Upcoming Online Programs
The Daily Sit
Monday-Friday, 10:30-11:15 am EST
Dana offering - no pre-registration required
Bill & Susan Morgan will be returning to the Daily Sit on Monday, Jan 2nd! They will be assisted by Dawn Scott, David Kohn, Jaye Moyer, Lori Rugle, Lee Steppacher, and Catherine Glenn in 2023.
No Weekend sittings.
Embodied Love: Bringing the Brahma Viharas into Everyday Life
Oct 3 - 24, 2023
Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00 PM ET
Please join Drs. Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward as together we explore and practice the embodiment of the brahma viharas. Each two-hour session will include an introduction, a somatic meditation, dharma talk, guided meditation, and often a partner or triad sharing to explore insights and awareness of the practice. A weekly guided meditation will be offered on each of the four faces of love.
Wise Effort in Working With Fear and Anxiety: A Practical Guide
Oct 19 - Nov 16, 2023
Thursdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET
In this course with Michael Grady, we will explore practices of calming and insight/wisdom (samatha and vipassana) that offer the potential for discovering freedom even during times of fear or anxiety, both in our formal practice as well as the challenging conditions of our daily lives.
Meditación Theravāda para la diáspora latinx/hispana
Oct 26 - 29, 2023
Programa de Dana - Ofrecido gratuitamente
Únase a bruni dávila para investigar cómo el Dharma se refracta de manera única a través de diferentes culturas y se incorpora en las tradiciones culturales de las comunidades que lo practican. En esta latinx/hispanx diáspora, pertenecemos a un conjunto grande y diverso de comunidades con diferentes historias e identidades que van más allá de una sola persona o experiencia.
Reality, Reason, Emptiness, and Compassion in Tibetan Buddhism
Oct 29 - Nov 19, 2023
Sundays, 11:00 AM- 1:00 PM ET
In this online program with Diego Hangartner, participants will be introduced to a Tibetan understanding of reality, reason, emptiness, and compassion from both a theoretical and a practical perspective.
The Past Is Not Gone: The Practice of Timelessness (Akalika)
Oct 30 - Nov 13, 2023
Mondays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET
We often live with an old-fashioned time model and believe the past is gone, and things we have done in the past seem irreparable. In this online series with Cuong Lu, we will be working with our experience of the past by engaging with the Buddhist teachings of acceptance, compassion, and wisdom.
Freedom Inside?
Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State
Oct 31 - Nov 21, 2023
Tuesdays, 4:30 - 6:30 PM ET
This program with Farah Godrej will explore the promises, pitfalls, and complexities entailed in offering yogic or meditative practices inside prisons and system-impacted communities and individuals. The key text for the course is the instructor's new book, Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Welcome Home: Theravāda Meditation Retreat
Nov 2 - 5, 2023
Dāna Program - Freely offered
Please join bruni dávila to investigate how the Dharma is refracted uniquely through different cultures and embodied in the cultural traditions of the communities who practice. In this diáspora, we belong to a large and diverse set of communities with different histories and identities that go beyond a single person or experience.
Buddhist Psychology, Neuroscience, and Mindfulness for Habit Transformation
Nov 7 - 21, 2023
Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 PM ET
In this experiential seminar, Judson Brewer, MD PhD will describe how we can tap into the processes that encourage habitual behaviors to step out of them. In very accessible ways, he will explain the mechanisms of habit and addiction formation and then teach participants methods to help them experience and learn how mindfulness can interrupt these habits in their lives.
Deepening Into Emptiness and Suchness from the Thai Forest Tradition
Nov 11 - 12, 2023
Heather Sundberg offers teachings and practices from the perspective of the Southern Thai forest tradition in the lineage of the MahaSati Emptiness-Awareness. This program is suitable for intermediate and advanced practitioners with prerequisites.
Awake and Free:
Realizing Buddha's Promise of Liberation
Nov 20 - Dec 11, 2023
Mondays, 12:00-1:30 PM ET
Dāna Retreat - Freely Offered
This freely offered program with Martin Aylward will provide a pragmatic, experiential, and direct approach to exploring freedom of being and all that seems to be in its way. We'll explore in a way that is profound yet accessible. We'll reference classical dharma teachings and contemporary psychological tools to practice, inquire, and transform together.
Death as a Spiritual Teacher
Dec 1 - 3, 2023
Maranasati, the practice of death awareness, has the power to awaken us to a felt experience of the preciousness and mystery of this amazing human life. Join David Chernikoff in this caring, supportive learning environment, where we combine the stillness of insight meditation with dharma talks, partner and small group exercises, guided reflections, and heartfelt discussions.
Voices of Awakening: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
Dec 29, 2023 - Jan 2, 2024
In this retreat with Ayya Anopama and Nic Redfern, we will explore the path to freedom and the obstacles that hinder us by contemplating the Verses of the Elder Nuns (Therīgāthā), a collection of poems from the very first Buddhist nuns through the practice of Insight Dialogue.
Living Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World
Jan 16 - Feb 20, 2024
Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET
In this six-week program with Kevin Griffin, we will explore the Metta Sutta and other texts from the Pali Canon to explore a broader understanding of loving-kindness.
The Power of Embracing Wholeness: A Women’s* Retreat
Jan 27, 2024
Zuisei Goddard and Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön explore a range of Buddhist teachings and practices to help us remember, embody, and express the totality of who we are as women and as human beings. Our sessions will include meditation, reflection, teaching, and discussion, and together we’ll create a circle of practice, aliveness, spontaneity, and wholeness.
*We use an inclusive definition of “woman” and “female” and we welcome trans women, genderqueer women, and non-binary people who are female-identified.
