Susan's Calendar
Events
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Free Info Session to Hear More about Susan’s New Book, Inexplicable Joy
Register here for the free 90-minute info session. Right now countless humans are reciting the Heart Sutra—no matter when “right now” happens to be. This ancient, essential Buddhist text carries with... READ MORE
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The Open Heart Path: A Deep Meditation Retreat, An info session on March 26
Free Info session March 26, 6 pm ET Register here When people ask me how to deepen their meditation practice, I almost always suggest a meditation retreat. When you step... READ MORE
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Your Life is the Path: A Kripalu Program
Your Life is the Path: Buddhist Teachings for Navigating Everyday Life with Vision and Love
April 11-13
Kripalu
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Free Info Session about an upcoming course: Inexplicable Magic
https://vimeo.com/1062969121?share=copy#t=0 Register here for the free 60-minute info session. How to bring more sanity to the world April 15 6pm - 7pm ET At this time of uncertainty, it can... READ MORE
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Sunday Sanity Summit
Sunday Sanity Summit: A Weekly Spiritual Reset This is not a class. It’s a weekly touchstone — a sanctuary — where we gather to reflect, set intentions, strengthen our hearts,... READ MORE
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Sunday Sanity Summit
Sunday Sanity Summit: A Weekly Spiritual Reset This is not a class. It’s a weekly touchstone — a sanctuary — where we gather to reflect, set intentions, strengthen our hearts,... READ MORE
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Sunday Sanity Summit
Sunday Sanity Summit: A Weekly Spiritual Reset This is not a class. It’s a weekly touchstone — a sanctuary — where we gather to reflect, set intentions, strengthen our hearts,... READ MORE
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Free Info Session about the Sunday Sanity Summit
https://vimeo.com/1095110189?share=copy#t=0 Register here for the free 60-minute info session. Start your week with sanity, strength, and support July 1 7pm – 8pm ET About a month ago, I started something... READ MORE
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Sunday Sanity Summit
Sunday Sanity Summit: A Weekly Spiritual Reset This is not a class. It’s a weekly touchstone — a sanctuary — where we gather to reflect, set intentions, strengthen our hearts,... READ MORE
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Cultivating Compassion in Challenging Times
This new 4-hour live course is an introduction and an invitation to an embodied exploration of the Four Immeasurables, core Buddhist teachings and powerful expressions of Relative Bodhicitta, the awakened heart committed to the well-being of all.
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Sunday Sanity Summit
Sunday Sanity Summit: A Weekly Spiritual Reset This is not a class. It’s a weekly touchstone — a sanctuary — where we gather to reflect, set intentions, strengthen our hearts,... READ MORE
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Sunday Sanity Summit
Sunday Sanity Summit: A Weekly Spiritual Reset This is not a class. It’s a weekly touchstone — a sanctuary — where we gather to reflect, set intentions, strengthen our hearts,... READ MORE
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Free info session August 5, 7 pm ET to talk about Inexplicable Magic: A 5-day in-person retreat in November
https://vimeo.com/1103190402?share=copy#t=0 Meditation was never meant to be just another tool for stress relief. At its heart, it is a spiritual practice—one that helps us meet life with wisdom, compassion, and... READ MORE
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The Open Heart Path: A Deep Meditation Retreat at Drala Mountain Center
https://vimeo.com/1091942868?share=copy#t=0 Register for the Drala Mountain Center retreat Aug. 25-Sept. 1, 2025 here Please join New York Times best selling author and Buddhist teacher Susan Piver for a week of... READ MORE
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Meditation for Mystics: A Free Info Session
https://vimeo.com/1105885936?share=copy#t=0 Register here for the free info session. How to bring more sanity to the world October 7 6pm - 7pm ET At this time of uncertainty, it can be... READ MORE
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Free Info Session On Meditation Teacher Training 2026
We are all searching for ways to bring more sanity, kindness, and love into this world. One of the most powerful ways I know is to help others learn how to work with their own minds. That’s why I’m so happy to share that the Open Heart Project Meditation Teacher Training is back for the first time in more than a year.
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Inexplicable Magic Meditation and the Path of the Mystic: A Kripalu Retreat with Susan Piver
Join Susan Piver for a five-day in-person retreat at Kripalu to explore meditation as a spiritual practice (not just self-help) and a support for living ordinary life as a mystic and change agent.
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Building a Mindful New Year
FREE PROGRAM: 6 Transcendent Themes / 6 Buddhist Teachers / 6 Meditations to Guide You into 2026
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Free Info Session On Meditation & Writing Practice
We are all searching for ways to bring more sanity, kindness, and love into this world. One of the most powerful ways I know is to help others learn how to work with their own minds. That’s why I’m so happy to share that the Open Heart Project Meditation Teacher Training is back for the first time in more than a year.
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Fearless Creativity: A Meditation and Writing Retreat at Drala Mountain Center
Join Susan Piver for “Fearless Creativity: A Meditation and Writing Retreat” at Drala Mountain Center, nestled in the Colorado Rockies from May 13–17, 2026. This week-long retreat invites writers of all levels—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journaling—to claim time and space for their creative work.
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The 4th Yana: A webinar with Crystal Gandrud
A free live webinar with Crystal Gandrud exploring creativity as the flowering of contemplative practice. Drawing from Tibetan Buddhism and the idea of the “fourth yana” or “Artyana,” this conversation invites artists, secret artists, and the creatively curious into an inquiry on practice, imagination, and creative power.
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Free Info Session: Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics
My new book, Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics, explores these less conventional aspects of meditation practice. In it, I share seven principles that run counter to much of what we are told meditation is “supposed” to do. On June 11, I’ll be offering a free live webinar to explore these seven principles with you and talk more about the ideas behind the book.
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Seven Days of Inexplicable Magic
Spend seven days with Susan Piver and Crystal Gandrud exploring 7 principles to invite the mind of awakening through practice and deep conversation to recover joy, confidence, and enthusiasm for the journey. The program will run from Sunday, June 14 to Sunday, June 21.
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Proclaiming Basic Sanity: Living the Bodhisattva Path (A Retreat)
Join me and Michael Carroll for a week-long retreat dedicated to bringing the heart of practice off the cushion and into everyday life. Together we’ll explore what it means to embody the bodhisattva path now — through meditation, community, deep inquiry, and discussion about sustaining an open heart in the world.