Sunset Sangha: In-Person Outdoors with Lori Stelling
2021-08-10 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559
NVIM will begin it’s transition back to in-person gatherings at NVUU with a couple of outdoor gatherings this August.
Please join us this Tuesday evening from 7:00pm to 8:30pm for meditation and reflections. Bring your own chair, water/drink and blankets. Please dress in layers as temperatures can cool down at night. Masks are required indoors / if going inside to use restrooms.
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The zoom meeting link will be sent out to all subscribers approximately two days prior to this event.
Our in-person sangha includes a 25 to 30 minute meditation, 10 minute stretch break, and 30 to 45 minutes of teachings/reflections.
All are welcome!

Special Guest Fresh "Lev" White - Online
2021-08-17 19:00 - 20:30
On Tuesday August 17th, Napa Valley Insight Meditation welcomes back Fresh “Lev” White back to our sangha. His presentation will be online via Zoom.
Lev offers mindfulness, coaching, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to loving and understanding others; thus, healing our communities, and planet. Lev is also co-author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners, Ed. with Brenda Salgado and is mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, as well as a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Learn more about Lev here: https://affirmativeacts.org/about-us/
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The zoom meeting link will be sent out to all subscribers approximately two days prior to this event.

Sunset Sangha: In-Person Outdoors with Mike Coughlin
2021-08-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559
NVIM will begin it’s transition back to in-person gatherings at NVUU with a couple of outdoor gatherings this August.
Please join us this Tuesday evening from 7:00pm to 8:30pm for meditation and reflections. Bring your own chair, water/drink and blankets. Please dress in layers as temperatures can cool down at night. Masks are required indoors / if you go indoors to use the restrooms.
To receive a link to this meeting, please subscribe to our newsletter by going to https://napainsight.org/contact/newsletter/.
The zoom meeting link will be sent out to all subscribers approximately two days prior to this event.

An Online Evening with Special Guest, Syra Smith
2021-08-31 19:00 - 20:30
This Tuesday evening we warmly welcome Syra Smith back to NVIM. Syra Smith is an artist, organizer and mindfulness educator interested in deep ecology and manifesting a culture where we can turn toward fearless abundance and generosity. Presently, she co-leads the Mid-Day Dharma Collective at SF Insight (Mondays at noon!) and proudly serves as Core Teacher with the San Francisco LGBT Sangha. Also a Community Teacher for East Bay Meditation Center and Founder of Oakland’s Dana Cafe, Syra teaches Insight Meditation and mindfulness throughout the SF Bay Area and beyond. Learn more about Syra here: http://projectroot.org/syra-smith-meditation.html
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Sunset Sangha: In-Person Outdoors with Lori Stelling
2021-09-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559
NVIM will begin it’s transition back to in-person gatherings at NVUU with a couple of outdoor gatherings this August.
Please join us this Tuesday evening from 6:30 pm to 8:00pm for meditation and reflections. Bring your own chair, water/drink and blankets. Please dress in layers as temperatures can cool down at night. Masks are required indoors / if you go indoors to use the restrooms.
To receive a link to this meeting, please subscribe to our newsletter by going to https://napainsight.org/contact/newsletter/.
The zoom meeting link will be sent out to all subscribers approximately two days prior to this event.

Special Guest Fresh "Lev" White - Online
2021-09-14 19:00 - 20:30
On Tuesday September 14th @ 7:00pm, Napa Valley Insight Meditation welcomes back Fresh “Lev” White back to our sangha. His presentation will be online via Zoom.
Lev offers mindfulness, coaching, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to loving and understanding others; thus, healing our communities, and planet. Lev is also co-author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners, Ed. with Brenda Salgado and is mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, as well as a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Learn more about Lev here: https://affirmativeacts.org/about-us/
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The zoom meeting link will be sent out to all subscribers approximately two days prior to this event.

Sunset Sangha: In-Person Outdoors with Mike Coughlin
2021-09-21 18:30 - 20:00 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559

Special Guest On-Line: Eve Decker
2021-09-28 19:00 - 20:30
On Tuesday September 28th, Napa Valley Insight Meditation will host an on-line presentation by Dharma Musician and Teacher, Eve Decker.
Eve has been singing, song writing, and performing since she was 8 years old! In her 20’s she co-founded, played, recorded and toured with the feminist folk trio Rebecca Riots for 15 years. Rebecca Riots was dubbed “Best Band with a Conscience” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Eve has also released two CDs of original, dharma based music, and will release a third in September 2015.
Eve began practicing Vipassana meditation in 1991 and has been a Buddhist teacher since 2006. She am a graduate of UC Berkeley, and the Community Dharma Leader training programs at Spirit Rock Center in California. She has travel throughout California and internationally to teach mindfulness, lovingkindness, compassion and gratitude directly and through music.

