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.
  • Online
  • 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 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 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
  • April 9, 2025
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  • April 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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

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