PRAGUE
MEDITATION
CIRCLE
Practice online, from anywhere
Live sessions in normal Prague hours, plus apps, audio, and free courses for solo practice
Sravasti Abbey Buddhist Monastery
Lay Practitioner's Group
Sravasti Abbey, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery for Western nuns and monks in the U.S., was established in Washington State by Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron in 2003. Whilst practicing in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, Sravasti Abbey monastics ordain in the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya.
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Sunday – Friday – 2:30 pm Prague time
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Saturday – at 2:30 pm Prague time (Abbey Monastic leads the practice)
Meditation Sterling
Daily Meditation
1:00 p.m. Prague time
Daily Zoom meditations led by Venerable Lama Konchok Sonam, the Spiritual Director of the Drikung Meditation Center and Meditation Sterling. Born in Lhasa, Tibet, and trained in the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, Lama Sonam ordained as a monk at 18. He has completed advanced retreats and received teachings from over 25 great masters, including Nyedak Rinpoche and Pachung Rinpoche. In 2003, he became Resident Lama in Boston, where he excels in meditation and Vajrayana methods.
Yoga Science
Yoga Science, led by Nhung Nguyen, offers a unique approach to yoga that blends physical practice with a focus on mental clarity, energy control, and overall well-being.
Nhung, a senior researcher in environmental microbiology and nanotoxicology at the Technical University of Liberec, integrates her scientific background into her yoga practice and teaching. Drawing on her own experience with stress relief and health improvement through yoga, she provides both online classes for those living in Prague and in-person sessions in Liberec.
The classes are donation-based and open to all levels. The focus is on improving flexibility, balance, and mindfulness through gentle, accessible practices that can support both physical health and emotional resilience.
For more information or to register, visit Yoga Science and use the contact form or email Nhung:
Tuesday mornings, 6:00 - 7:30 am – Hatha Yoga,
live online
Wednesday mornings, 7:00 - 8:30 am – Integration Yoga, live online
Thursday mornings, 7:00 - 8:30 am – Kundalinia Yoga, live online
Seeds Meditation Community
Free Daily Zoom Sits
Seeds hosts free daily drop‑in meditation sessions via Zoom, open to anyone regardless of experience or location. All are offered in English, free, and grounded in secular, mindfulness-based teachings.
Mondays
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Morning Bell, Silent Sit: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Just This: 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
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Morning Meditation: 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Tuesdays
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Morning Bell, Silent Sit: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Softening into Experience: 1:00 pm – 1:35 pm
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Self-Compassion: 3:00 pm – 3:25 pm
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Mindful Perspectives: 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
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Guided Meditation (in German): 7:15 pm – 8:00 pm
Wednesdays
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Morning Bell, Silent Sit: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Just This: 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
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"Morning" Meditation: 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Thursdays
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Morning Bell, Silent Sit: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Softening into Experience: 1:00 pm – 1:35 pm
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Journey to Peace and Fulfillment: 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Fridays
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Morning Bell, Silent Sit: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Just This: 2:00 pm: 2:45 pm
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Morning Meditation: 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
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Including Everything: 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Saturdays
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Morning Bell, Silent Sit: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Sundays
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Morning Bell, Silent Sit: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Loosen the Grip: 1:45 pm – 3:30 pm
OutBreath
Boston's LGBTQ Meditation Community
OutBreath is a community founded in 2009 in Boston for all LGBTQ people interested in meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhism. They work with meditation centers across all Buddhist lineages to create LGBTQ-affirming meditation classes, workshops, community events, and residential retreats.
"We welcome LGBTQ people of all ages, identities, and backgrounds. Come as you are. Whether you are brand new to meditation, a long-term practitioner, or anywhere in between, you are warmly invited!"
Garrison Virtual LGBTQIA+ Sangha
First Tuesday of every month
6:00 pm Prague time
San Francisco Zen Center
Online Zendo
A variety of zendo-related events are hosted here. They are open to all and require no registration. (All times below are in Prague time).
Monday – Friday
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3:25 – 3:40 pm: Opening Zoom and settling into seat; three bells at 3:40 PM open zazen
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3:40 – 4:40 pm: Zazen (60-minute period with an interval as indicated below)
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3:40 – 4:03 pm: Zazen
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4:03 – 4:10 pm: Interval
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4:10 – 4:40 pm: Zazen
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4:40 pm: Zazen ends with time drum and han, then single bell followed by Robe Chant (shown in the Zoom chat window)
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4:40 – 4:55 pm: Short service including bowing & chanting*
Saturday
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3:15 – 3:30 pm: Opening Zoom and settling into seat; three bells at 3:30 PM open zazen
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3:30 – 4:00 pm: Zazen (30 min)
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4:00 – 4:10 pm: Single bell followed by the Well-Being Ceremony (chant and names will show in Zoom chat window)
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6:25 – 7:00 pm: Zazen (35 min)
Zen Center of Los Angeles
Virtual Dharma
The Zen Center of Los Angeles (ZCLA) is a Zen center founded by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi in 1967 that practices in the White Plum lineage.
