Programs

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  • August 24, 2025
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  • September 28, 2025
  • Marcin Fabjański

Finding Awakening in Nature

  • Discover how Buddhism, Stoicism, and nature can transform your attention, ease stress, and deepen connection. Explore meditative practices, philosophy, and human flourishing for a more fulfilling life.
  • Online
  • September 5, 2025
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  • September 7, 2025
  • Jacoby Ballard

Giving Up All Hope of a Better Past: Forgiveness Practices

  • Been hurt—or hurt someone—this year? (That’s all of us.) This weekend program offers space to heal through the four directions of forgiveness: self, others, harm done, and the suffering of the world.
  • Online
  • September 9, 2025
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  • September 9, 2025
  • Stephanie Kaza, William Edelglass

A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy’s Contributions to Contemporary Buddhism

  • Honor Joanna Macy’s legacy in this dialogue exploring her life, teachings, and ecodharma vision—with Stephanie Kaza and William Edelglass. Offered freely with donations supporting young adult programs.
  • Online
  • September 19, 2025
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  • September 24, 2025
  • David Chernikoff

Intimacy With All Things: Body, Heart, Mind, World

  • Dōgen taught that “enlightenment is intimacy with all things.” Explore what this means and how we can apply this teaching in our lives.
  • Residential
  • September 28, 2025
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  • December 7, 2025
  • Catherine McGee, Yahel Avigur

Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma

  • This online intensive is a contemplative and thoughtful look into the Soulmaking Dharma teachings. For more information, please visit the program page.Rooted in the Buddha's teaching of emptiness, ethics and meditative...
  • Online
  • October 4, 2025
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  • November 22, 2025
  • Bhikkhu Anālayo, Rhonda Magee, Rebecca Henderson, Jon Kabat-Zinn

Global Awareness Local Action (GALA)

  • Global Awareness Local Action (GALA) is a BCBS initiative to inspire climate change activism grounded in Buddhist teachings and mindfulness.Grounded in the idea that Buddhist ethics calls on us to act to mitigate and adapt to climate change, the GALA program, freely offered on a dāna basis, will share practices, conceptual frameworks, and workshops to support participants in mindful and skillful engagement in a world with a rapidly changing climate.
  • Online
  • October 9, 2025
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  • November 6, 2025
  • Michael Grady

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

  • Explore skillful ways to meet fear and anxiety with calming and insight practices. Through meditation, discussion, and compassionate inquiry, discover freedom beyond limiting habits of mind.
  • Online
  • October 10, 2025
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  • October 15, 2025
  • nico hase, devon hase

Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat for Young Adults

  • Discover safety, rest, and resilience through the brahmavihāras—love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. This young adult program offers guided meditation, relational inquiry, and silent practice to deepen the heart.
  • Residential
  • October 21, 2025
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  • November 4, 2025
  • Ying Chen, Diana Clark, Kim Allen, David Lorey

Entering the World of the Pali Canon

  • Explore the Pali Canon’s suttas, history, and practice in this engaging program. Learn to navigate texts, discuss key passages, and integrate study into your path through meditation and group reflection.
  • Online
  • October 25, 2025
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  • October 26, 2025
  • Heather Sundberg

Deepening into Emptiness and Suchness from the Southern Thai Forest Tradition

  • Explore the deep wisdom of Emptiness and Suchness in this online retreat. Through teachings, guided meditations, and inquiry, uncover joy, connection, and freedom beyond habitual reactivity.
  • Online
  • October 26, 2025
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  • December 14, 2025
  • Shaila Catherine

Timeless Wisdom: Exploring Buddhist Teachings through Similes and Stories

  • Explore the Buddha’s teachings through vivid similes—mountains, mirages, gold, and more—in this engaging program that brings ancient wisdom to life through study, reflection, and meditation.
  • Online
  • October 27, 2025
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  • November 5, 2025
  • Gregory Kramer

Experiencing the Relational Dharma in Insight Dialogue

  • An Insight Dialogue retreat for experienced practitioners.
  • Residential
  • November 7, 2025
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  • November 9, 2025
  • Leigh Brasington

What Do the Suttas Actually Say about the Brahma Viharas?

  • Explore the Buddha’s teachings on Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity. Through sutta study and cross-tradition insights, deepen your understanding and practice of these four sublime abodes.
  • Online
  • November 7, 2025
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  • November 12, 2025
  • Éowyn Ahlstrom, Bob Stahl

Mindfulness as the Gateway to Many Beautiful Qualities – An “at home” Retreat

  • Explore how sustained mindfulness opens the door to compassion, joy, equanimity, and insight in this nourishing at-home retreat with silent practice, guided movement, and dharma reflections.
  • Online
  • November 14, 2025
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  • November 18, 2025
  • 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
  • November 15, 2025
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  • November 16, 2025
  • John Makransky

Being Harmonized with the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Discover your innate buddha nature in this retreat, exploring three Tibetan Buddhist practices that open the heart and mind to love, wisdom, and compassion. Includes guided meditations, Q&A, and discussion.
  • Online
  • November 20, 2025
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  • November 23, 2025
  • Dhammadīpā

Seeing Yourself on the Path: Exploring Buddhist Art and the Art of Seeing

  • Engage with a variety of Buddhist artistic expressions in visual and tactile ways, and reflect on how these portrayals relate to what you have experienced on the Path.
  • Residential
  • December 2, 2025
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  • December 7, 2025
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

Embodying Mindfulness

  • Explore grounding into the body to support practice, working with and mindfully inhabiting this unique body.
  • Residential
  • December 8, 2025
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  • December 14, 2025
  • GuoGu

Silent Illumination and Investigating a Critical Phrase: A Chan Retreat (Hybrid)

  • Deepen your practice in this Chan-style retreat, engaging in a sustained, focused way within a protected environment with a teacher.
  • Hybrid
  • December 31, 2025
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  • January 1, 2026
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

New Year’s Eve Sangha Gathering

  • Please join us for the fourth annual New Year's Eve sit! Let’s bring our dharma aspirations forward together!
  • Online
  • January 9, 2026
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  • January 16, 2026
  • Catherine McGee

Making Soul

  • Deepen your Soulmaking Dharma practice by cultivating perception as an art—opening to beauty, love, and sacred meaning. For alumni of the Fall intensive online Soulmaking program.
  • Residential
  • January 16, 2026
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  • January 18, 2026
  • Soulmaking Dharma Sangha

A Gathering of Souls

  • A Gathering of Souls will be a time for Soulmaking sangha members to enjoy one another’s company, to connect more deeply as a group of peers, and to explore themes that speak to our souls.
  • Residential
  • January 20, 2026
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  • January 25, 2026
  • Nikki Mirghafori

Befriending Mortality: Living An Awakened Life Through Mindfulness of Death (Maranasati)

  • Embrace the truth of impermanence through maranasati—mindfulness of death—to live more fully, align with your deepest values, and prepare for dying as a moment of peace, freedom, and liberation.
  • Residential
  • January 21, 2026
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  • February 11, 2026
  • Dawn Haney, Nina Herzog

Fat Dharma: An Anti-Resolution Revolution to Liberate Our Hearts and Bodies

  • Explore Buddhist teachings through the lens of fat liberation in a supportive community that celebrates embodiment, disrupts diet culture, and reclaims the Dharma for every body—just as it is.
  • Online

Deepening Practice,
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Deepening Practice,
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