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Weekly Practice Sessions

Weekly, in-person meditation sessions offered by Natural Dharma Fellowship and Wonderwell Mountain Refuge online and in person. Sessions are led by an NDF Meditation Teacher, Mitra, or peers and are open to everyone. Please join us for inspiration, practice, and community through guided meditation, Dharma talks, and time for discussion. Sessions are open to everyone.
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Monday Meditation

5:30 – 6:30 pm Eastern
Online Only

Monday Night Meditation

Guided meditation, a Dharma talk, and time for discussion are offered by Natural Dharma Fellowship. Open to everyone—please join us for inspiration, practice, and community.

Upcoming

Mar. 3 Camille Hykes
Mar. 10 Roxy Broadbent
Mar. 17 TBA
Mar. 24 Jeff Sullivan - The Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
Mar. 31 Roxy Broadbent
Apr. 7 John Bailes
Apr. 14 Brad Howell
Upcoming Sessions
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Tuesday Meditation

5:30 – 6:30 pm Eastern
Online Only

Tuesday Night Meditation

Guided meditation, a Dharma talk, and time for discussion are offered by Natural Dharma Fellowship. Open to everyone—please join us for inspiration, practice, and community.

March 04, 2025 Jane Moss
March 11, 2025 Tracie Palmer
March 18, 2025 Community Lead: David Tucker
March 25, 2025 Eric Brus
   
April 01, 2025 Jane Moss
April 08, 2025 Tracie Palmer
April 15, 2025
Community Lead: Sarah Whitehead
April 22, 2025 Eric Brus
*, April 29, 2025 David Tucker
Upcoming Sessions
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Thursday Meditation

6:00 – 7:30 pm Eastern
In Person

Thursday Evening Meditation

All are welcome as we gather on on Thursday evenings for meditation sessions in person at Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, usually led by an NDF Dharma Teacher or NDF Meditation Leader. 

We meet at the Farmhouse* when there is a residential retreat taking place at Wonderwell, so check the below schedule. Please join us!

  • March 6: Andrea Redican, at Farmhouse*
  • March 13: Barbara Waldorf, at Wonderwell
  • March 20: Gregory Bruss, at Farmhouse*
  • March 27: Jeff Sullivan, at Farmhouse*
  • April 3: Lama Liz Monson, at Wonderwell
  • April 10: Judith Coleman, at Wonderwell
  • April 17: Jeff Sullivan, at Wonderwell
  • April 24: TBA, at Farmhouse*

Farmhouse Address: 365 Philbrick Hill Road (yellow house just north of Wonderwell on the left)

No registration is required. Donations welcome. 

For additional information and to be added to the mailing list for these sessions: Barbara Pontier: .

Upcoming Sessions
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Practice Groups

Bardo Practice Group (online)

Bardo Practices are a unique resource for those who are in the midst of grief for loved ones recently deceased or for those facing death. They offer support to the recently deceased in transitioning through the bardo of death and provide a container for navigating grief, loss, pain, and impermanence. 

This community-led group meets every Thursday alternating between 8:00 AM and 12:00 Eastern.

Additional Details About Bardo Practice

The liturgy used in our weekly practice as arranged and adapted by our Lama Willa from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, liberates fear and is a pathway to the recognition of wisdom.

The bardo sessions are 30 minutes long and open with an opportunity to honor deceased individuals. Each session offers opportunities for participants to lead sections of the liturgy if they desire. We also invite you to stay for an optional 15 minutes of silent meditation at the end. NOTE: This group is focused on general bardo practice and is not a 49-day practice for specific individuals.

Many participants express that these group practices and being in Sangha are deeply moving and supportive and illuminate the teachings of the Buddha through direct experience. To submit the name of a recently deceased loved one, or if you have questions or concerns, please reach out via the link below.

OUR NEW OFFERING, starting January 12, 2025, at 7:00 PM ET, is a bereavement mandala, a place for Sangha to come together with our skillful means of compassionate speech and listening, recognizing that the end of life comes to us all. Future sessions will be on the second Sunday of each month.

