Awakening Heart Sangha

Meets: Mondays;  7:00 – 8:30 p.m. CT;   Welcome: All levels; drop-ins welcome – ZOOM ONLY

Awakening Heart Sangha is a mindfulness practice group in the Plum Village Tradition of Vietnamese Zen teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh, or ‘Thay’. All levels of practice are welcome, regardless of whether you are a newcomer to meditation or have had a meditation practice for a while. Brief meditation instruction will be offered at each meeting as needed for any newcomers. At each meeting, we will check in, practice 20 minutes of sitting meditation and 10 minutes of walking meditation followed by a short reading and discussion.  Awakening Heart Sangha is co-lead by Debra Rodgers and Karen Massetti Miller.  Debra has a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Chaplaincy and was ordained in 2013 by Thich Nhat Hanh as a lay-practitioner in the Order of Interbeing with the Dharma name True Chrysanthemum Garden.

This class meets via Zoom.

Contact us for more information or to be added to the weekly Sangha meeting announcement email list.

Activity Schedule:

1st Monday: Book Reading (a book by Thích Nhất Hạnh or another Dharma teacher)
2nd Monday: Recitation of the Five Mindfulness Trainings or the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings (alternating)
3rd Monday: Book Reading (a book by Thích Nhất Hạnh or another Dharma teacher)
4th Monday: Alternate Book Reading
5th Monday: Sangha care taking check-in