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Morning Zazen with Bill Tetsui Press: Weekdays in January, 4:00–4:40 pm Prague time.
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Morning Zazen in the ZCLA Zendo: Wednesday–Friday, 3:00–4:00 pm Prague time.
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Introduction to Zen Meditation (Zoom): Sundays, 7:00–8:30 pm Prague time.
Upaya Zen Center
Live Programs
Upaya Institute and Zen Center, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, focuses on integrating Zen practice with social action, with traditional cultivation of wisdom and compassion.
Upaya Upaya conducts donation-based live online programs (via Zoom) from their campus in Santa Fe, NM. Most programs are available for everyone, regardless of experience.
London Buddhist Vihara
The London Buddhist Vihara is one of the main Theravada Buddhist temples in the United Kingdom. The Vihara was the first Sri Lankan Buddhist monastery to be established outside Asia. Established in 1926, the Vihara is managed by the Anagarika Dharmapala Trust in Colombo.
Meditation guidance
Wednesdays
8:00 pm to 9:30 pm Prague time
Monthly Meditation Retreat
Last Saturday of every month
4:00 to 7:00 pm Prague time
Still Mind Zendo
SMZ, formed in 1994 in New York City, is in the lineage of Zen Master Taizan Maezumi Roshi and the White Plum Asanga, an affiliation of over 200 Zen teachers throughout the world.
Online meditation, weekday mornings
Online meditation on Zoom, open to the public.
Two periods of zazen with a short walking meditation in between.
Zoom link: bit.ly/stillmindzendozoom
Monday – Friday
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Prague time
Plum Village
Follow live-streamed meditations, talks, and other events happening around the world from Plum Village, a global community of mindfulness practice centers and monasteries offering retreats and teachings on engaged Buddhism and the art of mindful living.
Universal Compassion Foundation
Sunday Service Buddhist Meditation & Teaching with Geshe-la Phelgye
Everyone near or far who is interested is welcome to join our humble Sangha community. Each teaching is led by Venerable Geshe Phelgye, a Tibetan Buddhist lama who is known for promoting vegetarianism and humane treatment of animals, and for his work as a peace activist. Geshe Thupten Phelgye represents the Gelug tradition in the Tibetan Parliament in Exile.
Learn Buddhism, and Buddhist philosophy, practice meditation and universal compassion, and pray for happiness for oneself and others for the purpose of world peace. Join live via Zoom every Sunday, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Prague time.
Tergar – Washington DC
We are primarily a Zoom-based Tergar sangha serving the mid-Atlantic area and beyond.
Sundays
10:30 am – 12:00 pm (Prague time)
Tergar – Washburn
The Tergar Washburn Practice Group meets in person and on Zoom.
Sundays
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (Prague time)
Introduction to Meditation
One Sunday each month
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm (Prague time)
Tergar – Texas
Join the group anytime. There are no prerequisites. Each session includes a video teaching from Mingyur Rinpoche, guided meditation, and discussion.
Sundays
4:00 pm (Prague time)
Tergar – South Bay / Los Gatos
The South Bay / Los Gatos, California, group meets on Zoom every Sunday for English-language group meditation and discussion. Please feel free to drop into our Zoom meeting any Sunday. We'd love to meet you!
Sundays
6:45 pm – 8:15 pm (Prague time)
Tergar – Sussex
Our meetings are open to all. Drop in anytime!
Mondays
8:30 pm – 9:30 pm (Prague time)
Tergar – Edinburgh
Every Wednesday evening, we host a 30-minute silent, unguided session on Zoom. All welcome.
We also meet every Sunday, online and in person. Online Sessions are on Zoom. These are on the 1st, 3rd, 4th Sunday of the month (and the 5th Sunday if the month is longer).
Wednesdays
8.30 pm – 9:00 pm (Prague time)
Sundays
7:00 to 8:30 pm (Prague time)
Drikung Dharma Surya Center
DDSC was founded and established by His Eminence Garchen Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche, a much revered lama of the unbroken Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., the Center is dedicated to sharing, promoting, and sustaining Buddhist teachings and practices.
Zoom Online Dharma Program
Saturday & Sunday: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Prague time.
