Next Step Dharma
Integrate your retreat into daily life.
Next Step Dharma
Integrate your retreat into daily life.
"The program of Next Step Dharma is critical and it’s beautiful. I think that people would have benefited for decades if there had been such a program like this." – Jack Kornfield
A six week online course specifically
designed to bring your retreat back home.
Ready to bring the practice to life?
Ancient wisdom ...
Ancient wisdom ...
for modern times.
for modern times.
"Next Step Dharma is the real deal... After you leave a retreat, this program gives you the support to take what you've learned and apply it to your life." – DaRa Williams
The six week online course includes:
Recorded interviews with founding Insight Meditation teachers on key themes
Interactive, live Q & A with the Course Leaders
Dharma Talks and Guided Meditations geared for integration
Mentoring for your practice
Lifetime membership in our online community
Rolling admissions: the course is open 365 days a year!
Course Overview:
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 ABC's of Emotions
- Awareness of Emotions
- The Art of the Middle
- Curiosity and Care
- 2 Guided Meditations
- Thoughts and Emotions
- Exploring Unpleasant Senstions
- 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 Leads 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
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