Bozeman Insight Community
2025-01-16 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-01-23 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-01-30 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-02-06 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-02-13 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-02-27 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Hybrid Meeting
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
In person and via Zoom
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a short teaching to introduce the practice and provide some instruction. Then there is a lightly-guided 30-minute meditation, followed by tea, Q&A, and discussion. We open and close the evening with short chants, which are provided and completely optional.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us. No prior experience necessary. If you’d like to talk to one of the leaders prior to attending for the first time, please email us and we’ll connect. We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to our sangha.
When in person, service dogs, lap babies and school-age children are welcome. There are places in the room and nearby where kids can hang out or do homework. Parents can relax about any disturbance this may cause – our community is not fussy about meditation rooms being super silent (ambient noise is a chance to practice with the conditions and cultivate equanimity). We’d rather have you with us than strive for “perfect” conditions (which don’t exist).
BIC Leadership
Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
Council Member – Rose Toth
Council Member – Mary Corelli
Council Member – Sarah Beirut
For leader and council member bios, more information about this group, and to see program updates, please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.

Kindhearted Awareness Meditation
2025-01-21 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-01-28 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-04 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-18 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-25 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-03-04 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-03-11 10:30 - 11:30 and 6 more dates | Online Offering
BIC Drop-In Meditation
Meeting Our Lives with Kindhearted Awareness
Tuesdays
10:30 – 11:30 AM
Led by Suzanne Colón

via Zoom

This program shares the meditation practices that expand our capacity to meet life with an open, stable heart-mind. Guided meditations will vary week to week, providing an opportunity to try new practices and ways of working with life’s challenges. The four heart qualities known as the Brahma Viharas (Noble Abodes) will be cultivated with variations on ways to evoke and develop them: Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity.
Program Schedule:
10:25 – Zoom Room Opens
10:30 – 10:55 – Guided Meditation
Collective Sharing of Delights or Difficulties
Short Reading: Guidance in the Buddhist Practices of the Heart
Discussion until 11:30
Following the guided meditation, we’ll give each other the opportunity to connect, to be supported in times of difficulty, and be witnessed in times of joy. The collective “Sharing of Delights or Difficulties” is formal practice of briefly naming a sorrow or difficulty, a joy or delight, and having the group witness and resonate with each other’s experience.
No prior meditation experience is needed to attend this program. Please make every effort to arrive by 10:30.
This program is offered freely, which means this is a gift to the community, and you are encouraged to pay the gift forward to help cover costs to the degree that you can. This is a program of the Bozeman Insight Community (BIC), offered to the entire Dharma Center community and general public.

The Way of Meditative Warriorship
2025-02-01 09:30 - 12:30 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
The uncertainty of these times calls for a commitment to live the truth and love this world yearns for. During this half-day retreat, we will explore the foundations of living a heart-centered and wakeful life. By emphasizing stillness and relaxation, we will support the natural and fearless qualities of the heart that characterize meditative warriorship. This period will involve sitting, walking, and relational practices that deepen a felt sense of belonging and inspiration for the journey ahead.
James Nepenthe Frank is a meditation teacher and somatic healing practitioner. He began practice as a young child in the Plum Village Tradition with Thich Nhat Hanh and began formally sitting in the Western Insight tradition at the age of 15. While dedicating years of his life to silent retreat, he serves a commitment to live this path in everyday life. He began teaching at the invitation of his teacher, Rodney Smith. He lives in Lincoln, Vermont.

Developing Spiritual Faculties with Chaim Bryski
2025-02-20 19:00 - 20:30 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
Four Thursdays
7-8:30 PM

February 20
March 6
March 13
March 20
Bozeman Insight Community invites you to this four-part series with guest teacher, Chaim Bryski. Chaim will discuss nurturing virtue and developing the spiritual qualities and inner resources for navigating uncertainty with a steady heart. All welcome! No registration necessary.

