2023-09 Diving for Diamonds in the Darkness
The Buddha’s first teaching is often phrased as: “Life is suffering.” Have you ever questioned this teaching or felt confused about how to implement it…
Resource Category: 2023
Mindfulness, Wisdom, and Compassion: Śāntideva’s Introduction to the Way of Life of a Bodhisattva
Our compassionate witnessing of an other’s suffering shows that the mind can be free from the constricted life of excessive self-preoccupation and become open and…
Natural Freedom: Visions of Awareness, the Practice of Tögal (Dzogchen 2023 Spring)
In the Spring Tögal retreat, we deepen in the visions of Tögal, going further into the yogas of the subtle body and connecting to the…
Rewilding the Soul (Dashboard)
What does it mean to be human in these times, when the sky, wind, air, rivers, oceans, soil, rains, trees, plants and animals seem to…
Teachers Retreat (2023 Spring) – In This Together
The Teachers Retreat is the annual occasion for the leadership of NDF’s spiritual programming to gather, learn, and connect. As meditation teachers and mentors, we…
Introduction to Meditation: A Retreat for Beginners
When you develop a meditation practice, you are being kind to yourself and to all those you love. Actually—to all sentient beings. The sacred silence…
Relaxed and Awake: The Feldenkrais Method (2023)
This daylong retreat combines accessible yet profound mindful meditation practices with sessions of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons, the brilliant sensory-motor approach to gently and wisely…
Wakeful Body 6-Week Course (2023)
Yoga and Meditation as an Integrated Path Many of us have a complicated relationship with the body. In its vulnerability to aging and illness, we…
Dharma Dialogues 2023 – Confronting Race and Injustice
A YEAR-LONG INQUIRY INTO BUDDHIST CARE AND COMMUNITY ACROSS DIFFERENCE How do we bring our whole selves to the work of personal and collective liberation?…
Natural Freedom: Visions of Awareness (Dzogchen 2023 Winter)
The 2023 Winter Trekchod retreat explores the visionary practices of Togal, especially the visions that emerge from sky yoga. This retreat includes a close study…
