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Programs

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  • September 26, 2026
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  • September 27, 2026
  • John Makransky, Rachel Cronin

Innate Wholeness as a Profound Power of Healing for Self and Others

  • Explore Dzogchen-based meditations that uncover your innate wholeness, compassion, and wisdom. Cultivate inner healing and become a steady, unconditionally healing presence for others.
  • Online
  • September 30, 2026
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  • May 26, 2027
  • Tuere Sala

The Four Noble Truths: A Path to Harmony and Resilience

  • This nine-month program explores the Four Noble Truths as a lived path, helping us meet suffering with steadiness, understand craving directly, and discover release within ordinary life and practice.
  • Online
  • October 16, 2026
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  • October 21, 2026
  • Lama Rod Owens

Practicing Spiritual Abolition through the Heart Sutra

  • Explore the liberating power of contradiction through the Heart Sutra and spiritual abolitionism. Guided by Lama Rod, this retreat invites deep practice for personal and collective freedom—across time and being.
  • Residential
  • October 30, 2026
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  • November 4, 2026
  • Ayya Santussika

The Liberating Power of Mindfulness: Finding Freedom from Entanglements

  • Step into five days of monastic-style retreat and explore the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. With kindness and clarity, untangle habitual patterns and rediscover spaciousness, simplicity, and inner freedom.
  • Residential
  • November 1, 2026
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  • November 7, 2026
  • Bill Morgan, Susan Morgan

The Four Great Endeavors: An Online Householder Retreat

  • Bring practice into daily life with this online householder retreat. Explore compassion and the Four Great Endeavors while bookending each day with meditation, reflection, and supportive community.
  • Online
  • November 6, 2026
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  • November 15, 2026
  • Gregory Kramer, Ayya Anopama, Viveka Bhikkhu

From Concept to Experience: Apprehending Dhamma Through Insight Dialogue

  • Bring the Dhamma to life through embodied practice and relational inquiry. This retreat invites you to explore Insight Dialogue as a way to feel, reflect on, and share the living energy of the teachings—here and now.
  • Residential
  • November 17, 2026
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  • November 21, 2026
  • Ruth Ozeki

To Study the Self: Zen and the Art of Creative Writing

  • Explore writing as contemplative practice. Using Dogen’s Zen wisdom, we’ll study and forget the self, play with genre, and let the world speak through us—one word, one breath at a time.
  • Residential
  • December 8, 2026
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  • December 13, 2026
  • Guo Gu

Gateway to Chan Hybrid Retreat

  • This Chan program will deepen your practice through 30-minute sitting meditation periods punctuated by mindful yoga and walking meditation.
  • Hybrid
  • December 15, 2026
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  • December 20, 2026
  • Kittisaro, Thanissara

Meet the Kuan Yin Dharmas: Bringing the Mahayana and Theravada into Harmony

  • Explore how the Kuan Yin Dharmas bring Theravada and Mahayana into harmony, weaving wisdom and compassion to support individual freedom, collective healing, and a deeper response to our world.
  • Residential
  • December 31, 2026
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  • January 1, 2027
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

New Year’s Eve Sangha Gathering

  • Gather in sangha on New Year’s Eve for reflections, encouragement, and guided meditation, bringing your Dharma aspirations forward together as one year closes and another begins.
  • Online
  • January 9, 2027
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  • January 9, 2027
  • Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

The Sensory Basis of Self: Trauma- and Dissociation-Informed Work with the Early Buddhist Teachings

  • Explore how early Buddhist teachings on the senses, mindfulness, and not-self can inform work with trauma and dissociation, supporting greater integration, presence, and freedom.
  • Online
  • January 9, 2027
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  • January 13, 2027
  • Akincano Weber

In the Buddha’s Presence: Individuality and Liberation

  • Explore a person-centered view of the Dharma through the lives of the Buddha’s contemporaries, discovering how different temperaments, talents, and challenges shaped their paths to liberation.
  • Residential
  • January 15, 2027
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  • January 20, 2027
  • Bob Stahl, Abraham Dejene

Insight Inside Us: How the Dharma Inspires Mindfulness-Based Approaches – A Hybrid BIPOC Retreat

