Date: Monday, June 3, 2024
Teacher: Alley Smith

Support group sessions will include a short talk, meditation practice, and an open forum to discuss personal experiences with old age, sickness, death, grief and bereavement. All are welcome. We respect your privacy. These sessions will not be recorded.

 

Date: Saturday, June 15, 2024
Teacher: John McQuade

This course will take you into the world of contemplative photography. A basic introduction to the practice of contemplative photography will be explored—as well as the liberation aspects of this practice.

 

Date: Saturday, June 15, 2024 - 20 July
Teacher: John McQuade

Register here Contemplative Photography and Liberation: The Outer and Inner Teachings—Cohort I

 

Date: Saturday, June 15, 2024 - 20 July
Teacher: John McQuade

Register here Contemplative Photography and Liberation: The Outer and Inner Teachings—Cohort II

 

Date: Saturday, June 22, 2024 - 23 June
Teachers: Janet Solyntjes & Elaine Yuen

This series of three weekends is designed to help meditation practitioners who are interested in developing as Meditation Instructors (MIs) and support them in cultivating skills to assist others.

 

Date: Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 20 July
Teacher: Anjie Cho

Join us as we explore ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, as a contemplative dharma art exploration to enrich your meditation practice and experience mindfulness in everyday life.

 

Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Teacher: Candia Ludy

Learn to Meditate! This is a space where beginners or people newer to meditation can receive meditation instruction, learn how a meditation practice can inform their daily lives, and connect to other meditators in a warm, inclusive environment.

 

Date: Monday, July 8, 2024
Teacher: Alley Smith

Support group sessions will include a short talk, meditation practice, and an open forum to discuss personal experiences with old age, sickness, death, grief and bereavement. All are welcome. We respect your privacy. These sessions will not be recorded.

 

Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 20 July

This five-day, Eco-Dharma Talks series includes topics such as: circular economies, the importance of local food, finding our way in climate and other crises, ”inner dimensions of sustainability," and our connection to the sacred earth.

 

Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Join this exploration of the ways in which we can reframe and understand the crises that we currently face and how we can LIVE our way rather than KNOW our way into the future.

 

Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2024

By shortening the distance between consumers and producers, we structurally encourage diversity on the farm–which in turn means greater productivity, more local livelihoods, more nutritious food and healthier ecosystems.

 

Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024

Join a conversation that suggests if we stand firmly forward and face the depth of the trouble we are in, it can help us find the work that is worth doing, even in the ruins.

 

Date: Friday, July 19, 2024

The Inner Green Deal assumes that our current crisis is a crisis of relationships. How can mindfulness teachers contribute to that necessary shift from ego to eco?

 

Date: Saturday, July 20, 2024

Explore the cultivation of agility and courage to abide in a genuine, ongoing relationship with this sacred earth, no matter what the next decades bring.

 

Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Teacher: Alley Smith

A broken heart is something most of us face at least once or several times during a lifetime. In this session, Chaplain Alley Smith will lead you through a guided meditation to help you begin to heal from a broken heart.

 

Date: Saturday, August 10, 2024 - 24 August
Teacher: Khenpo Gawang

Join this short and accessible summer course that will explore the legendary life and story of Milarepa—Tibet’s most famous yogi and Meditation Master.

 

Date: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Teacher: Alley Smith

Join us and examine the dynamic work of peacemaking. Together, we will explore our attitudes toward aggression and how we can remain fearless and kind—even in the midst of anxiety, fear, and anger.

 

Date: Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Teacher: Alley Smith

During this online session, we will explore Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings on “the genuine heart of sadness” from the timeless classic, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior.

 

Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 26 October
Teacher: Judith Simmer-Brown

Join an exploration of the profound path of Vajrayana that is open to all! This course is ideal for those who are longing to learn more about, inquire into, or refresh their connection to, the Vajrayana path.

 

Date: Saturday, September 14, 2024 - 15 September
Teacher: Eve Rosenthal

 

Date: Saturday, September 14, 2024 - 8 March
Teacher: Khenpo Gawang

During this in-depth course on Mahayana teachings, Khenpo Gawang will guide participants through teachings on the profound path of the bodhisattva from the famous Tibetan text, Entering the Path of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva.

 

Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 10 December
Teacher: Alley Smith

In this book group we will explore Andrew Holeck’s book, “Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition.”

 

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 16 November
Teacher: Judith Simmer-Brown

This three-session course explores the moment of making a profound commitment to put others before yourself. It is open to all who are interested in the vow, or those looking to reconnect with the vow.

 

Date: Saturday, November 30, 2024
Teachers: Meli-Tashi Happy & Alley Smith

During this mini-retreat, we will study and contemplate the Buddha’s Sutra on The Dharma Seal and The Three Doors to Liberation. According to the Buddha, these three doors are passageways that lead to freedom from suffering.

 

Date: Friday, January 1, 2027
Teacher: Arawana Hayashi

We live in difficult times. Many of us long to be present, caring, and feel more alive in a world that can be overwhelming and full of disruption. Creating a mindful awareness practice can help.

 

Date: Monday, March 1, 2027
Teachers: Susan Chapman & Pema Chödron & Fleet Maull & Eve Rosenthal & Dan Hessey & Dale Asrael

A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part one of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.

 

Date: Monday, December 27, 2027
Teacher: Kristine McCutcheon

This course is comprised of asynchronous, recorded talks you may view at your convenience. It also includes the lung for the practice and an online discussion forum. The text can be ordered once you have received the lung.

 

Teacher: Arawana Hayashi

This Course Introduces the Buddha's core teaching of The Four Noble Truths.

 

Date: Monday, December 31, 2029
Teachers: Pema Chödron & Marty Janowitz & Larry Mermelstein & June Crow & Judith Simmer-Brown & Gaylon Ferguson & Eric Holm & Dale Asrael & Ashley Dinges & Arawana Hayashi

Learn or refresh your connection to the practice of meditation as taught by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, based on archival talks in the summer of 1974 to an audience of new students.

 

Date: Monday, December 31, 2029
Teacher: John Rockwell

This pre-recorded course explores the Sadhana of Mahamudra "as if for the first time."

 

Date: Monday, December 31, 2029
Teacher: Sabine Rolf

Discover or rediscover your connection to meditation—and to yourself. This course is a powerful way to reconnect with our minds and hearts, and to open up to ourselves and our experience in a way that is more connected, caring, and kind.

 

Teacher: Judith Simmer-Brown

This five-week course introduces the short daily practice of White Tara, one of the most famous bodhisattvas of compassion in Tibetan Buddhism. The reading transmission (lung) is included in the course

 

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Date: Sunday, February 11, 2035

 

Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2050
Teachers: Treasurer Eric Spiegel & Suzann Duquette & Susan Chapman & Marianne Bots & Judith Simmer-Brown & John Rockwell & Fleet Maull & Dan Hessey & Dale Asrael

This is a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources.

 

Date: Sunday, July 10, 2050

A Year of Deepening in Compassion is a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.