Upcoming Live Sessions
Join co-hosts Sharon Suh and Beth Wallace, along with fellow participants.
next live: 12:00 pm EDT
Live sessions will be held each Monday at 12:00 PM EDT. Add the weekly live sessions to your personal calendar.
Watch Daily Sessions
Daily videos will be published in sequence below and delivered to you by email.
Week 1 • March 16 – 22
Build Inner Stability
Discover antidotes to inner unease and learn how to steady your mind and befriend yourself.
Week 1
Meditation for Cultivating Mental Calm and Clarity
Day 7: Experience a complete shamatha session using the breath as your meditation object, learning to seclude the mind from distractions while cultivating the gentle loyalty and devotion that builds mental steadiness.
Self-Compassion and Body Gratitude
Day 6: Learn two practical techniques: a self-compassion practice and a body gratitude practice that expands perspective beyond appearance to appreciate all your body does and is.
Self-Compassion Meditation: Breathing In Your Difficulty
Day 5: Experience a complete tonglen meditation session, visualizing yourself in front of you, breathing in your own difficulty and breathing out whatever might help, then expanding the practice to include others who share similar struggles — discovering how self-compassion naturally leads to compassion for others.
How RAIN Meditation Calms Anxiety on the Spot
Day 4: Experience a complete RAIN practice combining grounding techniques, emotional awareness, wise self-talk, and compassionate nurturing to transform your relationship with anxious feeling.
Guided Body Scan and Breath Practice
Day 3: Experience a complete 10-minute guided meditation focusing on body scanning, diaphragmatic breathing, and the core skill of noticing thoughts without getting caught in their storylines, always returning to the anchor of breath.
How Mindfulness Helps Us Meet Stress and Change
Day 2: Explore how small stressors accumulate, the fragmentation of identity under pressure, and why even precinct commanders burn out after two years when creativity and problem-solving abilities decline — and how to counter these challenges.
Recording of First Live Session for The Wisdom Within Us
Day 1: Sharon Suh and Beth Wallace welcome participants to the first live session for The Wisdom Within Us with a program overview, guided practice, and reflection period on March 16.
Week 2 • March 23 – 29
Respond with Awareness
Discover antidotes to reactivity and learn to work skillfully with emotions and mental patterns.
Week 2
Connecting Emotions to Physical Sensations in the Body
Day 14: In this session selected from The Women of Wisdom Summit, Sharon Suh guides a trauma-informed mindfulness practice that helps us feel and recognize sensations within the body. By slowly and compassionately bringing awareness to physical sensations, we can begin to notice how emotions show up in the body.
Guided Contemplation on Generosity and Scarcity
Day 13: Explore generosity through the body and breath in a three-part guided meditation, including restful stillness, awareness of the breath's natural rhythm of receiving and releasing, and reflection on moments of giving and holding back.
Meditation for Transforming Harmful Habits
Day 12: Practice a unique meditation technique that rewires your relationship to harmful behaviors by cultivating "samvega" – the healthy dismay that naturally guides you toward freedom.
A Guided Practice for Transforming Anger
Day 11: Learn and experience compassionate abiding, a practice developed by Pema Chödrön and Dale Asrael, breathing in feelings of anger and hatred directly into your heart while breathing out into openness and space, cultivating wisdom while releasing the urge to harm.
Work with Anger — Without Suppressing It
Day 10: Examine alarming statistics on anger's growth in North America — from customer rage to road rage deaths — and discover Buddhism's teaching that anger at its base is wisdom (dveṣa), but becomes poisonous when it turns into hatred and aggression (pratigha) that lashes out to hurt others.
Working with Uncertainty: A Guided Exercise
Day 9: Experience a powerful thought experiment of waking in complete darkness, exploring how attachment seeks certainty, aversion pushes away fear, and embracing ignorance becomes the key to moving skillfully through unknown territory.
Understanding Your Reactive Patterns
Day 8: Discover how attachment, aversion, and ignorance operate unconsciously in everyday situations like watching the news, building identity, and navigating disagreement, learning to recognize these patterns as they create our personal reality maps.
Recording of Second Live Session for The Wisdom Within Us
Live Session 2: Sharon Suh and Beth Wallace meet with participants for the second live session of The Wisdom Within Us, with a weekly review and guided compassionate touch practice on March 23.
Week 3 • March 30 – April 6
Cultivate Compassion & Connection
Discover antidotes to disconnection and learn how to bring your practice into relationships daily life.
Week 3
Day 22 Video 2: Recording of Live session 4
Beth Wallace meets with participants for the final live session of The Wisdom Within Us, offering a program debrief and guided practice.
Closing Remarks with Sharon Suh
The Wisdom Within Us guide Sharon Suh offers parting words of encouragement and inspiration to help you create a rhythm of practice in your daily life.
Sustaining Your Meditation Practice
Day 21: Receive practical guidance for establishing a sustainable meditation practice—starting with just five minutes daily at whatever time works for you, finding a regular spot, and understanding that real results show up not in perfect attention to breath but in how the practice affects your life.
Bringing Awareness to Everyday Actions
Day 20: Experience authentic koan practice firsthand as you learn to embody the famous "wash your bowl" teaching and discover enlightenment in everyday actions.
How to Listen and Speak with Presence
Day 19: Experience a complete Insight Dialogue practice session, working through each guideline step-by-step with a gratitude contemplation to discover how these tools support both internal awareness and relational sensitivity.
Mindfulness Practice for Assertiveness and Difficult Conversations
Day 18: Experience two guided mindfulness meditations, first learning the practice of returning to breath and body with kindness, then applying the practice while contemplating a specific situation requiring assertiveness.
Meditation as a Complete Way of Life
Day 17: Experience guided mindfulness-awareness meditation that weaves together multiple aspects of the eightfold path.
Metta Meditation Wishing Yourself and others Well
Day 16: Experience a complete metta practice session focusing on self and loved ones to develop genuine goodwill and heart-opening awareness.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I miss a day?
No problem. All daily videos and live session recordings will be available on demand. You can return and continue at your own pace.
Are the live sessions recorded?
Yes. All four live sessions will be recorded and shared with participants.
How long will I have access?
You’ll receive unlimited access to all videos and recordings, even after the event ends.
Is this beginner-friendly?
Yes. The practices are accessible for beginners and meaningful for experienced meditators alike.