Programs

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  • Dec 29, 2024
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  • Jan 2, 2025
  • Nicola Redfern, Ayya Anopama

Voices of Awakening: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

  • Experience the power of relational practice to develop liberating insight and deep compassion.
  • Online
  • Dec 31, 2024
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  • Dec 31, 2024
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

New Year’s Eve Sangha Gathering

  • Please join us for the third annual New Year's Eve sit! Let’s bring our dharma aspirations forward together!
  • Online
  • Jan 11, 2025
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  • Feb 8, 2025
  • Tara Mulay

Living the Buddha’s Wisdom: The Five Aggregates as Daily Life Practice

  • Join our five-week program on the Buddha's teachings of the five aggregates. Through teachings, meditation, and reflection, explore how these elements shape self-identity and release clinging in daily life.
  • Online
  • Jan 16, 2025
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  • Feb 6, 2025
  • Larry Ward, Peggy Rowe-Ward

The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Online Course for New Practitioners

  • Join us for a mindfulness series that offers short teachings and various meditation practices. Suitable for all levels, sessions will cover mindfulness, relaxation, and integrating meditation into daily life.
  • Online
  • Jan 20, 2025
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  • Jan 25, 2025
  • Nikki Mirghafori

Befriending Mortality: Living An Awakened Life Through Mindfulness of Death (Maranasati)

  • Explore maranasati through dharma talks, guided meditations, Q/A, silent sitting, sutta study, and interactive inquiry in small groups.
  • Residential
  • Jan 21, 2025
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  • Feb 25, 2025
  • Judson Brewer, Robin Boudette

Transcendent Dependent Arising: The Path from Suffering to Freedom

  • Explore the transformative teachings of transcendent dependent arising in this six-week program, blending ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience to uncover the path from suffering to liberation through study and practice.
  • Online
  • Feb 7, 2025
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  • Feb 9, 2025
  • Heather Sundberg

MahaSati: Emptiness Awareness Practices from the Southern Thai Forest Tradition

  • This program for experienced practitioners offers teachings and practices from the Southern Thai forest tradition, focusing on MahaSati, or pure awareness, to help develop a more awakened state of being.
  • Online
  • Feb 13, 2025
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  • Apr 10, 2025
  • Judy Bernstein, Susie Clarion, Holly Nelson-Johnson, Michele Zukerberg

Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity Program

  • Join a nine-week series for white-bodied individuals exploring Insight Dialogue and anti-racism. We’ll cultivate awareness, confront cultural conditioning, and foster collective transformation toward racial justice.
  • Online
  • Mar 3, 2025
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  • Mar 24, 2025
  • Georgia Kashnig

Women in the Buddha’s Life: Reading Together

  • Explore the stories of women in the Buddha’s life—mothers, wife, disciples—through contemplative reading. Deepen connection, practice, and reflection in this extension of the "Women in the Buddha's Life" project.
  • Online
  • Mar 21, 2025
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  • Mar 28, 2025
  • Éowyn Ahlstrom, Bob Stahl

Insight Inside Us: How the Dharma Inspires Mindfulness-Based Approaches

  • Explore the roots of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in this insight meditation retreat. Engage in silent practice, mindful yoga, and teachings on mindfulness, lovingkindness, and core Dharma wisdom.
  • Online
  • Mar 21, 2025
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  • Mar 26, 2025
  • Ayya Santussika

Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

  • Practice the instructions of ānāpānasati to explore how it can lead into the limitless states of the brahmavihāras.
  • Residential
  • Mar 27, 2025
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  • Mar 30, 2025
  • Mark Unno, Judith Simmer-Brown, Ruben Habito

Love and Compassion in Pure Land Buddhism: Human Nature and Buddha Nature

  • This is a rare opportunity to learn and practice with three senior teachers with a deep knowledge of Pure Land compassion practices.
  • Residential
  • Apr 6, 2025
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  • Apr 27, 2025
  • Jill Shepherd

