Programs

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  • October 27, 2025
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  • November 5, 2025
  • Gregory Kramer

Experiencing the Relational Dharma in Insight Dialogue

  • An Insight Dialogue retreat for experienced practitioners.
  • Residential
  • November 7, 2025
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  • November 9, 2025
  • Leigh Brasington

What Do the Suttas Actually Say about the Brahma Viharas?

  • Explore the Buddha’s teachings on Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity. Through sutta study and cross-tradition insights, deepen your understanding and practice of these four sublime abodes.
  • Online
  • November 7, 2025
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  • November 12, 2025
  • Éowyn Ahlstrom, Bob Stahl

Mindfulness as the Gateway to Many Beautiful Qualities – An “at home” Retreat

  • Explore how sustained mindfulness opens the door to compassion, joy, equanimity, and insight in this nourishing at-home retreat with silent practice, guided movement, and dharma reflections.
  • Online
  • November 14, 2025
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  • November 18, 2025
  • Ruth Ozeki

To Study the Self: Zen and the Art of Creative Writing

  • Explore writing as contemplative practice. Using Dogen’s Zen wisdom, we’ll study and forget the self, play with genre, and let the world speak through us—one word, one breath at a time.
  • Residential
  • November 15, 2025
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  • November 16, 2025
  • John Makransky

Being Harmonized with the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Discover your innate buddha nature in this retreat, exploring three Tibetan Buddhist practices that open the heart and mind to love, wisdom, and compassion. Includes guided meditations, Q&A, and discussion.
  • Online
  • November 20, 2025
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  • November 23, 2025
  • Dhammadīpā

Seeing Yourself on the Path: Exploring Buddhist Art and the Art of Seeing

  • Engage with a variety of Buddhist artistic expressions in visual and tactile ways, and reflect on how these portrayals relate to what you have experienced on the Path.
  • Residential
  • December 2, 2025
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  • December 7, 2025
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

Embodying Mindfulness

  • Explore grounding into the body to support practice, working with and mindfully inhabiting this unique body.
  • Residential
  • December 8, 2025
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  • December 14, 2025
  • GuoGu

Silent Illumination and Investigating a Critical Phrase: A Chan Retreat (Hybrid)

  • Deepen your practice in this Chan-style retreat, engaging in a sustained, focused way within a protected environment with a teacher.
  • Hybrid
  • December 28, 2025
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  • January 1, 2026
  • Nicola Redfern, Ayya Anopama

Voices of Awakening: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

  • Hear the voices of the first Buddhist nuns. Through poetry, meditation, and Insight Dialogue, awaken compassion, resilience, and joy for your own journey.
  • Online
  • December 31, 2025
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  • January 1, 2026
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

New Year’s Eve Sangha Gathering

  • Please join us for the fourth annual New Year's Eve sit! Let’s bring our dharma aspirations forward together!
  • Online
  • January 9, 2026
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  • January 16, 2026
  • Catherine McGee

Making Soul

  • Deepen your Soulmaking Dharma practice by cultivating perception as an art—opening to beauty, love, and sacred meaning. For alumni of the Fall intensive online Soulmaking program.
  • Residential
  • January 16, 2026
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  • January 18, 2026
  • Soulmaking Dharma Sangha

A Gathering of Souls

  • A Gathering of Souls will be a time for Soulmaking sangha members to enjoy one another’s company, to connect more deeply as a group of peers, and to explore themes that speak to our souls.
  • Residential
  • January 20, 2026
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  • January 25, 2026
  • Nikki Mirghafori

Befriending Mortality: Living An Awakened Life Through Mindfulness of Death (Maranasati)

  • Embrace the truth of impermanence through maranasati—mindfulness of death—to live more fully, align with your deepest values, and prepare for dying as a moment of peace, freedom, and liberation.
  • Residential
  • January 21, 2026
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  • February 11, 2026
  • Dawn Haney, Nina Herzog

Fat Dharma: An Anti-Resolution Revolution to Liberate Our Hearts and Bodies

  • Explore Buddhist teachings through the lens of fat liberation in a supportive community that celebrates embodiment, disrupts diet culture, and reclaims the Dharma for every body—just as it is.
  • Online
  • January 22, 2026
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  • February 26, 2026
  • Judson Brewer, Robin Boudette

Transcendent Dependent Arising: The Path from Suffering to Freedom

  • Explore the transformative teachings of transcendent dependent arising in this six-week program, blending ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience to uncover the path from suffering to liberation through study and practice.
  • Online
  • January 27, 2026
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  • February 1, 2026
  • Dhammadīpā

When Insight Flows: Four Practices for Building Momentum on the Path

  • Build momentum on the Path of awakening through four foundational practices from the early suttas—deepening insight, energizing your practice, and entering the stream toward liberation.
  • Residential
  • January 31, 2026
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  • March 26, 2026
  • Anita Bermont, Holly Nelson-Johnson, Judy Bernstein, Patricia Fontaine, Sue Brown

Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity Program

  • Join an eight-week series for white-bodied individuals exploring Insight Dialogue and anti-racism. We’ll cultivate awareness, confront cultural conditioning, and foster collective transformation toward racial justice.
  • Online
  • February 10, 2026
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  • February 15, 2026
  • John Makransky

Harmonizing with the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • This program blends Tibetan Buddhist practices with modern psychology to cultivate unconditional love and wisdom. Through receptive, deepening, and inclusive modes, will harmonize with our buddha nature for greater compassion and wisdom.
  • Residential
  • February 17, 2026
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  • February 22, 2026
  • Chris Crotty

Seeing and Knowing: The Practice and Study of Insight Meditation

  • Explore how insight meditation reveals the nature of suffering and self. Blend study and practice to cultivate clear seeing, personal discernment, and a path of freedom grounded in lived experience.
  • Residential
  • February 25, 2026
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  • March 18, 2026
  • Megan Mook

Compassion as the Foundation of Vajrayana: An Introduction to Tantra

  • Within Tibetan Buddhism, Tantra, or Vajrayana, is considered the culmination of a gradual training in Buddhist thought and practice. A rich and complex tradition, Vajrayana works with the subtle energies...
  • Online
  • March 14, 2026
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  • March 15, 2026
  • John Makransky, Rachel Cronin

Becoming Transparent to the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Explore practices from Tibetan Buddhism to access your innate Buddha nature—awakening unconditional love, warmth, and wisdom beneath habitual thought. Open to all with contemplative experience.
  • Online
  • March 19, 2026
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  • March 22, 2026
  • Mark Unno, Judith Simmer-Brown, Ruben Habito

Pure Land Compassion Retreat: Beyond The Storied Self

  • Explore the stories that shape us—and the freedom beyond them. This retreat journeys through Zen koans and Pure Land compassion to awaken the heart beyond words, in the embrace of boundless reality.
  • Residential
  • March 24, 2026
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  • March 29, 2026
  • Ayya Anandabodhi

Making the Mind Your Friend

  • Get to know your heart and mind as the Buddha taught—with care, compassion, and wisdom. This retreat invites you to nurture your inner life, clear away old stories, and awaken to natural freedom and joy.
  • Residential
  • April 1, 2026
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  • April 11, 2026
  • Leigh Brasington, Rachael O’Brien

The Gradual Training: Mettā, Jhānas, and Insight

  • Explore the Early Buddhist Path through the Gradual Training and deepen your practice with the Jhanas—cultivating stability, clarity, and liberating insight, supported by daily talks and one-on-one guidance.
  • Residential

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