Upcoming Teachings
November 2019
Weekly Meditation Class with Tara – Bethesda, MD (check schedule for visiting teachers)
Meditation class meets weekly with Tara ~ no class on: Dec. 25, Jan. 1. Special classes: Dec. 18 - Solstice; Jan 3 - Three Refuges NOTE: visiting teacher dates: 2020: February 19 - Jim Gordon, MD (with Tara); May 27 - Rick Hanson This class includes 1/2 hour of Vipassana meditation instruction and guided meditation…
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Residential 5-Day New Year’s Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion – Reisterstown, MD
With Tara, Jonathan Foust, Konda Mason and Noliwe Alexander ~ The New Year is a wonderful time to touch sacred presence and deepen our roots in spiritual life. In this silent retreat we will open our hearts and minds through practices of Vipassana (mindfulness meditation--both sitting and walking sessions), traditional heart meditations (metta), yoga (mindful…
Find out more »January 2020
Radical Compassion: An Evening With Tara Brach – New York City, NY
Radical Compassion: An Evening With Tara Brach Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and as a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. Radical Compassion has three key elements: it is an embodied experience (a felt sense of tenderness), it is inclusive all beings, and it naturally moves us to act…
Find out more »The RAIN of Compassion – Daylong event in New York City, NY
The RAIN of Compassion - Daylong event in New York City, NY Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. In this workshop with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust, we will use the acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) to explore the…
Find out more »Radical Compassion: An Evening with Tara Brach – Los Angeles, CA
Radical Compassion: An Evening with Tara Brach Join us for an evening of teaching and practice with Tara Brach celebrating her new book Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN About the book: One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult…
Find out more »March 2020
Psychotherapy Networker Symposium – Washington, DC
For 43 years, the Networker Symposium has been psychotherapy’s most celebrated annual gathering, with 150 workshops, over 100 of the field’s leading innovators, and a community of 4,000 inquiring practitioners like you. Join us from March 19 - 22, 2020 to explore the latest advances in the field and discover a range of possibilities to…
Find out more »Residential Weekend – Radical Compassion: The Courage to Love Ourselves and Our World – Kripalu, West Stockbridge, MA
Stockbridge, MA – Radical Compassion: The Courage to Love Ourselves and Our World For everyone; no meditation experience required. Imagine who you would be if you truly held your inner life and others with a tender, awake heart. How would your life change? Radical compassion is our evolutionary capacity to include all living beings in…
Find out more »April 2020
Residential Weeklong Retreat – Intimacy with Life ~ Reisterstown, MD
Vipassana, or Buddhist Meditation, is a way of opening to life and seeing clearly the totality of one’s being and experience. The practice is based on cultivating a present-centered mindfulness, leading to an unfolding of our natural wisdom and compassion. The focus of this weeklong retreat is to enhance intimacy with ourselves and the world.…
Find out more »July 2020
Residential Weekend – Radical Compassion – Omega Institute – Rhinebeck, NY
Radical Compassion: The medicine most essential to healing and freedom is compassion—caring for ourselves and all beings. While compassion arises naturally, the flowering of full, mature compassion—Radical Compassion—requires training. Join psychologist and meditation teacher Tara Brach to learn an applied meditation for cultivating mindfulness-based compassion known as RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture). Beginning with our inner life, we…
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