Some of our classes are offered with the option of attending either in person or online via Zoom. Your choice will apply for the duration of the session.
If you register for online classes, you will receive a follow-up e-mail with the instructions for connecting via Zoom.
Please hold your payment until January. This helps us maintain alignment with our fiscal year. We will reserve your place in class without payment. Thank you.
Mindfulness meditation is a practice that teaches us how to find peace of mind and ease of being amidst the stresses and challenges of everyday life. Mindfulness practice, when grounded in the Buddha's core teachings, provides a path to inner freedom and happiness, independent of life's conditions.
This 16-week session will provide guided meditation instruction and support with practice, with teachings on the Four Noble Truths.
This course is suitable for anyone who has completed the 8-week Introduction to Meditation course, or has experience with mindfulness practice, and would like to deepen their understanding and practice.
This 8-week course, based on the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, provides a solid grounding in the basic skills of mindfulness meditation, helping to reduce stress, quiet the mind and develop the ability to be present and at ease with life as it unfolds in each moment of experience. The course includes instruction and support with establishing a stable meditation practice, and cultivating mindfulness in everyday life.
A one-day retreat, to help integrate the teachings and the practice, will be held on Saturday, February 28 from 9 am to 3 pm.
Regular weekly attendance during the course is important. Weekly instruction, and practicing within a group of meditators provides support for learning meditation and developing a practice. Please consider your schedule and ability to commit to the 8 weeks before registering for the course.
The course instructor will contact you prior to the course start date to welcome you and discuss any questions.
This 16-week session will contnue with the focus on cultivating an inner stillness and a deepening awareness of the mind/body process, exploring through direct awareness of internal and external worlds of experience, and consciousness itself, how underlying feelings and reactivity distort our perceptions and actions in the world, causing suffering for ourselves and others.
Through the practice of paying attention to our experience with awareness and acceptance, we learn to transform the energy of these underlying reactive patterns into wisdom and love, freeing ourselves from the suffering that is inherent in conditioned behavior.
The course is suitable for anyone who has a solid foundation in Dharma teachings, a meditation practice for at least 3 years and an interest in deepening their practice.
Days of mindfulness will be offered on January 25, February 22 and March 22 (weather dependent).
Please email info@wrdharmacentre.com to register. Registration is limited to 15 people.
Additional information will be sent out to registrants prior to the day.
This course is offered as a child-parent course.
In this 8-week course children/youth and their parents/caregivers together will learn specific ways of paying attention to their breath, their body, their thoughts, their feelings and the world around them. Research shows that this way of paying attention (mindfulness) increases attention and focus, reduces stress, anxiety and depression and increases well-being.
Individual exercises are geared to each participants age.
Teens do not need to attend with their parents, but may choose to do so.
Program fees help to support the operating costs of the Centre.
In keeping with the Buddhist tradition, the teachings are given freely. Meditation instructors and Dharma teachers are paid by Dana (voluntary giving/donation).
Teacher dana may be offered by e-transfer to sue@wrdharmacentre.com.
For those facing financial challenges, arrangements can be made to reduce or waive course fees.
Everyone is welcome to attend, regardless of ability to pay.