Mentor-Led Series | Rebecca Hines
2025-07-15 11:00 - 12:15 (America/New_York)
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

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teachers Sangha
2025-07-15 21:00 - 22:00, 2025-08-19 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]

BIPOC Sangha
2025-07-16 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-07-22 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-07-29 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-05 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-12 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-19 06:00 - 07:00, 2025-08-26 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).

Plant-based Foods Exploration
2025-07-17 21:00 - 22:00, 2025-08-21 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.

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

Mindful Readers
2025-07-22 19:00 - 20:00
Our next Mindful Readers session will take place on Tuesday, July 22, from 7:00–8:00 PM ET on Zoom.

We’ll explore the lyric poem Gate A-4. No advance reading is required, though the poem is attached if you’d like to read it beforehand.

As always, our Sangha gathering will begin with a brief mindfulness practice, followed by a shared reflection on the poem—its themes, how they show up in our lives, and the kind of world we wish to create together.

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89079623957?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 890 7962 3957
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Everyone is welcome. We hope to see you there!

Audrey and Rocio

Mentor-led Session | Thomas Davis
2025-07-22 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 is led by Thomas Davis and is from 7 – 8:15 pm ET; Zoom Link is here

More about Thomas
Thomas Davis IV is a contemplative artist based in Los Angeles who explores the connections between the principles of the dharma, Christian mysticism, jazz ethics, poetry, art, storytelling, and science for a multi-disciplinary exploration of who we are and what is possible for us. Thomas’s immersion into the dharma began ten years ago at the EBMC in Oakland, and was preceded by over ten years of service as a lay minister and teacher at the Olivet Missionary Baptist Church in Oakland. He has been the core teacher for InsightLA’s BIPOC Sangha for the past three years. Thomas is founder of Avant-Dharma, which is the present expression of his cumulative years of practice and service (avant-dharma.com). He offers personal mentoring sessions as well as workshops and residential retreats for a further immersion into one’s own practice.

Mindful in Nature
2025-07-23 19:30 - 20:30
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.
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LGBTQIA+ Sangha Gathering
2025-07-24 20:00 - 21:00
You are invited to join us for our July gathering on Thursday, July 24th, from 8-9 PM ET! Cameron Stanford will be guiding the session. If it’s been a while, OR you’re just curious, or you’ve been a regular, come through to have a peek of what our sangha is all about!

Alyssa & Rita are the administrative co-leads, but guidance in our sessions is open to ALL of our community, whether that’s hosting a session or offering 1 engagement as part of the hour. Cameron will offer his support and fabulousness to our community for our July session–come through!

Hope to see you here in the Zoom room:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7976896552?pwd=[REDACTED]

Brahmaviharas
2025-07-30 12:00 - 13:30
We look forward to seeing you for our monthly meeting from 12 – 1:30 pm ET

The Zoom link is here
Meeting ID: 850 8543 0898
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Awakening Together
2025-08-03 19:00 - 20:30
First Sunday of the month gathering. We will reconnect after taking a summer break. Our conversation will center around the Legacy of Mindfulness and what that means collectively and personally for each of us. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87562364131?pwd=[REDACTED]

Mindful Eating
2025-08-07 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
2025-08-07 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

Asia Sangha
2025-08-10 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

Mindful Journaling
2025-08-10 11:30 - 12:30
July 20, 2025
It is said that “life is lived forward and understood backward”. Journaling allows us to consider what we now know. Everyone welcome to journal. In this group we are together, and private (sharing is optional).
Next Mindful Journaling:
August 10, 2025
11:30am-12;30PM
Sign In:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89079623957?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 890 7962 3957
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Mentor-led Session | Stan Eisenstein
2025-08-12 12:30 - 13:45
Led by MMTCP Mentors, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your teaching and practice questions and to 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 we had in peer groups. This session is from 11:30 am – 12;45 pm ET and will be led by Stan Eisenstein; Zoom link is here.
More about Stan
Stan Eisenstein has been a mentor for MMTCP since 2019 (cohort 2). He has been a teacher for the Insight Meditation Community of Washington since 2013. He has created and taught courses in Inviting Chronic Pain and Illness to Tea, Self-Inquiry, and Meditative Reparenting. Stan has guided individuals in self-inquiry since 2015. Stan had a long career as a high school physics teacher. He has a Masters in Social Work, though he is not a licensed clinical therapist. Stan co-created and teaches Guided Embodied Inquiry with Individuals (GEII): a Course for Mindfulness Meditation Teachers. This year-long course begins January 2026. You can find more information at Stan’s website.

