Programs

August 9, 2024

August 14, 2024

Peace Twesigye, Elizabeth Faria

Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue BIAPoC Retreat

There is an African Proverb that says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Together, we are stronger and more resilient,...

Residential

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CE Credits

August 16, 2024

August 21, 2024

Nolitha Tsengiwe, Janet Surrey, Marsha Lawson

The Voice of Another and Wise Attention: The Power of Relational Practice

The Buddha taught the dharma through speaking in relation to a particular person or group in a particular context and location. In the suttas, he emphasizes that wise view is cultivated...

Residential

August 23, 2024

August 28, 2024

Bill Morgan, Susan Morgan

The Two Wings of Attention: Integrating Concentration and Mindfulness

While concentration and mindfulness are core elements of attention, there is often confusion about the distinction between them and also about their purpose and function.For example, how much concentration is...

Residential

August 30, 2024

September 4, 2024

Kristin Barker, Adam Lobel

Discover your EcoDharma: Provocations and Possibilities for Practitioners

This program is for anyone who senses the potential for their dharma practice to address complex social and ecological challenges. It is for those who wish to practice and shape...

Residential

September 4, 2024

September 29, 2024

Sherre DeLys, Rosalyn Driscoll

Dharma in the Studio: Self-Creation and Self-Surrender

Dharma in the Studio offers a relational context to explore and practice in the fertile territory shared by the Dharma and the arts. This program is for practitioners of the...

Online

September 9, 2024

October 7, 2024

Ayya Santacitta, Karin Meyers

Plants and Us: Consciously Re-Rooting in the Web of Life

This program will explore our embeddedness in the web of life through practices that expand our perception and intuitive connection with the more-than-human-world through our plant relatives. Plants offer us...

Online

September 12, 2024

September 15, 2024

William Edelglass

Exploring Forms of Buddhist Meditation: Practice, Doctrine, Context

What are the jhanas and are they necessary for insight? What is the relationship between insight and concentration practices? What is mindfulness and what is the role of mindfulness in...

Residential

September 20, 2024

September 22, 2024

Paul Condon, John Makransky

Opening to the Primordial Goodness of Our Being

This program is for those who have previously practiced with John Makransky or Paul Condon and are thus familiar with the sustainable compassion trainings they teach (SCT). We discover new facets of...

Online

October 4, 2024

October 6, 2024

David Chernikoff

Befriending Death, Embracing Life: An Online Insight Meditation Retreat

It is said in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta: “Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.” This program is an...

Online

October 5, 2024

November 30, 2024

Rachel Lewis, Walt Opie, Jan Rosamond, Dawn MacDonald, Stephanie Swann, Bhikkhu Anālayo, Sue Bennett, Cynthia Davis, Ye Teng Tan, Robin Boudette, Elizabeth Hernandez-Stomp

Mindfulness of Breathing

Mindfulness of Breathing is an eight-week, in-depth study of the sixteen steps of the Ānāpānasati-sutta as a way of combining tranquility and insight in a form of practice that aims...

Online

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