The Open Heart Project

Hi, I’m
Susan Piver

Buddhist teacher, New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Open Heart Project, a community of support for living an awakened life.

30 Days of
Dharma

WITH SUSAN PIVER AND CRYSTAL GANDRUD

Fall 2026

Introducing a new, deeply personal, small-group immersion program in spiritual practice and friendship. Over 30 days, you’ll orient your life toward what matters most to you through weekly gatherings, daily ritual, and three private one-to-one conversations with Susan Piver and Crystal Gandrud.

We will live the dharma rather than only studying it, right in the middle of our ordinary, messy, beautiful lives.

Space is limited.

Meditation Retreat
in Colorado

AUGUST 10–18, 2026

Proclaiming Basic Sanity:
Living the Bodhisattva Path

Join Buddhist teachers Michael Carroll and Susan Piver for a week-long retreat at Drala Mountain Center.

We will explore how to embody the six paramitas in meaningful action and access resilient joy through mindfulness-awareness meditation.

NEW BOOK!

NEW BOOK

INEXPLICABLE MAGIC

Meditation for Mystics

“If you’re looking for a book that will make you calmer, more efficient, and slightly better at meetings…keep walking. Inexplicable Magic is about what meditation actually does: it messes with your plans, softens your defenses, and introduces you to a kind of intelligence you don’t control.

“Susan Piver isn’t selling mindfulness as a lifestyle accessory. She’s pointing to the real thing—lineage, mystery, heartbreak, and the strange fact that what you’re looking for doesn’t come from you… it comes to you.”

Samuel Bercholz, author of Rude Awakenings, An Unconventional Guide to the Buddhist Path and A Guided Tour of Hell

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