Like what you’ve heard and want to connect with a teacher in person? Be Here Now Network teachers share their wisdom in talks, workshops, and retreats at locations across the US.
Check the calendar below to attend events where there’s an opportunity to deepen your spiritual understanding and learn from some of the best teachers in the world.
Join Sharon for an intimate evening at 4th Street Yoga in Berkeley, CA exploring how to work with enemies. An enemy, whether within (in the shape of a habitual, painful mind state) or without (as someone for whom we steadily feel antipathy or fear) marks the edge between limited lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity and the potential boundlessness of these qualities.
In this workshop Sharon will explore inner and outer enemies, look at the fear, anger and anguish generated by being stuck in a mode of “us” and “them”, and focus on the liberation we are capable of. There will be periods of dialogue, discourse, and meditation practice. Suitable for both beginning and experienced meditators.
Practice the art of attention in this weekly meditation session led by Sharon Salzberg and others from the New York Insight Meditation Center. Himalayan practitioners have, for centuries, used meditation to quiet the mind, open the heart, calm the nervous system, and increase one’s ability to focus. Now, western scientists, business leaders, and the secular world have embraced meditation as a vital tool for brain health.
Whether you’re a brand-new beginner, a dabbler, or a skilled meditator seeking the company of others, join expert teachers in a 45-minute weekly program designed to fit into your lunch break. Each session will be inspired by a different work of art from the Rubin Museum’s collection, and will include an opening talk, a 20-minute sitting session, and a closing discussion. Chairs will be provided.
Limited seating; tickets required for all participants.
For more information & for schedule of upcoming teachers please visit: http://rma.cm/cw
Bridging the world of spirit and activism, Rev angel Kyodo williams and Sharon Salzberg will explore love of self and love of others and the social transformations they move us towards.
Through dialogue, reflection and meditation practice, together we will look at questions like: What is the difference between loving yourself and narcissistic preoccupation? How do racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening? How can each one of us affect the shortcomings not only of our own minds but also of our communities? If you believe that social transformation and personal, spiritual liberation are inextricably linked, these kinds of questions form the frontier of that linkage. This program is co-sponsored by the Garrison Institute and the Community Meditation Center of New York (CMC).
Join Sharon in Madison, Wisconson for a weekend Lovingkindness Retreat hosted by Madison Insight. Please note: this retreat is non-residential. Registration materials will be posted on the Madison Insight website approximately 8-10 weeks prior to the retreat.
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All retreats at Madison Insight are in “noble silence” and consist of sitting meditation, walking meditation, and Dhamma instructions. They are suitable for both beginning and experienced meditators. Clear and simple instruction will be presented throughout the retreat. At residential retreats a longer discourse on the dhamma will be presented each evening. Retreats are held in silence except for question & answer periods when meditators ask questions of the teacher, either through submitted written questions, or in small group interview sessions. Sitting meditation periods of 45 minutes will alternate with periods of walking meditation throughout each day. Details about fees are provided with the information posted when the retreat registration opens.