• New Year’s Gathering

    Ekoji 3411 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    Begin the new year with the sangha through an afternoon and evening of meditation, reflection, and community. We’ll practice together through periods of dharma sharing, sitting, and reflection. There will be time to reflect on the past year, on what might need forgiveness as well as what has been wholesome and meaningful, and on what our aspirations for the coming year might be.

  • Deepening Practice Program

    Ekoji 3411 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    In this six-month program we will be deepening our practice and understanding of the four brahmaviharas (the four heavenly abodes): loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

  • Insight Meditation Retreat: The Freedom of Seeing Clearly

    Seven Oaks 403 Pathwork Way, Madison, VA, United States

    Vipassanā, or insight meditation, is the practice of seeing directly and without judgment. We learn to observe bodily sensations, feelings, thoughts and other experiences as they arise, without clinging to them or pushing them away. With a kind and non-judgmental attitude, we begin to see how desire, aversion and habitual patterns arise and pass away. As insight deepens, their hold on us gradually weakens.