Awakening Truth

Sunday Morning Meditation
2026-06-14 04:45 - 05:30, 2026-07-12 04:45 - 05:30, 2026-08-09 04:45 - 05:30, 2026-09-13 04:45 - 05:30, 2026-10-11 04:45 - 05:30, 2026-11-08 04:45 - 05:30, 2026-12-13 04:45 - 05:30, 2027-01-10 04:45 - 05:30 (America/Los_Angeles) and 2 more dates
4:45 – 5:30 am Pacific Time (7:45 – 8:30 Eastern)
Second Sunday of the month – ongoing on Zoom
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2431979037?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 243 197 9037
Passcode: [REDACTED]
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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Meditation and Inquiry, with Lake Chapala Society
2026-06-21 10:15 - 11:30 (America/Mexico_City) | Lake Chapala Society, 16 de Septiembre 16-A, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico

Meditation and Inquiry - Hybrid
2026-06-24 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-07-01 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-07-08 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-07-15 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-07-22 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-07-29 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-08-05 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
An Ongoing Hybrid Group with Amma Thanasanti
Meditation helps us become present to experience. Inquiry helps us become intimate with it.
Each gathering begins with a guided meditation, followed by a brief talk introducing a theme for exploration. We then break into small groups for inquiry practice, where participants explore their direct experience with the support of attentive listening and thoughtful questions. We return to the larger group for discussion, reflection, and questions.
Inquiry is a simple but powerful practice of turning awareness toward present-moment experience. Rather than analyzing, explaining, or telling stories, we explore what is actually happening in our body, heart, mind, and awareness right now. Over time, this practice can deepen meditation, increase self-understanding, and reveal new possibilities for insight and growth.
All levels of experience are welcome.
This group is offered in a hybrid format, with participants joining both in person and online. If you are comfortable with Zoom and breakout rooms, we’d welcome a volunteer to help support online participants. To join online, please register at the top of this page to receive the Zoom connection details.
This group is offered by donation. You’re invited to contribute as generously as feels genuine, heartfelt, and sustainable for you.

When:
Wednesdays 7-8:30 PM Mexico Central Time (6:00 – 7:30 Pacific).

Where:
Mara’s House, 77 Colón, Ajijic, next to Namaste Village

To join online, please register at the top of the page to be sent the Zoom information (Registration not required in-person). Volunteers needed: if you would like to help with Zoom break out rooms, email info@awakeningtruth.org.

For donations, please see https://awakeningtruth.org/donation/.

SHINE Workshop - Hybrid at Awakening Heart Sangha
2026-06-28 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Mexico_City) | Awakening Heart Sangha, Emiliano Zapata 3, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico
SHINE Workshop: Cultivating Resilience Through Positive Practice
Join us for a joyful, nourishing workshop designed to help you shift from stress and negativity toward balance, resilience, and inner goodness. Together we’ll practice SHINE, a simple yet powerful framework for cultivating positive states of mind and heart — individually and in community.
You’re warmly invited to bring family, friends, and colleagues who might benefit from a few hours of restorative practice.

When:
2:00 – 5:00 PM local time (CST) (1:00 – 4:00 PM Pacific).
Where:
Hybrid. Online via Zoom, and in person with Awakening Heart Sangha (at Emiliano Zapata 3, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico).
Register at the top of this page to receive the Zoom information (Registration not required in-person).
Volunteers needed: if you would like to help with Zoom break out rooms, email info@awakeningtruth.org.

About the Workshop
This 3-hour workshop offers three hours of enhancing goodness through guided SHINE practice, inquiry with buddies, and community connection. Together we’ll explore how cultivating positive states helps rebalance the brain’s negativity bias and expand our capacity for wellbeing.
You’ll also receive an introduction to the Integrated Meditation Program (IMP)—a trauma-informed, attachment-aware approach that helps shift baseline patterns, making it more natural and sustainable to recognize and rest in goodness.

You’ll Experience:

Extended guided SHINE meditations
Buddy inquiry and reflection practices
A teaching on the neuroscience of positivity and resilience
Voices from IMP alumni about their personal journeys
Small-group integration and discussion
Practical tools you can use immediately

Perfect For:

Those curious about the Integrated Meditation Program
People seeking tools to stay grounded and resilient in difficult times
Friends, family, and colleagues exploring these practices together

Bring someone you love — a friend, a colleague, or a family member. Please ask everyone attending to register so we can plan for space.

