Welcoming with Ease – Even the Unwelcome

To register for the in-person option for this event click here.  As we open our mind and heart in meditation, we can sometimes feel a serene and loving awareness, and at other times, we may feel thoughts and emotions that we want to push away or shove ... Read more

BIPOC Non-Violent Communication Series

This event is for self-identified people of color. To attend the NVC in a Context of White Supremacy from Oct 5th-Nov 5th 6:30-8:30pm PT click here. Using a trauma-informed and decolonial lens, this 4-session series will provide collective skill-buildi... Read more

Living Dharma: Deepening Resilience

In the Living Dharma class series, we study the traditional Buddhist teachings from the Insight meditation tradition and learn how to apply them to daily life for greater ease, clarity, and well being. In this series, we will continue to build on how th... Read more

Essentials of Mindfulness

This is InsightLA’s popular Essentials of Mindfulness Class! This is our premier introduction to creating and incorporating an effective and ongoing insight meditation practice in all aspects of your life. This 6-week class is appropriate for beginners... Read more

How Buddhist Teachings Impact Our Relationships

We will focus on Mindful Communication and cultivating present moment awareness through an exploration of Buddhist teachings. How can we bring our mindfulness practice into relationships, and cultivate skillful communication during difficult times? To... Read more

Seeing Clearly Retreat: An Online Vipassana Retreat

The translation of the Pali Word Vipassana means to see nature.  And the technique of Vipassana meditation is to direct our attention away from the stories of the mind and towards what we can experience directly in the present moment.  In doing so we se... Read more

Requisites to Enlightenment

In numerous sutta’s Buddha refers to the Requisites to Enlightenment [bodhipakkhikā dhammā]; a collection of teachings that form a map toward Awakening. In each week of this 6-week series, we will explore a teaching that groups a cluster of Mental Fac... Read more

Rest in Simplicity

Please note this retreat meets the requirements for participants in Jack Kornfield + Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification program through Sounds True.  This retreat has been reformatted specifically to be an online retreat, accessi... Read more