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“When we feel love, our mind is expansive and open enough to include the entirety of life in full awareness, both its pleasures and its pains. We feel neither betrayed by pain nor overcome by it, and thus we can contact that which is undamaged within us regardless of the situation.” 

– Sharon Salzberg

Resting as Loving Awareness:
A Free Call with Sharon Salzberg

For over fifty years, Sharon Salzberg has been exploring what it actually means to practice – not in a cave in isolation, but right here, in the middle of daily life. Join her for a live conversation and Q&A on Thursday, March 19th at 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT.

On this call, she’ll guide us through Loving Awareness practices: a simple, quiet shift from a thinking mind to an open heart. Not bypassing what’s hard, but meeting what’s here with more steadiness and care.

This call is free and includes live guided practice and Q&A.

Something about this moment asks more of us. Practice is one powerful way to answer.

On this free, live call with Q&A, you’ll explore:

🔸 Shifting identification from the thinking mind to the open heart – and what makes that shift feel real

🔸 The practices of lovingkindness and loving awareness as something workable in ordinary, difficult life

🔸 What gets in the way, and how to meet it with care rather than resistance

🔸 Live guided meditation with Sharon

🔸 Open Q&A

Can’t make it live? Register anyway! We will send you a replay of the call after it ends.

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The Course
The Teachers
The Themes

We live in overwhelming times. There's so much coming at us, so much pulling at our attention, that it can be hard to remember what we already know.

And yet something in you does remember how to feel what’s real. That part hasn’t gone anywhere.

Practice isn’t about having the answers. It’s about quieting down the noise long enough to hear what’s already there – so that we can show up for ourselves and others with clarity, compassion and ease.

That’s what these ten days are for.

“Even though, ultimately, there is merger and union and One and the eternal presence and God is formless and all of that, the methods of climbing the mountain are many.”

- Ram Dass

Join in Community and Practice

Many Paths, One Mountain: A 10-Day Practice Course with Ram Dass & Friends

Beginning Monday, April 13th

This course is an offering for these times: Ten days of meditation, mindfulness, chanting, and devotion – a way to stay rooted to your path. To reconnect with what you already know. To meet the world from awareness and love, amidst the division and fear.

Each weekday for 10 days, you’ll receive:

  • An invite to a LIVE, 75-minute long virtual gathering at 5pm PT / 8pm ET (replay included) featuring a Dharma talk, small community breakout rooms and Q&A, featuring an incredible lineup of teachers that includes Jack Kornfield, Seane Corn, Mirabai Bush, and many more (see the full lineup below!)
  • A lesson with roughly 30 minutes of teachings curated from Love Serve Remember Foundation’s archives to help inspire and enlighten the daily online Dharma talks. This includes wisdom from Ram Dass, Spring Washam, Joseph Goldstein, Krishna Das, and many more.

     

  • Replays of the Dharma talks and curated daily teachings will be available to replay until Friday, May 1st for sliding scale donors. Once the course ends, indefinite access to all course content will be available to monthly or yearly Inner Academy subscribers. 
  • PLUS: When you sign up, you will have access to the free side of our Inner Academy community on Mighty Networks – where you can connect with other virtual retreat attendees, make friends, and share your experiences around the teachings.
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Meet Your Live Teachers

Jack Kornfield • Gaylon Ferguson • Trudy Goodman • Mirabai Bush • Nina Rao • Cortland Dahl • Sandra Anderson • Lama Tsultrim Allione • Benjy Wertheimer • Seane Corn

A founding teacher of the Western insight meditation movement, Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, India, and Burma before co-founding the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is the author of more than fifteen books.
A senior teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Gaylon Ferguson has led meditation retreats since 1976. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford and is the author of 'Natural Wakefulness' and 'Natural Bravery'.
Trudy Goodman has been practicing mindfulness and Zen since 1973 and is the founding teacher of InsightLA. She holds a graduate degree in developmental psychology from Harvard and was among the first teachers of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction alongside its creator, Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Mirabai Bush is the co-author, with Ram Dass, of 'Compassion in Action and 'Walking Each Other Home' and a founding director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She helped develop the original curriculum for Google's Search Inside Yourself program and has spent decades bringing contemplative practice into education, law, and activism.
Nina Rao learned traditional Sanskrit chants from her grandfather in south India and rediscovered kirtan with Krishna Das in New York in 1996. She has since become a kirtan leader and recording artist in her own right, leading mantra practice in the Ram Dass Fellowship, and hosts a podcast on the Be Here Now Network exploring spirituality & practice.
Cortland Dahl, PhD, is the co-founder of Tergar International and creator of the Healthy Minds Program, a free meditation app downloaded over a million times. He spent eight years studying in Tibetan refugee communities in Nepal and India under masters including Mingyur Rinpoche, and holds the first-ever PhD in Mind, Brain, and Contemplative Science.
Sandra Anderson is senior faculty at the Himalayan Institute, where she has taught yoga, meditation, and philosophy for over thirty years. She is the co-author of the award-winning book 'Yoga: Mastering the Basics' and draws on training in Sanskrit, traditional hatha yoga, and tantra.
Lama Tsultrim Allione was among the first Americans to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun, receiving ordination in Bodhgaya in 1970. She is the founder of Tara Mandala retreat center in Colorado and the author of 'Women of Wisdom', 'Feeding Your Demons', and 'Wisdom Rising'.
Benjy Wertheimer is an award-winning musician and kirtan artist who has studied Indian classical music for over forty years, including with tabla masters Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain. He tours internationally with his wife Heather as Shantala and has recorded and performed with Krishna Das, Deva Premal, and Jai Uttal.
Seane Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher, speaker, and activist who has been teaching since 1994. She co-founded Off the Mat, Into the World, an organization training leaders in community activism, and is the author of Revolution of the Soul.

