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with Jane Chun

with Joan Griffiths Vega

with Jon Aaron

with Rosemary Blake, Jon Aaron, Nancy Glimm and Amy Selzer

with Jon Aaron

with Elaine Retholtz

Every other Monday, April 20th - June 15th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join us for a course examining forgiveness and how to heal our relationships with others, ourselves and the past. We will meet in person every other Monday evening and have home practice in the weeks between. This course appropriate is for meditation practitioners of all levels.

with Bart van Melik

Mondays January 11th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.

with Bart van Melik

Monday January 18th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.

with Bart van Melik

Mondays January 25th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, February 4th - March 25th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

The variety of meditation practices found in Buddhism can lead to confusion and doubt, or to staying on the surface level in our practice as a result of switching around so much. This course will spend time investigating our own experience with each of these practices and sharing the fruit of wisdom and compassion that comes of this.

with Bart van Melik

Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom.

with Bart van Melik

Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom.

with Bart van Melik

Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, April 9th - April 30th from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, April 29th, 2021 - June 3rd, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Mindful cultivation through formal practice of the boundless qualities of lovingkindness, compassion, resonant joy and equanimity can open the lens of wisdom and break through the barriers which have accumulated over lifetimes.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, April 9th - April 30th from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Scott Tusa

Wednesdays, June 2nd-23rd, 2021 from 7:30pm - 9:00pm ET

In this four-week online course led by Buddhist teacher Scott Tusa, we will explore the Buddha's four seals together through periods of teaching, meditation, and discussion.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, June 4th - June 25th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Melik

Friday, June 11th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Melik

with Bart van Melik

with Peter Doobinin

with Amy Selzer & Nancy Glimm

with Gary Singer

with Bart van Melik

with Bart van Melik

with Bart van Melik

with Bart van Melik

with Bart van Melik

with Bart van Melik

with Bart van Melik

with Bart van Melik

with Bart van Melik

with Bart van Melik

with Elaine Retholtz

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, October 24th - December 12th, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

The Buddha's teachings on The Eightfold Path is not some belief system to take on, nor a philosophy to be debated. Rather it is a very accessible (if sometimes challenging) guide for living and practicing in the world.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, January 6th - 27th, 2023 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, January 13th, 2023 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, January 20th, 2023 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, January 27th, 2023 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Lin Wang Gordon

Saturdays, February 25th, March 11th, April 8th, May 20th, & June 3rd, 2023 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

If you are in your 40s/50s and thinking about the second half of your life, join us for a new in-person course exploring many areas of our lives (health, career, money, family, relationship, kids/no kids) and the gifts of this mid-life stage.

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, March 13th - April 10th, 2023 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

While we may come to meditation hoping to experience calmness of mind, as we practice, we find that we are visited by “guests” such as desire, ill will, restlessness and worry, sleepiness, and doubt. These are the energies of the “Five Hindrances”. They are like clouds that obscure the mind from seeing clearly. This course will offer an opportunity to explore how to practice with and understand these energies in our formal meditation practice as well as in our daily lives so that they can be skillfully abandoned.

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, March 23rd - April 20th, 2023 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Join us for this five-week course to look closely at how the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path and other teachings from both the early and later teachings can bring us to place of ease and balance and equanimity.

with Dr. Paul Epstein

Tuesdays, April 18th - May 9th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Keeping it simple through basic and foundational mindfulness practices and Buddhist teachings, this class will focus on cultivating, balancing and integrating a mindful awareness and a compassionate heart in all aspects of our lives.

with Scott Tusa

Tuesdays, May 9th - 30th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

In this four-week class series you will be guided through a process of somatic practices and approaches aimed at helping you to develop more spaciousness within and around your thoughts and emotions, a broader and more grounded meditative awareness, and how to connect these to the practice of non-duality in Buddhism.

with Jill Satterfield

Thursdays, June 1st - 22nd, 2023 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

This series is designed to enliven practice and create the conditions for nervous system balance to foster ease of being with, guided embodiment
practices for further insight into the consciousness of the body, and open awareness to support being with the inevitable joys and sorrows of our life.

with Kimberly Brown

Course: Tuesdays, June 6th - July 18th, 2023 (skip July 4th) | 7:00pm-8:30pm ET
Half Day Retreat: Saturday, July 15th, | 10:00am-1:00pm ET

Though all of us will encounter death and change, we can do so with kindness and wisdom, and develop the skills and heart to mourn loss with patience, tenderness, and clarity. In this weekly class, you will learn to bring gentleness and care to your body, mind, and spirit with traditional Buddhist practices, modern therapeutic tools, compassionate listening and friendship. You’ll cultivate your inherent compassion and good sense to support yourself and those closest to you through the pain and sadness of mourning, loss, and grief.

with Bodhipaksa

Thursdays, July 6 - 27, 2023 from 7pm - 8:30pm ET

During this course we will explore how to recognize the skillful even when we find it hard. We’ll see how we can overcome the cynical approach of always finding the flaws in others. We’ll look at how we can support and encourage the arising of skillful qualities in ourselves and others. Perhaps most importantly, we’ll experience the benefits of appreciating skillful qualities in ourselves and others, and how it is the single most important way for us to bring joy and peace into our own lives and into the world.

