Archives: Workshops
Nocturnal Meditations
What if the time you spend sleeping and dreaming — a third of your life! — could become a frontier for spiritual awakening? Andrew Holecek, sleep researcher and longtime dream yoga practitioner, introduces the five nocturnal meditations: liminal dreaming, lucid dreaming, dream yoga, sleep yoga, and bardo yoga. You'll discover how to bring awareness into the dream state, work directly with the unconscious mind, and access dimensions of experience where transformation happens seven to nine times faster than in waking life. From practical techniques for inducing lucid dreams to understanding how the nighttime mind reveals the dreamlike nature of all reality, Andrew shows how these practices aren't just fascinating — they extend meditation into every hour of your life.
What Is Tantra?
Renowned teacher Judith Simmer-Brown demystifies Buddhist tantra — its history, its unconventional methods, and its profound goal of awakening us to our own sacred nature — culminating in a taste of White Tara deity practice. (35 mins)
What Is Socially Engaged Buddhism?
Peace Twesigye illuminates socially engaged Buddhism—its roots, its practice, and its call to action—showing how tending the heart through meditation naturally leads to compassionate, skillful engagement with the world around us.
How to Develop Your Generosity
Explore generosity not as occasional charitable giving but as a foundational Buddhist practice and virtue that produces peace—discovering the natural richness within yourself, learning to recognize the contrast between poverty mentality (feeling insufficient and lacking) and inherent abundance (a quality of mind without limits), and understanding generosity as the natural flow of breathing in and breathing out, welcoming and extending, giving and receiving in constant circulation with life itself.
Buddhist Visualization for Secure Attachment
Josh Korda of Dharmapunx NYC bridges attachment theory and Buddhist practice, showing how visualization techniques rooted in 2,500 years of tradition can help us heal insecure relational patterns and cultivate the felt sense of safety we need to thrive.
Relaxing Into Freedom
Learn the Six Rs — a simple, unconventional, and highly effective technique that supercharges meditation practice by transforming how you relate to distractions, making practice easier, more sustainable, and even fun, whether you’re brand new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, applicable to any meditation style whatsoever.
How to Do Mindfulness Meditation
Learn the foundational practice of mindfulness meditation from UCLA Mindful's director Diana Winston, discovering how paying attention to present moment experiences with openness and curiosity can reduce stress and anxiety, increase self-awareness, and help you show up more fully for life instead of living on autopilot.
Mindfulness and the Buddha’s Eightfold Path
Discover how mindfulness is one jewel in a family of eight interconnected practices for living a good life, exploring the Buddha's eightfold path as a complete approach to bringing meditation and awareness into every aspect of daily existence — from action and speech to livelihood, effort, and intention — applicable to whatever your life situation may be.
How to Practice Mindful Assertiveness
Learn to advocate for yourself more effectively by combining mindfulness meditation with practical on-the-spot techniques, discovering how to work with reactivity, create space for responsiveness, and show up with clarity and compassion in difficult situations requiring assertiveness.
How to Do Mindfulness-Awareness Practice
Discover your natural human capacity for steady presence and open awareness through traditional mindfulness-awareness meditation, learning to reclaim your innate power of attention in a culture of endless distraction while cultivating qualities that enrich your everyday life, relationships, and work.
How to Practice Self-Compassion
Learn the practice of tonglen (exchanging self and other) meditation specifically directed toward yourself, discovering why self-compassion is essential rather than selfish, and exploring the three key components — empathy, care, and agency — that build genuine compassion for both yourself and others
How to Befriend Your Body
Develop a compassionate, unconditional relationship with your body through practices that shift your focus from appearance to appreciation, learning to inhabit the body you have rather than struggling to fit cultural ideals — especially valuable as your body continues to change through aging, illness, and life’s challenges.
Transforming Anger Into Wisdom
Explore how to work skillfully with anger in an increasingly angry world, learning Buddhist perspectives on the wisdom within anger and practicing compassionate abiding — a powerful technique to transform hatred and aggression while maintaining the clarity needed for compassionate action.
How to Cultivate Awareness Through Zen Meditation
Learn the traditional practice of zazen (Zen meditation) from Zen priest Karen Maezen Miller, as shared via the same instructions handed down since 13th-century Japan, teaching simple, direct guidance on posture, breath, and mind for sitting meditation.
How to Cultivate Friendliness through Metta Meditation
Mary Stancavage teaches the transformative practice of metta meditation, to develop genuine friendliness toward yourself and others, creating wellbeing, patience, and connection while releasing harshness and resentment.
Demystifying Meditation & Mindfulness
Learn the foundational skills of mindfulness meditation with practical instruction on posture, breath awareness, and working with thoughts - designed to be accessible whether you're a complete beginner or returning to practice after time away. Beth Wallace of Lion's Roar, an established mindfulness teacher, is your guide.
Working with Buddhism’s “Three Poisons”
Explore Buddhism's foundational understanding of human psychology through the three poisons - attachment, aversion, and ignorance - learning how these fundamental mental patterns shape our actions and discovering how awareness can transform our relationship with them.
How to Develop Insight through Vipassana Meditation
Vipassana (Insight) meditation teacher Mary Stancavage offers a friendly introduction to the practice and its grounding, calming benefits.
What Is a Zen Koan?
Discover how ancient Zen koans can awaken you to present-moment awareness and free you from mental confusion through guided practice with experienced teacher Karen Maezen Miller.