Developing Spiritual Faculties with Chaim Bryski
2025-03-06 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-03-13 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-03-20 18:30 - 20:00 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
Thursdays
6:30-8:00 PM
February 20
March 6
March 13
March 20
Bozeman Insight Community invites you to this four-part series with guest teacher, Chaim Bryski. Chaim will discuss nurturing virtue and developing the spiritual qualities and inner resources for navigating uncertainty with a steady heart. All welcome! No registration necessary.

The Noble Search with Chaim Bryski
2025-03-15 11:00 - 16:30 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
Saturday, March 15
11AM – 4:30 PM
While myths and legends abound surrounding the life of the historical Buddha (Pāli: Siddhattha Gotama; Skt: Siddhārtha Gautama), much of the traditional folklore began appearing only centuries after the Buddha’s lifetime. Yet the earliest Buddhist discourses (as collected in the Pāli Canon and its Chinese and Sanskrit parallels), focused as they are on the content of his teachings, contain no comprehensive biography of the Buddha.
Rather, scattered throughout these many thousands of discourses, we find numerous snippets of autobiographical narrative attributed to the Buddha himself. In these first-person accounts, often shared with his audiences for didactic purposes, the Buddha recounts a number of his own early-life experiences on his path to awakening, as a means of imparting some of the hard-won lessons and insights he gained over the course of his personal struggles and breakthroughs.
During this daylong study and practice program, we will examine a number of these ancient texts, explore their practical lessons and insights, and discuss and reflect upon their relevance and application to our own lives.
To enhance our exploration of the texts, the day will also incorporate short dharma talks and guided meditation practices, as well as periods of group discussion, peer-based dialogue, and personal reflection.
*Please note that all participants will receive a collection of the relevant texts we will be exploring. Hard copies of the material will be available to those attending in-person at the Bozeman Dharma Center, while those joining online will receive a digital PDF copy via email.”

About Chaim:
Chaim is a Dharma teacher, mindfulness instructor, and trauma practitioner. Integrating Buddhist teachings & practices with modern healing modalities, his approach is fueled by a deep curiosity about what it means to be human — mentally, emotionally, somatically, and relationally — and how we can tap into and expand our innate capacities for healing, growth, and connection to live more authentic, meaningful lives.

Mindfulness and the Addiction Economy with Dave Smith
2025-03-27 18:30 - 20:00 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
Thursday, March 27 6:30-8 PM
Mindfulness is everywhere, everyone seems to know what it means and maybe that’s the problem. While mindfulness maintains deep roots in the Buddhist tradition, like many things it has been watered down by the mainstream and is close to ruin. While our devices have become weapons of mass distraction, the attention economy is over, we lost, welcome to the addiction economy. Everyone is addicted, we all know it, but few will admit it, yet we all seem to accept it. Turning inward and taking an honest look at our pain and dissatisfaction and coming to terms with what fuels are addiction is our only hope. This is accomplished through the development of mindfulness. Therefore, mindfulness is the means, not the end.
During the evening session, Dave will offer perspectives on how to use our mindfulness as skillfully as we can! All Welcome!

Bozeman Insight Community
2025-04-03 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-04-10 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-04-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Hybrid Meeting
Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
In person and via Zoom
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a short teaching to introduce the practice and provide some instruction. Then there is a lightly-guided 30-minute meditation, followed by tea, Q&A, and discussion. We open and close the evening with short chants, which are provided and completely optional.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us. No prior experience necessary. If you’d like to talk to one of the leaders prior to attending for the first time, please email us and we’ll connect. We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to our sangha.
When in person, service dogs, lap babies and school-age children are welcome. There are places in the room and nearby where kids can hang out or do homework. Parents can relax about any disturbance this may cause – our community is not fussy about meditation rooms being super silent (ambient noise is a chance to practice with the conditions and cultivate equanimity). We’d rather have you with us than strive for “perfect” conditions (which don’t exist).
BIC Leadership
Council Member – Sandy Kindt
Council Member – Megan Higgs
Council Member – Marilyn Raffensperger
For leader and council member bios, more information about this group, and to see program updates, please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.
