Programs

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  • April 21, 2025
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  • May 1, 2025
  • Leigh Brasington, Rachael O’Brien, Heather Sundberg

Jhānas and Emptiness

  • Train in the meditative absorption states and explore how they support deepening insights into emptiness.
  • Residential
  • April 26, 2025
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  • May 31, 2025
  • Nolitha Tsengiwe, Anna-Brown Griswold

Developing a Vast Heart in Turbulent Times: Exploring the Four Brahmaviharas through Insight Dialogue

  • Explore the Four Brahmaviharas—loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity—through Insight Dialogue in this 6-week journey. Deepen wisdom, attune to obstacles, and cultivate an open heart in community.
  • Online
  • April 27, 2025
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  • July 20, 2025
  • Lama Rod Owens

Consuming the World: A Meditation Practice Journey

  • Discover how Buddhist Lojong teachings can help you navigate chaos, fear, and grief with wisdom and compassion. Join Lama Rod in this three-part series to apply mind training to daily life’s challenges.
  • 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 6, 2025
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  • May 27, 2025
  • Georgia Kashnig

Women in the Buddha’s Life: Reading Together, Part II

  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • June 3, 2025
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  • July 8, 2025
  • Oren Jay Sofer

Wise Speech: An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication

  • Learn to speak with clarity, compassion, and confidence. This 6-week online course blends Buddhist wisdom with Nonviolent Communication—and is offered free of charge to support all who wish to join.
  • Online
  • June 3, 2025
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  • June 8, 2025
  • John Makransky

Harmonizing with the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • This program blends Tibetan Buddhist practices with modern psychology to cultivate unconditional love and wisdom. Through receptive, deepening, and inclusive modes, will harmonize with our buddha nature for greater compassion and wisdom.
  • Residential
  • June 13, 2025
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  • June 15, 2025
  • Judson Brewer, Robin Boudette

Cultivating Curiosity for Habit Change: Mindful Inquiry Training for Transformation

  • Join Drs. Jud Brewer and Robin Boudette for a weekend-long program that trains facilitators in the 3 Gears Method of behavior change to help individuals transform unhealthy habits like stress eating, smoking, or worrying.
  • Residential
  • June 17, 2025
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  • June 23, 2025
  • Ayya Anandabodhi

Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening

  • This monastic-led program explores the power of chanting to cultivate the Seven Factors of Awakening. By engaging body, heart, and mind, we transform limiting habits, fostering joy, mindfulness, and deeper spiritual growth.
  • Residential
  • June 25, 2025
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  • June 30, 2025
  • Megan Mook

Compassion as the Foundation of Vajrayana: An Introduction to Tantra

  • Explore the rich path of Vajrayana Buddhism through compassion meditations, dharma talks, mantra, and nature-based practice—blending deep insight with experiential learning and connection.
  • Residential
  • July 8, 2025
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  • July 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
  • July 18, 2025
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  • July 21, 2025
  • Trent Walker, Chenxing Han

Cambodian Dharma Songs: A Khmer Affinity Retreat

  • Connect with your Cambodian heritage through chant and song! Join this 4-day program of chanting, meditation, and community, exploring expressive Dharma songs in Khmer, Pali, and English—no experience needed!
  • Residential
  • July 24, 2025
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  • July 29, 2025
  • Chenxing Han, Kaishin Victory Matsui, Ryan Wong

Roots and Refuge: An Asian American Buddhist Writing Retreat

  • How do our roots shape us as Asian Americans in connection to Buddhism? Where can we find refuge in the practice of putting pen to paper? As writers shaped by...
  • Residential
  • August 1, 2025
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  • August 6, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Peace Twesigye

Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue Retreat For People of Color

  • Cultivate embodied presence, inner strength, and the strength of interdependence in order to stand with equanimity in a tumultuous world.
  • Residential
  • August 1, 2025
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  • August 3, 2025
  • devon hase, Rachel Hammerman

Heart to Heart Retreat: Cultivating the Brahma Viharas in Relationship

  • Cultivate a boundless heart with devon hase and Rachel Hammerman. Explore loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity through Brahma Vihara practices, meditation, and relational inquiry.
  • Online
  • August 8, 2025
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  • August 13, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Yahel Avigur

Emptiness: Seeing That Frees – A Hybrid Retreat

  • Join us in this hybrid program as we delve deeper into Rob Burbea's Seeing That Frees, exploring dependent origination and emptiness, with a focus on the balance of wisdom and mettā. Open to year-long BCBS Seeing That Frees participants.
  • Residential
  • August 8, 2025
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  • August 13, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Yahel Avigur

Emptiness: Seeing That Frees – A Hybrid Retreat

  • Join us in this hybrid program as we delve deeper into Rob Burbea's Seeing That Frees, exploring dependent origination and emptiness, with a focus on the balance of wisdom and mettā. Open to year-long BCBS Seeing That Frees participants.
  • Online
  • August 15, 2025
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  • August 24, 2025
  • Tuere Sala

Nine Bodies Insight Retreat: Exploring Natural Capacities of Consciousness (Hybrid)

  • Experience a new style of Insight Meditation that employs the “Nine Bodies of Consciousness” map.
  • Hybrid
  • August 24, 2025
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  • September 28, 2025
  • Marcin Fabjański

Finding Awakening in Nature

  • Discover how Buddhism, Stoicism, and nature can transform your attention, ease stress, and deepen connection. Explore meditative practices, philosophy, and human flourishing for a more fulfilling life.
  • Online
  • September 19, 2025
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  • September 24, 2025
  • David Chernikoff

Intimacy With All Things: Body, Heart, Mind, World

  • Dōgen taught that “enlightenment is intimacy with all things.” Explore what this means and how we can apply this teaching in our lives.
  • Residential

Deepening Practice,
Building Community.

Deepening Practice,
Building Community.

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