Awakening Truth

Sunday Morning Meditation
2025-03-09 04:45 - 05:30, 2025-04-13 04:45 - 05:30, 2025-05-11 04:45 - 05:30, 2025-06-08 04:45 - 05:30, 2025-07-13 04:45 - 05:30, 2025-08-10 04:45 - 05:30, 2025-09-14 04:45 - 05:30, 2025-10-12 04:45 - 05:30 (America/Los_Angeles) and 1 more date
4:45 – 5:30 am Pacific Time (7:45 – 8:30 Eastern)
Second Sunday of the month – ongoing on Zoom
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Details
– Brief meditation instructions
– 35-minute silent sitting
– 3-5 minute talk (Dharmette)
Mindfulness meditation is led by experienced teachers of Awakening Truth. The hour begins with a brief, gentle instruction. We will guide you to focus on the present moment with non-judgmental awareness, helping you let go of distractions and embrace the stillness within.
The 35-minute meditation session blends guided and silent meditation. Following the meditation, there will be a short 3-5 minute Dharma talk on the teachings of Buddhism, mindfulness, and the art of living in harmony with oneself and the world around.
Our intention is that you leave feeling refreshed, focused, and ready to navigate the day’s challenges and opportunities.
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Metta Mondays
2025-08-18 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-25 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-09-01 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-09-08 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-09-15 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-09-22 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-09-29 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-06 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Denver) and 4 more dates
Metta Mondays: Cultivating Love in Turbulent Times
With Amma Thanasanti, Truett Davis and Judith Escobar Torres
Find Your Heart’s Refuge Every Monday
In a world that often feels fractured and overwhelming, Metta Mondays offers a weekly immersion into kindness. Join our community every Monday at 12pm PT / 3pm ET for a 30-minute guided loving kindness meditation – an opportunity to feel more grounded, resilient, and connected. Three rotating teachers facilitate these sessions, with the second Monday of each month offered in Spanish.
How to Join?
Join our Zoom room at 12:00 PT via the following link: Metta Mondays meeting details
Why Metta? Why Now?
This practice of metta – loving kindness meditation – is about connecting with heart qualities like love, kindness, empathy and compassion for ourselves, those closest to us, and our communities.
A Practice for Everyone
Metta Mondays welcomes everyone, regardless of meditation experience or background. This is a safe space to explore the radical act of opening your heart – starting with kindness toward yourself.
Accessibility & Inclusion

Drop-in format: No need to commit to a series – come when you can
Donation-based: Generosity is a practice that helps open your heart. Offer what is generous, meaningful and affordable. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Bilingual offerings: The second Monday of each month is facilitated entirely in Spanish
Online accessibility: Practice from wherever you feel most comfortable

Join us as we touch into our capacity for kindness, one Monday at a time.
Lunes de Metta: Cultivando Amor en Tiempos Turbulentos
Con Amma Thanasanti, Truett Davis y Judith Escobar Torres
Encuentra el Refugio de tu Corazón Cada Lunes
En un mundo que a menudo se siente fracturado y abrumador, los Lunes de Metta ofrecen una inmersión semanal en la bondad. Únete a nuestra comunidad cada lunes a las 12pm PT / 3pm ET para una meditación de bondad amorosa guiada de 30 minutos – una oportunidad para sentirte más tranquilo/a, resiliente y conectado/a. Tres maestros rotativos facilitan estas sesiones, con el segundo lunes de cada mes ofrecido en español.
¿Cómo participar?
Únase a nuestra sala de Zoom a las 12:00 p.m., hora del Pacífico, a través del siguiente enlace: Metta Mondays meeting details
¿Por qué Metta? ¿Por qué Ahora? Esta práctica de metta – meditación de bondad amorosa – se trata de conectar con cualidades del corazón como el amor, la bondad, la empatía y la compasión hacia nosotros mismos, hacia quienes están más cerca de nosotros, y hacia nuestras comunidades.
Una Práctica para Todos
Los Lunes de Metta, damos la bienvenida a todos, independientemente de la experiencia de meditación o trasfondo personal. Este es un espacio seguro para explorar el acto radical de abrir tu corazón – comenzando con la bondad hacia ti mismo/a.
Accesibilidad e Inclusión

Formato de entrada libre: No hay necesidad de comprometerse a una serie – ven cuando puedas
Basado en donaciones: La generosidad es una práctica que ayuda a abrir tu corazón. Ofrece lo que sea generoso, significativo y accesible para ti. Nadie será rechazado por falta de fondos.
Ofertas bilingües: El segundo lunes de cada mes se facilita completamente en español
Accesibilidad en línea: Practica desde donde te sientas más cómodo/a

Únete a nosotros mientras conectamos con nuestra capacidad de bondad, un lunes a la vez.

Discover Integrated Meditation: Drop-in Session
2025-08-30 08:00 - 08:30, 2025-09-17 17:00 - 17:30, 2025-09-20 08:00 - 08:30, 2025-10-11 08:00 - 08:30, 2025-10-15 17:00 - 17:30 (America/Denver)
Discover Integrated Meditation: How It Rewires Your Mind and Transforms Your Life
Join us for a free 30-minute drop-in session and experience the transformative power of the Integrated Meditation Program.
In this short, welcoming session, you will:

Explore the core principles of Integrated Meditation and how they can help shift patterns that meditation alone often doesn’t reach—for yourself or your clients.
Experience a guided meditation that gives you a direct taste of the practices.
Hear real-life stories of change and healing from others who’ve walked this path.
Engage in a Q&A to satisfy your curiosity and connect with the heart of the program.