FPMT Centre of Compassion
Liverpool, England
Would you like to learn how to meditate with friendly like-minded people? We attract visiting teachers, enjoy different types of meditation and we read and discuss books from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom archive (www.lamayeshe.com).
All of our teachings are via zoom, on Monday evenings between 18:30 and 20:00 UK time. Please email us if you would like more details including the zoom link: centreofcompassion@gmail.com.
Monday evenings – Geshe Rinchen teachings: 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Prague time.
Tuesday evenings – Buddhism for Intermediate students with Geshe Rinchen: 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Prague time.
Katog Choling
Weekly Online Practice Sessions
Katog Choling is a nonprofit organization created to provide a foundation for the dharma activities of Khentrul Lodrö T’haye Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school who is the abbot of Mardo Tashi Choling in Eastern Tibet.
To participate in the weekly online practice sessions, send an email to Susan at webcast@katog.org and ask for the Zoom links. Sundays at 5:00 pm Prague time.
The Daily Sit
Daily Sit was birthed in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. Five years later, this live virtual offering is going strong, thanks to a vibrant committed community of meditation practitioners.
Weekdays 4:30–5:15 pm Prague time.
Insight Meditation Center
The Insight Meditation Center (IMC) is dedicated to the study and practice of Buddhist ideals – mindfulness, ethics, compassion, loving-kindness, and liberation. At the heart of all IMC activities is the practice of Insight Meditation, sometimes called mindfulness or Vipassana meditation.
Weekday Meditation with Gil Fronsdal
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4:00 pm – Meditation
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4:30 pm – Dharmette
Sunday Meditation with Gil Fronsdal and Guest Teachers
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6:25 pm – Meditation
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7:00 pm – Dharma talk (30–45 minutes)
Dublin Buddhist Centre
These events are suitable for those who already have a regular meditation practice and want to continue to do so in a supportive environment with other meditators. There is no requirement to book in advance, just turn up.
Morning Meditation
Online – Zoom
Monday – Saturday
8:30–9:25 am Prague time
Risho Kosei-kai
Sunday Service
RK is a non-monastic Buddhist movement that focuses on the Lotus Sutra and works with the United Nations and a variety of nongovernmental organizations, such as UNICEF (which provides humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide).
The Sunday Service is open to anyone, including non-members. "We are happy to welcome you all. You can keep your mic and video off."
Sundays
11:00 am Prague time
Nalandabodhi
Nalandabodhi is an international community dedicated to bringing the wisdom and compassion of awakening into today’s world. Using tools the Buddha offered, we provide a genuine path to a more open, kind, and full life.
Under the direction of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, our centers provide open and supportive spaces for engaging in study, meditation, and mindful activity on the journey to discover the full potential of our own mind.
InsightLA
InsightLA is a non-profit meditation community providing high-quality mindfulness and compassion practices. For 20 years, InsightLA has offered classes, retreats, and special events that cater to both beginning meditators and those looking to deepen and sustain their practice. InsightLA was one of the first organizations of its kind offering secular, evidenced-based mindfulness training and traditional Buddhist teachings within the Vipassana or Insight tradition.
Free mindfulness apps to support your daily practice
Free apps for daily practice — guided meditations, instructions, and dharma talks you can carry in your pocket.
Healthy Minds
App
The free award-winning Healthy Minds Program app—ranked “best meditation app” by the New York Times, Healthline, Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and Business Insider, and the Emmy award-winning Kindness Curriculum, which contributed to Sesame Street’s season on kindness.
Tergar
App
Discover inner peace and well-being through Meditations with Minyur Rinpoche, your mindfulness companion anytime, anywhere. This app offers a diverse array of guided meditations led by the renowned instructor Minyur Rinpoche, recognized for his mastery in meditation and mindfulness techniques.
Medito
Free-forever meditation app
The nonprofit Medito Foundation, based in Amsterdam, believes meditation can positively transform our lives, and no one should have to pay for it. Practicing meditation can help reduce anxiety and stress as well as improve attention, sleep, and well-being. Simply put, their free-forever meditation app is made for people, not for profit.
Plum Village
App
A free app with guided meditations, deep relaxations and other practices offered by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and Plum Village, hie global community of mindfulness practice centers and monasteries offering retreats and teachings on engaged Buddhism and the art of mindful living.
Plum Village
Podcast
This podcast series helps us to transcend our fear and anger so that we can be more engaged in the world in a way that develops love and compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh’s calligraphy ‘The Way Out Is In” highlights that the way out of any difficulty is to look deeply within, gain insights and then put them into practice. “The Way Out is In” is co-hosted by Brother Phap Huu, Thich Nhat Hanh’s personal attendant for 17 years and the abbot of Plum Village’s Upper Hamlet, and Jo Confino, who works at the intersection of personal transformation and systems change.
