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2021-06-02
An Integrated Awakening - Meditation
2021-06-02
An Integrated Awakening - Talk
2023-09-16
Body As Resource
2024-03-10
Brahmaviharas - Meditation
2024-03-10
Brahmaviharas - Talk
2025-09-22
Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training - Week 3 of 5 - Meditation
2025-09-22
Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training - Week 3 of 5 - Talk
2019-11-11
Buddhist Studies: The Five Aggregates, Week 1 - Meditation
2019-11-11
Buddhist Studies: The Five Aggregates, Week 1 - Talk
2019-11-18
Buddhist Studies: The Five Aggregates, Week 2 - Meditation
2019-11-18
Buddhist Studies: The Five Aggregates, Week 2 - Talk
2018-01-03
Connecting and Reconnecting
2020-11-06
Contemplation On Balance and Non-Harming - Guided Meditation
2020-11-06
Contemplation on Balance and Non-Harming - Talk
2024-04-10
Cultivating and Experiencing Awareness - Meditation
2024-04-10
Cultivating and Experiencing Awareness - Talk
2024-02-11
Cultivating Intentionality in Each Moment - Meditation
2024-02-11
Cultivating Intentionality in Each Moment - Talk
2020-10-28
Deepening Presence - Meditation
2020-10-28
Deepening Presence - Talk
2024-01-14
Desire in Relation to Renunciation - Meditation
2024-01-14
Desire in Relation to Renunciation - Talk
2024-01-14
Desire in Relation to Renunciation - Talk
2019-02-06
Dhamma Talk
2025-08-03
Dukkha - Meditation
2025-08-03
Dukkha - Talk
2019-03-10
Embracing the Feminine - Meditation
2019-03-20
Embracing the Feminine - Talk
2021-02-17
Emptiness & Compassion (Meditation)
2021-02-17
Emptiness & Compassion (Talk)
2020-11-25
Emptiness and Wonder - Meditation
2020-11-25
Emptiness and Wonder - Talk
2020-12-02
Emptiness as Inclusion - Meditation
2020-12-02
Emptiness as Inclusion - Talk
2019-12-28
Everything is Workable
2018-02-25
Faith - Talk
2020-03-07
Feeling Tone and Uncertainty - Freedom from Anxiety, Trusting Uncertainty and C…
2016-05-25
Finding Freedom
2024-03-31
Generosity and Ethics - Meditation
2024-03-31
Generosity and Ethics - Talk
2018-12-28
Guided Compassion Meditation
2018-02-25
Guided Meditation
2018-03-15
Guided Meditation
2025-10-14
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Week 1 of 6
2025-10-21
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Week 2 of 6
2025-10-28
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Week 3 of 6
2019-09-01
Kamma - Seeing the Cloth - Meditation
2019-09-01
Kamma - Seeing the Cloth - Talk
2017-12-30
Karuna and Mudita Meditation - Compassion and Sympathetic Joy
2019-05-26
Learning from Suffering - Talk
2024-03-03
Liberating Habits - Meditation
2024-03-03
Liberating Habits - Talk
2019-02-03
Listening to the Body and Heart - Meditation
2019-02-03
Listening to the Body and Heart - Talk
2019-12-30
Living an Engaged and Ethical Life
2019-08-02
Love as Radical Inclusion - Meditation
2019-08-02
Love as Radical Inclusion - Talk
2019-05-01
Love, Selflessness, and Life, with Co-Teacher: Ayo Yetunde
2019-04-17
Making a Case for Love - Meditation
2019-04-17
Making a Case for Love - Talk
2018-07-09
Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 2 - Talk
2019-05-03
Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group - Talk
2017-01-04
New Year's Resolutions: Progress not Perfection
2018-03-14
On Retreating - Talk
2019-11-20
Perception: One of the 5 Aggregates of Clinging - Meditation
2019-11-20
Perception: One of the 5 Aggregates of Clinging - Talk
2025-05-11
Practical Wise Attention - Meditation
2025-05-11
Practical Wise Attention - Talk
2023-12-24
Pragmatic Gratitude- Talk
2023-12-24
Pragmatic Gratitude-Meditation
2018-11-14
Purification - Meditation
2018-11-14
Purification - Talk
2016-08-16
Racism and Awakening - Week 2 - Talk
2019-03-17
Reflections on Equanimity - Meditation
2019-03-17
Reflections on Equanimity - Talk
2019-12-04
Reflections on Every Day Practice - Meditation
2019-12-04
Reflections on Every Day Practice - Talk
2018-07-11
Reflections on Seclusion - Meditation
2018-07-11
Reflections on Seclusion - Talk
2021-03-24
Reflections on the Hindrances - Meditation
2021-03-24
Reflections on the Hindrances - Talk
2020-11-11
Refuge a Deep Commitment to Care - Meditation
2020-11-11
Refuge a Deep Commitment to Care - Talk
2021-12-01
Refuge in Sangha - Meditation
2021-12-01
Refuge in Sangha - Talk
2024-01-28
Relating Wisely to Complication - Meditation
2024-01-28
Relating Wisely to Complication - Talk
