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!)
Yom Kippur for Buddhists:
A Survive-and-Thrive Guide
October 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
October 3 - 24, 2022
Mondays 7:30pm – 9:00pm EST
Dāna Program - Freely Offered
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.
The Power of Embracing Wholeness:
A Women’s Retreat
Nov 11 - 13, 2022
In this online retreat with Zuisei Goddard explore a range of Buddhist teachings and practices to address the messages that women in our culture receive that prevent us from embodying the wholeness of who we are.
*We use an inclusive definition of “woman” and “female” and we welcome trans women, genderqueer women, and non-binary people who are significantly female-identified.
Voices of Awakening: An Insight Dialogue Retreat
Nov 16 - 20, 2022
In this retreat with Nic Redfern and Ayya Anopama, 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.
Putting Out the Fires:
Increasing Resiliency, Decreasing Reactivity
December 3 - 4, 2022
Heather Sundberg offers Five Somatic Practices, the Buddha’s teaching of the Fire Sermon, guided meditations and discussion about how to live these teachings in our daily lives. Optional Qi Cong practice is offered as well.
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Zen Wisdom and Poetry in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Sunday - December 4, 2022
7:30 - 9:00 PM ET
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
Join David Hinton and William Edelglass for a discussion on how wisdom, poetry, and practice of Chinese Buddhism invite us to recognize the kinship of mind and nature, based on Hinton's new book, "Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction."
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.
Writing the Buddhist Essay
Jan 10 - Feb 14, 2023
Tuesdays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
Jess Row leads this six-week program on writing a Buddhist Essay. This program includes a reflection on a selection of classic and contemporary essays while working on short playful exercises to generate ideas for writing your own essay.
Uncovering the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of our Buddha Nature
Jan 18 - Mar 1, 2023
Wednesdays 7:30-9:00 pm ET
John Makransky and Paul Condon invite you to join them and explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma Dzogchen) with assistance from modern psychology.
Breaking Bias with the Brahmaviharas
Jan 20 - Feb 17, 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.”
What is a Dharma Teacher For?
Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship
February 5 - 26, 2023
Sundays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET
Nico & Devon Hase will examine the similarities and differences of teacher-student relationships in the Mahasi tradition, Soto Zen, and Kagyu Vajrayana as a context for exploring our own thoughts, emotions, and experiences as students walking the Buddhist path.
MahaSati:
An Introduction to Awareness of Emptiness Practices
February 10 - 12, 2023
Heather Sundberg offers an introduction to a map of teachings and practices, grounded in the Southern Thai forest tradition, as well as tools to begin engaging in the process of developing a more awakened state of being. This program is for experienced practitioners.
Uncovering the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of our Buddha Nature Retreat
March 24 - 27, 2023
John Makransky and Paul Condon invite you to join them and explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma Dzogchen) with assistance from modern psychology.
This retreat is open to those who took the prior 7 week course with us at BCBS (Jan-Mar 2023), and to those who have previously done a retreat or workshop with John Makransky or Paul Condon, on-line or in person
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.
Previously Offered Programs
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 closed for the Fall iteration
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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