Meditation Courses & Events

TUESDAYS, 5:30 - 6:45

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Want to Learn to Meditate? What’s it all about? 

 **Turn Stress to Contentment**

Free and Open to Everyone, All Ages

Meditation for beginners and experienced practitioners 

Guided meditation instruction, contemplations and practices

Open Discussions

TUESDAYS, 5:30 - 6:45

SEP 24, OCT 15, DEC 10

Join us for a semi monthly session of guided Loving-Kindness practice. No experience necessary.

The practice of Loving-Kindness helps us to connect with our natural and innate quality of kindness and compassion that we have for ourselves and others. By generating gratitude and love for others, we grow and stabilize our love within us for ourselves. 

Wednesdays 

Apr - Jun, 2025 DATES TBD  

6:30pm – 8:00pm    

This course is more traditional look at compassion and wisdom - bodhichitta - and how to develop it in our modern daily lives.  As with everything, we begin with love and build outward on that. We look at our boundless qualities, our courage to use them, and learn practices to develop and deepen them.  

This course explains the logic of love and wisdom, and how these benefit us and others in our journey. 

Each session will include a spacious program of teachings, reflection, discussions, and guided practice.

This course is offered through Hudson River Community Education. 

Wednesdays 

Jan - Mar, 2025 DATES TBD  

6:30pm – 8:00pm  

Wednesdays, 6:30pm – 8:00pm  

Sept 18 – Dec 18, 2024 

We all want to be free of stress and anxiety, but how can we do it?  The essence of all Buddhist teachings is to arrive at lasting peace and happiness through the practice of meditation, realizing our natural awareness. 

Join us to: 

-Learn, establish or deepen a daily meditation practice 

-Create space to experience genuine inner peace and contentment 

-Learn how to bring about lasting transformation in your life 

Each of the nine sessions will feature a rich yet spacious program of teachings, guided meditation, reflection and discussion.

This course is offered through Hudson River Community Education. No sessions Oct 2, 23, Nov 6, 20, 27.

This course was last offered Spring 2024.   

Training our hearts and minds in compassion – overcoming our anxiety and depression – allows us to uncover and reconnect to our true selves: becoming more grounded and stronger, so we can face and address what ails us and others. 

Learn and develop the Buddhist meditation practice of Tonglen, nurturing our capacity for care and love for ourselves and others. At the same time, we stop spiraling our self-obsessive and negative thoughts.

Each session will include a spacious program of teachings, reflection, discussions, and guided practice.

This course is offered through Hudson River Community Education. 

This course was last offered Winter 2024

These days so many of us suffer from a sense of loneliness, disconnecting us from others and ourselves. The deepest forms of self-care allow us to come home to ourselves, a deeply felt sense of who we are. The Buddhist meditation practice of Loving-Kindness alleviates fear and generates a quiet confidence in ourselves. Self-compassion is the seed from which compassion for others grows, dissolving loneliness in this heart-centered understanding.

Each session of this 6 week course will include a spacious program of teachings, reflection, discussions, and guided practice.

This course is offered through Hudson River Community Education. 

30  MINUTES WEEKLY, TBA

instruction and guided meditations of gentle awareness and insight. No experience required. 

Date and location TBD.

Date and location TBD.