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May
Retreat | Online
May 3 - May 4, 2024 | Friday: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM / Saturday: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
From a Crisis Meditation Practice to a Sacred One
Oftentimes we find ourselves running to our altars when we need saving or when we are at a loss. In this weekend time together, we will explore ways to move from a crisis-oriented meditation practice to one that is a sacred way of life. How can we attune our habitual meditation activity to ancestral wisdom? Discover how to transform your sitting practice into one that consistently honors the ancestors, the land, and all sentient beings.
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Retreat | Online
Saturday, May 11 | 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
All About Love: Celebrating bell hooks
We all want love. Throughout this retreat, we will explore together how love can be when it is expressed in conjunction with the qualities of the Four Divine States of Equanimity, Kindness, Compassion, and Inclusive Joy. This daylong retreat includes short readings from bell hooks, who puts forward fierce feminist social criticism that invites us to transform our challenges into strength in order to manifest the love and caring we want in our lives.
Rev. Liên Shutt
Retreat | Online
Sunday, May 12 | 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Embodying the Archetypal Buddhist Feminine: A Refuge for Inspiration and Equanimity
Open to all self-identified Women. Join us on Mother’s Day to celebrate the archetypal Buddhist feminine, with a focus on Prajna Paramita, Green Tara, and others. By aligning ourselves with aspects of different sacred archetypes, we'll explore how they can live in our body and offer a sense of equanimity and inspiration. This day is not only for mothers, but for all who identify as women and want to sit in the sacred space of embodying our heart’s deepest expression of the divine feminine.
Grace Fisher
Retreat | Online
Sunday, May 19 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Vesak 2024: Celebrating the Buddha and the Triple Gem
Vesak is the Buddhist holiday honoring the birth, awakening, and death of the Buddha. To honor Vesak 2024 (year 2568 in the Buddhist calendar), we will share simple chants from the Forest Saṅgha and Mahāyāna traditions, learn a meditation on the qualities of the Buddha called Buddhānussati, and and celebrate the presence of the Dharma in our lives and in the world. All are welcome.
Sean Oakes
Retreat | Online
Saturday, May 25 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
This Is How Civilizations Heal: The Alchemy of the Three Poisons
The three poisons—greed, aversion, and delusion—are mind states that cloud the heart and mind. However, by clearly recognizing the three poisons, we can meet them with their antidotes of generosity, mettā, and wisdom. Generosity expands our ability to feel connected and reminds us that we belong to each other. Mettā opens the heart, protecting us from both inner and outer harm, while wisdom allows us to see things right sized as we move through the world.
Leslie Booker
Retreat | Online | Hybrid
Sunday, May 26 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Inspire, Energize, and Connect: Remedies for the Heart
Come join us as we take a deep dive into the timeless and beautiful teachings of the Bodhisattva, the one who meets suffering with intention, strength, determination, courage, and love. Together, we'll explore ways to skillfully navigate our everyday lives with a steady, receptive mind and a courageous, wise heart. The day includes periods of sitting and walking meditation, as well as Dharma reflections and plenty of time to talk with each other. All are warmly welcome!
June
Retreat | Online
Saturday, June 1 | 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
The Beauty of the Dhamma: Celebrating the Goodness of the Path
In the Buddha’s discourses, the Dhamma is often called kalyāṇa, or “beautiful.” During this daylong, we'll dive deep into the beautiful qualities of practice: how meditation brings us closer to truth, goodness, inspiration, and love. Our time will include guided meditation, walking and movement practice, reflections on the teachings, and group discussion. Join us for a celebration of the goodness of the path as we continue to walk each other home. Open for beginning and seasoned meditators alike.
devon hase
Retreat | Online
Sunday, June 2 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Freedom of Heart: Mindfulness Practices for Healing Addiction
3 CE Credits. While we all long for safety and freedom in our lives, many of us struggle with compulsive and addictive thoughts and behaviors that undermine our happiness. Through meditation, interactive exercises, Dharma talks, and Q&A, we will explore ways to release ourselves from these painful habits and find more freedom and joy throughout our lives.
