Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times
2026 Drop-In Webinar Series, with Duncan Cryle, Karen McAllister, Michelle Heinz and other Clear Sky Sangha guest teachers
Time: Thursdays 7-8 pm MT, (6 pm PST, 8 pm Central, 9 pm EST)
Dates: May 7, Jun 4, Jun 25, Jul 16, Sep 24, Nov 26
Attend any session or join the full journey.
Cost: Pay-From-The-Heart (Dāna).
Live Online (1 hour; recordings available)
From Overwhelm to Steadiness. From Isolation to Belonging.
As 2026 unfolds, many of us are carrying more than we realize—low-grade anxiety that never fully turns off, economic uncertainty, relational fragility, climate grief, and a quiet exhaustion from holding it all together.
We have been asking ourselves what is needed and what we can offer to our community. This series is offered as a grounded response to support spiritual practitioners navigating fragmented times.
The six sessions over 2026 (just one or all) offer practical tools, insights and a pathway to inner steadiness, relational resilience and a greater wholeness and strength.
These sessions create space to:
- Settle the nervous system and come down from chronic activation
- Develop practical tools for boundaries, communication, and honest relating
- Build resilience without spiritual bypassing or false positivity
- Connect with others who are also navigating these times with intention
How do we ground and center, and avoid constant low-grade anxiety or chronic activation? This foundational session explores the nervous system as the ground of all practice—learning to settle, to arrive, to trust the body as a place of refuge.
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Grief, world-weariness, and moral exhaustion are natural responses to these times. This session offers practices for containment and compassion—allowing ourselves to feel without being swept away.
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Moving from internal steadiness to relational clarity. Boundaries not as walls or defense, but as energy management—a form of self-care that actually supports connection.
Truth-telling, deep listening, and navigating rupture. In polarized times, we need tools to stay in relationship with others—and with ourselves—even when it’s hard.
Economic uncertainty lives in the body. This session explores our relationship to money and security as a doorway to deeper spiritual practice—working with fear without the illusion of control.
In October we pause the monthly webinars for a 4 week Integrating Mindfulness online course deeper dive. This course weaves together many of the themes and tools we are exploring in the monthly webinars, to give you a holistic framework for support and growth.
You meditate. You work on yourself. Yet you still feel overwhelmed by everything you need to address—the habits draining your energy, the relationship dynamics you can’t quite navigate, the spaces that don’t support you, the routines that keep slipping away.
Maybe you’re working on all of this in isolation, not sure if others struggle the same way. Or you’ve “scratched the surface” of integration but haven’t found a way to bring it all together.
What if there was a container that could hold all of it?
This 4-week course offers that container—a sanctuary where you can pause, reflect, and reconnect with what truly matters.
See here for more details.
We close the arc of the series with belonging. This session explores interdependence as strength. How to connect and build community – small circles of steadiness and intimacy in your life. And how to stay connected for the long haul.
What Makes This Series Different
Each session weaves together multiple elements designed to support you to find clarity, resilience and groundedness:
- Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom, authentic lineage and 35+ years of practice, adapted for real-world application and lived every day on the ground in a conscious community.
- Guided Practice Meditation and embodiment practices you can use immediately—and return to between sessions
- Reflection & Dialogue Small-group connection with others navigating similar terrain
- Integration Tools designed to carry into daily life, not just for the meditation cushion
Why Join?
- Settle your nervous system with practices that address the low-grade anxiety or chronic activation so many of us carry
- Build practical skills for boundaries and communication
- Connect with a community of spiritual practitioners who are also navigating fragmented times
- Learn from teachers with decades of experience living and practicing in intentional community
- Access recordings if you can’t attend live—stay connected to the journey at your own pace
Who Is This For?
Whether you’re a longtime meditator seeking applied practice, or newer to contemplative work and wanting grounded entry points—join one session, several, or the full journey, this series is designed to support you if:
- You’re trying to make a compassionate difference in the world but struggling with anxiety and burnout
- You’re carrying anxiety that never quite turns off
- You’re experiencing grief about the state of the world
- You want to connect with others but feel lonely or struggle to trust or set boundaries
Our Teachers
Karen McAllister
Karen McAllister has been practicing meditation since the 1990s and has studied Buddhist Dharma in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei since 1998. A founding member of Clear Sky in 2004, she is now Co-Executive Director and leads the funding of the community’s Temple project, a long-term vision supporting deep practice for generations to come.
With over 12 years of teaching meditation and mindfulness, Karen’s approach is shaped by the lived reality of intentional community, where awareness is cultivated not only on the cushion, but through relationship, responsibility, and shared purpose. Her teaching supports people to find steadiness and clarity in the midst of uncertainty, meeting experience with presence and care.
Karen is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching, where she helps those in the helping professions and mission-driven fields transform their relationship with money. Her work invites a more conscious and compassionate way of engaging with giving, receiving, and stewarding resources, so that inner and outer life can come into greater alignment.
Duncan Cryle
Duncan 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.
... And special guest teachers from the Clear Sky onsite Sangha
Clear Sky’s onsite team have a rich diversity of experience and many years of deep spiritual practice. During this series we’ll benefit from bringing in other voices to add depth and range to the exploration.
