Step beyond the rhythm of the city and into a weekend of spiritual practice, incredible food, and the pleasure of learning to cook well.

Our retreats are designed as immersive experiences, where practice is no longer something you visit for just an hour. Instead, it becomes part of how you move through your entire day. While OHM Center’s roots are in New York City, our retreats take you beyond the sounds of the city into quiet, natural spaces where you can slow down, reconnect, learn, and enjoy being together.

Our upcoming 3-Day, 3-Night Conscious Kitchen Retreat in Elmira, NY over Columbus Day Weekend, with Chef David Claessen and OHM founder Suzanne Hill, brings together spiritual practice and conscious, delicious food.

Each day moves between inner practice and hands-on time in the kitchen, including:

• Daily Meditation to quiet the mind, deepen awareness, and begin the day grounded and present

• Mantra Chanting to clear and strengthen your energy on the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual levels

• Breathwork to open the body, move energy, and release tension

• Sound Healing to settle the nervous system and deepen your practice

• Hands-On Vegetarian Cooking Classes with Chef David Claessen, focused on flavorful Levantine and Mediterranean food

• Practical Cooking Skills & Techniques you can take home and use in your own kitchen

• Shared Meals made from the food we prepare together

• Evening Mini Practices to wind down and integrate the day

• Cooking-Related Film Screenings & Discussion with David, a former Hollywood cinematographer who will bring his filmmaker’s eye and behind-the-scenes perspective to what we watch

Mornings are devoted to spiritual practice, giving you time to clear the mind, open the body, and connect more deeply with yourself. In the afternoons, we shift into the kitchen, where David will guide you through preparing satisfying vegetarian meals that are both delicious and healing.

This isn’t about complicated “health food” or learning recipes you’ll never make again. It’s the kind of cooking that makes eating vegetarian feel easy and genuinely appealing.

In the evenings, we’ll come back together for a shorter spiritual practice followed by a cooking-related film. Part movie night and part film discussion, it’s a relaxed ending to a full day of practice, learning, cooking, eating, and being together.

Community building is part of it all. With just 6 retreat spaces, the weekend is intentionally intimate, giving everyone plenty of individual attention in the kitchen while preserving the quiet, personal experience that makes OHM retreats so special.

Arrive Friday evening and settle in. Saturday and Sunday are full retreat days, followed by a final morning of practice, cooking, and gathering together on Monday before departing around midday.

This retreat is for anyone who wants to step away from their usual routine, deepen their spiritual practice, become more confident in the kitchen, and experience how nourishing it can be to prepare and share beautiful food with other people.

Come hungry to learn, practice, cook, and eat. We’ll do all four together.