
Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. An avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturalist, Dina has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine, and pleasure, including wild food foraging and cooking, for more than twenty years. She produces Falcon Formulations natural body care products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is a founding member of the Northeast Herbal Association, a chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and an organizer of Slow Food-Hudson Valley. She is the author of Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody and Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook. www.botanicalartspress.com
Events with Dina Falconi

May 12 - 22, 2030
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

May 29 - June 4, 2030
Embark on a life-changing week towards true health and harmony through the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda and yoga. Cleanse your body and mind with a powerfully rejuvenating retreat. Experience “shanti” a deep sense of inner peace that comes from cleansing and going within. Indian Ayurvedic doctor Dr. Nayana Rao will be leading you through this incredible week of cleansing, rejuvenation and discovery. Daily ayurvedic therapies, ayurvedic diet, yoga, meditation and breathing exercises are all designed to allow your body and mind to detoxify, heal and rejuvenate. The programme includes a pulse diagnosis and initial consultation with Dr Nayana Rao to…

June 4 - 12, 2030
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

June 11 - 21, 2030
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

July 11 - 21, 2030
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

Flexible Dates
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

September 9 - 19, 2030
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

October 9 - 19, 2030
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

November 8 - 18, 2030
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

December 8 - 18, 2030
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

January 7 - 17, 2031
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

February 6 - 16, 2031
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…

March 8 - 18, 2031
It really is rare and precious to be able to take the time to do the practice, study, practice, sing and dance, and eat with your dharma sangha…. and with Acharya Mermelstein. So join us at Sky Lake, the perfect small, dedicated container for this retreat, and help make it an annual tradition! Restricted retreat for those who have completed Vajradhatu Chakrasamvara Abisheka. Program prices all include 3 meals a day. David Rome will guide participants in a series of contemplative exercises designed first to access the felt sense and then to create fresh, genuinely expressive work from this precious…