Waking Up
A New Operating System for Your Mind
Learn the fundamentals of mindfulness from Sam Harris – neuroscientist, author, and creator of Waking Up – as he also guides you into the deep end of meditation.
Our intention is to make Waking Up available to everyone, regardless of financial circumstance. While we need to function as a business, we never want money to be the reason why someone can't benefit from what we've built. If you truly can't afford the cost of membership, we invite you to join Waking Up for free.
Sam Harris
Mindfulness Coach
US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Mindfulness Coach was created by the VA’s National Center for PTSD to help Veterans, service members, and others learn how to practice mindfulness. The app provides a gradual, self-guided training program designed to help you understand and adopt a simple mindfulness practice. It's free, doesn’t take or share any of your personal information, and doesn’t require add-on purchases.
UCLA Mindful App
University of California, Los Angeles
With this free, easy-to-use app, you can practice mindfulness meditation anywhere, anytime with the guidance of UCLA Mindful, UCLA Health's Mindfulness Education Center. Scientific research shows mindfulness can help manage stress-related physical conditions, reduce anxiety and depression, cultivate positive emotions, and help improve overall physical health and well-being.
Insight Timer
App
This app contains guided meditations, sleep music tracks, and talks led by the top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford, and more. It also has music tracks from world-renowned artists.
Audio teachings, talks, and guided meditations
Talks, teachings, and guided practices to listen to anytime, anywhere.
Tergar Madison
Dharma Talks
Tergar Meditation Community helps people live with awareness, compassion, and wisdom. Grounded in the Tibetan Buddhist lineage of our guiding teacher Mingyur Rinpoche, their online and in-person programs are accessible to people of all cultures and faiths, and support a lifelong path toward the application of these principles in everyday life. For more information, visit tergar.org.
Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche
Audio Teachings
A Tibetan Buddhism lama. At the age of two, she was recognized as the reincarnation of the Great Dakini of Tsurphu Monastery, Urgyen Tsomo – one of the most well-known female masters of her time.
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Audio
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) is the collected works of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. The Archive was founded in 1996 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, its spiritual director, to make available in various ways the teachings it contains.
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
Podcasts
FPMT International Office produces two podcasts: Lama Zopa Rinpoche Essential Extracts Podcast, which shares Rinpoche’s indispensable wisdom in a concise audio format, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche Full-length Teachings Podcast, which features the unedited audio from recent teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
AudioDharma
Insight Meditation Center
AudioDharma includes teachings given at our two centers, Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City and Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz. This site contains audio recordings and some videos of meditation instruction, Buddhist teachings, and related topics.
Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism
Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism is a place to learn from highly qualified Tibetan Lamas in a traditional setting. The Monastery occupies a beautifully renovated building which houses a pristine example of a Tibetan Buddhist shrine, one of only a few in North America. It is located in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood.
International Mahayana Institute
Audio
Established in 1973 by Lama Thubten Yeshe, the International Mahayana Institute (IMI) is a community of Buddhist monks and nuns of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT).
Tibet Center, NYC
Khyongla Rato Rinpoche Archives
Khyongla Rato Rinpoche was a lama and scholar of the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism, who was born in 1923 in the Dagyab region of Kham, in southeastern Tibet. For over three decades, he lived the life of a monk, studying at the most famous monasteries in Tibet and earning the Lharampa Geshe degree. In 1959, along with thousands of monks as well as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he fled the Chinese army on foot over the Himalayas to safety and to a radically different life in India, Europe, and eventually the United States. In 1975, he founded The Tibet Center, in New York City.
Teachings from renowned meditation centers & universities
Free online courses and teachings from respected centers and universities worldwide — good for building a foundation or going deeper.
Tricycle Magazine
Buddhism for Beginners
Buddhism is variously understood as a religion, a philosophy, or a set of beliefs and practices based on the teachings of the Buddha, or “Awakened One”—the title given to the Indian spiritual seeker Siddhartha Gautama after he attained enlightenment more than 2,600 years ago...
Harvard University
Buddhism Through Its Scriptures
Learn about the rich and diverse beliefs and practices of Buddhists across time and place. Experience Buddhism through its scriptures, both relationally as well as academically.
Columbia University
Indian & Tibetan River of Buddhism
Robert Thurman
Explore an overview of the history and philosophy of Buddhism throughout India, South and Southeast Asia, Tibet, and Central Asia, featuring the basics of the Buddhist view of reality and its educational principles of sciences, mind and social ethics.
