ALL ONLINE COURSES

Study with the world’s leading wisdom teachers from the comfort of your own home. Our online courses are thoughtfully designed to offer you the highest quality teachings in an easily navigable format. Find the course that's right for you!

Making Friends with Yourself

Exploring Self, Selflessness, and the Roots of Attachment

Taught by Pema Chödrön

Imagine having Pema Chödrön sitting in your living room, speaking directly to you. This course, set in the intimate environment of remote Gampo Abbey, presents Pema teaching how to step outside ourselves to see how our sense of self develops and leads us to negative patterns of thinking.

Compassion at the Edge

A Revolutionary Method for Benefitting Others without Burning Out

Taught by Joan Halifax

In this course, Roshi Joan Halifax reveals the basic anatomy of compassion and a practical five-step process for cultivating the qualities and skills that give us the ability to serve others with an open heart.

The Way of the Wisdom Jesus

Going Beyond the Mind to the Heart of His Teaching

Taught by Cynthia Bourgeault

If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of the transformation of consciousness. In this online course, Episcopal priest, author, teacher, and retreat leader Cynthia Bourgeault serves as a masterful guide to Jesus’s vision and to the traditional contemplative practices you can use to experience the heart of his teaching for yourself.

Entering the Path

The Hinayana Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa

Taught by Judith L. Lief

The Hinayana path is the foundation of the Buddhist teachings. To enter the path of Buddhist practice, one must start here. Based on training in mindfulness and awareness and in cultivating a deeper understanding of one’s own mind, the Hinayana is what allows us to take delight in our everyday life just as it is.

The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion

The Mahayana Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa

Taught by Judith L. Lief

Once the essential foundation of the Hinayana teachings has been laid, the next step begins with opening the focus of practice to include the world beyond oneself. This personal paradigm shift is the gate to the Mahayana teachings, beginning with shunyata, the essential emptiness of all phenomena, and with the compassion that naturally arises from that understanding.

Glimpses of Vajrayana

The Tantric Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa

Taught by Judith L. Lief

The tantric path requires complete engagement and fierce dedication. There is a quality of directness, abruptness, and wholeheartedness to it, and it is said to be the more rapid but more dangerous path.

Glimpses of Mahamudra

The Tantric Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa

Taught by Judith L. Lief

Mahamudra is a meditation tradition within tantric Buddhism that points to the nature of awareness itself, elevating our ordinary perception to the level of the sacred. In this view, all experiences arise from a mind that is naturally vast, empty, and luminous.

The Mandala Principle

The Mahayana Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa

Taught by Judith L. Lief

In this online course, esteemed Buddhist teacher and editor Judith Lief takes us on a journey through the mandala principle teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche as presented in his Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma.

Finding Freedom in Illness

Cultivating Deep Well-Being through Mindfulness and Self-Compassion

Taught by Peter Fernando

In this online course, Peter Fernando, a former monastic and longtime student of his own chronic pain and illness, offers us the tools we need to discover deep well-being in the midst of difficulty and dis-ease.

The Essence of Yoga

A Path to Freedom from Our Habitual Patterns

Taught by Michael Stone

In this online course, the late Michael Stone—a well-loved and esteemed teacher of yoga, psychology, and Buddhism—illuminates insights from those three traditions to show us how our minds work.

Skillful Communication

A Zen Approach

Taught by Diane Musho Hamilton

In this course, you will explore many of the subconscious forces at play in your relationships: the implicit “me versus you” mentality that can arise in situations, the fraught storylines that seem to repeat themselves, and the impact of certain relational dynamics on your nervous system.

Mindfulness in Action

Making Friends with Yourself through Meditation and Everyday Awareness

Taught by Carolyn Rose Gimian

In this online course, the practice of meditation will be accompanied by practices for expanding awareness in everyday activities, dissolving the boundary between meditation and everything else we do in our lives. This is a course for new meditators, for those who want to deepen their meditation practice, and for mindfulness trainers and teachers. The approach is based on the mindfulness teachings of Chögyam Trungpa, from his book Mindfulness in Action.

