Past Events

• Creative Refuge – The structure of this workshop-style course is designed to support opening and freeing one’s creative process. Suitable for artists, writers, and other creatives who wish to open possibly and adventure within one’s creative life. Begins March 2025. More Info.
• Beyond Comparison – Five week emptiness/insight meditation course starting mid January, 2025. This five week insight/emptiness meditation course will explore strategies for softening the mind’s habitual activities of comparison and distinction making.  More info & sign-up here.
• The Sense of Place – Four week emptiness/insight meditation course, starting mid Nov., 2024. Exploring the sense of spatial relationships, directionality, and the location of awareness in meditation. More info & sign up here.
• Approaching Emptiness – 8 week course starting mid January, 2024 on insight/emptiness practice as presented within the teachings of Rob Burbea. Co-taught with Yahel Avigur. More info
• 2024 Creativity & Mediation Sessions – 6 monthly half-day meetings focused on the interplay of Creativity/Mediation/Spritual Practice. More info here
• Emptiness Group – (no longer meets) I participate in leading meetings for a monthly drop-in group to support folks working with Rob Burbea’s insight & samadhi practices, each session is led by a teacher authorized by Rob Burbea
• Figure and Ground: Meditative explorations of Obstruction, Space, and Absence – Five week course for experienced meditators. Tuesdays (morning California time / evening Europe). October 18 – November 15th. More information here.
• Opening What Is Closed: Creative Process & Dharma Practice (Fall)- Five meetings for meditators interested in creative work / art making. Sundays (mornings in the Americas / Evenings in Europe). Sept 3 – Oct 1, 2023. More information here.
• 2023 Summer Practice Sessions w/ Yahel Avigur: Anatta & Dukkha Methods Practices. Drop in sessions to support experienced meditators familiar with these practices; Every other Sunday from June 18 to Aug 27, 2023. More info here.
• Opening What Is Closed: Creative Process & Dharma Practice – Five meetings for meditators interested in creative work / art making. Tuesdays. Starts March 21, 2023. More information here.
• Seeing through Dualities, Deepening in Emptiness. 9-week course for experienced meditators, exploring practice approaches from Rob Burbea’s book Seeing that Frees. Co-taught with Yahel Avigur, Starts January 15th, 2023. More information here.
• Practice Circle (2022)- Monthly Sangha Meeting through SFDC – meets the second Wednesday of each month starting April 13th. More information here. Get zoom links and reminders by signing up here.
• November Insight Sessions – Four Sunday meetings for experienced insight meditators. Starts November 6, 2022. More information here.
• Breath / Energy / Body : A Practice Lab. Course dates: Five sessions on Mondays from the 14th of November till the 12th of December, 2022. co-taught with Juha Penttilä. More information and registration here.
• 2022 Summer Practice Sessions w/ Yahel Avigur: Anatta & Vast Awareness Practices. Drop in sessions to support experienced meditators familiar with these practices; Every other Sunday from May 22 to Aug 14. More info here.
• Approaching Emptiness – 9 week course starting mid March, 2022 on insight/emptiness practice as presented with the teachings of Rob Burbea. Co-taught with Yahel Avigur. More info
• “Art of Perception” Drop-in group for people practicing with Rob Burbea’s teachings (2021). Offered by SF Dharma Collective.
• Perspectives into the Body and the Emptiness of the Body – Jan/Feb 2022, 5 week insight course, co-taught with Juha Penttilä. More info
• Emotions & Awakening Course – Fall 2021, 9 week course co-taught with Yahel Avigur. More info.
• Brahmaviharas & Parenting – 4 week course co-taught with Sari Markkanen. More info
• Approaching Emptiness – 9 week offered in the Spring of 2021 on insight/emptiness practice as presented with the teachings of Rob Burbea. Co-taught with Yahel Avigur. More info
• Creativity + Meditation course (exploring the intersection between art/mystical experience/buddhist practice) 5 weeks, Jan 2021
• Emotions & Awakening, co-teaching with Yahel Avigur, 12 week course, Fall 2020. Link
• Dharma talk “Skill and Art in Practicing with our Emotional Life”, Long Beach Meditation, Aug 23, 2020. Audio
• Practicing with Emotions Daylong w/Diana Clark, IMC Redwood City, Aug 8, 2020. Audio.
• Introduction to Meditation at Long Beach Meditation, January/Feb 2020.
• Workshop: Exploring the Nature of Self-Construction. Saturday, October 5, 2019, Long Beach Meditation
• Dharma Study Session: Developing Loving-Kindness. Saturday, December 1, 2018.
• Workshop: The Creative Heart of Meditation. Saturday, March 31, 2018 Long Beach Meditation.
• Workshop: Opening to the Heart/Mind. Saturday, May 12, 2018
• 6 week beginner’s course: Intro to Vipassana Meditation. Saturday, January 13, 2018
• 4 week intermediate course: Exploring the Heart-Mind. Thursday, May 25, 2017