Whether you’re brand-new to meditation or a decades-long practitioner, this session offers a supportive space to discover tools and practices that go beyond meditation alone—cultivating safety, trust, esteem, joy, aliveness, and intimacy.
Dates/Times:

8:00 AM Pacific, Saturday Aug. 30, Sept. 20, Oct. 11, Nov. 15
5:00 PM Pacific, Wednesday Sept. 17, Oct. 15, Nov. 19

Cost: Free
Location: Register at the top of the page for Zoom link
Step into 30 minutes of discovery and experience how Integrated Meditation can deepen your resiliency, renew your joy, and expand your capacity for connection—for yourself and those you serve.

Redwood Grove Meditation (In-Person, Nature-Based Practice)
2025-09-21 16:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland CA — Big Trees trailhead, Redwood Glen Trailhead, Oakland, CA, United States
Nature calls us into ourselves—into natural rhythms, into listening, into seeing what is alive. With gentle encouragement to be present, to let the busyness of our minds settle, and to allow the power of nature to bring us back to ourselves in stillness, movement and sharing with each other, Amma Thanasanti will let the power of nature, awareness, guide the day.
We’ll meet at the bench at the Big Trees trail head leaving to walk to the site together at 4:30 PM.

We’ll be gathering in a quiet grove in Joaquin Miller Regional Park, in Oakland. This is a different venue from where we met in May. It’s a gentle walk on level ground for about one quarter a mile to the site.
We’ll settle beneath the redwood canopy. Starting with a circle, alternating sitting/lying down meditation with walking/movement meditation and ending with discussion. Unlike the photo, we’ll be in a cleared, moderately flat area. (With foot traffic nearby.)
We will be invited to turn our phones off for the time together.
What to bring:

A mat/ cushions/ bench to sit on
A blanket/tarp
Long pants and socks
Bug repellent
Layers for the cool air
A water bottle

Drinking water will be available nearby. However the closest restrooms are in Roberts Regional Park, 30 minutes walk away.
This is a dana-based retreat. Dana means generosity. It is based on the principle that teachings, opportunities to practice and communities that practice together are priceless. You’re warmly invited to give what is generous, affordable, and meaningful here.
This is an invitation to return to presence, held by the forest, the earth and the company of others seeking the same.

Enhancing Goodness Together: IMP Online Retreat
2025-11-01 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-02 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Mark your calendars—this is a first.
For the first time ever, members from IMP Cohorts 1 and 2 are gathering for a weekend retreat that brings together everything we’ve been learning in the Integrated Meditation Program with a new dimension: SHINE.
What is SHINE?
SHINE is a practice Amma developed to help us actively enhance positive qualities—love, joy, delight, connection, aliveness. It complements the deep healing work of IMP and the emotional inquiry of RAIN. As meditators, we often become skilled at being dukkha sniffers—noticing what’s painful or difficult. In this retreat, we’re making space for joy to be just as real, just as important.
Why This Retreat?
Healing isn’t complete when we’ve only processed our pain. Integration also means cultivating what feels good, what brings us alive, and what helps us delight in being here.
This retreat combines:

IMP’s 3 pillars: collaboration, mentalization, and IPF support
SHINE practices: enhancing positive mind states like joy, love, connection, and play
Community connection: finally meeting members from both cohorts

Schedule Includes

🧘 Guided Meditation – Practices integrating IMP and SHINE
💬 Inquiry Circles – Building on the skills you already know
🎵 Movement & Play – Because joy lives in our bodies
🤝 Community Connection – Meeting your people, sharing your journey

Retreat Flow
We’ll move between stillness and movement, between depth and lightness, between individual practice and collective joy. This isn’t about forcing positivity—it’s about creating conditions where delight can naturally emerge.
Practical Details

📅 When: November 1st and 2nd, 2025
⏰ Time: 10 AM – 1 PM Pacific Time
💻 Where: Online (Zoom)
👥 Who: Only for IMP Cohort 1 & 2 members
💰 Cost: Dana—you are invited to give what is generous, affordable, and meaningful

What to Bring

Your practice
Your questions
Comfortable clothes for movement
Willingness to play
Curiosity
A clean floor space to move

This is what we’ve been building toward—not just healing what hurts, but actively cultivating what helps us thrive.
Come play. Come practice. Come be with your people.

The Moving Stillness Lab: Experiments in Meditation and Contact Improvisation
2025-11-03 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Berkeley Alembic, 2820 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA, CA 94710, United States
The Moving Stillness Lab: Experiments in Meditation and Contact Improvisation With Amma Thanasanti and Nick Smith
What happens when meditation meets movement? When stillness learns to dance?
Through mindfulness, loving-kindness and focused attention, meditation teaches us to know what is, as it is. Through improvisation, touch and listening, Contact Improvisation reveals how structure can emerge spontaneously from presence.
This is a lab—a space for experimentation without predetermined outcomes. Together, we’ll explore what emerges when these practices meet.
Bring questions. Bring ideas. Bring presence. Let’s discover how meditation begins to dance.

Location: The Berkeley Alembic, 2820 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA
Price: Sliding scale of $5 – $85. Please pay what is affordable, supportive, and meaningful to you.
Time: Mondays, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Pacific, ongoing until December 1st.
Registration: Please use the Alembic’s registration system at https://www.berkeleyalembic.org/events – filter the calendar by searching for Nick to see all dates.
