Programs

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  • November 2, 2024
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  • November 2, 2024
  • Cara Lai, Zac Ispa-Landa

The Dharma of Parenting: Nurturing Life, Love, and Liberation

  • Online daylong event intended to reframe the way we think about life as a parent and practitioner.
  • Online
  • November 10, 2024
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  • November 24, 2024
  • Gregory Kramer

An Introduction to a Thoroughly Relational Dharma

  • This series will introduce relational Dharma and discuss why it is critical to our present efforts to address personal, relational, and global suffering.
  • Online
  • November 12, 2024
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  • December 10, 2024
  • Michael Grady

Wise Effort in Working With Fear and Anxiety: A Practical Guide

  • Explore practices that offer the potential for discovering freedom even during times of fear or anxiety. 5-session online course meeting Tuesday evenings, 7-8:30PM.
  • Online
  • November 15, 2024
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  • November 18, 2024
  • Barry Magid, Max Erdstein

Supporting a Buddhist Path with Psychological and Psychoanalytic Insight

  • Buddhism and Western psychology each offer a framework for understanding and relieving human suffering. This weekend program will look at the path of Dharma through a psychological and psychoanalytic lens.
  • Residential
  • November 21, 2024
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  • November 24, 2024
  • Pilar Jennings

Healing from Anxiety: A Buddhist and Psychotherapeutic Response

  • Explore a Buddhist and psychodynamic understanding of anxiety, its causes, and personal symptoms.
  • Residential
  • 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 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 10, 2025
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  • January 17, 2025
  • Catherine McGee

The Poetry of Perception: A Soulmaking Dharma Retreat

  • Deeper dive for those who have completed a Fall immersive online Soulmaking program with BCBS.
  • Residential
  • 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

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
  • 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 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 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
  • June 25, 2025
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  • June 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
  • 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

Deepening Practice,
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Deepening Practice,
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