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Next Step Dharma: Integrate Your Retreat into Daily Life (OS1N24)

Oren Jay Sofer, SEP and Jaya Rudgard

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Online Program Online

Location:
Online via our Online Learning Platform

  • $218.00 – Benefactor Rate
  • $108.00 – Sustainer Rate
  • $98.00 – Basic Rate
  • $78.00 – Mudita/Karuna Scholarship Rate
  • $78.00 – BIPOC Scholarship Rate

Refund Policy: No refund is available for on-demand courses.

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Description:

This six-week online course is designed to guide participants in bringing the fruits of their retreat back home and integrating their mindfulness practice into their daily lives. Throughout this unique course series, you will receive skilled guidance from founding Insight teachers while creating and maintaining deep community and spiritual friendships with a diverse group of Dharma practitioners.

Learn how to bring mindfulness practice into your daily life in this unique online course with Oren. Registration includes lifetime access to all course materials, plus:

  • Guidance from founding Insight Teachers
  • Interactive, live Q&R with Course Leaders
  • Mentoring for your practice
  • Talks and guided meditations geared for integration

Rolling admissions: the course is open 365 days a year!

Pricing

Sliding Scale: Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Please consider paying at the highest rate that you can afford. Your generosity supports the teachers, Spirit Rock, staff, and your fellow practitioners who need to pay less.

Benefactor – $218
Sustainer – $108
Basic – $98
Scholarship Rate (BIPOC, M/K) – $78

All are welcome, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

Refund Policy: No refund is available for on-demand courses.

Course Content

Week 1: Everyday Mindfulness

This week’s material includes:

  • 4 Video Dharma Talks:
    • The Real Practice: Coming Home
    • Strengthening Mindfulness
    • Mindfulness in Motion
    • Creating a Positive Feedback Loop
  • 3 Guided Meditations:
    • Settling into Presence
    • Relaxing Key Areas
    • Beginning and Ending the Day
  • Interviews with Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, and Dara Williams
  • Readings and Core Integration Practice Suggestions

Week 2: Cultivating the Heart

This week’s material includes:

  • 3 Video Dharma Talks:
    • The Quality of Our Lives
    • Growing Kindness
    • The Patient Gardner
  • 3 Guided Meditations:
    • Mindfulness Practice
    • Kindness
    • Radiating Good Will
  • Interviews with Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, and Dara Williams
  • Readings and Core Integration Practice Suggestions

Week 3: Seeing with Eyes of Wisdom

This week’s material includes:

  • 4 Video Dharma Talks:
    • The Need for Wisdom
    • Developing Wisdom
    • Include it All
    • Knowing What’s Needed
  • 2 Guided Meditations
    • Mindfulness Practice
    • Letting Be, Letting Go
  • Interviews with Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, and Joanna Harper
  • Readings and Core Integration Practice Suggestions

Week 4: A Vehicle for Happiness

This week’s material includes:

  • 3 Video Dharma Talks:
    • Living with Integrity
    • Ethics: Care and Concern
    • Redefining Progress
  • 2 Guided Meditations
    • Standing Meditation
    • Recollecting One’s Goodness (Ven. Ajahn Sucitto)
  • Interviews with Joseph Goldstein and Joanna Harper
  • Readings and Core Integration Practice Suggestions

Week 5: Working with Difficult Emotions

This week’s material includes:

  • 5 Video Dharma Talks:
    • Being at Home with Emotions
    • The ABCs of Emotions
    • Awareness of Emotions
    • The Art of the Middle
    • Curiosity and Care
  • 2 Guided Meditations
    • Thoughts and Emotions
    • Exploring Unpleasant Sensations
  • Interviews with Jack Kornfield and Larry Yang
  • Readings and Core Integration Practice Suggestions

Week 6: The Strength of Community

This week’s material includes:

  • 3 Video Dharma Talks:
    • Relationship as Spiritual Practice
    • Words that Lead to Awakening
    • Sangha Refuge
  • 2 Guided Meditations:
    • Contemplating Interconnection
    • Circles of Support
  • Interviews with Joanna Macy, Joseph Goldstein, and Larry Yang
  • Readings and Core Integration Practice Suggestions

About the Teachers

Oren Jay Sofer, SEP

Oren Jay Sofer teaches meditation and communication internationally. He holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University, is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for the healing of trauma. Oren is also the author of several books, including the best-seller "Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent […]

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Jaya Rudgard

Jaya Rudgard began meditating in 1984, and from 1996 to 2005 was ordained as a nun in the Thai forest tradition in England at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery. She subsequently trained as an Insight Meditation teacher at Spirit Rock in California and Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts. She teaches meditation retreats and courses in the UK […]

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