Wow! It was quite a love fest at our recent Town Hall. With our themes of Community & Gratitude, we acknowledged, appreciated and celebrated our sangha. We had nearly 100 people in person and online bring their warmth and fellowship. And there were some delicious treats to share as well. We centered around [...]
Truthfulness (sacca in Pali) helps us to free the mind from distortion, tunnel vision, and detrimental social constructs and paradigms. As LGBTQIA+ people and allies we might internalize these false beliefs that limit our capacity to really be our full selves. In this short video, meditation teachers Wildecy de Fátima Jury and Gayah (Imani) [...]
In a world where it's easy to be overwhelmed by global suffering, finding balance between compassion and joy is very important. In this video clip by author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer, he shares personal reflections on staying open-hearted amidst despair and pain, allowing our hearts to be nourished by joy is not just necessary—it's what keeps us going.
Join Fatima and Imani on Saturday, February 3rd and Saturday, February 10th, 2024 for two special daylong retreats for those who identify as BIPOC. Together we will contemplate the role, sacredness, and power of sanghas in our lives and all the gifts that a sangha can bestow us. We will meditate, chant, write, make [...]
In this talk with Kaira Jewel Lingo, we are invited to return home to our body and mind to discover the wisdom and clarity that can emerge from profound rest. With so many aspects of our lives impacted and disrupted by systems that insist that we be ‘on’ all the time. This [...]
Meditation teacher Jill Satterfield discusses embodied mindfulness, getting to know yourself from the inside-out, Buddhism, the power of the breath and imagination in healing from pain, mindful movement, identifying the boxes in your brain – and exploding them, plus a shared compassion practice.Join Jill Satterfield on Saturday, April 8th, 2023 for an online daylong using [...]
In this podcast, Joseph Goldstein covers strategies for getting over yourself. According to Buddhism, there are three ways in which we perpetuate a sense of self -- not a healthy sense of self, but an unhealthy sense of self. You can think about the process of going deeper in meditation as a process [...]
In this podcast, meditation teacher and author Amanda Gilbert explores how kindness can be synonymous with being brave, courageous, outspoken, and aligned with the values and change we want to see in the world. Being kind does not mean rolling over into passivity. It doesn't necessarily mean niceness or being a doormat. Being [...]
Stephen Batchelor is a Buddhist teacher who takes an unconventional approach to the practice. He was more of a scholar, studying logic and philosophy rather than mantras and deities. Throughout his practice, Batchelor felt torn between reason and faith, which ultimately resulted in his secular approach to Buddhism. He follows it as an ever-changing [...]
In this powerful talk, meditation teacher Arisika Razak describes how the events in Washington, DC on January 6th resurfaced trauma from her days as a civil rights activist in the 60's. Even though we may feel helpless in the wake of events like these, just bearing witness can be a powerful and important [...]