  • Explore how Insight Meditation and the Dharma inform MBSR and other mindfulness-based approaches, while deepening your own practice through mindfulness, loving-kindness, clarity, and opening the heart.
  • Online
  • January 17, 2027
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  • March 13, 2027
  • Éowyn Ahlstrom, Mary Aubry, Philip Jones, Rachel Lewis, Dawn MacDonald, Uzi Selcer, YeTeng Tan

Brahmavihāras and Emptiness

  • Explore the brahmavihāras and emptiness in this immersive online program based on the teachings of Bhikkhu Anālayo. Must have completed the BCBS Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation and Mindfulness of Breathing programs. Apply by December 1, 2026 (5:00 PM ET).
  • Online
  • January 17, 2027
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  • June 20, 2027
  • Yahel Avigur

Seeing That Frees: Exploring Emptiness

  • Explore emptiness through Rob Burbea’s Seeing That Frees in this immersive online program with Yahel Avigur, using meditation and liberating ways of looking to deepen insight. Apply by November 2, 2026 (5:00 PM ET).
  • Online
  • January 22, 2027
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  • January 27, 2027
  • Dhammadīpā

Three Facets of Investigation: Patterns, Processes, and Moments of Presence

  • Investigate experience through three lenses: mental patterns, unfolding processes, and momentary presence, to see more clearly, respond more wisely, and explore the lack of self in experience.
  • Residential
  • January 29, 2027
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  • February 3, 2027
  • Chris Crotty

The Wisdom of an Open Heart: Integrating Mindfulness and Compassion

  • Explore how mindfulness, compassion, and loving-kindness can meet vulnerability, grief, uncertainty, and change, helping you stay open to life and discover wisdom in the truth of your experience.
  • Residential
  • February 5, 2027
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  • February 7, 2027
  • Heather Sundberg

MahaSati: Emptiness Awareness Practices from the Southern Thai Forest Tradition

  • Explore MahaSati practices from the Southern Thai forest tradition, cultivating pure awareness and learning to release reactive patterns through embodiment, concentration, emptiness, and letting go.
  • Online
  • February 5, 2027
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  • February 14, 2027
  • Yahel Avigur

Deepening Joy: A Samadhi and Jhana Retreat

  • Explore samadhi and jhana through approaches inspired by Rob Burbea, cultivating sensitivity, attunement, and refined perception while opening the heart and body to greater calm, aliveness, and joy.
  • Residential
  • February 16, 2027
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  • February 21, 2027
  • Yahel Avigur

Seeing That Frees: Exploring the Path of Emptiness

  • Explore Rob Burbea’s path of emptiness through ways of looking that reduce dukkha, relax the usual sense of self and world, and open into deeper insight, freedom, relief, and boundlessness.
  • Residential
  • February 20, 2027
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  • February 21, 2027
  • John Makransky

Opening to the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Explore Tibetan Buddhist practices that open us to unconditional love, compassion, wisdom, and spacious awareness, helping us access the innate qualities of our buddha nature more deeply and inclusively.
  • Online
  • February 21, 2027
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  • April 23, 2027
  • Shaila Catherine

Timeless Wisdom: Exploring Buddhist Teachings through Similes and Stories (3)

  • Explore the Buddha’s vivid similes and stories as an accessible path into sutta study, bringing ancient teachings to life through reflection, discussion, meditation, and contemporary practice.
  • Online
  • February 23, 2027
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  • February 28, 2027
  • Nicola Redfern, Bart van Melik

Finding Freedom in Relaxing the Sense of Self: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

  • Explore how the sense of self forms and softens through silent and relational practice, and discover how the Buddha’s teachings on impermanence and not-self can open into greater ease and freedom.
  • Residential
  • March 4, 2027
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  • March 7, 2027
  • Dr. Melanie Harris

Fierce Compassion: Black Women Buddhist Practices for Healing Self and Earth: A BIPOC retreat

  • Explore fierce compassion through practices shaped by Black women Buddhist teachers, integrating compassion, accountability, and healing while cultivating wisdom, hope, and nonviolent right action.
  • Residential