Mar
29
Fri
2024
Drop-In Sit
Mar 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Afternoon Meditation
Mar 29 @ 5:20 pm – 6:00 pm

Afternoon Meditation

5:20-6:00 PM

Mondays & Fridays
IN PERSON ONLY

Join us for this drop-in sit hosted by the Bozeman Zen Group. We will sit silently for 35 minutes and then do a short chant. All welcome!

Apr
1
Mon
2024
Drop-In Sit
Apr 1 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Afternoon Meditation
Apr 1 @ 5:20 pm – 6:00 pm

Afternoon Meditation

5:20-6:00 PM

Mondays & Fridays
IN PERSON ONLY

Join us for this drop-in sit hosted by the Bozeman Zen Group. We will sit silently for 35 minutes and then do a short chant. All welcome!

Apr
2
Tue
2024
Drop-In Sit
Apr 2 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Pali Canon Study Group
Apr 2 @ 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

Pali Canon Study Group

Tuesdays 1:15-2:15 PM

Photo of Middle Length Discourses in Bozeman Dharma Center library

Although Bozeman Dharma Center houses groups from multiple lineages, one thing we all have in common is a reliance on the teachings of the Buddha. The Pali Canon is recognized as the earliest written record of the Buddha’s teachings, given before the Buddhist community divided into different schools. This peer-led study group will begin by tackling readings from the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. You do not need to own the book to participate and do not need to commit to attending every week. Already having a practice and familiarity with the Dharma will be helpful.

Basic Schedule

1:15 Short sit
1:30 Read portion of Pali Canon with discussion afterward
2:10 Short sit and closing chant

Newcomer Orientation
Apr 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Newcomer Orientation!

First Tuesday of each Month

5 PM

Not sure how to begin or what the BDC is all about? Join us on the first Tuesday of each month for an orientation to the Center and basic meditation instruction!

MindSpace
Apr 2 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm

MindSpace

 A Meditation Group for adults Ages 18 – 40

Tuesdays 6:30 – 7:45 pm
In Person Only

Meeting Structure

6:25: Gather
6:30: 30 minute meditation
7:00: Reading and Discussion
7:45: End

We choose books that are easy to pick up at any point. Drop-ins are welcome! You do not need to have own the book to participate.

We are currently reading Training in Compassion by Norman Fischer (Zen tradition)

Examples of other books we’ve read:
No Self, No Problem by Anam Thubten (Tibetan tradition)
— Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach (Insight tradition)

Current Facilitators

Kerry Neal has practiced in the Zen tradition for 8 years. She sits with the Bozeman Zen Group. She helped start MindSpace in 2016 and facilitated until early 2019. She loves the lifelong nature that is meditation practice and working mindfulness into everyday life.

Mary Corelli has 12 years of practice in the Zen and Insight Meditation traditions. She is a mother and a therapist. Mary is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher through Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s two year training program. She emphasizes ecological awareness in practice.

Allison Howe has 4 years of meditation practice and has been practicing regularly with MindSpace since 2022. She is an experienced group facilitator and therapist in private practice, helping clients bring mindful awareness into daily life and deepening their relationship with themselves through an embodied sense of openness, compassion, and curiosity.

Apr
3
Wed
2024
Drop-In Sit
Apr 3 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Apr
4
Thu
2024
Drop-In Sit
Apr 4 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Apr
5
Fri
2024
Drop-In Sit
Apr 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Afternoon Meditation
Apr 5 @ 5:20 pm – 6:00 pm

Afternoon Meditation

5:20-6:00 PM

Mondays & Fridays
IN PERSON ONLY

Join us for this drop-in sit hosted by the Bozeman Zen Group. We will sit silently for 35 minutes and then do a short chant. All welcome!

SoundGate Meditation
Apr 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

SoundGate Meditation

First & Third Fridays of the Month
7-8 PM

Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

 

Our SoundGate program offers an opportunity to meditate using sound as a source of concentration. Experience how the union of breath and sound can anchor you in the present moment. No prior experience or registration necessary.

The Buddha instructed his students to bring awareness and sensory clarity to each of the six sense “gates” of experience. Just as we can anchor in breathing, we can anchor in body sensations, seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling or mindfully track the activity of the thinking mind.