Disability Affinity Sangha
2025-08-12 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

Workshop |Trauma-Informed Foundations of Mindfulness with Amma Thanasanti
2025-08-16 12:00 - 15:00
(this event rescheduled from June 14)

A 3-hour experiential workshop with Amma Thanasanti

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipaṭṭhāna) are among the most revered early teachings the Buddha offered—a time-tested, profound path to insight and liberation. Yet for many of us—and for those we guide—traditional meditation instructions can sometimes feel inaccessible or even dysregulating, especially in the presence of unresolved trauma or heightened nervous system activation.

In this 3-hour live session, we’ll explore how to approach the Four Foundations through both classical and trauma-informed lenses. You’ll learn practical ways to support yourself and those you teach with mindfulness tools that prioritize safety, attunement, and choice while teaching mindfulness of the body, feeling tones (vedanā), mind states, and dhammas. We’ll also look at how trauma and nervous system activation changes the way we practice with the hindrances and the 4 Noble Truths.

Whether you’re tending to your own nervous system or offering support to others, this session offers grounded, integrated practices that connect classical dharma with somatic and trauma-aware tools to increase our clarity, resilience, and compassion for the complexity of these times.
This workshop is from 12 – 3 pm ET; Zoom link is here

About Amma ThanasantiAmma Thanasanti has been practicing meditation for nearly 50 years, including 26 years as a Theravāda Buddhist nun—20 of them in the Ajahn Chah Forest Tradition. She’s been teaching since 1989, leading retreats since 1996, and has served as a mentor for MMTCP for 3 cohorts.
Her years of monastic life showed her the depth and beauty of insight practices, while also revealing their limits when it comes to early conditioning and trauma. This led Amma to integrate neuroscience and trauma-informed modalities into her teaching—offering a path that weaves physical and psychological well-being into the path of awakening.

MNVC sangha
2025-08-22 12:00 - 13:30
Community! Sangha member, Tina Clay, has graciously offered to lead August’s meeting. Join us as we explore, investigate and practice key elements of Nonviolent Communication. Newcomers and beginners welcome! Zoom link

LGBTQIA+ August Meeting!
2025-08-25 20:00 - 21:00
Join us this August 25th from 8-9 PM ET for our August Sangha! Rita will guide us in the Zoom Room below. Come for part or all of the hour for community, the space to unwind, and joyous mischief! Hope to see you there.

Mentor-led Session with Thomas Davis
2025-08-26 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 and to 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 we had in peer groups. This session is from 7 – 8:15 pm ET and will be led by Thomas Davis; Zoom link is here.

More about Thomas
Thomas Davis IV is a contemplative artist based in Los Angeles who explores the connections between the principles of the dharma, Christian mysticism, jazz ethics, poetry, art, storytelling, and science for a multi-disciplinary exploration of who we are and what is possible for us. Thomas’s immersion into the dharma began ten years ago at the EBMC in Oakland, and was preceded by over ten years of service as a lay minister and teacher at the Olivet Missionary Baptist Church in Oakland. He has been the core teacher for InsightLA’s BIPOC Sangha for the past three years. Thomas is founder of Avant-Dharma, which is the present expression of his cumulative years of practice and service (avant-dharma.com). He offers personal mentoring sessions as well as workshops and residential retreats for a further immersion into one’s own practice.
