Brahmaviharas
2025-05-28 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
– I am looking forward to our next sit. It will mark my 3rd year of teaching the Brahmaviharas. I hope that you will join me for a celebration of miracles, beauty, balanced perspective and being blessed by such a wise community of colleagues. teachers and guest speakers.
– The Four Divine Abodes can feed one throughout life – hopefully a long, full, joyous life, filled with tenderness, respect, balanced by all that Dharma and experience can teach us. Let’s try a standing meditation and share insights gleaned from what has been shared together. Bring a pen and journal for doing some writing, if we have time.

See you on May 28th: noon-1:30 pm ET!
– Linda

Building Your Infrastructure & Perfecting Your Pitch- Marketing Session Two
2025-05-29 12:00 - 13:30
In this session, we’ll focus on the essential pieces that support your business—your website, social media presence, and pricing structure. You’ll also learn how to craft a compelling pitch for in-person opportunities or create an effective landing page to attract clients online. By the end, you’ll have the tools to confidently present your offerings and grow your teaching business with clarity and ease. All are welcome whether or not you attended the first session; you will receive a handout from session one prior to attending this one. The first session is on May 1 on the Basics of Marketing Yourself.
This session is from 12 – 1:30 pm ET; the zoom link is here
This session will be led by Jane Lodato and Pam Hausner – both are seasoned, successful marketing professionals as well as MMTCP alumni (click on their names to learn more about each).

This session is part of our new Business of Teaching Mindfulness Series. Having a successful mindfulness teaching business and community requires more than just your heart and training. Bringing your offerings to the world will also require some kind of a business strategy to design and promote your mindfulness programs. Identifying your audience, communications, business plan and structure, supporting business and technology infrastructure needs, and pricing are just a few things to consider. How do these all align with your values/ethics as well as your understanding of right livelihood? We will be offering workshops and learning sessions on these topics throughout the year. Whether you are just starting out as a teacher or want to take your offerings to another level, this series will help you work through some of these questions and issues.

Buddhist Practice and Plant Medicine with Spring Washam.
2025-05-31 12:00 - 15:00
A two-part training on what mindfulness teachers need to know about wisdom and healing at the intersection of Buddhist practice and plant medicine.

The use of plant medicine for mental health and well-being is an area of rapidly growing interest, research, and dialogue. Rooted in Indigenous healing traditions and now being revisited by modern science, plant medicines are increasingly recognized for their therapeutic potential when used intentionally and in supportive settings. A growing number of Buddhist practitioners are exploring how plant medicine can complement and deepen inner work. At the same time, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals are beginning to integrate plant-based medicines into therapeutic frameworks, offering new avenues of care for trauma, depression, and anxiety.

This workshop will build a better understanding of the intersection of plant medicines and Buddhism and how this intersection can be aligned with Buddhist practices of insight, compassion, and liberation from suffering. As mindfulness and meditation teachers, we need to better understand this evolving terrain so that we can be equipped to respond to student’s questions and experiences with/about plant medicine. Spring Washam will guide us in a rich, nuanced, informative workshop on how and where ancient spiritual practice meets traditional healing and build our capacity to support our students with information, integrity, and care.

This session is from 12 – 3 pm ET ; Zoom link is here
The second session will be on September 6 from 12 – 3 pm ET.
Learn more about Spring Washam here.

Awakening Together Sangha
2025-06-01 19:00 - 20:30
1st Sunday monthly meeting at 7 pm June 1st. All are welcome as we lean into Awakening while supporting each other in Sangha and mindful living. Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87562364131?pwd=[REDACTED]

Mindful Eating
2025-06-05 12:15 - 13:00, 2025-07-03 12:15 - 13:00
Join us for a delightful break in your day/evening and enter the gateway to a daily path of mindful eating to ignite your practice, your relationships and frankly your life! We start with an introduction to the monthly Sangha and the intentions for the gathering followed by a brief teaching and a practice.

White Awareness Sangha
2025-06-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-07-03 13:00 - 14:00
First of all, we welcome 2025 graduates to our on-going sangha. We began during our training in 2021 and continued into the alumni association. Some members are not part of the alumni association and they are welcome to join.
Our next meeting will be on the first Thursday of the month at 1:00 PM ET which is our normal time.
The zoom will come in an email a day or two before the event..
Metta,
Jerome
415-299-0428

Jerome Freedman, Ph. D., C.M.T, O. I.
jerome@mountainsangha.org
http://mountainsangha.org

Mindful Writing (and Journaling)
2025-06-08 11:30 - 12:30
We will be mindful and journal-ful again together on Sunday, June 8 from 11:30am – 12:30 pm ET. You are welcome as a dedicated journal-er and as a new journal-er. Feel free to email if you wonder about this Sangha. audreybloom@bellsouth.net

Mentor-led Session with joshua bee alafia
2025-06-10 11:00 - 12:15
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your teaching and practice questions / challenges and be in sangha with alumni peers. In each session, mentors will offer a short talk and then offer guidance and wisdom for whatever is coming up for you – much like the support we had in peer groups.

