Awakening Love and Joy
Dedicated Meditation Groups in Boulder
A new in-person group starts three times each year. The groups are usually on Monday evenings, and summer groups are held outdoors in nature. To find out about the next group when it is announced please join the local email list.
I can’t imagine a more supportive context for my practice. We learned so much: the Dedicated Group was pragmatic and mind-blowing—often at the same time. Our group felt both welcoming and safely bounded. Johann honored each of our idiosyncratic paths and respected my skepticism and questions. I feel enriched, inspired, and in possession of resources to make progress on my own.
Cait, Front Range CO
The Awakening groups are deeply personal, supportive, and interactive. Being in a group reinforces your daily meditation, and will catalyze your personal and spiritual growth. Our regular meetings are safe and enjoyable spaces for going into deeper connection with our self and others. This naturally progresses from healing into spiritual realization, which is much more about letting go than seeking.
During the weekly group meetings and a retreat (usually a long weekend), as well as in daily practice, you will learn to use precise and skillful mindfulness (Insight) meditation techniques to develop a new sensitivity to and understanding of emotions and thought patterns, fostering more skillful ways of feeling, communicating and relating. When we bring awareness and acceptance to our unconscious wounds and unmet needs, they heal, allowing us to more appropriately meet the stresses, challenges and opportunities of life.
Johann’s group was one of the best experiences I have ever had. He is a skilled and caring teacher, and creates a wonderful community for learning meditation and dharma from the inside out.
Josh, Boulder CO
This newfound tendency towards greater peace and equanimity allows us to then open our awareness to being, rather than having to do something or be someone. The group supports this process with Direct Path and Non-Dual approaches to resting in awareness, simply being, and opening the heart: transcending the personal into the spiritual connection of love. We realize that love is not something we have to learn, earn, practice, or do; but the truth that love is who we are.
All of this is fostered in community, using the power of a small, open and supportive group. Meetings include sharing and listening, talks, instruction, meditation, questions and discussion. They are informal, relaxed, and enjoyable; yet honor your most serious intentions for personal and spiritual growth. These groups are not for people just starting out, but for those who have a basic practical grounding in some form of meditation, and wanting to delve much deeper.
If you are unsure whether the groups are for you, please email me and we can discuss.
Johann’s groups have been transformative for both my spiritual practice and my mental health. I am continually inspired by the openness of the group, which gives me the ability to go deeper and open up to myself and others, and partake in the joy of the universe, and for that I am endlessly grateful.
Kathryn K., Longmont CO
The groups are offered on a structured donation or Dana (generosity) basis. This is so you can attend within your financial means, and you are totally welcome regardless of the amount you offer. I am grateful for and rely on your generosity and support. If you would like a guideline, there is a suggested amount based on the length of the group, but that is never a requirement or a limit, and whatever you choose to give is received with gratitude.
If the cost of room and board at the retreat is an obstacle, scholarships are readily available.
For more information on the next group, please sign up for my local email list.