Upcoming Events
“Caverly Morgan is a rare teacher, capable of weaving clear, in-depth wisdom with practical suggestions on the path to greater awareness. Her ability to intuit the needs behind people’s questions is extraordinary.”
Practice Collective
Realizing Freedom Together
with Caverly Morgan
9 consecutive Tuesday evenings, 7:00pm - 8:30pm PT
Starts: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Ends: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Online
“The next Buddha may be a sangha.” —Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Join us for an experiential practice collective based on Caverly’s book, The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together.
Are you feeling isolated in your practice or life? Do you seek the support and connection of a beloved community? Longing to be part of a collective that practices and applies transformative tools together?
Embark on a Journey of True Change
This interactive and experiential course will support you to connect your personal meditation practice to community practice, and to true and meaningful change. True change occurs when we not only understand who we truly are but also act in the world from this understanding.
This nine-session collective will help you:
Realize Who You Truly Are: Drop beneath the inner judge and know your true nature as inherently wise and loving.
Identify and Overcome Personal and Collective Barriers: Disidentify with the conditioned mind and larger systems of oppression to move in the world from truth.
Act from a Place of Deep Knowing: Bolster compassionate communication skills and recognize opportunities to foster deeper connections throughout your life.
What You’ll Take Away:
Practice Tools: Accessible techniques and practices to support your capacity to flourish and experience inherent freedom.
Relational Dharma: Community and relational practices that support an embodied understanding of interconnectedness.
Beloved Community: Restorative nourishment that arises out of being in a compassionate group setting.
What to Expect:
Guided Meditations
Dharma Discussions
Dyad and Small Group Work
Reflection and Integration Exercises
Relational and Emergent Approach
The cost of the Practice Collective is being offered on a sliding scale:
Supported—For those with currently limited financial resources who will avoid further hardship while benefiting from access supplemented by the community.
Fair—For those with sufficient financial resources who can pay fair value for the experience.
Rebalancing—For those with ample financial resources (personal or institutionally supported) and a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequity.
*Please choose the option that is most in alignment with your current situation.
We are deeply committed to equity and accessibility and recognize this commitment as an integral part of spiritual practice. For this Practice Collective we have a limited number of $175 scholarships for people who identify as BIPOC and/or part of a marginalized community, as well as a limited number of $100 scholarships for people experiencing financial hardship.
If you are interested in a scholarship, please apply HERE.
Being Resourced for These Times
Day of Practice with Caverly morgan
Saturday, April 5, 2025 | 7am - 10am PT
Sangha Live, Online
“In the darkest times, one light can make a magnificent difference. When we come together in beloved community—rooted in truth, remembering our essence—we create a collective light far brighter than any one of us could shine alone.”
—Caverly
Join us for a nourishing and illuminating day of practice that will provide you with practical and grounded tools for these times.
These times call for collective care, collective solidarity, and collective practice. The cherished tradition of practicing together offers opportunity to gather and connect, to heal and replenish, and to cultivate, together, the light of awareness–an ever-expansive light that we are all in need of right now.
This day of practice offers an invitation to explore, in community, contemplative technologies meant to benefit you personally, and beyond—understanding that our world changes when they are applied collectively. As Thich Nhat Hanh once predicted, “the next Buddha may be a Sangha.”
In our time together, along with periods of meditation, we will explore Relational Dharma. Relational Dharma recognizes that our life unfolds within relationship—relationship with family, friends, colleagues, community, the world. We’ll mine the richness of being in relationship with each other while also exploring the gifts of what is beyond relationship.
Join us as, personally and together, we explore an understanding of presence that is inherently nourishing and connected—and the brilliance that comes from acting in the world on behalf of this luminous knowing.
What You Can Look Forward To:
Teachings and Guided Meditations: Engage in insightful teachings and guided meditations to deepen your understanding and experience of relational dharma and how to resource in these times.
Tools and Practices: Learn powerful and accessible tools to both deepen your personal practice and extend practice into the world.
Dyads and Group Discussions: Connect with fellow participants through structured dyads and open group discussions, fostering a supportive community.
Journaling: Reflect on your experiences and insights through a guided journaling exercise.
This day of practice will be a hybrid of relational and silent time. Interacting with others will be encouraged but not required.
The Heart of Who We Are
a half-day retreat with Caverly Morgan
Saturday, April 5, 2025 | 1pm - 5pm PT
Portland Insight Meditation Center
In-Person & Online via Zoom
Join us for The Heart of Who We Are, a retreat with Caverly Morgan exploring transformation, the power of community, and the remembrance of our true nature.
Drawing from her book of the same name, Caverly will guide us through powerful reflections that support moving beyond the witness in our meditation practice. This movement further enhances our capacity to navigate loss, be resourced for the times we are in, and act in the world on behalf of who we truly are.
More details about the theme of our time together—an excerpt from The Heart of Who We Are:
“For many of us on a journey of liberation, we get stuck at the point in practice where we feel ourselves to be a witness observing objects, separate from them.