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, July 10 - August 14th, 2023 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

In this course we will explore the various facets of Lovingkindness practice. There will be ongoing home practices each week, including questions for reflection. In every class there will be time to ask questions and share insights, as well as time to be in breakout rooms sharing, reflecting and learning from each other in smaller groups.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, July 14th and 28th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Melik

Friday, July 28th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Lin Wang Gordon

Saturdays, August 12th, September 23rd, October 21st, November 18, December 2nd, 2023, from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

If you are in your 40s/50s and thinking about the second half of your life, join us for a new in-person course exploring many areas of our lives (health, career, money, family, relationship, kids/no kids) and the gifts of this mid-life stage.

with Jill Satterfield

Postponed

It can be difficult to know where to start in terms of taking some form of social, compassionate action in our troubled world. This series will explore a variety of practices and teachings that will facilitate the direct experiences and benefits of living with kind awareness for ourselves, our community and the world around us.

with Mike Slott, Katya de Kadt, and Karsten Struhl

Thursdays, October 5th - 26th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

On this four-evening workshop series we’ll explore two key trends in Buddhism today: a secular or naturalistic approach to the dharma and socially engaged Buddhism. We will discuss how the secular dharma and socially engaged Buddhism contribute both to individual transformation and social change.

with Mike Slott, Ted Meissner, Lenorë Lambert, and Winton Higgins

Thursday, October 5th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

In this workshop, we’ll explore the development of secular Buddhism, the relationship of secular Buddhism to the broader trend of “Buddhist modernism”, and the application of secular Buddhist ideas and practices to everyday life.

with Bodhipaksa

Revised Dates: Tuesdays, December 5th - 19th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Through talks, reflection, and meditation, we’ll explore how to recognize the skillful even when we find that hard. During this course, we’ll see how we can overcome the cynical approach of always finding the flaws in others. We’ll look at how we can support and encourage the arising of skillful qualities in ourselves and others. And we’ll see how admiration leads to emulation. Perhaps most importantly, we’ll experience the benefits of appreciating skillful qualities in ourselves and others, and how it is the single most important way for us to bring joy and peace into our own lives and into the world.

with Laurence Magro and Nancy Logue

Thursdays, January 11th - February 15th, 2024 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET

In this six-session course, you will learn the practices of Mindfulness-Based Habit Change, pioneered by psychiatrist, addiction expert, and longtime meditation practitioner Dr. Judson Brewer. This proven method combines combine the tools of mindfulness practice and behavioral science to fundamentally change how we relate to our eating and other consuming behaviors. It is an innovative and compassionate approach that builds a balanced relationship to these everyday activities.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, January 12th, 19th, & 26th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Malik

Fridays, January 19th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, February 9th, 16th & 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Wildecy de Fatima Jury and Gayah (Imani) Gillson

Saturday, February 10th, 2024 from 1:00pm - 5:30pm ET

Although we celebrate Valentines Day – the day of love and friendship – in February, many also experience loneliness and social isolation during this time. So this is a great time to connect to sangha, a community of people who together strive to offer support, practice the dharma, and obtain understanding, acceptance, harmony and love.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, February 16th & 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Melik

Friday, February 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.

with Lani Miller

Tuesdays, March 5th-26th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Both meditation and creativity involve opening to and allowing what is already present to emerge. Over this four-week course, we will have the opportunity to explore and share how we experience and are inspired by the already present and inherent connection between these two ways of experiencing and opening to life.

with Amy Selzer and Nancy Glimm

Saturdays, April 6th - 27th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

What we often forget is that we have a choice to deepen our experiences of joy, and lessen our experiences of dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or stress). In this four-week class we will look at the truth of our experiences, and practice how these truths can move us toward more skillful choices and contentment.

with Leslie Booker and Kate Johnson

Thursdays, May 2nd - 23rd, 2024 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

In the Four Wise Efforts, the Buddha offers us a path of skillful action that leads to a liberated mind. Join us in this four week course, as dharma teachers and longtime friends Leslie Booker and Kate Johnson apply the Four Wise Efforts to the practice of wise relationships. Together, we will develop an embodied, relational understanding of this time-honored Buddhist teaching, and learn how to better protect our energy, let go of what does not serve, cultivate the good, and sustain our liberated relationships over the long term.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, May 3rd - May 17th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.