Toronto Meditation Guide

The Awakened Meditation Centre will have a guest teacher on Friday September 5th. Myung Hang Sunim, Ji Do Bub Sa Nim, an American born monk in the Korean Chogye Order will be teaching the Zen Meditation class at 7:00 p.m. on this date. Myung Hang Sunim lived and practiced in Korea for more than ten years. He has received the Dharma Teacher precepts.

It should be noted that there will not be a regular meditation class on Saturday September 6th. Read more »

You work hard, you need relaxation…Zen Meditation Retreat in the Park led by Zen Master Hwasun Yangil for two days and one night from Saturday September 13th - Sunday September 14th at Albion Hills Conservation Area, 16500 Highway 50 just 8 km north of Bolton. Read more »

Phone: (416) 285-4872
Email: freeingspirit@rogers.com
Website: http://freeingspirit.com
Address: 2100 Bloor Street West, Suite 6199, Toronto, ON

Freeing the Human Spirit is a registered charity. We deliver a program of meditation and yoga to correctional facilities in Canada. Read more »

Tags: Insight,Metta,Tibetan,Vipassana,Zen
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Phone: (905) 771-0033
Email: drtracyaustin@rogers.com
Website: http://www.drtracyaustin.com
Address: 57 Lagani Ave., Richmond Hill, ON, L4B 3C7

A very safe and supportive environment, inviting your heart to soften, open and expand, creating a space of compassion.

Weekly classes are oriented towards the needs and interests of the participants. Tracy will also work individually with each participant’s practice to develop their understanding of their own personal experience. Read more »

Each day we breathe, eat, work, love. Yet during most of these moments we are preoccupied with the future or habitually re-living the conflicts of the past. We need not be perpetually lost in the mind’s labyrinth. It is possible to be fully alive in every moment, to wake up into life, and to come into direct experience of who you are.

In six sessions you will be introduced to a variety of practices leading to the development of presence, a state of wide-awake, ongoing awareness. You will be provided with tools to establish a basic meditation sitting practice, and also learn how to integrate presence into your daily life, including ways of dealing with inner and outer blocks to full awareness. Read more »

Phone: (416) 920-4520
Email: info@yogafestivaltoronto.org
Website: www.yogafestivaltoronto.org
Address: 391 Ontario Street, Toronto, ON M5A 2V8

Yoga Festival Toronto is a non-profit organization formed to institute a yearly festival of the Yoga Tradition that will unite, inspire and support local practitioners, teachers, and studios with a broad range of presentation topics, practical classes, and round-table discussion and debate. Our goal is to help develop a mature, community-based, and innovative Yoga culture in Toronto and beyond. Read more »

Phone: 416-951-8782
Email: info@swamplandflowers.ca
Website: www.swamplandflowers.ca
Address: 25 Gradwell Drive, Scarborough, ON M1M 2N1

Meditation is training for the possibility of being fully alive, of being immersed in the wonder of presence, of living free. It is an ongoing investigation of who we really are.

Why do so few people take up spiritual work? Because we don’t want to pay the price of giving up our usual patterns of living and thinking and relating, no matter what suffering they cause. And because we don’t want to experience the raw and painful truth about how things really are for us, and for this whole upside down world. There is a price to pay with spiritual practice. But it is less than what we pay to stay mired in the habit patterns of our lives.

Meditation is not about escape, or silence, or leaving home. It does not require a monastery or endless retreats. Ordinary people, living ordinary lives, can blossom right where they are. As Vimilakirti (a contemporary of the Buddha) noted, it is the mud of the low lying marshlands that produces the lotus flower. Read more »

Phone: (416) 838-4305
Email: newmarketzen@gmail.com
Website: www.awakenedmeditationcentre.com
Address: 244 Main Street South, Newmarket, ON

The Newmarket Zen Group is an extension of the Awakened Meditation Centre (Nine Mountains Zen Gate Society) run under the guidance of Ven. Hwasun Yangil Sunim and Greg Samuelson. This group practices the Ko-An Zen tradition. Read more »

Phone: (416) 631-4260
Email: learning@centreofgravity.org
Website: www.centreofgravity.org
Address: Studio behind 56 Fern Avenue, Toronto, ON

Centre of Gravity Sangha is a loose-knit community of Yoga and Buddhist practitioners committed to the integration of contemplative practice and daily life. We hold weekly yoga classes, meditation courses and retreats, mindfulness classes for parents, registered continuing education courses for clinicians, public workshops, textual study classes and one-on-one support. Read more »

Phone: (416) 925-5722
Email: kokorodojo@mac.com
Website: www.kokorodojo.com
Address: 358 Dupont St, Toronto, ON

Kokoro Do Jo has grown out of Adarsa Chakra Sensei’s vision for a teaching and treatment centre serving the community, incorporating the ideal of spiritual Keiko or training. There are numerous aspects of this training. Foremost is the supreme virtue of patience, to be able to stay with the chosen path and not digress. Kokoro means heart, mind, & the spiritual essence. Read more »