Programs

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  • December 8, 2024
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  • December 8, 2024
  • Sumi Loundon Kim

Trauma-Sensitive Meditation

  • This online event will explore strategies that individuals with trauma can draw on to practice in a way that supports stability, healing, and insight.
  • Online
  • December 9, 2024
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  • December 9, 2024
  • Leigh Brasington, Heather Sundberg

The Relationship Between Jhanas and Emptiness in Practice

  • In this online event, the teachers will share their personal practice stories, stories about their teachers, and dialogue about the riches to be found in deepening concentration through jhana practice.
  • Online
  • December 13, 2024
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  • December 15, 2024
  • Jacoby Ballard

Giving Up All Hope of a Better Past: Forgiveness Practices

  • This weekend course is an opportunity to show up and heal together. Bring your broken heart, your resilience, your courage, and your vulnerability.
  • Online
  • December 13, 2024
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  • December 16, 2024
  • GuoGu

Gateway to Chan Hybrid Retreat

  • This 4-day Chan retreat will deepen your practice through 30-minute sitting meditation periods punctuated by mindful yoga and walking meditation.
  • Residential
  • December 13, 2024
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  • December 16, 2024
  • GuoGu

Gateway to Chan Hybrid Retreat

  • This 4-day Chan retreat will deepen your practice through 30-minute sitting meditation periods punctuated by mindful yoga and walking meditation.
  • Online
  • December 18, 2024
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  • December 22, 2024
  • Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta

Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening

  • This monastic-led retreat will include chanting, meditation, and study of the seven factors of awakening.
  • Residential
  • December 29, 2024
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  • January 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
  • December 31, 2024
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  • December 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
  • January 11, 2025
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  • February 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
  • January 16, 2025
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  • February 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
  • January 20, 2025
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  • January 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
  • January 21, 2025
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  • February 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
  • February 7, 2025
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  • February 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
  • February 13, 2025
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  • April 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
  • March 3, 2025
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  • March 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
  • March 21, 2025
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  • March 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
  • March 21, 2025
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  • March 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
  • March 27, 2025
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  • March 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
  • April 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
  • 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 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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  • June 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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  • June 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

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Deepening Practice,
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