Our goal is to have open-hearted conversations about death, informed by Buddhist wisdom. PLEASE NOTE: none of us are trauma or grief counselors.

This time is for discussion and listening, based on a desire to face our deepest fears and sorrows together. We hope that participants will experience clearly how sangha empowers individuals to face the end of life and to continually recognize the wisdom of non-attachment, even in confusion and grief.

READ MORE: Bardo Practice Details & Schedule

LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group (online)

NDF LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group

NDF’s LGBTQIA+ Affinity group is a safe place to heal and build community with people who understand and share our experience, to celebrate our diversity, to cultivate resilience, and to explore the confluence of being Buddhist and queer. LGBTQIA+ is an acronym for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual” with a “+” sign to recognize the limitless sexual orientations and gender identities used by members of our community.

This peer-led group meets online on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm ET

Additional Details About the LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group

Starting in 2020, this affinity group is guided by these group norms and agreements, including confidentiality.

Feedback or ideas about how to make NDF and Wonderwell Mountain Refuge more inclusive? Please contact NDF's Inclusion and Equity Committee at .

  • Meetings: Third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm ET
  • To receive the Zoom link, please contact Tom, the meeting's facilitator.
  • Please contact Gwen for more information or with any questions about this affinity group.
  • If you would like to be added to the mailing list for this affinity group, please complete this short form. Your name and email address will be held in confidence, and your email address will only be included on the "bcc" line of any group emails you receive.
READ MORE: LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group Details & Schedule

Green Tara Practice Group (online)

Green Tara is one of the most beloved deities in Vajrayana Buddhism. As the “Mother of all Buddhas,” Green Tara embodies the enlightened qualities of active compassion and is said to guide, protect, and help all sentient beings find liberation from the suffering of samsara. Because many members of our practice community feel a deep affinity with Green Tara, NDF offers a monthly Green Tara Practice Group online. 

This community-led group meets on the third Sunday of each month from 7:00 to 8:00 pm Eastern time.  Use the Zoom Link below to sign up.

Additional Details About Green Tara Practice

We practice a short form of the Green Tara Sadhana - a spiritual practice centering on Tara.  This practice includes refuge, bodhicitta, and other prayers; a guided visualization of Green Tara, chanting of Green Tara's mantra, and silent meditation. 

Anyone who feels an affinity for Green Tara or who wishes to cultivate active compassion is invited to join.

READ MORE: Green Tara Details & Schedule
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Affiliated Practice Groups

Practice groups meet both in-person and online.
See below for details about each group and contact the person listed for more information.

Awakening Heart

ONLINE

Arlington, MA

Awakening Heart Practice Community

Online Only — Our community engages in practices that support awakening and compassionate action in the world. We are grounded in Buddhist and other wisdom traditions, inspired by the teachings of Lama John Makransky, Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Rupert Spira, and other teachers.

Our community welcomes those beginning to explore contemplative practice and experienced meditators. People of all faith traditions, as well as those who do not identify with any faith, are invited to join us.

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Greater Boston

IN PERSON

Watertown, MA

Greater Boston Practice Group

Watertown, MA —This group practice includes guided and silent meditation, as well as community prayer and chanting. Experienced meditation teachers guide the practice, and there will also be opportunities for peer leadership.  

Initial practice leaders, Tamara Daly and Eric Brus. Both are practice leaders within both NDF and the Awakening Heart Practice Community.

If you live in or are visiting the Boston area, please join us as we bathe in the loving presence of Sangha and celebrate the Dharma in sound and silence.

The Won Buddhism community is welcoming us on a “donation basis”.  Dana will be requested in gratitude for their generosity in allowing our use of their space.

