Come learn about the Bozeman Dharma Center. No registration necessary. No fee! Just bring your curiosity. Learn basic meditation skills, get a quick orientation to the Center and ask your questions. It’s an easy, low-commitment way to learn about Buddhism and meditation.
The June Newcomer orientation is Tuesday June 2 from 5-6 PM.
Coming up on Saturday May 30 from 9 AM to 12:30 PM is one of our favorite gatherings of the year, the Mahasangha Half-Day Retreat! This retreat is an opportunity to learn about all the different lineages represented at the BDC. It is free! No registration needed. All are welcome!
Practitioners and leaders from each group will discuss their traditions–for this retreat we are focusing on the theme of grief. Join leaders as they share their teachings on loss, letting go, equanimity, transformation, remembrance, and peace.
One of the traditions will be sharing will be burning the remembrance cards from the Kwan Yin altar.
Join us on Saturday May 16, 8:30 AM – 12 PM for a nourishing half-day retreat exploring the body as a doorway to awareness and innate joy. This retreat invites you to discover how simple moments of embodied presence can reveal a natural sense of ease, openness, and well-being that is already within you.
Together, we will gently explore practices that help you reconnect with your lived, felt experience—using the body not as something to fix, but as a direct path to awakening. Whether you are new to meditation or deepening an existing practice, you are warmly invited.
During our time together, we will explore:
This retreat offers a supportive space to rest into your experience and discover a sense of wellbeing that emerges when awareness and body meet.
Meet the Teacher
Stephanie Wagner is a long-time meditator and meditation teacher with the Tergar Meditation Community, studying under the guidance of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. She has trained with other renowned Buddhist teachers including Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Sharon Salzberg, and Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche. She is also the Director of Learning and Development at Humin, a global nonprofit founded by acclaimed neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson, where she works at the intersection of neuroscience and meditation.
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free. – Jack Kornfield
Meditation is a simple but powerful tool that can help us cope when we feel overwhelmed, anxious, and stressed. Meditation is a useful tool at other times too with known health benefits. If you’re interested in starting a meditation practice and aren’t sure how to start, this class is for you! We’ll discuss and practice different styles of meditation including practicing with the breath, body scans, working with a question, Metta practice and Tonglen. You’ll leave with an understanding of meditation fundamentals such as different postures that work well, how to work with attention, and ways to support your meditation practice.
This event will be held in person and via Zoom on Saturday May 2, 9 AM – 12:30 PM. We plan on recording the class and sending the link to registrants who request it.
Saturday April 4, 9 AM to 12:30 PM, Hybrid!
Senior BDC practitioners, Katie Travis-Arnold and Nick Woodward, explore central teachings of our 2600 year old Buddhist tradition. The class will discuss the different lineages of Buddhism, the life of the Buddha, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path and the precepts. Great for those new to meditation and Buddhist practice; seasoned practitioners are warmly encouraged as well.
With Brittany and James Nepenthe, Saturday March 28, 9 AM-12:30 PM. Zoom only!
This half-day workshop offers practical tools for directly investigating the sense of self. Through guided inquiry and experiential exercises, participants will learn how to look closely at present-moment experience and examine whether a separate self can actually be found. The emphasis is on active investigation rather than philosophy, supporting clear seeing in everyday life.
Brittany & James Nepenthe are dharma practitioners specializing in the intersection of relationship as spiritual path, transcendent awakening, and trauma healing. With years of extensive silent retreat experience, they are committed to deep realization in the midst of ordinary life. As a married couple and expectant parents, they are devoted to awakening as householders, with no part of life excluded from the path.
Yamama! is back on Friday, March 20 from 7- 8 PM.
Explore meditation and connection through sound. Yamama! will offer a meditative soundscape using drums, percussion and vocals. No registration necessary. Donations welcome! Any funds collected will be split evenly with the artists. In person.
Come learn about meditation and the Bozeman Dharma Center! The first Tuesday of every month, we host a newcomer orientation. Receive basic meditation instruction and learn about what the Center offers. The next one is on Tuesday March 3, from 5-6 PM. Bring your questions! No registration necessary. In person.
Karen DeCotis will be in Bozeman in early March! She will be giving a public talk on Friday, March 6 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm and a Daylong retreat on Saturday, March 7 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Our Inmost Request: Consciousness and Ethics in Buddhist Practice
Suzuki Roshi encourages us to be fully who we are, not to try to figure out who we are or have an idea of how to be.
What is an authentic life? How does Mind help or hinder our authentic self? What does this mean for our approach to how to be in the world?
To be fully who we are, we look to realize our inmost nature, our inmost request of ourselves. As we identify this, we must find how to maintain this, to have a continuous practice and have this deep request inform our effort in all of our arenas of practice – meditation, relationships, parenting, activism, art, service.
This weekend we will explore the quest of our inmost aspiration and how it relates to being upright in a wonderful and troubled world. It will include meditation, instruction, Dharma talks, writing and reflection and group conversation.
If you’re interested in starting a meditation practice and aren’t sure how, come to our Intro to Meditation class on Saturday January 10 from 9 AM – 12:30 PM! We’ll discuss (and practice) different styles of meditation including practicing with the breath, body scans, working with a question, Metta practice and Tonglen. You’ll leave with an understanding of meditation fundamentals such as different postures that work well, how to work with attention, and ways to support your meditation practice. Please pre-register.
