BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Clear Sky Meditation Centre - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Clear Sky Meditation Centre X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Clear Sky Meditation Centre REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20160313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20161106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20170312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20171105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20180311T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20181104T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Edmonton BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20190310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20191103T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20200308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20201101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20210314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20211107T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170419T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170531T193000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180726T193828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180726T193828Z UID:3868-1492624800-1496259000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Ignite Your Spiritual Life - Spring 2017 DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/ignite-spiritual-life-spring-2017/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180307T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180411T193000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180726T191026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180726T192934Z UID:3866-1520445600-1523475000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Ignite Your Spiritual Life - Spring 2018 DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/ignite-spiritual-life-spring-2018/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180430T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180502T130000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180513T184203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T184334Z UID:3393-1525100400-1525266000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Becoming a Work of Art - Easter Retreat 2018 DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/becoming-work-art-easter-retreat-2018/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180511T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180519T170000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180513T183605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T055916Z UID:3390-1526050800-1526749200@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Western Mysteries Retreat: Body of Truth and Star Group DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/western-mysteries-retreat-body-truth-star-group/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BodyofTruth-stargroup.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180615 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180616 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180518T135818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180518T141900Z UID:3461-1529020800-1529107199@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - June 2018 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/ky-intake-june-2018/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180706 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180707 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180523T212941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180528T144408Z UID:3494-1530835200-1530921599@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - July 2018 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-july-2018-intake-day/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180727T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180811T133000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180513T180343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180516T143445Z UID:3386-1532703600-1533994200@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Buddhas in Action Retreat 2018 DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/buddhas-action-retreat-2018/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/buddhas-inaction-2017.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180817 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180818 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180523T212828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180528T144303Z UID:3501-1534464000-1534550399@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - August 2018 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-august-2018-intake-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180914 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180915 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180523T213447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180528T144512Z UID:3504-1536883200-1536969599@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - September 2018 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-september-2018-intake-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181021 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180514T001212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251206T091413Z UID:3395-1536969600-1540079999@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Ignite Your Spiritual Life - An Online Course DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/ignite-spiritual-life-fall-2018/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ignite-Your-Spirital-Life-fall-2018.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181013 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180523T214141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180528T144206Z UID:3508-1539302400-1539388799@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - October 2018 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-october-2018-intake-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181117 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180523T214446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T182240Z UID:3510-1542326400-1542412799@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - November 2018 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-november-2018-intake-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181222T130000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20180514T001523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251128T084700Z UID:3397-1544194800-1545483600@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Six Yogas of Naropa - Dream Yoga & Light Yoga DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/six-yogas-naropa-dream-yoga-light-yoga/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Group Retreats ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/6-Yogas-of-Naropa.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190223 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181105T184053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T182033Z UID:4184-1550793600-1550879999@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - February 2019 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-intake-day-february-2019/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190315T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190324T130000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181022T015127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251128T090649Z UID:4116-1552662000-1553432400@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Insight Meditation Retreat DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/insight-meditation-retreat/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Group Retreats ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Insight-Meditation-Retreat-Tall.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190330 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181105T184415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T182021Z UID:4189-1553817600-1553903999@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - March 2019 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-march-2019-intake-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190406 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190519 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181031T153842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181031T222614Z UID:4154-1554508800-1558223999@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Ignite Your Spiritual Life - Spring 2019 DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/ignite-spiritual-life-spring-2019/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ignite-April-2019-course-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190420 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181105T185414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T182009Z UID:4191-1555632000-1555718399@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - April 2019 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-intake-day-april-2019/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190518 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181108T233412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T182215Z UID:4204-1558051200-1558137599@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - May 2019 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-may-2019-intake-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190712 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190713 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181108T234042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T182140Z UID:4208-1562889600-1562975999@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - July 2019 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-july-2019-intake-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190809 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190825 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181225T000520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251128T090227Z UID:4931-1565308800-1566691199@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Buddhas in Action: Awakening in Daily Life DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/buddhas-action-awakening-daily-life/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada CATEGORIES:Group Retreats ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/buddhas-in-action-2019-orange.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190906 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190907 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181108T233650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T182128Z UID:4210-1567728000-1567814399@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - September 2019 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-september-2019-intake-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191011 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191014 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181225T001522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T091002Z UID:4939-1570752000-1571011199@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Becoming a Work of Art: Dharma Foundations Retreat DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/becoming-a-work-of-art-dharma-foundations-retreat/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Kyoto2017-Sml-ArtForPublicTalk.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191020 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181108T233811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T182117Z UID:4212-1571443200-1571529599@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Karma Yoga Program - October 2019 Intake Day DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/karma-yoga-program-october-2019-intake-day/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191206 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191223 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20181225T002234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T095351Z UID:4942-1575590400-1577059199@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Six Yogas of Naropa DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/six-yogas-naropa/ CATEGORIES:Group Retreats ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Yogas-Naropa-tall.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200406T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200503T210000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20200214T184357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250823T081808Z UID:8140-1586201400-1588539600@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Online) DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/four-foundations-mindfulness-satipa%e1%b9%ad%e1%b9%adhana-sutta-online/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WhiteRupaHead-el-patojo-e1584549914373.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200428T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200428T100000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20200425T150000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T061211Z UID:8304-1588064400-1588068000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Tuesdays with McAllister DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/tuesdays-with-mcallister/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-04-11-at-11.12.23-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200502T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200606T113000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20191015T203536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200427T181300Z UID:7856-1588413600-1591443000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Ignite Your Spiritual Life (Online) DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/ignite-spiritual-life-2020/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Screen-Shot-2020-02-02-at-8.33.41-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200615T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200712T160000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20200313T154203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T062729Z UID:8186-1592249400-1594569600@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Beyond the Cushion: Awakening our Highest Potential (Online) DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/beyond-cushion-awakening-highest-potential-online/ CATEGORIES:Online Courses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-78554115-115568925969-1-original.20191029-025748-e1584550141794.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200626T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200703T110000 DTSTAMP:20260824T172816 CREATED:20191123T194846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250718T115619Z UID:7981-1593187200-1593774000@www.clearskycenter.org SUMMARY:Tantric Deep Dive: A Week of Empowerments DESCRIPTION:Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times\, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love\, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis\, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number\, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts\, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness\, rather than control or avoidance\, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together\, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system\, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence\, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself\, but doing it with a group\, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing\, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave." \n Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice\, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life\, not just the cushion \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love\, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village\, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust\, intimacy\, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky\, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera\, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging\, intimacy\, security\, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives\, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict\, collaboration\, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness\, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness\, resilience\, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto\, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”)\, and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community\, navigating relationship\, conflict\, and shared responsibility\, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching\, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project\, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching\, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money\, bringing awareness to how they give\, receive\, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone\, from beginners to people with more experience\, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely\, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms." \n Kristi \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT URL:https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/tantric-deep-dive/ LOCATION:Clear Sky Meditation Center\, 3567 Cockell Road\, PO BOX 19\, Fort Steele\, British Columbia\, V0B 1NO\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.clearskycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/dharma-10anniversary-CS-crop.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Clear Sky Center":MAILTO:contact@clearskycenter.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR