Public Meditation Schedule

The Vancouver Shambhala Centre offers public meditation sessions several times a week. Meditation is always free, but we are happy to accept donations to help support the centre.

Meditation instruction is available to anyone, free of charge, as part of our Wednesday Open House program. Many people find it helpful to repeat this instruction session occasionally.

You can find all our meditation sesssions on our monthly calendar.

 

Monday evening, 6 – 7 pm at the Shambhala Centre
Sitting and walking meditation.  Drop in. Everyone welcome. You can arrive anytime, stay for the entire hour, or leave anytime.
This session is coordinated by Karim A.

 

Monday evening, 7 – 8 pm at St. Andrews United Church, North Vancouver
1044 St Georges Ave, North Vancouver
The Vancouver Shambhala Centre has joined with St. Andrews United Church to offer an hour of guided meditation, silent meditation, walking meditation and a loving-kindness contemplation. Meditators can sit in chairs, in the pews, or on cushions. All are welcome. Donations appreciated.
This session is coordinated by Paul B.

 

Tuesday lunch hour meditation, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Sitting and walking meditation.  Everybody welcome. You can arrive anytime, and stay for the entire hour, or leave anytime.
The Shambhala Centre will open at noon so you can bring your lunch and enjoy conversation before the meditation begins.
This session is coordinated by Derek & Carol M.

 

Wednesday Open House meditation, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Part of the Wednesday Open House program.
At the end of sitting meditation at 8 pm, there are announcments, a tea break, then a dharma talk and discussion from 8:15 to 9 pm.
Please arrive a few minutes early to introduce yourself if you would like free meditation instruction.
This session is coordinated by Paul B and Geoff B.

 

Friday evening, 5:30 – 6:30 pm at the Shambhala Centre
Sitting and walking meditation.  Drop in. Everyone welcome. You can arrive anytime, stay for the entire hour, or leave anytime.
This session is coordinated by Jim S.

 

Daily, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm.
Zoom only

Sitting meditation. You can arrive anytime, and stay for the entire hour, or leave anytime. Please mute your microphone during sitting meditation. You can meditate with your camera on or off.
This session is coordinated by Karim A.
Join the daily 5-6 pm meditation session now
Or start the Zoom app on your computer, tablet or smartphone, and join
Meeting ID: 517 279 1759
Password: 123456

Please mute your microphone during sitting meditation.  You can meditate with your camera on or off.  Each Zoom meeting begins a few minutes early.  You are welcome to arrive late or leave early.

Helpful tips for Using Zoom for online meditation and classes.

 

Nyinthün is a full day of sitting and walking meditation. (Nyin is Tibetan for “day”, and thün means “session” of formal meditation.)
The uplifted and supportive environment of group practice helps us to extend and deepen our meditation practice, which gives momentum to our personal daily practice. Both morning and afternoon sessions include a short dharma reading.  You are welcome to attend all or a portion of each session. We plan to schedule a nyinthun every month.
This session is coordinated by Geoff B.

 

The Sadhana of Mahamudra was written by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the founder of Shambhala, in a retreat cave in Bhutan in 1969. This 45 minute chanted practice is meant for our particular time as a means of overcoming the obstacles of spiritual materialism in our practice, our lives and the world. Trungpa Rinpoche described spiritual materialism as the use of spirituality to reinforce rather than undercut ego’s desire to manipulate one’s world and experience for personal gain: to use spiritual practice as just another means of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, rather than as a means of fearlessly embracing the essential groundlessness of mind and phenomena. This is open to everyone, and takes place on the full moon of each month. Please arrive on time or a few minutes early.
This session is coordinated by Joan C.

 

 

You can arrive on-time or late for any sitting meditation session. Please place your shoes in the main closet and enter the meditation hall quietly. If there is a gatekeeper, you may be directed to wait outside the meditation hall for a few minutes before entering.  You can also quietly leave any meditation session early–a good time to do this is during walking meditation.

 

Public sitting meditation sessions may be cancelled on holidays. Please check out our monthly calendar.