  • Location
    • **In Person**
    • 30 California Street
      Watertown, MA
      (near Watertown Square)
    • Won Buddhism of Boston has generously offered to let our group meet at their beautiful temple in Watertown. The temple is located near Watertown Square, the hub of multiple bus lines and just off the Charles River bike trail. There is also plenty of free on-street parking.
  • Day/Time
    • We meet monthly on the second Sunday of each month from 7:00 – 8:30 pm.
  • Contact Info

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Bhumisparsha

ONLINE

Atlanta, GA

Bhumisparsha

Online Only — Bhumisparsha is a spiritual community co-founded by Lama Rod and Lama Justin von Budjoss whose mission is to make Tantric Buddhism more accessible to North American practitioners and to connect spiritual practice with social change.

  • Location
    • Online Only
  • Day/Time
  • Contact Info
    • www.bhumisparsha.org 
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Granite State
Sangha

ONLINE

Concord, NH

Granite State Sangha

Concord, NH — We are a small, friendly, dedicated group of meditation practitioners. We meet via Zoom because some members live in New Hampshire, but others live out of state. Meditation practice is led by an experienced meditation instructor or practice leader, and is followed by group discussion. All are welcome.

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Great Pond
Sangha

ONLINE & IN-PERSON 

North Andover, MA

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Great Pond Sangha

North Andover, MA — We practice primarily in the Natural Awareness (Dzogchen, Mahamudra) and Mahayana traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Beginners and Newcomers are welcome. Weekly sittings are “drop-in” and free of charge.

Founded in 2004, we serve the Greater Boston and Southern NH communities and are affiliated with North Parish Unitarian Universalist Congregation in North Andover, MA.

For zoom links and more detailed info, join our Google Group or contact 

  • Location:
    • We are currently meeting online and in-person.   
    • 1st and 3rd Wednesdays – Hybrid (in-person at North Parish in North Andover, MA and on Zoom) 
    • 2nd, 4th, 5th Wednesdays – Zoom only
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Natural Meditation
Practice Group

ONLINE & IN-PERSON

Brooksville, ME

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Natural Meditation Practice Group

Brooksville, ME — This Natural Meditation Practice Group is based on traditional practice techniques of Mahamudra and Dzogchen.

We offer guided meditation and discussion as support for our personal development of Natural Awareness, Compassion,  and Love. All are welcome on a drop-in basis. No prior meditation experience is required.

  • Location:
    • Online only
    • Virtual meetings on Zoom during the cold-weather months. We are hoping to meet several times a month in the summer at Reversing Fall Sanctuary with the option to attend by Zoom. 
    • Reversing Falls Sanctuary
      818 Bagaduce Road, Brooksville, ME
    • Please use contact information below for more information or to get a link for the meeting.
  • Day/Time:
    • Thursdays at 6:00 PM
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Natural Dharma
Practice Group

ONLINE & IN-PERSON

Philadelphia, PA

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Natural Dharma Practice Group

Philadelphia, PA —We practice in the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions of natural awareness, including supportive practices to develop mental stability and cultivate compassion.

We host NDF teachers to offer weekend workshops to the Philadelphia community, and organize practice days for the sangha. All are welcome, including beginners.

Learn More

Natural Meditation
Practice Group

ONLINE & IN-PERSON

Portland, ME

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Natural Meditation Practice Community

Portland, ME —This Natural Meditation Practice Group is based on traditional practice techniques of Mahamudra and Dzogchen.

We offer guided meditation and discussion as support for our personal development of Natural Awareness, Compassion,  and Love. All are welcome on a drop-in basis. No prior meditation experience is required.

  • Location:
    • Online on the third Thursday of the month. Hybrid on the second and fourth Thursdays. (There is sometimes some variation to this, so please check.)
    • Online meetings are on Zoom
      In-person meetings at 130 Morning Street, Portland, ME. 
      Please use contact information below to inquire about either option.
  • Day/Time:
    • The last three Thursdays of the month, 5:45–6:45 PM
  • Contact:
    • Patricia Dodd
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