Presence Collective is delighted to announce that our teachers will be offering live webinars each Monday. These sessions will include a teaching and practice designed to help support you during these challenging and uncertain times.  


Join us this Monday, April 27th from 4-5:00PM PST (7-8:00PM EST) for our next webinar! Presence Collective teacher David Perrin will be offering a talk and practice on lonliness. 

Loneliness plays an interesting role on the contemplative path. On the one hand, we are never alone (though forces of separateness can conspire to make us feel cut off, isolated, and divided). We are connected to others physically, in our thoughts, etc. On the other hand, we sit in our meditation cushions, sense with our own senses, and dream our own dreams. What does it mean to embrace being a solo practitioner in order to connect to non-separateness? Come share your experience about being alone, and not.

We hope to see you on Monday!

These webinars are offered by donation. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

*Sliding scale language borrowed with permission from Rev. angel Kyodo williams.

  • $15 - Rebalancing: for those with more than enough financial resources (personal or institutionally supported) and a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequity.

  • $12 - Fair: for those with sufficient financial resources who can pay fair value for the experience.

  • $10 - Supported: for those with currently limited financial resources who will avoid further hardship while benefiting from access supplemented by the community.

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David Perrin (he/him) is a meditation teacher and mentor. Meditation, the contemplative path, and service have been at the crux of my life since my youth. Born in Rochester NY, raised in Connecticut, I attended public and private schools, and a Reform Judaism synagogue. I currently identify as white, heterosexual, able-bodied, with financial and educational privileges, using he/him/his pronouns.

For over two decades I have practiced and studied in the Shambhala tradition. In addition to teaching in Shambhala, I have served as MNDFL Lead Teacher and Director of MNDFL Teacher Training, as well as cofounder of MNDFL ED schools-based program. I have taught at the Institute for Compassionate Leadership, the 200hr Teaching Mindfulness Teacher Training with Shanté Smalls and Ethan Nichtern, and throughout New York City at schools, corporations, and nonprofits.