When stuck in such a place, it can be easy to fall for negative self-talk, like “I am seeing all these thoughts arise in meditation. If only I could clear my mind, I would be at peace. I must keep practicing.” We become identified with seeing ourselves as the witness, the subject, with thoughts as the object, and in this process, we become the “I” who strives in practice.
Most of us spend our whole day moving through the world experiencing life through the lens of I, me, mine in relation to what is “out there.” Subject-object. In spiritual practice, this process of othering internally often simply becomes a more subtle subject-object relationship. (How you do anything is how you do everything.) “I” notice these thoughts. “I” try to clear the mind. “I” had a bad meditation today because the mind was busy. “I” long for enlightenment.
Within this phase of practice, we are not truly free. We might be better at responding versus reacting, we might have less suffering in our lives than we used to, we might have increased our concentration skills, but we are not truly free.
It is ego’s ultimate disappointment that there is no such thing as enlightened ego.
In this created story of separation, we also are prone to hover above our experience, witnessing it rather than fully embodying it. We step outside experience, albeit in a subtle way. (More on the problematic nature of this kind of disembodiment in the next chapter.)
From this perspective, even focusing on the breath can create a subtle subject-object relationship. The witness, the subject, “I” am focusing on the breath, or sounds, or sensation (objects). This lens maintains relationship.
Truth is revealed in the collapse of all relationship.
It is the shining of the unity of oneness.
Liberation is not only the recognition of this oneness—
it is the realization that we are this.”
During our day of practice, the exploration of this theme will happen within the transformative container of Relational Dharma. (More about Relational Dharma can be found here: What is Relational Dharma? — Caverly Morgan)
Join us for a day of being nourished by community, nourished by practice, and nourished by the heart of who we are.
All welcome. No prior experience required.
This is a hybrid event — in person at the Portland Insight Meditation Center or online via Zoom.
PIMC Sunday Program
With Caverly Morgan
Sunday, April 6, 2025 | 10am – 12pm PT
Portland Insight Meditation Center | In-Person & Online via Zoom
Start your Sunday morning off by resting in presence with community. Join Caverly Morgan for a morning of meditation and a heartfelt dharma talk, offered in person and online. After the event, stay for tea, snacks, and meaningful connection.
Suggested Dana: $10–$25
No registration required—this is a weekly drop-in gathering.
Cultivating Self-Compassion as Loving, Connected Presence
with Dr. Kristin Neff and Caverly Morgan
Sat - Sun, April 26 - 27, 2025 | 10am – 5pm PT
On-Land at Spirit Rock in CA, or Online via Zoom
Self-compassion is a powerful tool for emotional resilience in the face of suffering.
It entails three main elements: kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness. One way to access self-compassion is by embodying these three components in their experiential form, which entails loving, connected presence. We can learn to untangle from our thoughts and emotions and rest our awareness in compassionate presence, holding our pain.
Research shows that self-compassion is strongly linked to psychological and physical health, but the practice can be hard to remember. Our physiology and culture doesn’t support the practice of being kind to ourselves, especially when our distress is due to feelings of failure or inadequacy. In this program, Caverly joins Dr. Kristin Neff to explore self-compassion from a scientific and contemplative lens, so that we can respond to difficult moments with greater warmth and ease.
Looking for Peace with Youth Starts with Us?
You’ll find this FREE six-part series - hosted by Sounds True and featuring Caverly Morgan and Peace in Schools - on our On-Demand page.
Ongoing Events
Tuesday Morning Sits
Livestream, Tuesdays 9 - 10am PT
These weekly groups focus on integrating practice into our everyday lives, deepening our direct experience of awareness, and embodying realization.
Caverly combines meditation with a facilitated group discussion that is interactive and personal. Learn to see how suffering is created in your life and gain the tools to open, transform, and explore your direct experience of truth. Designed both for newcomers and those who would like to deepen their practice.
Our community sits are completely donation-based, with no one turned away due to lack of funds.
You can choose to purchase a package or register for individual classes below.
Monthly Meditation Gathering
First Wednesdays of the month
7 - 8:30pm PT
Whidbey Institute
This monthly group focuses on direct experiences of who we truly are, integrating practice into our everyday lives, and embodying realization.
Caverly combines meditation with a facilitated group discussion that is interactive and personal. Learn to see how suffering is created in your life and gain the tools to open, transform, and explore your direct experience of truth. Designed both for newcomers and those who would like to deepen their practice.
These gatherings are offered on a sliding scale; additional scholarships are also available. You can choose to purchase a 2024 Pass or individual drop-in’s.
Schedule
This group generally meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 7-8:30pm in the Sanctuary. Dates include: 1/8* – 2/5 – 3/19** – 5/7 – 6/4 – 7/9* – 8/6 – 9/3 – 10/8* – 12/3. (Note: There are no gatherings April or November.)
*These are the second Wednesdays of the month.
**This is the third Wednesday of the month.