Barrier 1: 

Working through Self-Aggression

Two Tuesdays: May 9 and May 16, 5:00-8:00pm EST

A 2 part micro-intensive facilitated by Adam Lobel. 

Live 3 hour workshops only. Sessions will not be recorded:

It's going be deep, vulnerable work.

Timeless: A Yearlong Journey

Online or In-Person: Begins October 2022 and gathers on solar holidays.  Join us at any time throughout the cycle.

Join us for a course to support you in creating a grounded relationship with time.

Starting in October, we'll begin a year-long gathering to ritually celebrate the eight stations of the sun: solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days. Along the way, we'll practice into the possibilities of a sacred relationship to time within climate chaos and time-compression.

Monthly River Meditation

In-Person: First Thursday of each month, 6PM ET
Point State Park, Pittsburgh

We are developing an ongoing relationship with the Ohio River—one of the most polluted rivers in the country. Through meditation and simple ritual we are listening to what the river is asking for from us, especially as a toxic petrochemical plant opens on its shores.

Gather at the fountain at the Point where the three rivers converge. Bring a cushion or camping chair.

PATHWAYS

Engaging Sudden and Gradual Paths

Online Feb 28-April 4

An in-depth exploration of diverse paths to freedom. With Gaylon Ferguson and Adam Lobel.

Sunday, March 19

EcoDharma Exploration:  Love This World

Loving the full catastrophe and the many wonders of this world is a phenomenal source of joy and connection. It is also a deep well of grief and despair. We cannot avoid it.

What is an ecological spirituality that attends not only to the fantasy of a lost Garden of Eden, but is able to open to the actual planet of which we are a part?

Join Adam with One Earth Sangha

Spacious, Vibrant, and Responsive: A Dzogchen Ecology for the Anthropocene

At the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Massachusetts

This in-person retreat will dive into the Dzogchen, or Great Perfection, exploring this tradition’s ecological practices and teachings. Integrating body, psychology, and awareness, we will practice meditation and inquire into an ecological contemplative life in the Anthropocene, our current epoch of environmental mutation, climate chaos, and loss. 

Unregulation: A Monthlong Exploration

Online: Tuesdays, 7:00pm-8:30pm ET
October 25th-November 15th.  

In this 4-week experiential course, we explore the relationship between open awareness practice and regulated nervous systems.

We will use meditation, somatic practices, dialogue, and information sharing as our primary means of engagement. 

PostNatural Meditation

In-Person: Sunday, October 9th, 10AM
Center for Postnatural History, Pittsburgh 

Mindfulness teachings often rely upon imagery of “Nature” as the basis of meditation practices. So, what happens in a post-natural world? What happens to meditation if we can no longer access a “pure Nature,” unaffected by humans? Where do we retreat that remains untouched by wildfire, climate chaos, deforestation, extinction of animal species, or the spread of plastics? Do we need new metaphors for meditation in the anthropocene?