Drop-In Meditation Classes, Online or In-Person
These community classes help you develop a stronger meditation practice both on and off the cushion.
Join us for Meditation Circle, Thursday nights (7:30-8:30pm MST) at Clear Sky Center.
These circles run semi-regularly throughout the year. Drop-ins are welcome, but we encourage you to attend all classes if possible.
There are two ways to attend: in person or online. Just choose the appropriate option when registering. See you soon!
Upcoming Series
Our Meditation Circle Teachers
Karen McAllister
As Clear Sky’s Chair of the Board and Director of Business Development, I’m passionate about teaching the much-ignored principles of nurturing factors – like structure, communication, and honouring your space – that create the conditions we need to wake up more in daily life. I see how I learned and embodied these principles in my different roles at Clear Sky as the center went from self-starter to second-stage growth. This is what I call “the hands-on way of doing an MBA with a spiritual bottom line!”
In my free time, I love travelling, speaking Portuguese, and reading history, architecture, and art books.
Duncan Cryle
Through 30+ years of personal practice and 15+ teaching meditation and mindfulness, alongside an active career working all over the world, I’ve learned a lot about integrating mindfulness into daily life. As a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004, I’m amazed at the power of a beautiful, natural, and dedicated space for supporting people to deepen their meditation and feel more connected.
Alongside my work at Clear Sky, I hold a director position at a large software company where I also run a volunteer global mindfulness program to 1000s of employees. I was formerly one of the pioneers of IBM’s mindfulness movement. I’m passionate about how mindfulness-based approaches can transform how we live and work together and provide better service in the world.
Maureen Smith
As a therapist and meditation teacher, I am passionate about guiding others to a more alive, aware, and mindful path of living.
I am honored to work with individuals and couples in the public sector for addictions and mental health. I was the first acting caretaker at Clear Sky and have studied numerous meditation practices intensively for over 10 years.
I have a Master of Social Work degree and am a Registered Clinical Social Worker in British Columbia.
Course Cost: Dāna
We offer this course on the basis of dāna. If you’re not familiar with dāna, you may have come across related approaches such as “pay from the heart.”
Dāna is a Sanskrit term that translates as “generosity” in English. The practice of generosity is central to spiritual unfoldment, whatever path you follow. In our own Buddhist lineage, teachings have always been given on the basis of dāna, and we are committed to this practice and its development in the West.
Dāna is a radical and, we believe, viable economic alternative to capitalism. We all know there must be something better than capitalism or its hungry cousin, consumerism. We maintain that, together, we can offer a financial model that is based on life-affirming mutual support.
Please join us in co-creating this promising economic alternative.
To help you choose an amount that feels right for you, we recommend this heart-based exercise from Planet Dharma:
Checking in with your heart
- Take a few quiet breaths and center yourself. Spend a few moments to reflect on each of the below: the beauty and integrity of dāna practice; the value of receiving direct teachings from lineage holders in a recognized spiritual tradition; the reality of your financial situation.
- Spend another few moments contacting a sense of health, strength and abundance. You have a healthy mind, a body, senses, the good karma to have heard the teachings, and conditions to support your practice of Dharma. Celebrate this!
- Now check with your heart and mind what amount feels both consistent with your situation, and expressive of your aspiration.
It’s our joy to offer this course, and we trust you’ll match our time, energy, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us.