Giving Up All Hope of a Better Past: Forgiveness Practices
Feb 9 - 11, 2024
This is a program for anyone who, in the last year, has been harmed or created harm (pssst: all of us!). Dukkha, often translated as “suffering” from Pali, is part of the human condition, and forgiveness practice provides a way to work with it. Join Jacoby Ballard for this weekend's opportunity to show up and heal together, bringing with you your broken heart, your resilience, your courage, and your vulnerability.
Uncovering the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of our Buddha Nature
Feb 23 - 25, 2024
This program, with John Makransky and Paul Condon will explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma Dzogchen) with assistance from modern psychology. Guided meditations, explanation of key principles, and discussion will clarify and empower our collective practice.
Buddhism Beyond Lists:
Classical Teachings in Contemporary Lives
Feb 28 - May 22, 2024
Every other Wednesday
7:00-9:00 PM ET
Join Brian Lesage and Diana Clark for this practice program exploring the teachings of Theravada traditions and making them relevant to our contemporary lives. This program is a three-month commitment to practice, study, and community.
Embodied Change-Making and
Sacred Justice On Behalf of Life
March 24 - July 3, 2024
Path Program
This Path Program (with an online option), taught by Kaira Jewel Lingo, Deborah Eden Tull, and Konda Mason, will focus on cultivating greater equanimity and compassion while learning skills for relational intelligence, embodied listening, collaboration, resiliency, and conscious response so that our work for external change can be most effective. This program includes space for us to dream and vision how we might co-create a kinder, more equitable world.
A Conscious Engagement with Life: Mindful of Inner and Outer Worlds
April 6 - 7, 2024
Moment by moment, our bodily senses resonate with our immediate surroundings, and our minds attend to an inner landscape that is shifting and flowing. Join Dhammadīpā and Brad Hunter in exploring how we can meet with the moment, every moment, and cultivate awareness of the ways in which our bodies and minds are designed to engage with the world.
Overcoming Obstacles to Concentration
April 10 - June 19, 2024
Every other Sunday (12:00-2:00 PM ET)
Meditation practice cultivates inner peace, clarity, concentration, and joy. In order to experience these lovely qualities, we must overcome the challenges of agitation, dullness, obsessive thinking, physical pain, difficult emotions, and reactivity. Join Shaila Catherine in identifying, investigating, and learning to skillfully overcome obstacles to concentration and insight.
Heart to Heart Retreat: Cultivating the Brahma Viharas in Relationship
May 3-5, 2024
Join devon hase and Rachel Hammerman for a weekend of cultivating a heart as wide as the world using the Brahma Viharas in relational meditation practices. Together, we’ll journey beyond the classical individual practices for developing a boundless heart filled with loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity. We’ll bring these four inherent and immeasurable flavors of love directly into the relational field with meditation practices such as Insight Dialogue, Dhamma Contemplation, RAIN, and partner inquiry.
Understanding is the First Step: Buddha’s Teachings on Right View
June 28-30, 2024
Right View is the first practice given in the Noble Eightfold Path. Join Leigh Brasington in examining the Buddha's teachings on both Right View and Wrong View in order to get a better understanding of exactly what he meant by this very important topic. The weekend will primarily be a textual study program looking closely at various suttas on the topic with ample time for questions & answers and discussion.
Opening to the Primordial Goodness of our Being
Sept 20 - 22, 2024
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 also explore how perspectives from modern psychology may inform and empower this process of awakening. Guided meditations, explanations of key principles, and discussion will clarify and empower our collective practice.
Transformative Teachings: Sutta Study Inspired by the Daughters of Buddha
October 6 - December 15, 2024
Every other Sunday (12:00-2:00 PM ET)
This online program, led by Shaila Catherine, explores a variety of transformative teachings through the extraordinary stories of select disciples of the Buddha. As we learn about the historic impact that dharma teachings have had on the lives of the early disciples, we will explore how these teachings guide our practice today. The program will loosely follow the book Daughters of the Buddha by Bhikkhu Anālayo.
Befriending Death, Embracing Life:
An Online Insight Meditation Retreat
Oct 4 - 6, 2024
This retreat is an opportunity to take mindfulness of death into our hearts and to allow it to radically transform the way we live our lives. In a caring, supportive learning environment, David Chernikoff will combine the stillness of insight meditation with dharma talks, experiential exercises, and heart-felt discussions.
Previously Offered Programs
Mindfulness of Breathing
Summer 2023
An online study and practice course
guided by Bhikkhu Anālayo
July 8 - Sept 2, 2023
Mindfulness of Breathing is an eight-week, focused study on the sixteen steps of the Ānāpānasati-sutta. This program builds on the practice, particularly of the awakening factors, developed in the first course on Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation.
Applications for the Summer iteration are now closed
This program will be offered every Winter and Summer
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma:
Re-evaluating Emptiness, Imagination, Sacredness and Desire
An online study and practice course
guided by Catherine McGee
assisted by Yahel Avigur
September 10 - December 10, 2023
Rooted in the Buddha's teaching of emptiness, ethics and meditative training, Soulmaking Dharma is a rich and resonant contemporary flowering of the Dharma. Soulmaking Dharma teachings rest upon practices of samatha, metta, emptiness, and the emotional/energy body.
Applications closed
Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation
An online study and practice course
guided by Bhikkhu Anālayo
Fall Iteration
October 7 - December 9, 2023
Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation is an intensive nine-weeks of practice and focused study on the liberating teachings of the Satipaṭṭhāna sutta, a foundational early Buddhist teaching.
Applications for the Fall iteration are now closed
This program will be offered in Spring 2024
Dharma and Art:
A Whole-Life Path
An online course with
Gregory Kramer,
Sherre DeLys & Rosalyn Driscoll
Applications are now closed for 2021
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