How to Be an Adult in Relationships

Working with the Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Taught by David Richo

Psychotherapist and author David Richo presents the five keys to being present with the one you love and teaches you how to strengthen your relationships by embracing these five qualities.

Love with a Healthy Ego

Find Balance, Release Resentment, and Love Generously

Taught by David Richo

David Richo guides you on the path of generous love and shows how to build a healthy ego that is “just right”—not too big and not too weak—supporting you in being fully yourself and interacting with others in loving and effective ways.

Discovering the Relaxed Mind

An Immersion in a Seven-Step Method for Deepening Meditation Practice

Taught by Dza Kilung Rinpoche

Learn a seven-step meditation practice, concisely and practically adapted from the meditation techniques of three major Buddhist traditions—Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana—which Tibetan Buddhism knits into a seamless whole.

The Heart Sutra

Exploring Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

Taught by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Joan Halifax

For Zen Buddhists—and many others—the heart sutra expresses the nature of reality in ways both profound and paradoxical. In this online course, Kazuaki Tanahashi and Roshi Joan Halifax collaboratively explore the depths of the sutra’s teaching through talks, chanting, readings, and group discussions.

Living the Dharma

How to Practice Buddhism and Make It Count

Taught by Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo

Tibetan Buddhist master Anyen Rinpoche and his teaching partner Allison Choying Zangmo share what it takes to achieve realization on the spiritual path with a practical and approachable means for bringing our practice alive and actualizing the wisdom of the Buddha in our hearts.

Sitting Still Like a Frog

Teaching Mindfulness to Kids

Taught by Eline Snel

If you’re a parent, teacher, therapist—or anyone who works with kids—this online course will give you the skills you need to introduce the youngsters in your world to mindfulness and its many benefits.

Start Here Now

The Path and Practice of Meditation

Taught by Susan Piver

Meditation expert and New York Times best-selling author Susan Piver has taught thousands of people how to meditate. In this course, Susan distills all of her best advice and tried-and-true techniques into a self-paced program that could change your life.

Heart of the Brush

An Online East Asian Calligraphy Workshop

Taught by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Kazuaki Tanahashi is a renowned calligraphic artist and teacher who works with hundreds of students throughout the world each year. In this online workshop, you can study with him up close, as he guides you in exploring the wondrous world of brush calligraphy.

Sit Like a Buddha

Beginning a Meditation Practice

Taught by Lodro Rinzler

Believe what you've heard about meditation: it'll focus your mind, open your heart, and sometimes surprise you with insight. Lodro Rinzler, author of the book Sit Like a Buddha, guides you through everything you need to establish a meditation practice.

How to Show Up for Your Life

A Course on Meditation for Meeting Your World with an Open Heart

Taught by Lodro Rinzler

Want to learn to ride the waves of life with mindfulness and compassion? We all do—and yet we so often fall short of our goal to bring more wisdom into our lives at work, at home, and with our friends. In this course, author and Buddhist teacher Lodro Rinzler serves as your guide in how to develop a spiritual backbone, regardless of whether or not you’re interested in religion.

How to Be a Mensch

The Jewish Tradition of Mussar

Taught by Alan Morinis

At the heart of Judaism, no less fundamental than the observation of ritual and the wisdom of Jewish law, revelation, and text, is the teaching of the transformation of the heart and soul of the individual. Dr. Alan Morinis, founder of The Mussar Institute, introduces the extraordinary thousand-year-old tradition of Mussar to help practitioners acquire Torah and internalize the wisdom of the tradition.

Yoga of the Subtle Body

A 28-Day Online Training

Taught by Tias Little

In this training with master yoga teacher Tias Little, we’ll move into the interior of the body—what Tias calls the “inner asana” or the “inner posture.”

Mindful Eating

A Course in Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

Taught by Jan Chozen Bays, MD

If you’ve ever wished you could just relax and enjoy eating—free from the anxiety and guilt that unfortunately too often surround it—try applying mindfulness. In this course you’ll learn the proven methods developed by Dr. Jan Chozen Bays for bringing mindful awareness to self-nourishment. You already know how you should eat, she teaches. It’s simply a matter of discovering that inherent wisdom through mindfulness.