Upcoming Online Programs
The Daily Sit
Monday-Friday, 10:30-11:15 am EST
Dana offering - no pre-registration required
Bill & Susan will be on a year-long retreat in 2022 but the DAILY SIT will continue with the following facilitators:
Dawn Scott, David Kohn, Jaye Moyer, Lori Rugle, Lee Steppacher, Maria Cimino, Catherine Glenn
Monday & Wednesday--Teaching & Guided Meditation
Tuesday & Thursday--Guided Meditation
Last Thursday of the month--Small Sangha Groups
Friday---Silent Sit
No Weekend sittings.
Through the generosity of these facilitators, all dana offered to the Daily Sit will be used to support Bill & Susan on their year-long retreat as well as BCBS.
Liberating Perception: Investigating Anicca, Dukkha, Anattā
June 24 - 26, 2022
Dāna Event - Freely offered
Fri - Sun, 7:30 – 9:00 pm ET
In this program, Leigh Brasington will invite participants into a deeper understanding of the three aspects of our experience, Anicca, Dukkha, and Anattā, as well as providing some indications of how to cultivate the liberating perception of impermanence, non-self, and dukkha.
Practicing the Dharma as Earth Activism
June 28 - Aug 2, 2022
Tuesdays, 7:30 – 9:10 pm ET
This course addresses two overarching questions: How does the practice of liberation inform activism to benefit the Earth? How can Earth activism become the practice of liberation? Tim Ream designed this course as practical instruction in Earth activism for people already practicing Dharma.
Introduction to Insight Dialogue and Embodied Justice
July 6 - 27, 2022
Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00 pm ET
Tuere Sala and Anna-Brown Griswold offer an invitation to learn and practice the Insight Dialogue guidelines while recognizing how cultural conditioning and systemic inequity are embodied interpersonally.
The Practice of Emptiness in Islam and Buddhism
July 23 - 24, 2022
In this program, Bhikkhu Anālayo and Amer Latif explore the central place of emptiness in Islamic and Buddhist thought and practice. Emptiness, in both traditions, is neither a vacuity nor a thing. Emptiness is a paradoxical fullness which, when practiced and embodied, allows us to experience the richness of possibilities and relationships.
Drawing on the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of our Buddha Nature
September 3 - 4, 2022
In this weekend retreat with John Makransky, we will explore ways of accessing and settling into primordial awareness, also known as our buddha nature, through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism (Dzogchen tradition).
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
An online study and practice course
guided by Catherine McGee
Assisted by Yahel Avigur
Sep 04, 2022 - Dec 04, 2022
Rooted in the Buddha's teaching of emptiness, ethics and meditative training, Soulmaking Dharma is a rich and resonant contemporary flowering of the Dharma.
Applications Now Open
June 6 - July 25, 2022
Turning Towards the Climate Emergency Together
Oct 5, 2022 - Nov 16, 2022
Wednesdays, 12:00- 2:30 PM ET
In this seven week course, Nicola Redfern and Rosalie Dores integrate Joanna Macy’s Active Hope work and the relational meditation practice of Insight Dialogue to explore and awaken our capacity to respond to the climate emergency together.
Contemplative Poetry as Meditation
Nov 19 - Dec 3, 2022
Saturdays, 11:00 – 1:30 ET
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel and Andō offer this course for those seeking to make space for silence and poetry in their lives. There will be an experiential component in which you will learn how to bring breath into your poetry and writing.
“Today, it is as if I am an empty bamboo flute, filled with the breeze, playing its own tune, not mine. This, for me, is poetry.” – Andō
Putting Out the Fires:
Increasing Resiliency, Decreasing Reactivity
December 3 - 4, 2022
Heather Sundberg offers Five Somatic Practices, as well as the Buddha’s teaching of the Fire Sermon and guided meditations, as well as optional Qi Gong practice and discussion about how to live these teachings in our daily lives.
Previously Offered Programs
Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation
Spring 2022
An online study and practice course
guided by Bhikkhu Anālayo
April 9 - June 11, 2022
Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation is an interactive and comprehensive online program modeled on in-person courses offered globally by Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo on the foundational mindfulness text the Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta.
Applications are now closed
Mindfulness of Breathing
Summer 2022
An online study and practice course
guided by Bhikkhu Anālayo
July 9 - September 3, 2022
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 closed for the Summer iteration
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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