Seattle Insight Meditation

Join us Saturday, May 30 (9:00am–4:30pm PDT) for a Day of Mindfulness with Guiding Teacher Tim Geil and members of the graduating Introduction to Meditation Class. Together we’ll practice sitting and walking meditation in the vipassana tradition in a hybrid format (in person and online).

Registration is required. Please sign up on our website. Details and Zoom information will be emailed to registrants in advance.

Join us for a five-week online class exploring the Anapanasati Sutta, the Buddha’s discourse on mindfulness of breathing. Together we’ll use the breath as a foundation for concentration, mindfulness, and insight, moving through the four sets of instructions in the sutta and exploring how to bring the practice into daily life. The teachings also connect closely with this year’s exploration of Transcendent Dependent Arising at Seattle Insight.

The class meets on four consecutive Thursdays :5/21, 5/28, 6/4, and 6/11, with a final session on 6/25 (no class on 6/18). Meetings take place on Zoom. Basic instruction in insight meditation requested. Registration required.

Join Nana Gyesie this Saturday for a daylong retreat. Beginners are welcome!

We will be exploring Transcendental Dependent Origination (TDO) as an embodied, lived realization rather than a purely conceptual or metaphysical insight. Situated in the contemporary context of 2026 and beyond—marked by technological acceleration, collective trauma, identity fragmentation, and the commodification of spirituality—the course examines how misunderstood transcendence often becomes a form of spiritual bypassing. Participants will investigate how disembodied interpretations of non-duality, emptiness, or transcendence can reinforce dissociation, ethical disengagement, and unresolved psychological patterns. Through somatic inquiry, contemplative practice, and relational reflection, the training restores Transcendental Dependent Origination as a dynamic, ethical, and nervous-system–aware process—revealing how liberation emerges not by escaping conditions, but by fully embodying their interdependence in thought, body, action, and relationship.

Register at www.seattleinsight.org.