Overview
This series of 2-hour workshops in January 2026 has an overarching theme, but each workshop is a one-off class. You are welcome to sign up for all three, or just one or two.
Please note: you must sign up individually for each workshop you would like to attend. The registration links for each are below.
All workshops are at the Flander’s House @ 2926 NE Flander’s Street in NE Portland.
- Mindfulness of The Body
- Wed, 1/7/26, from 7-9pm. Register here.
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- Wed, 1/7/26, from 7-9pm. Register here.
- Mindfulness of Breathing
- Wed, 1/14/26, from 7-9pm. Register here.
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- Wed, 1/14/26, from 7-9pm. Register here.
- Natural Mindfulness / Open Awareness
- Wed, 1/21/26 from 7-9pm. Register here.
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- Wed, 1/21/26 from 7-9pm. Register here.
Cost: each workshop is offered on the Gift Economy / aka donation, If you’d like to learn more about the Gift Economy or how 98% of my livelihood comes just from donations, visit here.
All workshops will feature some blend of guided meditation, brief lecture, and community discussion.
All experience levels are welcome. Attendance for each workshop is capped at 22 people.
Mindfulness of the Body
Wed, 1/7/26, from 7-9pm @ 2926 NE Flander’s Street in NE Portland
This workshop will explore how mindful embodiment is both an incredible tool for present-moment-awareness, as well as a means of developing intuitive wisdom. We’ll invite a curious approach that will look to notice & feel what’s actually happening in our bodies, whether pleasant or unpleasant, without reactivity.
We’ll try out a few different body awareness meditations, with an eye to a form of mindful embodiment that can happen while meditating as well as in our daily lives.
Register here for “Mindfulness of the Body”
Mindfulness of Breathing
Wed, 1/14/26, from 7-9pm @ 2926 NE Flander’s Street in NE Portland
This workshop will explore how mindfulness of breathing is both an incredible tool for present-moment-awareness, as well as a means of developing deep wisdom & peace.
We’ll try out a couple different approaches to mindfulness of breathing, discuss best practices, and cover how to work with common challenges (i.e. getting tense, spacing out, unconsciously controlling the breath, the breath disappearing). We’ll draw upon the Buddha’s formal instructions as well as our direct experience.
We’ll also see how the breath is an incredible tool to learn about the mind-body connection, and also invites a deeper ease in our own skin.
Register here for “Mindfulness of Breathing”
Natural Mindfulness
Wed, 1/21/26, from 7-9pm @ 2926 NE Flander’s Street in NE Portland
In this workshop, we’ll explore how to access and abide in the natural mindful presence that’s always here. Sometimes called open awareness, it’s a mode where we put aside the doing and efforting and just rest.
After getting a feel for what this mode is like, and how it differs from “open monitoring,” we’ll take on the biggest challenge: just spacing out in thought the whole time, while believing ourselves to be meditating.
We’ll also give some attention to how this is an incredible method to take into our daily life, as it doesn’t require stillness, focus, or concentration. We can literally touch into it during any activity, whether that’s reading, talking, computer working, or doing jumping jacks while hoola hooping!
Register here for “Natural Mindfulness”