This session will be led by joshua bee alafia and is from 11 am – 12:15 pm ET; Zoom link is here

joshua bee alafia’s meditation practice began in 1989 when his mother gave him a mantra to work with. This sparked a rich journey into different styles from the Hawaiian Shamanic, Hindu, Sufi, Dzogchen, Taoist, and Vipassana traditions. Wanting to bring Vipassana practice to the youth, he began teaching mindfulness practice to incarcerated, court involved and system vulnerable youth through New York’s Lineage Project in 2010 and taught mindful movements of capoeira, Tai Chi and Qigong. He is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leaders training through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. His journey in Qigong began in 1990 training Chen style Tai Chi with Sifu Courtney Blackburn, Yang style Tai Chi with Devron Wong Sam, Jean Marie du DashiRay and Immortal Arts Qigong and Neigong. He currently mentors mindfulness teachers virtually, and teaches Inner Power classes (Qigong and meditation) to young men transitioning out of houselessness with The Good Seed in Los Angeles. He is the founder of Liberation Center Worldwide, building meditation/wellness centers internationally and the founder and co-executive director of South Side Liberation Center in Chicago.

Disability Affinity Sangha
2025-06-10 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-07-08 14:30 - 16:00
We meet the 2nd Tuesday of every month from 2:30-4pm ET. We are an affinity group that is open to alumni who have a disability, including a chronic medical condition. Prior to attending your first group, please read our sangha page. Here’s the zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/94776947948

Mindful Coaches, Mentors and Therapists
2025-06-14 12:00 - 13:30
In this month’s sangha, Joanne Hochendoner RN will review the basics of Internal Family Systems and discuss what a mindful IFS practice is. She will then lead us through an IFS meditation where we get to know one of our parts. We will end with a debrief of our meditation experience.

RISE (Refuge and Inspiration Sangha for Educators)
2025-06-15 12:00 - 13:30
Join us for our last monthly session before summer break. By request, we will conclude our Mindfulness and Healing the Heart of Democracy series and co-create plans for resuming in the fall. All are welcome even if you didn’t attend the earlier sessions. The meeting is from 12 – 1:30 pm ET: the Zoom link is here

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teachers Sangha
2025-06-17 21:00 - 22:00, 2025-07-15 21:00 - 22:00
Please join us for an hour to explore and share the ways in which we show up in the world as trauma sensitive mindfulness teachers. This meeting will be held monthly on the 3rd Tuesday of the month from 9-10pm Eastern. Here is the Zoom link; you can also use the following credentials:Meeting ID: 811 4289 6909Passcode: [REDACTED]

Plant-based Foods Exploration
2025-06-19 21:00 - 22:00, 2025-07-17 21:00 - 22:00
Monthly gathering the 3rd Thursdays at 7 pm EST to discuss individual plant-based journeys, along with teaching about plant-based lifestyles.

LGBTQIA+ Sangha for June- Pride Edition!
2025-06-23 20:00 - 21:00
Join us on June 23rd from 8-9 PM ET for our Pride Week celebration! Craig Nelson will be guiding us on the theme, “The Beauty of Shame.” It’s gonna be BOLD and nuanced, y’all. Show up hydrated! ALL are welcome, whether it’s been a while or you’e just curious to check us out. Hope to see you there!

Mentor-led Session with Alexa Redner
2025-06-24 19:00 - 20:15
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your teaching and practice questions / challenges and be in sangha with alumni peers. In each session, mentors will offer a short talk and then offer guidance and wisdom for whatever is coming up for you – much like the support we had in peer groups.

This session will be led by Alexa Redner and is from 7 – 8:15 pm ET; the Zoom link is here

Alexa has been practicing meditation since 2003. Alexa has been an educator in many realms over the last twenty years, dancing between the worlds of being a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher, program teacher for Mindful Schools, and Eating Disorders/Body Positive Educator at Beyond Hunger. Alexa is currently a mentor for Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Certification Program and teaches for Cloud Sangha, leading weekly community discussion groups, meditations, immersion sanghas, and individual mentoring sessions. As a Body Love activist, Alexa is interested in exploring how dharma practices can unwind the mind from the cultural conditioning of body shame and open to the heart to the sacred quality of living in a body on the Earth. As a student of Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee’s Soulmaking Dharma, Alexa brings a playful and soft approach to meditation practice.She holds a BA in Visual Arts and MA in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University. Alexa lives with her fiddler husband and young son in Portland, Oregon.

Mindful in Nature
2025-06-25 19:30 - 20:00
Mindful in Nature
We meet monthly on the third or 4th Wednesday of the month at 7 or 730 pm Eastern Time for one hour, virtually, to build community around the shared interests of mindfulness and the natural world. Check the sangha page for updated time and day we meet each month as it can vary due to facilitator schedule. The group will make space to meditate together in community, check in and share about what’s going on in life related to mindfulness and nature, and will be an opportunity to share resources and ideas related to this topic.

