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.
Mindfulness practice cultivates the ability to relate to our present moment experience with awareness, instead of being caught up in conditioned patterns of doing and being. As we learn to be present in the moment, mindfully paying attention, we awaken to know the simple joy of 'being'.
This 16-week session will include meditation, teachings and instruction, awareness exercises with a focus on awakening joy, gratitude, connection with nature.
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.
The focus of this 16-week spring/summer session will be on cultivating and deepening our practice and understanding of what it is to be fully human -- to live awake, in awareness and connection with ourselves and the world around us, embodying clear and wise intention and action in our way of being in the world.
The weekly classes will include a one hour meditation practice, as well as additional contemplations, practices and discussion that support awareness of our inter-relationship with the natural world, the world around us, with one another; and the universal responsibility inherent in this awareness and understanding of living in love, kindness and concern for all beings.
This course is suitable for anyone who has a solid foundation in meditation, a regular sitting practice, and would like to deepen their practice.
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.
An information session for parents will be held on September 20. Regular classes begin on September 27 and end on November 22. There will be no class on Thanksgiving weekend (October 11).
Registration will open with the fall session in August.
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.