Your 10 Daily Teaching Themes

Day 1 – "A Single Point" with Jack Kornfield

Discover the path of Insight Meditation, including concentration and one-pointedness. Learn about the components of meditation and how to use the breath as an anchor for your awareness.

Day 2 – "Coming Back to Now" with Gaylon Ferguson

Discover the path of mindfulness. Learn about the simplicity of being mindful and how it helps you come back to being present.

Day 3 – "May All Beings Be Well" with Trudy Goodman

Discover the path of metta. Learn about the benefits of loving-kindness practice and how to bring tenderness and love into the world.

Day 4 – "Openness of Heart" with Mirabai Bush

Discover the path of compassion. Learn about the motivation of compassion and practice opening your heart to the suffering in the world.

Day 5 – "Tuning Yourself to the Spirit" with Nina Rao

Discover the path of mantra. Learn how this method allows you to continually remember the Spirit as you practice both Hindu and Buddhist mantras.

Day 6 – "Who Am I?" with Cortland Dahl

Discover the path of contemplation and wisdom. Learn about what study means and using the mind to transform the mind as you practice self-inquiry.

Day 7 – "The Body as a Doorway" with Sandy Anderson

Discover the path of the body and the breath. Practice body sweeping, dissolving thoughts into sensations, and working with your breath.

Day 8 – "It's All Illusion" with Lama Tsultrim Allione

Discover the path of visualization and imagination. Learn about working with a set of visual images in your meditation, plus try Ram Dass's practice of the imaginary playmate.

Day 9 – "Bhakti in Song" with Benjy Wertheimer

Discover the path of bhakti yoga and kirtan. Learn about opening your heart to seeing the Beloved as you practice devotional chanting.

Day 10 – "Practicing Through Action" with Seane Corn

Discover the path of karma yoga and service. Learn about the different stages of service and how the stuff of life can become your route to liberation.

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Replay Sharon Salzberg's Live Call from 3.19

For over fifty years, Sharon Salzberg has explored what it actually means to practice – not in a cave in isolation, but right here, in the middle of daily life. 

On this call, she guides us through Loving Awareness practices: a simple, quiet shift from a thinking mind to an open heart. Not bypassing what’s hard, but meeting what’s here with more steadiness and care.

This course is built around practice first - with teachings to support and deepen what you're discovering along the way. Ram Dass always said there are many paths up the mountain. These ten days are an invitation to find what actually works for you.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to practice without mystery or intimidation – just simple, honest, workable methods
  • That there are many entry points, and yours is the right one for where you are right now
  • How to honor the full range of paths – meditative, devotional, embodied, relational
  • How to hold discipline lightly, with compassion for yourself along the way
  • How to build something that actually sticks, in the middle of a real life
  • That awakening isn’t about fixing yourself, it’s about remembering who you already are
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Your Course Structure

  • ~30 minutes of practice-based archival teachings each day from Ram Dass and friends for the duration of the 10-day course
  • Daily live sessions with experienced wisdom teachers + breakout rooms to connect in community
  • Meditation, pranayama, chanting, reflection, and experiential learning
  • This course is designed to meet you exactly where you are – whether you are brand new to a practice or you’ve been meditating for decades
  • Includes community connection, conversation and support in building a consistent practice

Each day introduces a different path, with one simple thread running through all of them: there is no single right way to practice. It’s up to each of us to find our own way up the mountain.

Our courses are hosted on the Ram Dass Inner Academy, a virtual community platform that hosts over 7,000 students.

How to Sign up & Choose Your Price
Honoring Ram Dass • Serving the Community • Paying It Forward

We offer this course on a sliding scale to make it accessible to all, while honoring the real costs of bringing it to life—like teacher time, technology, course creation, and staff support.

The base value of the course is $127

If you’re able to pay at or above that level, you help sustain this offering and pay it forward—making it possible for others to participate at a lower rate.

Not everyone has the same financial access—and that’s okay. We trust you to choose the amount that feels honest, generous, and sustainable for you.

Here’s a simple guide to help you decide:

🌿 Higher Range: You’re in a place of abundance and want to support others.

💛 Base/Mid Range: You can pay the full value of the course without financial strain.

💜 Lower Range: You’re experiencing financial hardship—and you are welcome here.

Donate & Register Here

As a gentle reminder, replays of the Dharma talks and curated daily teachings will be available to replay until Friday, May 1st for sliding scale donors. Once the course ends, indefinite access to all course content will be available to monthly or yearly Inner Academy subscribers. 

Student Testimonials

It has really been a healing course, it has opened my head and heart a lot. It was the first course I took since I joined the community and it has really been a wonderful and valuable experience for me. There are so many things that resonated in me, my life has changed and I can feel the way I have been growing thanks to it. I'm glad to know that other colleagues have also enjoyed it
Brenda M.Past Course Student
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Grateful for the todays lesson. I am a student currently and i would say that just reading simply the teachings give soo much calmness to my heart. I feel like standing in the midst of storm with zero fear. With tears in my eyes i really wished i could meet our dearest babaji in his form but with faith inside me i know that one day very soon i will. Thank you for sharing todays lesson and thank you for being on this path together.
LVCommunity Member
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I find these teachings to be both helpful and extraordinary. Through practices such as these that focus on the present, I am not the person I once was: frantic, reaching, striving, and completely inauthentic. Now, I feel awake in myself; I slow down, witness abundance, and continually unfold. Thank you so much.
JackieCommunity Member
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