Equanimity: Finding Some Ease in the Midst of it All

  • Explore equanimity on the Buddha’s path to freedom. Join this four-week program to cultivate steadiness, resilience, balance and peace in meditation and amidst the challenges of everyday life.
  • Online
  • Apr 9, 2025
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  • Apr 9, 2025
  • Pierce Salguero

Six Kinds of Nonduality: A Conversation with Pierce Salguero

  • Join Pierce Salguero and BCBS Director William Edelglass as they explore six varieties of nonduality in Buddhist teachings, Asian traditions, and Western spirituality, highlighting practices, experiences, and worldviews.
  • Online
  • Apr 21, 2025
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  • May 1, 2025
  • Leigh Brasington, Heather Sundberg

Jhānas and Emptiness

  • Train in the meditative absorption states and explore how they support deepening insights into emptiness.
  • Residential
  • Apr 28, 2025
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  • Jun 2, 2025
  • Brent Beresford, Alex Castanheira

Beyond the Mask: An Insight Dialogue-based Deconstruction of Dominant Masculinity Supported by Relational Awareness

  • Explore masculinity through Insight Dialogue and Dhamma teachings, deconstructing harmful conditioning and embracing caring, open masculinities. Open to all on the male spectrum.
  • Online
  • May 2, 2025
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  • May 6, 2025
  • Melanie Harris, Joshuah Brian Campbell

Black Spirituals & Protest Songs: Singing for Liberation – A BIPOC Retreat

  • Explore liberation through the history of movement songs, Buddhist meditation, active listening, and the sacred tradition of African American Spirituals.
  • Residential
  • May 9, 2025
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  • May 13, 2025
  • Kaira Jewel Lingo

Living Ecodharma: Finding Fulfillment in Healing and Loving the Earth

  • Join fellow contemplatives in a sacred gathering to embody Earth care, grieve, rest, and celebrate joy. Through meditation, movement, storytelling, and nature, we will nurture wisdom and deepen community bonds.
  • Residential
  • May 17, 2025
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  • May 18, 2025
  • John Makransky, Rachel Cronin

Accessing the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Explore the depths of unconditional love and wisdom through Tibetan Buddhist-inspired practices, guided meditations, and modern psychology in this weekend retreat, open to all with contemplative experience.
  • Online
  • May 21, 2025
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  • May 25, 2025
  • Larry Ward, Peggy Rowe-Ward

Widening the Heart: The Practice of Interbeing

  • Engage with nature, practice with family, spiritual, and land ancestors, and explore our shared humanity through practices that help build a truly beloved community.
  • Residential
  • May 26, 2025
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  • Jun 1, 2025
  • Vimalasara, Maitriveer Nagarjuna, Upayadhi

Ambedkar’s Dharma of Liberation, Equality, Love, and Justice

  • Reflect on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s legacy and what we might integrate from his teachings and example for our times.
  • Residential
  • May 31, 2025
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  • Jun 1, 2025
  • Yahel Avigur

Introduction to a Soulmaking Dharma

  • Explore Soulmaking Dharma: a contemporary Buddhist path rooted in emptiness, ethics, and meditation. Discover Desire, Imagination, Sacredness, and Emptiness through practice, teachings, and reflection.
  • Online
  • Jun 25, 2025
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  • Jun 29, 2025
  • Pamela Weiss, Kate Johnson

Unearthing Buddhist Women’s Wisdom: A Retreat for Mothers and Daughters

  • Anyone who identifies as a mother or daughter is invited to join, with or without their family. Together, we will celebrate women’s wisdom, tenacity, tenderness, and joy.
  • Residential
  • Jul 8, 2025
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  • Jul 13, 2025
  • Dawn Scott, Rupert Marques

Courageous Heart: Meeting the Spirit of our Times with Steadiness and Love

  • Develop the capacity to heartfully respond to beauty and difficulties, consciously calling forth the deep biological imperative for freedom.
  • Residential

Deepening Practice,
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Deepening Practice,
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