Offered Freely
This retreat is a gift to support deepening practice and community connection. There’s no fee, though donations to Awakening Truth are gratefully received.

A Glimpse of the SHINE Practice
SHINE helps us move gently against the brain’s negativity bias — training attention to recognize, receive, and deepen what’s good.
S – Sense:
Begin by sensing something that feels good, safe, or supportive — a pleasant sensation, a moment of connection, or a feeling of gratitude in the present moment.
H – Hold:
Stay with the experience for a few breaths. Let it fill your awareness so it can imprint in the nervous system.
I – Inquire:
Gently explore what makes this experience feel good and where you notice it.
N – Nourish:
Like tending a garden, water the goodness with openness, curiosity, and attention. Soften resistance and keep returning to what’s alive and wholesome.
E – Enhance:
Let the feeling grow and spread through your body, heart, and mind. Imagine carrying it with you into daily life, strengthening new neural pathways of joy and resilience.

For donations, please see https://awakeningtruth.org/donation/.

When Awakening Isn't the End of the Journey - Hybrid with Awakening Heart Sangha
2026-06-29 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Awakening Heart Sangha, Emiliano Zapata 3, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico
To join online, please register at the top of the page to be sent the Zoom information (Registration not required in-person). Volunteers needed: if you would like to help with Zoom break out rooms, email info@awakeningtruth.org.

For donations, please see https://awakeningtruth.org/donation/.

Talk: The Hidden Intelligence of Anger - Hybrid in Minneapolis, with Common Ground
2026-08-14 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Common Ground Meditation Center, Minneapolis, 2700 E 26th St, Minneapolis, MN, MN 55406, United States
The Buddha identified anger as one of the three root poisons—but the tradition has rarely paused to ask: which anger?
The anger of violated boundaries is not the same as the anger arising from trauma, masking grief, confronting injustice, protecting integrity, or carrying what has been passed down through generations. They may all be called anger, but they arise from different conditions, have different needs, and invite different responses.
The Dharma offers profound tools for working with anger. The question is whether we’ve always known which tool to apply to which kind of anger.

This event is offered in partnership with Common Ground Meditation Center, and is offered both in-person in Minneapolis at Common Ground (2700 E 26th St), and online on Zoom. For the Zoom link, please see Common Ground’s website:
https://commongroundmeditation.org/calendar/event/guest-teacher-talk-with-amma-thanasanti-the-hidden-intelligence-of-anger-rnMukU5nEa5BdQYvkp3bv4

Inquiry: Turning Toward Anger - Hybrid in Minneapolis, with Common Ground
2026-08-15 07:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Common Ground Meditation Center, Minneapolis, 2700 E 26th St, Minneapolis, MN, MN 55406, United States
We spend a lot of energy managing anger — containing it, avoiding it, or being consumed by it. This session invites something different: turning toward it with curiosity rather than aversion or indulgence.
Through guided meditation and paired inquiry, we will explore what it means to be with anger rather than driven by it. We will practice developing the steadiness and curiosity that allows difficult emotions to be met without being overwhelming — staying close to direct experience rather than analysis, and noticing what becomes available when anger is approached with enough care to be heard.

This event is offered in partnership with Common Ground Meditation Center, and is offered both in-person in Minneapolis at Common Ground (2700 E 26th St), and online on Zoom. For the Zoom link, please see Common Ground’s website:
https://commongroundmeditation.org/calendar/event/guest-teacher-talk-with-amma-thanasanti-turning-toward-anger-a-meditation-and-inquiry-practice-jmNQRvlwN22HYPnrj45JpK

Workshop: When Anger Becomes a Teacher - Hybrid in Minneapolis, with Common Ground
2026-08-16 12:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Common Ground Meditation Center, Minneapolis, 2700 E 26th St, Minneapolis, MN, MN 55406, United States
Most of us have been taught that anger is a problem to be solved — suppressed, expressed, managed, or transcended. But what if the problem isn’t the anger itself? What if the problem is that we haven’t yet understood what it is trying to tell us?
Through teaching, guided practice, and small group inquiry, we will work with a central question:
What kind of anger is this, and what does it need?