Mindful Nonviolent Communications
2025-06-27 13:00 - 14:30
TIME CORRECTION! We meet 1-2:30pm ET | 10-11:30am PT

Join us as we explore, investigate and practice key elements of Nonviolent Communication. Newcomers and beginners welcome! This month’s sangha will be led by Allison Schuette. Feel free to email a request if there’s a particular topic or element you’re interested in.

Speaker Session with Jack Kornfield
2025-06-28 12:00 - 13:30
Topic TBD – Jack will identify and address a topic relevant to the times as we get closer to the session. In the meantime,
Jack is offering this free course on keeping the heart steady and responding with courage and compassion in these wild times. He sends the following message: “this course is important in our current world and I am happy to offer this free to our alumni community.”

This session is from 12 – 1:30 pm ET; the Zoom link is here

Information Session - In the Footsteps of the Buddha: A Pilgrimage to the Source of Mindfulness
2025-07-09 11:00 - 12:30
We will share more about the trip, the itinerary, what to expect and answer any questions you have. Pilgrimage dates are November 30 – December 13, 2025. Led by Dharmacharya Shantum Seth and supporting MMTCP teacher Anne Cushman, join us for this amazing opportunity in travel, community and growth as we visit Buddhism’s holy sites. Click the India Pilgrimage tab on the main menu for registration, itinerary, and recording of past information session. We only have about 10 more spots open so reserve your today; friends/family are welcome to join in this transformative journey.
This session is from 11 am – 12:30 pm ET; the Zoom link is here

Asia Sangha
2025-07-13 11:00 - 12:30
Monthly Online Meetup. Second Sunday of every month For anyone from, living in, connected to and / or interested in Asian cultural context of practice

Mentor-Led Series | Rebecca Hines
2025-07-15 11:00 - 12:15
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your teaching and practice questions / challenges and be in sangha with alumni peers. In each session, mentors will offer a short talk and then offer guidance and wisdom for whatever is coming up for you – much like the support we had in peer groups.

This session is led by Rebecca Hines and is from 11 am – 12:15 pm ET; Zoom Link is here

BIPOC Sangha
2025-07-16 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-07-22 06:00 - 07:00
hello friends,

Based on survey results, we will be now be holding weekly Sangha meetings (instead of monthly)! We will meet on Tuesday evenings at 7PM EST beginning on July 15th.
The BIPOC Sangha will be holding a WEEKLY Sangha exploring aspects of what it means to be a Mindfulness teacher of color as well as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction techniques.
Zoom link is here
Meeting ID: 899 5247 9029
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Focus and Flow - A Marketing Study Hall
2025-07-17 12:00 - 13:30
a follow-up to the May Marketing Workshops (recordings available). Pam and Jane graciously make this offering based on your requests following the first two marketing sessions.

They will host a focused co-working session for those who want to take aligned action—without doing it alone. Bring your to-do list, prompts/reflections from first two sessions, your other questions, and your tea. We’ll open with a short grounding, a brief review of our previous workshops, then move into quiet work time with your hosts available for questions, feedback, and cheerleading. Whether you’re working on your branding, planning a pitch, or mapping out your next offer, this is your space to get it done—mindfully and with support.

This session is from 12 – 1:30 pm ET; Zoom link is here

You don’t need to have attended the other sessions to join us but if you wish, you can review this workbook shared previously. You can also listen to the recordings from the first two sessions (Events→ Recordings of Past Events).

Half-Day Retreat with Gullu Singh
2025-07-20 10:30 - 14:30
Join us for a half-day retreat to include periods of guided and unguided meditation, dharma talk and other offerings. This retreat will be virtual but we encourage you to prepare for all that you might need for the retreat so you can remain in noble silence throughout.

The retreat will be led by Gullu Singh and is from 10:30 – 2:30 pm ET; Zoom link is here

The format for the retreat is below – though Gullu will adjust as needed based on what arises. We encourage you to maintain noble silence through retreat; you may also want to prepare your meals/snacks in advance.

All times in ET
10:30. Welcome and guided sit instructions for Samantha (tranquillity meditation)
11:15 walking or movement
11:45 Guided sit
12:15 walking or movement
12:45 dharma talk “When the Buddha was Afraid”
1:30 relational practice (breakout)
1:50 stretch/bio break or walking
2:00. Debrief/Q&A and closing.
2:30. End

More about Gullu Singh
Gulwinder “Gullu” Singh is a corporate real estate attorney and dedicated Dharma practitioner. He teaches both secular and Buddhist classes, groups and retreats. He has taught mindfulness at universities, in law firms, bar associations and corporate settings. He is a graduate the 4-year Spirit Rock Teacher Training Program and qualified to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. He is core faculty of the Spirit Rock Dedicated Practitioner Program, core faculty of the Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training and a mentor in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. Gullu is deeply inspired to share meditation in the legal and corporate community as an antidote to stress, a way to cope more effectively with the challenges of work and life and to inject more sanity, compassion and wisdom into this world. You can learn more about Gullu here