These SoundGate Meditations offer a sound-scape of sensory experience to be your object of meditation, allowing you to linger in the experience of hearing (and take a break from other sense gates perhaps). A variety of sounds will be offered, bells and bowls, chanting, music, recordings of the natural world and soundscapes of our common humanity. While most are designed to be pleasant and carry beneficial intention, some will be neutral or varied in content.

You may simply relax and bathe in harmonious sound, or more intentionally bring elements of Insight practice to your meditation.

Check our listings below to see what will be offered when, or simply drop in with curiosity and explore.

No registration necessary | Donations welcome; any funds collected will be split equally between the Dharma Center and Facilitator.


April 5: Frequency Sound Immersion with Jessie Solon

Enter a timeless space of listening as Jessie facilitates deep states of relaxation through the intentional use of overtone rich, sound healing instruments including crystal and Himalayan singing bowls, a symphonic gong, bells & chimes, wave, and monochord. The layering of these elements will offer a unique sound experience that will encourage a tangible shift in perceptual awareness, as well as an increased sense of nourishment and well-being.

 

 

 


April 19: Tibetan Bowls with Brian Sparks

Brian has received his spiritual teaching from several masters in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. His teachers blessed his bowl work by giving him the specific “Prayer of Aspiration” and granted him many Buddhist empowerments. He has toured with notable Tibetan musicians, actors, and at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee.

He offers his practice of playing bowls in service of healing, compassion and awakening.

 


May 10: Soundbath with Mantras of Compassion

Annika Sophia Grace (vocals), Marius George (percussion) and Jessie Solon (bowls, gong, monchord) return to treat us to a bilssful sound bath.

Apr
8
Mon
2024
Drop-In Sit
Apr 8 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Afternoon Meditation
Apr 8 @ 5:20 pm – 6:00 pm

Afternoon Meditation

5:20-6:00 PM

Mondays & Fridays
IN PERSON ONLY

Join us for this drop-in sit hosted by the Bozeman Zen Group. We will sit silently for 35 minutes and then do a short chant. All welcome!

Apr
9
Tue
2024
Drop-In Sit
Apr 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Pali Canon Study Group
Apr 9 @ 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

Pali Canon Study Group

Tuesdays 1:15-2:15 PM

Photo of Middle Length Discourses in Bozeman Dharma Center library

Although Bozeman Dharma Center houses groups from multiple lineages, one thing we all have in common is a reliance on the teachings of the Buddha. The Pali Canon is recognized as the earliest written record of the Buddha’s teachings, given before the Buddhist community divided into different schools. This peer-led study group will begin by tackling readings from the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. You do not need to own the book to participate and do not need to commit to attending every week. Already having a practice and familiarity with the Dharma will be helpful.

Basic Schedule

1:15 Short sit
1:30 Read portion of Pali Canon with discussion afterward
2:10 Short sit and closing chant

MindSpace
Apr 9 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm

MindSpace

 A Meditation Group for adults Ages 18 – 40

Tuesdays 6:30 – 7:45 pm
In Person Only

Meeting Structure

6:25: Gather
6:30: 30 minute meditation
7:00: Reading and Discussion
7:45: End

We choose books that are easy to pick up at any point. Drop-ins are welcome! You do not need to have own the book to participate.

We are currently reading Training in Compassion by Norman Fischer (Zen tradition)

Examples of other books we’ve read:
No Self, No Problem by Anam Thubten (Tibetan tradition)
— Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach (Insight tradition)

Current Facilitators

Kerry Neal has practiced in the Zen tradition for 8 years. She sits with the Bozeman Zen Group. She helped start MindSpace in 2016 and facilitated until early 2019. She loves the lifelong nature that is meditation practice and working mindfulness into everyday life.

Mary Corelli has 12 years of practice in the Zen and Insight Meditation traditions. She is a mother and a therapist. Mary is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher through Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s two year training program. She emphasizes ecological awareness in practice.

Allison Howe has 4 years of meditation practice and has been practicing regularly with MindSpace since 2022. She is an experienced group facilitator and therapist in private practice, helping clients bring mindful awareness into daily life and deepening their relationship with themselves through an embodied sense of openness, compassion, and curiosity.

Apr
10
Wed
2024
Drop-In Sit
Apr 10 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Apr
11
Thu
2024
Drop-In Sit
Apr 11 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.