This Six Week Mindfulness Course led by Lama Michael Gregory offers a contemplative and compassionate journey toward observing how your mind both creates and reacts to its own reality.
Explore the foundational practices and the teachings of Buddhism and how they inform a classical approach to Mindfulness Meditation as both a path to a deeply purposeful and empowered life and a path complete awakening.
Discover both how to watch this unfolding mental and emotional process non-reactively as well as how to respond with heart, skill and wisdom.
This course is not just an educational experience; it’s a contemplative and practical approach to the classical Buddhist teachings of Mindfulness. During the course Lama Michael will guide you toward understanding these teachings in clear, lucid and highly practical ways that will bring short and long term positive changes to your emotions, thinking and relationship to self and other. Lama Michael is known for his direct teaching style and highly effective method of bringing ancient teachings into our modern lives and experiences.
The Course Includes:
• Six Detailed Video Lectures on Mindfulness Meditation, Topics Include: Mindfulness of Breathing, the Body, Emotions, Thoughts, and the Mind itself, guided by the expert Lama Michael Gregory.
• Comprehensive Learning: Each lecture offers a teaching, contemplation and guided meditation and questions and answers
• Flexible Learning Schedule: Access recorded course material anytime, anywhere, and progress at your own pace, ideally integrating teachings weekly to deepen your understanding.
• Online Learning: Written material, quizzes, exercises and reflections for bringing the practice into daily life can be explored on Teachable at your own pace.
• Personalized Support: Benefit from the guidance of personal meditation instructors, who provide weekly mentoring and ongoing support to deepen your practice and understanding of these complex topics.
• Interactive Components: Test your understanding and deepen your insights through quizzes, reflective exercises, and class discussions. These interactive elements are designed to enhance your learning and ensure you can apply the teachings in practical ways.
• Upon completing the course you are welcome to continue with our extensive course program on Stages to the Path of Enlightenment and be a part of our supportive mindfulness community.
Enhanced Learning and Personal Support:
Each video lecture combines theoretical teaching with contemplation and guided meditation, encouraging a holistic approach to learning. This course is designed to be engaging and thought-provoking, encouraging participants to integrate these teachings into their daily lives through practical exercises and reflections. Benefit from the guidance of personal meditation instructors, who provide weekly mentoring and ongoing support to deepen your practice and understanding of these complex topics.
Flexible Access on Your Own Schedule:
Engage with the course content at your own pace, with all materials available online. This flexible format is designed to fit into your schedule, watch on demand and allowing you to absorb and practice the teachings in a way that best suits your lifestyle.
Personalized Support:
Benefit from the guidance of personal meditation instructors, who provide weekly mentoring and ongoing support to deepen your practice and understanding of these complex topics.
Suggested Donation:
In our commitment to nurturing a global community of mindfulness practitioners, supporting our serene retreat center, and sustaining the devoted yogis in long-term retreats at our facility, we graciously welcome your donations. These contributions are vital in continuing our mission of spreading the transformative teachings of mindfulness and compassion.
For “A Serious Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation,” the suggested donation is $249. Understanding the importance of accessibility, we are delighted to offer lifetime access to this enriching course for a donation of just $99. This gesture is our way of ensuring that more individuals can embark on this journey of personal and spiritual growth, regardless of financial circumstance.
Your generous support enables us not only to maintain and enhance our retreat center but also to extend our outreach, touching more lives with the wisdom and practice of mindfulness. Together, we can continue to cultivate a haven of peace, learning, and spiritual development for our global mindfulness community.
Curriculum
Lam Rim Enrollment
This course is the beginning of the sequence of courses making up the Lam Rim: Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
If you'd like to continue on the path to enlightenment after this course, please consider becoming a Vajragarbha member.
If you are a Vajragarbha member, please remember to click the "Complete and Continue" button in each lesson so a certificate of completion will be issued when you finish a course and you'll be enrolled in the next course in the sequence.
About The Teacher
Lama Michael is a former Buddhist Monk, Teacher and Executive Director of Vajragarbha Dzogchen Teachings. Michael has shared that there can never be enough gratitude to repay the debt of kindness that others have shown [him], in particular the XIV Dalai Lama, the XVII Karmapa--Orgyen Trinley Dorje, Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Bokar Rinpoche, Thrangu Rinpoche, HH Dodrupchen Rinpoche and Penor Rinpoche who have offered the empowerment cycles of Rinchen Terzo and Dam Ngak Dzod.
For more than twenty-five years Lama Michael has joyfully instructed a continuous stream of educated and experienced practitioners of all levels and backgrounds in Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Europe and the United States. He focuses on transmitting the classical teachings of Buddhism in a modern way that offers practitioners a method to integrate mindfulness and awakening into every day life.
He has led hundreds of meditation retreats on almost every subject matter related to Buddhism, in addition to leading meditative pilgrimages throughout Thailand, Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and India. Michael currently directs the practicing and teaching schedule at Mindfulness Meditation Centers and is the Three Year Retreat Master for our current retreat in Southern California. Lama Michael leads a vibrant local and international online and in person community of practitioners.
