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
  • 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 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

Deepening Practice,
Building Community.

Deepening Practice,
Building Community.

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