International Buddhist Academy
Kathmandu, Nepal
The IBA offers students from all over the world free access to their Dharma courses held over the past years. The International Buddhist Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal was established by Khenchen Appey Rinpoche in 2001 with the objective to:
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make higher Tibetan Buddhist studies and contemplative practice available to the non-Tibetan community;
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preserve, publish and translate the literary heritage of the Sakya tradition; and
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further the training of the new generation of Sakya leaders.
Upaya Zen Center
Dharma Talks
Upaya Institute and Zen Center, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, focuses on integrating Zen practice with social action, with traditional cultivation of wisdom and compassion.
This video archive of Upaya's Wednesday night public dharma talks goes back to March 2020.
Mind & Life Institute
Digital Library
For over three decades, Mind & Life has hosted Dialogues and Conversations with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and leading scientists, scholars, and contemplatives to explore key questions at the intersection of science and contemplative wisdom. Here you will find recordings of these timeless conversations with deep relevance for our world today. The library provides a unique window into the art of interdisciplinary dialogue, while tracing the evolution of the field of contemplative science.
Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche
Video Teachings
A Tibetan Buddhism lama. At the age of two, she was recognized as the reincarnation of the Great Dakini of Tsurphu Monastery, Urgyen Tsomo – one of the most well-known female masters of her time.
Bodhicitta Foundation
Chamtrul Rinpoche Video Teachings
A respected Nyingma master and khenpo (scholar) from Tibet, Chamtrul Rinpoche teaches widely on the nature of mind, dzogchen, bodhicitta, karma, and the foundational practices (ngöndro). His talks are clear, accessible, and grounded in deep lineage training.
Garchen Buddhist Institute
Teachings on Guru Yoga
Garchen Rinpoche os a Tibetan Buddhist teacher in the Drikung Kagyu lineage. In January 2009, Rinpoche gave six days of teachings on Guru Yoga and the practice of Lama.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
from Palouse Mindfulness
This online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course is 100% free, created by a fully certified MBSR instructor, and is based on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Sakya Tradition
Teachings
Teachings and topics given by the masters of the Sakya tradition, one of the four great Schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Sakya masters developed a tradition that emphasized study and meditation in equal measure.
Tushita Meditation Centre
Tushita Meditation Centre (a centre for the study and practice of Buddhism from the Tibetan Mahayana tradition in Himachal Pradesh in northern India) launched a series of free online programs in March 2020, as featured in the Times of India and BBC, offering online programs for new and experienced students, who are ready to explore Buddhist Philosophy.
Online courses and sessions are taught by resident teacher Venerable Drolma and visiting teachers through the Zoom platform. The video recordings are freely available without any time limit.
Open Buddhist University
The Open Buddhist University organizes content from across the internet into free, self-directed syllabi on a variety of topics in Buddhist Studies.
Dharma Realms Buddhist University
The Theravada Abhidhamma
with Venerable Bhikku Bodhi
The Abhidhamma is the philosophical psychology of Early Buddhism, dealing with such topics as types of consciousness, the 52 mental factors, processes of cognition, and the development of the mind’s higher potentials.
Sachen Foundation
Free Abhidharma Coursen
This six-month course, led by His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin, delves into the Abhidharma, revealing the Buddhist psychology of realization. Understand the intricate nature of reality and consciousness through profound analysis and structured, insightful teachings.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Video Teachings
The Dalai Lama is the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. His work focuses on the environment, economics, women's rights, nonviolence, interfaith dialogue, physics, astronomy, Buddhism and science, cognitive neuroscience, reproductive health, and sexuality. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
Tergar
Beyond Mindfulness: The Essence of Meditation
In this free Webinar with Mingyur Rinpoche, you'll learn how to use meditation to transform stressful situations and challenging emotions into support for awareness.
Tergar
My Meditation Journey
My Meditation Journey is a lighthearted discussion with long-time meditators to explore their personal insights, experiences and stories about their path. The conversation aims to demystify the transformative aspects of meditation and celebrates the positive inner and outer results felt during practice.
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
Shamatha Retreat with Alan Wallace
This retreat focuses on methods to cultivate meditative quiescence (shamatha) as a foundation for contemplative insight (vipashyana). It includes mindfulness of breathing, as taught by the Buddha, to calm the body and mind; “settling the mind in its natural state,” a Dzogchen practice from Lerab Lingpa’s teachings; and “shamatha without signs,” a subtle practice from Padmasambhava’s Natural Liberation, which may lead to the realization of rigpa. Co-led by Eva Natanya, the retreat combines theory, guided meditations, and Q&A sessions to equip participants with the understanding and experience needed to pursue this state of mental and physical balance.