2022-10-03
Relating Wisely with the Hindrances
2022-10-03
Relating Wisely With the Hindrances
2023-12-17
Relational Skillfulness - Meditation
2023-12-17
Relational Skillfulness - Talk
2025-09-21
Responsibility and Humility - Meditation
2025-09-21
Responsibility and Humility - Talk
2020-11-04
Seeking Refuge - Talk
2023-12-10
Sensitivity - The Throughline of Our Practice
2023-12-10
Sensitivity - The Throughline of Our Practice - Meditation
2019-07-27
Shelly's Guided Meditation
2019-07-27
Shelly's Talk
2021-03-11
Suffering and the End of Suffering - Meditation
2021-03-11
Suffering and the End of Suffering - Talk
2019-05-19
Taking Refuge in Awareness - Meditation
2019-05-19
Taking Refuge in Awareness - Talk
2025-08-24
Taking Refuge in the Four Noble Truths - Meditation
2025-08-24
Taking Refuge in the Four Noble Truths - Talk
2018-04-11
Teachings on Emptiness - Meditation
2018-04-11
Teachings on Emptiness - Talk
2017-05-17
The Art of Sangha
2020-12-23
The Buddha's Family And Ours (Meditation)
2020-12-23
The Buddha's Family And Ours (Talk)
2017-12-03
The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness - Part 12 - Meditation
2017-12-03
The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness - Part 12 - Talk
2021-02-24
The Dharma of Service (Meditation)
2021-02-24
The Dharma of Service (Talk)
2019-11-13
The Five Aggregates - Meditation
2019-11-13
The Five Aggregates - Talk
2017-08-07
The Five Hindrances - Week 5 - Sloth and Torpor
2018-05-07
The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 9 - Meditation
2018-05-07
The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 9 - Talk
2024-02-04
The Liberative Qualities of Mindfulness - Meditation
2024-02-04
The Liberative Qualities of Mindfulness - Talk
2023-09-16
The Nervous System and Including All Our Pain in Our Dharma Practice
2019-01-09
The Path of Virtue - Meditation
2021-01-06
The Right Resolve for the Times - Meditation
2021-01-06
The Right Resolve for the Times - Talk
2025-07-20
The Three Characteristics - Talk
2026-02-15
To Minneapolis With Love - Meditation
2026-02-15
To Minneapolis With Love - Talk
2023-02-16
Tranquility and Insight Retreat: Wise Effort- Aligning Wisdom and Presence
2019-08-05
Understanding Impermanence - Week 7 - Meditation
2019-08-05
Understanding Impermanence - Week 7- Talk
2016-05-01
Understanding Intimacy
2025-02-15
Understanding Wise Effort
2019-01-20
Virtue is a Relational Process - Talk
2021-10-27
Vulnerability, Security, and an Integrated Awakening - Meditation
2021-10-27
Vulnerability, Security, and an Integrated Awakening - Talk
2021-06-09
Where There Is This There Is That - Meditation
2021-06-09
Where There Is This There Is That - Talk
2024-02-18
Wisdom Awareness - Meditation
2024-02-18
Wisdom Awareness - Talk
2021-03-03
Wise Attention (Meditation)
2021-03-03
Wise Attention (Talk)
2024-01-07
Wise Intention - Meditation
2024-01-07
Wise Intention - Talk
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2000-01-01
Buddhist Studies Course with Shelly Graf: The Five Aggregates
2000-01-01
Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group
2000-01-01
Weekly Dharma Series
2016-08-09
Racism and Awakening Course
2017-07-10
Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Hindrances
2017-09-17
The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness
2017-12-26
Transforming the Mind and Healing the Heart: Reflecting on Impermanence
2018-03-12
Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakenin…
2018-07-02
Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Breathing
2018-12-27
2018 Year End Retreat - Suffering
2019-06-24
Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Impermanence
2019-07-27
Daylong Retreat for Millenials with Shelly Graf and Gabe Keller-Flores
2019-12-27
Mindfulness Immersed in the Body - An Embodied Awakening
2020-03-07
Freedom from Anxiety, Trusting Uncertainty and Change: Living the Practice Work…
2020-11-06
Valuing Calm, Clarity, and Non-Harming During Times of Intensity
2021-01-10
Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Body, Winter 2021
2022-09-12
Buddhist Studies: Relating Wisely with the Hindrances
2024-10-17
Fall Residential Retreat
2025-02-13
2025 President's Day Retreat
2025-07-05
July Residential Retreat for the BIPOC Community
2025-09-08
Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training
2025-10-14
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (Fall 2025)