Retreat | Online | Hybrid
Saturday, June 22 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The Awakened Heart: Mindfulness and Compassion Practices for Living a Wise and Free Life
The Awakened Heart practices known as the brahmavihāras are treasures that offer us timeless ways to cultivate and embody lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and peace. Cultivating the heart begins with self-love and self-compassion, and opens toward boundless kindness and care, holding beings throughout the many worlds in our own awakened heart. Join us in the delight of exploring, practicing together, and renewing these disciplines through meditation, stories, teachings, dialogue, and time with our beloved elder teacher.
Jack Kornfield
Retreat | Online
June 28 - June 30, 2024 | 1 half day and 2 full days. Times variable - see details. | 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Restructuring Your Life: Making Inner and Outer Changes that Align with Who You Are Now
In life, restructuring becomes essential when your current framework no longer serves you. Are you spending too much time on things that aren’t a priority anymore or living your life according to an old story? This mindfulness-based workshop interweaves guided meditations with practical teachings. You’ll complete self-assessments that support you in catching up with yourself, and we will focus on mindfulness practices that can help you stay true to what’s most important and reorient you when you get off track.
July
Retreat | Online | Hybrid
July 19 - July 28, 2024 | Friday - Sunday | Audit (broadcast only) | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
July Insight Meditation Retreat
The emphasis during this retreat will be on the continuity of awareness in all activities, which stabilizes and balances the mind. Relaxed acceptance of our moment-to-moment experience will become the platform for investigation and wisdom. Particular attention will be paid to the attitudes in the mind that condition our understanding. This retreat is suitable for both beginner and experienced meditators, and we welcome people from all life experiences, backgrounds, and communities.
Retreat | Online
Saturday, July 20 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Transforming the Judgmental Mind
6 CE Credits. Judgments of a reactive and compulsive nature can have a strong impact on our lives. They can distort our perceptions, make relationships difficult, and undermine our work. Together we will examine what judgments are and how to work with them, using mindfulness, “heart” practices, and inquiry. These explorations will help us to preserve the discernment often found in judgments, while working through their destructive aspects. Attendees will have the option of regular follow-up sessions to continue and deepen the learning.
Donald Rothberg
Retreat | Online
Sunday, July 21 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Qigong and Meditation: Practices for Healing and Awakening
6 CE Credits. Qigong and meditation are complementary practices that help us open beyond our limited sense of self. In this workshop, we will explore the profound energy practice, Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down—the main practice offered at the Medicineless Qigong Hospital in China, where extraordinary physical, emotional, and spiritual healing results have been attained. During our time together, we will learn practices that release energy blocks and strengthen our connection with source energy. This increases wellbeing on all levels.
September
Retreat | Online
September 14 - September 15, 2024 | Saturday - Sunday | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Self-Compassion: Opening Your Heart to Yourself
6 CE Credits. This workshop will focus on expanding your sense of who you are, so you can open your heart to yourself. Together, we will share tools for responding in a compassionate way whenever we suffer, and explore strategies for soothing and comforting ourselves so we can handle difficult emotions with greater ease. Through lecture, discussion, meditation, and experiential exercises, you will learn how to motivate change with kindness and gain concrete tools for putting self-compassion into practice in your daily life.
Kristin Neff
December
Retreat | Online | Hybrid
December 18 - December 23, 2024 | Wednesday - Monday | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
This retreat will focus on centering ourselves during the holidays, quieting our minds, grounding in our bodies, opening our hearts, and using inquiry to energize our practice. Special emphasis will be placed on opening to the darkness, including our difficulties and challenges, and opening to the coming light—to the beauty, joy, wisdom, and love within and around us. The retreat will include sitting and walking meditation, daily lovingkindness and Qigong practice, evening talks, practice discussions, and a Winter Solstice ceremony.