This event is offered in partnership with Common Ground Meditation Center, and is offered both in-person in Minneapolis at Common Ground (2700 E 26th St), and online on Zoom. For the Zoom link, please see Common Ground’s website:
https://commongroundmeditation.org/calendar/event/guest-teacher-talk-with-amma-thanasanti-when-anger-becomes-a-teacher-TUyoZZQDJg8JkWvCpZ6CMK

Understanding Anger, online with New York Insight
2026-09-10 15:30 - 17:30, 2026-09-17 15:30 - 17:30, 2026-09-24 15:30 - 17:30, 2026-10-01 15:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Online: Understanding Anger – From Poison to Presence
A Trauma-Informed, Four-Part Series with Amma Thanasanti
Thursdays, September 10th – October 1st, 2026 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET

Please see https://www.nyimc.org/event/anger/ for registration and more details.

Introduction to Integrated Meditation
2026-09-13 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-11-17 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Free Introduction to the Integrated Meditation Program
What Does Meditation Reliably Transform—and What Requires Something More?
If you’ve experienced the benefits of meditation yet still find yourself struggling with trauma, attachment wounds, recurring relationship patterns, or difficult emotions, you’re not alone.
Join us for a free one-hour introduction to the Integrated Meditation Program (IMP), a six-month program that integrates contemplative practice with attachment repair, relational development, and psychological growth.
In this session, you’ll:

Discover why meditation alone doesn’t always transform every form of human suffering—and what additional capacities support lasting change

Learn the core principles of the Integrated Meditation Program and how they help translate insight into everyday life and relationships

Experience a short guided meditation as a direct taste of the program’s approach

Ask questions and explore whether the program is a good fit for you

Whether you’re new to meditation, a long-time practitioner, or a helping professional, this session offers an opportunity to explore an integrated approach to awakening and psychological development.

Please register at top of page for Zoom information.

SHINE Workshop
2026-11-22 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
SHINE Workshop: Cultivating Resilience Through Positive Practice
Join us for a joyful, nourishing workshop designed to help you shift from stress and negativity toward balance, resilience, and inner goodness. Together we’ll practice SHINE, a simple yet powerful framework for cultivating positive states of mind and heart — individually and in community.
You’re warmly invited to bring family, friends, and colleagues who might benefit from a few hours of restorative practice.

When:
Sunday 22 November, 1:00 – 4:00 PM (US Pacific)
Where:
Register at the top of this page to receive the Zoom information.

About the Workshop
This 3-hour workshop offers three hours of enhancing goodness through guided SHINE practice, inquiry with buddies, and community connection. Together we’ll explore how cultivating positive states helps rebalance the brain’s negativity bias and expand our capacity for wellbeing.
You’ll also receive an introduction to the Integrated Meditation Program (IMP)—a trauma-informed, attachment-aware approach that helps shift baseline patterns, making it more natural and sustainable to recognize and rest in goodness.

You’ll Experience:

Extended guided SHINE meditations
Buddy inquiry and reflection practices
A teaching on the neuroscience of positivity and resilience
Voices from IMP alumni about their personal journeys
Small-group integration and discussion
Practical tools you can use immediately

Perfect For:

Those curious about the Integrated Meditation Program
People seeking tools to stay grounded and resilient in difficult times
Friends, family, and colleagues exploring these practices together

Bring someone you love — a friend, a colleague, or a family member. Please ask everyone attending to register so we can plan for space.

Offered Freely
This retreat is a gift to support deepening practice and community connection. There’s no fee, though donations to Awakening Truth are gratefully received.

A Glimpse of the SHINE Practice
SHINE helps us move gently against the brain’s negativity bias — training attention to recognize, receive, and deepen what’s good.
S – Sense:
Begin by sensing something that feels good, safe, or supportive — a pleasant sensation, a moment of connection, or a feeling of gratitude in the present moment.
H – Hold:
Stay with the experience for a few breaths. Let it fill your awareness so it can imprint in the nervous system.
I – Inquire:
Gently explore what makes this experience feel good and where you notice it.
N – Nourish:
Like tending a garden, water the goodness with openness, curiosity, and attention. Soften resistance and keep returning to what’s alive and wholesome.
E – Enhance:
Let the feeling grow and spread through your body, heart, and mind. Imagine carrying it with you into daily life, strengthening new neural pathways of joy and resilience.

For donations, please see https://awakeningtruth.org/donation/.
