Our building at 2030 Sansom remains closed to help avoid the spread of COVID-19. We are offering our ONLINE opportunities for practice, study and community at low or no charge. Your generous support will help us provide online programming that will sustain our community in difficult times. Please give what you can through our donation page.
Registration
To reserve a space, please register via the link on the program’s page. You can pay via credit card or PayPal. You can also register at the Center when the program begins and pay with a check, cash or credit card. Please arrive 30 minutes early. If you are unable to attend a program for which you have registered, a refund is available. Please contact us as soon as possible prior to the program.
Generosity Policy
“Generosity is the virtue that produces peace.”
―from the Sutra of the Recollection of the Three Jewels
The Philadelphia Shambhala Center is a non-profit organization run by volunteers and supported by the generosity of its members and program participants. We are committed to making both meditation practice and the programs we offer accessible to all. Financial constraints should not be an obstacle to taking part. At the same time, the costs associated with running the Center are accurately reflected in our program pricing.
Our Generosity Policy makes our registration process a contemplative practice of generosity where, if the program price is not presently workable for you, we invite you to contemplate how much you are able to offer. Paying what you can is a gesture of support for our Center and its mission.
Our policy also encourages generosity for those who can offer more than the regular program price through “Patron Pricing,” as a way to pay-it-forward. This option enables us to cover costs for those who are not able to pay the full program price.
We thank you for your generosity. To register using the Generosity Policy, please contact: [email protected]
All Programs
Online Programs
December 27th—March 28th
Join us for meditation in an online format. Open to everyone. Just click on the link below to join the online meeting.
Continue »January 3rd—June 6th
Maitri Bhavana is a meditation on loving kindness that is practiced for those who are seriously ill, either physically or mentally, a timely and powerful practice in this time of Covid-19.
Continue »January 5th—March 30th
Join us for public meditation practice, a short reading and group discussion offered online via Zoom. Everyone is welcome.
Continue »with Rebecca Narva
January 6th—May 26th
Feeling boxed in by zoom meetings? Here is a class to open up that box by giving your thinking mind a break and tapping into the playful life energy of your body with safe, easy movement and joyful upbeat music.
Continue »January 10th—May 9th
In the face of the worldwide pandemic of COVID19, please join us for the healing practice of White Tara.
Continue »with Marilia Marien & Aurora Casta
January 18th—March 15th
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a class grounded in research that teaches skills to help you further develop your ability to cope more effectively with expected and unexpected life stress.
Continue »February 7th—June 6th
In this online book group, we will explore books from various traditions that are shaping contemporary Buddhist thinking, particularly in the West, but which signify an evolving Buddhism around the world.
Continue »February 24th—July 21st
This historic series provides a colorful, penetrating, and deeply experiential portrait of tantra and the tantric practitioner.
Continue »with Thomas Berthoff
February 27th
The Shambhala Sadhana is a practice that supports the journey of establishing trust and confidence in the basic goodness of oneself, others and society.
Continue »with Jude Robison
February 28th
Toast your bagel, pour your java, and let’s talk about magic.
Continue »with Acharya Arawana Hayashi
March 5th
Uncover the wisdom hidden in stuck places. Use the embodied practice of Social Presencing Theater to see limiting patterns, open mind and heart, and re-engage our inherent wisdom.
Continue »with Thomas Berthoff & Lisa Kraus
March 11th—April 1st
This course is an exploration of a Buddhist approach to life as presented in “The Myth of Freedom,” by Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche.
Continue »March 12th—April 9th
As a reading and study group, our purpose will be to learn and grow in our awareness as we practice friendship, kindness and open curiosity.
Continue »with Thomas Berthoff
March 28th
Join us for one hour of dharma and discussion.
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