Welcome to the Shambhala Online free course calendar! Please browse our upcoming free offerings below.
New courses are added regularly. Please join our mailing list for updates. If you’re looking for our recorded courses, please see our recorded course library, and you can see all upcoming courses here.
Shambhala Sunday Gathering—Loving All; Hating No One
To truly overcome aggression and hate, and open to the possibility of deeper understanding and care for all, we'll look at the paradox of love and hate, the openness of basic goodness, and the greater view and experience of equanimity.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Making Friends with Death and Dying: Monthly Support Group
Support group sessions will include a short talk, meditation practice, and an open forum to discuss personal experiences with old age, sickness, death, grief and bereavement. All are welcome. We respect your privacy. These sessions will not be recorded.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Shambhala Sunday Gathering—Maitri Bhavana
Margaret Callahan leads this week's Sunday Gathering: Maitri Bhavana, so we can practice for the wellbeing of others. Maitri Bhavana is a practice that is done for the benefit of the seriously ill, or for major global turmoil and disasters.
No Prerequisites
Shambhala Sunday Gathering—Being Brave as a Community: Looking in the Mirror
Join Shambhala Board Members William Clark and Koen Braak, Co-Executive Director Faradee Rudy, and Data Group Member John David Smith, in conversation about how we can look in the mirror as a community and contemplate what is reflected back to us.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Making Friends with Death and Dying: Monthly Support Group
Support group sessions will include a short talk, meditation practice, and an open forum to discuss personal experiences with old age, sickness, death, grief and bereavement. All are welcome. We respect your privacy. These sessions will not be recorded.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Gender Dynamics: Conversations on Gender & Sexuality in the Three Yanas of Buddhism
We can both learn from Buddhist teachings and recognize certain limitations with respect to gender configurations in sanghas, past and present.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Right Use of Power
This program is based on the book, Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics—A Guide and Resource for Professional Relationships, and training program in engaged ethics that teaches four aspects of the ethical use of power.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Eco-Dharma Talk Series: Exploring Where a Mindful Life and Ecology Meet (OE) in Shambhala Online
These recorded Eco-Dharma talks include topics such as the importance of local food, finding our way in climate and other crises, ”inner dimensions of sustainability," and our connection to the sacred earth.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Child of Illusion: Contemplative Art, Yogachara Mahayana Buddhism, and Liberation (OE)
This intensive, recorded course leads participants into deep engagement with contemplative arts and the view and meditation practices of the Yogachara school of Mahayana Buddhism.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Mindfulness and Embodiment: Keys to a Joyful and Awake Life (OE)
The Mindfulness & Embodiment Course is a recording of powerful sessions joining somatic practices of embodiment with the view and practice of meditation to support meditation practitioners from all levels of experience.
No Prerequisites
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