Norcal Community of Mindful Living
Sanghas + Events in the Plum Village Community in Northern California
This coming Sunday, May 11, Shantideva Monastery welcomes the community to a Vesak celebration. Vesak is the annual observance of the Buddha’s birthday and/or enlightenment day.
You are welcome to join us for a half-day of meditation from 10 a.m. until 2 or 2:30 p.m. (you can arrive as early as 9:30). Please bring your own lunch!
After lunch we will have a ceremony involving bathing baby Buddha. 
If you are a sangha organizer, facilitator, or someone on the OI path, you are warmly invited to an in-person tea time.
Anyone who is a sangha organizer/facilitator in the Plum Village tradition is welcome. Please RSVP to dylan@tweney.com if you’re planning on coming.
This is a chance for organizers, facilitators, caretaking council members, ordained Order of Interbeing members, OI aspirants, OI-curious folks, and sangha builders of all types to gather in friendship for honest and vulnerable discussion together.
What’s really going on in the Northern California PV community? Are we on the right path? What do we need as a community to continue beautifully into the future?
Bring your whole selves to this meeting, and we will hold our aspirations and our concerns together.
Continue reading “Sangha Builders Tea”We are happy to share that a new in-person, all-ages Plum Village sangha in San Francisco has launched! Our space is beautiful – an epic, circular, interfaith chapel at the UU church in SF. We hope you will consider joining us (practicing with us? facilitating? being on the organizing team?) so we can make the most of practicing mindfulness together as a community.
We are meeting weekly on Fridays from 4:30-6pm, at the UU Church at 1187 Franklin St in San Francisco.
Every week, we will practice sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and Dharma sharing. All are welcome.
Some quick tidbits:
We look forward to practicing with you soon, maybe tomorrow!
The Home Within Sangha organizing team (Nicole Kramer, Miles Schulman, and Colette Auerswald)
Bay Area Sanghas are invited to a day of nourishing practices in the Plum Village Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh at a beautiful monastery in the Santa Cruz mountains.
Please use this form to RSVP to help with planning and carpooling: https://forms.gle/5WeDakHxXdnikky78
See further details in the flyer below.
Continue reading “Day of Mindfulness April 13”Family Retreat is a retreat for families of all descriptions. In this retreat we will have programs for adults, children, tweens, and teens, ensuring that every member of your family will have an opportunity to deepen their experience of the practice.
Parents and adults are given the opportunity to explore the practice through activities such as Dharma Sharing, Total Relaxation, and Dharma Talks while the younger ones will get to experience age-appropriate mindfulness activities and sharings of their own.
Registration opens in the Spring.
For more info:
Please save the date for the latest in the Wisdom Meditation School’s ongoing series of days of mindfulness in Vacaville.
Details TBA later.
Continue reading “Pho Tri (Wisdom Meditation School) Day of Mindfulness”Please save the date for the latest in the Wisdom Meditation School’s ongoing series of days of mindfulness in Vacaville.
Details are in the PDFs linked below.
Continue reading “Pho Tri (Wisdom Meditation School) Day of Mindfulness”Dear Thay, dear sangha members practicing peace:
Please join Dharma teacher Lyn Fine and others in their weekly zoom, on Tuesdays since early October 2023:
Deep Looking, Deep Listening Zoom Circle in the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism
Hosted by Mindful Peacebuilding Sangha
Co-facilitated: Dharma Teacher Lyn Fine and others
Tuesdays
7am-9amPT (come and go as needed)
FOR THE ZOOM LINK, PLEASE EMAIL mindfulpeacebuilding@gmail.com
Continue reading “Deep Looking, Deep Listening Zoom Circle – Ongoing”How in these times can the Plum Village practice community contribute to transforming racial injustice and support wise, skillful, and compassionate action grounded in love—in short, create beloved community?
Please join the Deepening White Awareness Sangha for three half-days of mindfulness, offered to individuals who self-identify as white, to mindfully explore our whiteness. We will follow the Plum Village teachings and practices throughout our time together, which will include meditation, sharing, and grounding exercises. The series is open to people who are beginning this mindful exploration, and to those who have experience. During the series, we will:
Continue reading “Deepening White Awareness & Engaged Practice”
An in-person 7-day retreat, April 7-13, for young adults between the ages of 18 and 35 years old, hosted by Deer Park Monastery with the support of monastics and practitioners in the Plum Village Tradition.
For more information, see the Deer Park website: