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
No Weekend sittings.
Week of August 29th and Week of September 5th we will offer just Guided Meditations Monday - Thursday, Silent Sit on Friday (as usual!)
Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation
Fall 2022
An online study and practice course
guided by Bhikkhu Anālayo
October 8 - December 10, 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 Open through 5 PM ET on Sept 2, 2022
Liberating Perception: Dukkha Without Tanha: Integrating Buddhist Insights
August 21, 2022
Sunday 7:30 - 9:00 pm ET
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
Rick Hanson and William Edelglass offer this conversation informed by Rick’s recent book, Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. We will be particularly focused on the selection published in the BCBS Insight Journal, on why life is not inherently suffering.
The Dharma of Popular Music
Aug 28 - Sept 25, 2022
Sundays 1:00-3:00 PM ET
Dāna Program - Freely Offered
Join Bradley Donaldson (previously Bhante Sumano) to explore how listening to music can be a powerful way to experience the Dharma as well as the oh-so-human desire to make meaning of our lives. Traditionally, music within the context of the Dharma has taken the form of chants, sonic rituals involving gongs and bells, dance, and theater. Today, popular music serves as a particularly potent mirror of and window into our cultural worlds.
Watch Bradley Donaldson on Youtube
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).
Dreaming Ourselves Into Existence: Dukkha, Non-Self, and Waking Up
September 4, 2022
Sunday, 7:30 – 9:00 pm ET
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
Join Joseph Goldstein for this freely offered event discussing the three characteristics of impermanence, dukkha, and non-self which helps us lay down the burden of craving and grasping, softening the heart, and leading to a sense of liberation that comes with relinquishing clinging to a self.
Yom Kippur for Buddhists:
A Survive-and-Thrive Guide
Oct 2, 2022
Sunday, 7:30 - 9:00 PM ET
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
For practicing and non-practicing Jews (and allies) alike, Yom Kippur presents an invitation and a challenge. Join Jay Michaelson and explore some Dharmic practices, texts, and wisdom for making the most of this "retreat of retreats" (Shabbat Shabbaton).
Exploring the Intersection of Buddhism and Plant-Based Medicine
Oct 3 - 24, 2022
Mondays 7:30pm – 9:00pm EST
Explore how ancient plant-based medicine combined with Buddhist wisdom can accelerate insight and our awakening process with Spring Washam. You can read her article in the Insight Journal here.
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.
Sense Experience, Insight, and Equanimity
December 10 - 11, 2022
Dāna Program - Freely Offered
Ayya Dhammadīpā investigates what it is like to experience the mind as a sense organ. And how does that experience shift our relationship to the other five sense organs? This retreat focuses on the six sense organs as doorways to insight and sense experiences as opportunities to practice in ways that lead to equanimity.
Previously Offered Programs
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 4- December 4, 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. Soulmaking Dharma teachings rest upon practices of samatha, metta, emptiness, and the emotional/energy body.
Applications 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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