
June 7 - 13, 2025
Encouraging a supportive and educational process, this program is for people on a healing path to interact with experienced practitioners. This is an integral part of Therapeutic Touch programs at Indralaya
Therapeutic Touch® as a Path of Consciousness, Healing & Service
With Jody Falconer, Jane Cornman, Sandy Revesz and Cordy Anderson
June 16 - 22, 2025
During this week we will work together to support our healing partners, and our TT colleagues to identify some practical applications to support healing.
Therapeutic Touch Healing Partners, Week 2
With Suzanne Engelberg
June 16 - 22, 2025
Encouraging a supportive and educational process, this program is for people on a healing path to interact with experienced practitioners. This is an integral part of Therapeutic Touch programs at Indralaya
Deep Singing
With Barbara Bellamy, Tiffany Stoker and Karen Goens
June 26 - July 2, 2025
Calling all music lovers, dreamers, and adventurers to the transformative Deep Singing Program. Let your light shine! No singing experience required.
Family Camp 1
With John Ackerman, Alice Pederson, Sarah Ackerman and Kimberly Peterson
July 6 - 12, 2025
Celebrate the spirit of Indralaya within the circle of family, when all ages gather to create a deeper experience of community.
Cultivating Presence in Uncertain Times
With Joel and Michelle Levey
July 16 - 21, 2025
The goals of this contemplative program are to awaken to the power of loving, courageous presence and peace, and to increase our capacity to be the change we want to see in our world.
Family Camp 2
With Cindy Guertin-Anderson, Cameron Nielsen, Gabe Rush, Katie Guertin-Anderson and Skye Witley
July 26 - August 1, 2025
Join us as we gather to build connections, take part in communal activities, and deepen our relationship with the beautiful sanctuary we call Indralaya.
Connections – Passion and Creativity
August 5 - 11, 2025
The Connections program continues its tradition of combining intergenerational work projects with lively discussion, meditation, community campfires and play time.
Contemplative Art in Nature
With Kimberlee Hummel, Karen Abel Dickinson and April Claxton
August 14 - 19, 2025
*new* This program of presence in nature and expression in art will give inspiration to connect to our sense of playfulness and wonder. We’ll discover the forest and shoreline by observing with our senses and explore our creativity through cyanotype print and watercolor.
Qigong for Health
With Bob Shapiro
August 22 - 25, 2025
*new* Through movements, deep breathing, and meditation, Qi Gong helps you cultivate positive, life-force energy and promote healing from within.
Blessing Your Journey
With Hilarie Hauptman, Leeann Tourtillott and Karen Lohmann
September 11 - 15, 2025
You're invited to a supportive, experiential and reflective retreat in a uniquely beautiful setting to do deep work in the company of others; contemplate your own death and the death of significant others.
Deep Singing – Long Weekend
With Barbara Bellamy, Karen Goens and Tiffany Stoker
September 18 - 21, 2025
Calling all music lovers, dreamers, and adventurers to the transformative Deep Singing Program. *Let your light shine!* No singing experience required.
Opening to Stillness: Silent Meditation Retreat
With Leonie Van Gelder and Tama Recker
September 25 - 28, 2025
*new* Participating in intentional silence and meditation in community can help us open to deeper levels of stillness within ourselves.
Work Parties
Indralaya’s work parties are open to all ages, and include room and board for a modest fee. In return, you work 5 hours a day with others in the common purpose of helping with ongoing tasks to keep Indralaya running. Work parties are a time to join your friends or make new friends while working together in community.Folks gather for work parties to open camp, assist with building projects, clean up nature’s debris, work in the garden, harvest our bounty of apples, or clean and close camp in preparation for winter. There is always plenty to do.
Presidents’ Day Work Party
February 14 - 17, 2025
Help open Camp for the season - spend. time with nature as it starts to wake up from its winter rest! Work in community with others to help get Camp ready for the year!
Spring Equinox Work Party
March 21 - 24, 2025
Help prepare Camp for the spring and summer season - and celebrate spring equinox!
Earth Day Work Party 2025
April 25 - 28, 2025
Last Work Party before programs begin! Celebrate Earth Day grounded at Indralaya
Memorial Day Work Party
May 23 - 26, 2025
Volunteer your efforts in preparation for the busy summer season that lies ahead. There’s work available for all ages and all skills — join us!
Labor Day Work Party
August 29 - September 1, 2025
An annual tradition! Help camp begin to greet the fall season – donate your labor on labor day!
Fall Harvest Work Party
October 10 - 13, 2025
An annual tradition! The emphasis is on harvesting and processing apples and other fruits of the garden & orchard, with plenty of other projects to tend to as well. There is fun work for all ages.
November Work Party
November 7 - 10, 2025
Help put camp to bed at the end of another long and fruitful season. Late fall is an excellent time to visit Indralaya and observe the forces of nature at work. The focus of this quieter work party is on preparing the camp for its winter rest.
