Events
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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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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.
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Free Info Session: 7 Days of Fearless Creativity
Crystal Gandrud and Susan Piver will host a free info session about the new 7 Days of Fearless Creativity program. They'll discuss what's included and why this practice matters.
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7 Days of Fearless Creativity
7 Days of Fearless Creativity is an invitation to pay attention, make something, and see what becomes possible when you listen to the inner voice.
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Free Info Session: How to create a meditation & writing practice
Have you ever wondered why it is so hard to get to your writing desk? (Or sofa or bed or wherever you like to write and create?) I wish I could tell you exactly why, but I do not know.
However, I do know what helps. Join me for a free webinar on how to ignite your creative practice. -
Full Fathom Five: The Buddha Families & Creative Expression
In this live workshop, Kevin Townley will show how meditation and creative practice can work together to turn emotional energy into art. Through meditation, discussion, and art-making time, you'll look at how the very emotions that seem to block creativity can become its source.
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Drala Mountain Center: Fearless Creativity: A Writing and Meditation Retreat
Please join New York Times best selling author and Buddhist teacher Susan Piver for a creativity and meditation retreat. Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to write? Longtime meditator and New York Times best selling author Susan Piver has!
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Drala Mountain Center In-Person Retreat: Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics
This deep meditation retreat with Susan and Crystal is a chance to breathe life into your practice within a supportive community and be further encouraged by the beauty of the Colorado Rockies in high summer.