April 2021
Online Meditation Class Series
This 6-week Buddhist meditation series will be offered online via Zoom on Thursday evenings 4:30-6:00 pm (Pacific time) from April 22 to May 27. Beginners and experienced meditators alike are welcome. Participants will be introduced to the practices of sitting, walking, and eating meditation, core Buddhist principles, and how to bring mindfulness to everyday life. Some classes will also include mindful movement. Harry and Tom will draw on what they’ve learned over many years of evolving practice and are eager…
Find out more »May 2021
Healing from Divisiveness with Santikaro
To register for this retreat and receive zoom contact information please email: Christy@dharmazephyr.org Divisiveness is gnawing at the roots of American life. Yet we need not surrender to it. Buddha-Dhamma points to important things we all share, cutting through the fabrications of race, class, and other tools of division. Mindful Dhamma practice offers alternatives, giving us a choice in each situation and in every challenge. Santikaro will lead explorations into the “inner divisiveness” that bubbles up in all of us…
Find out more »August 2021
Retreat at Lake Tahoe with Heather Sundberg: Suchness – 5 Night Retreat in Person at Lake Tahoe or Zoom
The Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community presents “Suchness: Understanding Conditions, Responding with Compassion” Taught by Heather Sundberg Sunday August 8 – Friday August 13 (5 nights) The essence of meditation includes settling and stabilizing attention, encouraging embodied presence, developing mindfulness-wisdom of the patterns within thoughts and emotions, and bringing a warm, caring attention to all we experience. In relationship with each other, these elements of meditation practice offer us the freedom to respond with wisdom and compassion to the challenges…
Find out more »Mountain Meadow Retreat
Anne Macquarie will again lead us into the woods to find the best tree under which to set up mindfulness before ourselves. More details to follow.
Find out more »September 2021
The Aloka Vihara Nuns
The nuns will return to us on September 11 and 12, 2021. We don't yet know what they will be presenting, as they are secluded in their 3 month retreat right now. More details to follow after April 15.
Find out more »October 2021
Mindful Movement and Meditation with Denise Barclay
As the pandemic abates and with CDC guidelines observed, with vaccinated yogis and masks, Denise will offer her retreat at Camp Galilee.
Find out more »Dori Langevin will teach
We do know that Dori will return to our Sangha. We don't yet know what the topic will be or whether it will be in person or Zoom.
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