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.
The Way to the Far Shore: A Sutta Contemplation Retreat
June 2 - 4, 2023
Leigh Brasington offers an in-depth look at the 16 suttas found in Sutta Nipata Book V, as well as topics such as old age and death, dukkha, craving, sensuality, quenching, nothingness, and awakening.
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 open
June 5 - July 24, 2023
Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path
June 23 - 29, 2023
Dāna Retreat - Freely Offered
Ayya Santacitta and Ayya Santussika will frame our days with traditional chanting and meditation in this freely offered, dana-based retreat. Sessions throughout the day will include investigation of suttas from the Pali Canon, guided meditations, Q&A, small group discussions and reflections offered by the Ayyas.
Compassion & Working with Difficult Emotions
July 6 - 20, 2023
Thursdays 6:30-8:00 PM ET
In this three-session online course with Pilar Jennings, we will explore the role of compassion in Buddhist and psychotherapeutic traditions with an emphasis on our emotions. We will read Buddhist commentaries on the critical role of compassion in restoring our well-being alongside psychoanalytic authors who emphasized compassion as a central healing modality in clinical work.
Wise Speech:
An Introduction to Mindful Communication
Jul 7 - Aug 11, 2023
Fridays, 12:00-2:00 PM ET
Dāna Retreat - Freely Offered
Oren Jay Sofer offers training in the foundations of an integrated approach to communication. Drawing upon the Buddha’s teachings on the Noble Eightfold Path, mindfulness and Right Speech, plus the modern disciplines of Nonviolent Communication and trauma healing, the curriculum offers concrete tools to hold one’s own while still hearing others, and to engage effectively and efficiently in collaboration.
Entering the World of the Pali Canon
Aug 3 - 24, 2023
Thursdays 7:00-8:30 PM ET
Join Diana Clark, Kim Allen, Ying Chen, and David Lorey and discover the Pali Canon and how to navigate the suttas. This course includes reading and discussing several texts, along with suggestions for ways to practice with texts as part of one’s spiritual path. This class is suitable for people new to the Pali Canon and those more familiar with it.
Finding Sea Legs in Saṃsāra: An Online “Householder” Retreat
Aug 6 - 12, 2023
Join Bill and Susan Morgan for two practice periods that will ‘bookend’ each weekday, in the morning and in the evening, with a more expanded time for practice and reflection on the first evening and final morning.
The Four Dharma Seals:
Finding Freedom in the Here and Now
Aug 23 - Sept 13, 2023
Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET
Anam Thubten will offer talks and guided meditations on the four seals in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. Understanding these seals provides insight into our human condition and allows us to cut through the very root of suffering and find freedom in the here and now.
Parenting as a Path
Sept 7 - Oct 5, 2023
Thursdays, 5:00-6:30 pm ET
This program, taught by three parents, Cara Lai, Ofosu Jones-Quartey, and Jessica Morey, will explore and celebrate the many ways that being a parent has the potential to be a path to awakening. We will gather inspiration through sharing stories; we will practice, reflect, and play together; and we will remember the wisdom of parents walking the path before us.
Breaking Bias with the Brahmaviharas
Sept 15 - Oct 13, 2023
Fridays, 12:00-1:30 PM ET
Join Anurag Gupta and practice the brahmaviharas, a cornerstone of the Buddhist path of freedom.
The brahmaviharas provide each one of us the medicine to heal from the defilements and open our heart-mind, despite the conditioning of our outer environment, to become members of a “beloved community.”
Luminous Darkness: A Radical Path of Wholeness
Sept 23 - Nov 4, 2023
Saturdays, 12:00-1:30 PM ET
It is in our original nature to celebrate the spectrum and interplay of dark and light, night and day, receptive and expressive, yin and yang, emptiness and fullness. Join Deborah Eden Tull for this embodied exploration of Luminous Darkness, based on Deborah Eden Tull’s new book, Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown.
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.
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).
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 - 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.
Previously Offered Programs
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 open July 17 - Aug 28
This program will be offered every Spring and Fall
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
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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Freely Offered Self Study
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