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An Online Evening with Special Guest: Jill Satterfield
2021-10-05 19:00 - 20:30
Jill Satterfield is an international mindfulness and meditation teacher, consultant and mentor. Her integration of embodied mindfulness and meditation includes somatic practices and contemplative psychology along with 35 years of Buddhist practice and silent retreats. She has been teaching for decades in hospitals, trauma centers, addiction institutes, at risk youth facilities, corporations and meditation centers with the intention of empowering and inspiring people from all walks of life, backgrounds and dispositions.
Jill’s dedication to understanding her own mind and body and creating accessible, practical contemplative practices are rooted in the body. This came by way of multiple surgeries, years of chronic pain and the marginalization that often comes from a condition not being recognized. She has practiced on over 150 silent meditation retreats – in monasteries, meditation communities and in isolation. She was named “one of the 4 leading (mindful movement) and Buddhist teachers in the country” by Shambhala Sun (now Lion’s Roar) Magazine.
To learn more about Jill go to: https://jillsatterfield.org/
Jon Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86476064826?pwd=[REDACTED]

6:30pm Outdoor "Sunset Sangha" with Mike Coughlin
2021-10-12 18:30 - 19:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559
NVIM will continue to offer one or two outdoor sangha gatherings in the month of October (air quality permitting). Please join us from 6:00pm to 7:00pm (time subject to change) for one hour of meditation and reflections. The weeks we are not in-person outdoors, we will meet online on Zoom.
What to Bring:
Bring your own chair, water/drink, and blankets. Please dress in warm layers as temperatures can cool down at night. Masks are required for those who are unvaccinated. Masks are required indoors for all / if you go indoors to use the restrooms.
All are welcome!

An Online Evening with Fresh "Lev" White
2021-10-19 19:00 - 20:30
NVIM warmly welcomes Lev back to our sangha. Lev is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, coaching, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to loving and understanding others; thus, healing our communities, and planet. Lev is also co-author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners, Ed. with Brenda Salgado and is mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, as well as a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Learn more about Lev here: https://affirmativeacts.org/about-us/
Jon Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86476064826?pwd=[REDACTED]

6:30pm Outdoor "Sunset Sangha" with Lori Stelling
2021-10-26 18:30 - 19:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559

An Online Evening with Special Guest: Richard Shankman
2021-11-02 19:00 - 20:30
Richard Shankman has been a meditator since 1970 and teaches internationally. He is the guiding teacher of the Metta Dharma Foundation, a non-residential meditation center in Berkeley, CA that offers a weekly meditation group, as well as monthly daylongs, classes, workshops, and residential retreats. Richard is the co-founder of Mindful Schools, a leading organization training educators to learn mindfulness and teach it to youth. He is also co-founder of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies. Richard is the author of The Experience of Samadhi: An In-Depth Investigation of Buddhist Meditation (Shambhala Publications, 2008), and The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation (New Harbinger Publications, 2015). Learn more about Richard at: http://richardshankman.org/about/
Jon Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86476064826?pwd=[REDACTED]

An Online Evening with Fresh "Lev" White
2021-11-09 19:00 - 20:30
NVIM warmly welcomes Lev back to our sangha. Lev is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, coaching, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to loving and understanding others; thus, healing our communities, and planet. Lev is also co-author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners, Ed. with Brenda Salgado and is mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, as well as a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Learn more about Lev here: https://affirmativeacts.org/about-us/
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86476064826?pwd=[REDACTED]

An evening with Mike Coughlin online
2021-11-16 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-01-11 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-02-08 19:00 - 20:30
Please join us this Tuesday evening at 7:00pm for an on-line discussion and meditation via Zoom with Mike Coughlin.
Mike is a public school administrator, trained mediator, and has been practicing mindfulness in the vipassana tradition for 15 years. He has received training through Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Mindful Schools and is a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator through the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mike has over 20 years of experience working with high-risk youth, most specifically in residential and day treatment programs, as well as years of mediation experience in Alternative Dispute Resolution.
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Thanksgiving Break - No Meeting Tonight
2021-11-23 19:00 - 20:30
During this thanksgiving week we pause to reflect on all the benefits our practice has brought us in life. May the fruit of our practice be for the benefit of all beings. May peace and compassion fill the earth and may it begin with each one of us living in gratitude.

An Online Evening With Kevin Griffin
2021-11-30 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-01-25 19:00 - 20:30
We warmly welcome Kevin Griffin back to NVIM this month. Kevin is an author, longtime Buddhist practitioner who trained as a Community Dharma Leader at Spirit Rock, and innovator in the field of addiction treatment. His newest book is Buddhism & the Twelve Steps: Daily Reflections – Thoughts on Dharma and Recovery. Learn more about Kevin and his books here: https://www.kevingriffin.net/
Please join us Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm for discussion, music and meditation via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86476064826?pwd=[REDACTED]

An Online Evening with Fresh "Lev" White
2021-12-07 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-01-04 19:00 - 20:30
NVIM warmly welcomes Lev back to our sangha. Lev is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, coaching, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to loving and understanding others; thus, healing our communities, and planet. Lev is also co-author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners, Ed. with Brenda Salgado and is mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, as well as a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Learn more about Lev here: https://affirmativeacts.org/about-us/
Please join us Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm for discussion, music and meditation via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86476064826?pwd=[REDACTED]

An Online Evening with Dawn Scott
2021-12-14 19:00 - 20:30
This evening, Napa Valley Insight Meditation welcomes back insight meditatin teacher Dawn Scott.
Dawn has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2008 and served as the Family Program Coordinator for eight years at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She is a graduate of the Insight Meditation Society’s 2017 – 2021 teacher training program, a co-principal teacher of Marin Sangha, and is a core teacher of Spirit Rock’s Liberation, Emptiness, and Awareness Practices (LEAP) Program and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and Insight Meditation’s joint program, Exploring the Heart of Freedom. Dawn has a deep love of long retreat practice and the Buddha’s liberative teachings.
Please join us Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm for discussion, music and meditation via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86476064826?pwd=[REDACTED]

Winter Break - No Meeting Tonight
2021-12-21 19:00 - 20:30
“The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well being.” ~ -His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV

Winter Break - No Meeting Tonight
2021-12-28 19:00 - 20:00
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Happy New Year!

An Online Evening with Matthew Brensilver
2022-01-18 19:00 - 20:30
NVIM warmly welcomes Matthew Brensilver, PhD back to our sangha. Matthew began practice in the Tibetan tradition, and since 2003 has studied with Shinzen Young. He served as a Buddhist chaplain at USC for four years and teaches about the intersection of mindfulness and mental health at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center and with Mindful Schools.He completed the Spirit Rock/IMS teacher training program (2016) and regularly offers retreats at Spirit Rock and the Insight Retreat Center. He spent years doing research on addiction treatment at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine and continues to be interested in the unfolding dialogue between dharma and science.
Please join us Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm for discussion, music and meditation via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86476064826?pwd=[REDACTED]

An Evening with Forrest Hill online
2022-02-02 19:00 - 20:00
Please join us this Tuesday evening at 7:00pm for an on-line discussion and meditation via Zoom with Mike Coughlin.
Forrest has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2004 and is a founding member of Napa Valley Insight Meditation. He is a gratduate of the the 2 year Community Dharma Leaders Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86476064826?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meditation and Discussion with Fresh "Lev" White Online
2022-02-15 19:00 - 20:30

An evenng with Debbie Darrin Online
2022-02-22 19:00 - 20:30
Please join us this Tuesday evening at 7:00pm for an on-line discussion and meditation via Zoom with Debbie Darrin.
Debbie has explored various aspects of mindfulness and meditation since the early 1980’s. In 2014 she began attending Napa Valley Insight Meditation sangha, became an active member on the NVIM board in 2017 and facilitates the NVIM Thursday morning silent meditation. In 2021 she graduated from the 2-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program developed and offered by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Debbie. She believes that the heart practices of lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity play a significant role in balancing, healing and navigating a complex world.
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An In-Person (Hybrid) Evening with Lori Stelling: Tues, March 1 @ NVIM
2022-03-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559
NVIM will begin meeting in-person and on Zoom, following a hybrid model, on Tuesday, March 1st. Full vaccination and masking is required for indoor participation. (See Guidelines below).
Our first in-person indoor gathering will be led by Lori Stelling. Lori has practiced Insight Meditation since 2002 and serves as a local teacher and Board member for NVIM. She has received mentoring from vipassana teachers since 2007, is a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher through UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and has engaged in on-going Buddhist Studies through Aloka Vihara, Sacred Mountain Sangha, Dharmagiri, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and others, for two decades. Lori is a certified life coach, with advanced Enneagram training, offering life coaching for women, and community meditation classes for adults of all ages.
We will be meeting at 7:00 pm, in the sanctuary at Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist (1625 Salvador Ave, Napa CA).
If you prefer, you can join us via Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85820566332?pwd=[REDACTED]
NVIM In-person COVID Guidelines:
· full vaccination required
· masks required indoors (with the exception of the teacher while teaching)
· no beverages allowed indoors (bring your own beverage outdoors during breaks)
· please stay home if you have any COVID-like symptoms or have tested positive for COVID in the past 10 days
