SF Donation/Free Meditation & Mindfulness Classes

with Augusta Hopkins
Every Monday, 5-7 PM
Come as you are. Leave as you must.

Especially in this dark time, we need the spiritual and emotional support of Sangha. Come together in community to rest and replenish. Bring your sorrows and your joys. Together we will explore Buddhist principles to navigate this s**f.

Spiritual Friends Sangha is a growing, living, ever changing community. We gather to celebrate our joys and care for our sorrows, together, so that we may be nourished by reality and not fear it.

We are relational human beings, we need each other. We need community.

The forces of greed (lobha) aversion (dosa) and delusion (moha) are strong, in us and in the world. And some of us are feeling that truth now more than ever.

Buddha laid out a path that leads to the end of this suffering.
Let’s journey it together!

Augusta Hopkins offers “Zen with an edge.” Drawing on her Quaker roots; deep practice and training in the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism, Insight Meditation, Theravada Buddhism; and the spiritual healing journey of the Twelve Steps of Al-Anon.

Augusta (she/her, white, cisgender) brings a depth of experience from teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction to almost 1,000 students and mentoring 100 plus meditation teachers-to-be in Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s Meditation Teacher Training program. Augusta welcomes all. She received lay ordination from Thich Nhat Hanh and the names True Ocean of Strength and Peaceful Fulfillment of the Heart which she embodies. She is authorized by Spirit Rock to share the Dharma and teach meditation. Augusta also holds an MBA in Sustainable Business and a third degree Black Belt in the Korean Martial Art of Tang Soo Do. When she isn’t meditating or teaching meditation she can be found swimming in the cold waters of the San Francisco Bay.

with Tucker Peck

Class meets in person at 2929 24th Street
This weekly meetup focuses on diverse techniques of meditation, as well as the interplay between meditation and psychology. While we're not attached to any particular technique, many of the group members practice based on modern meditation manuals like The Mind Illuminated, Right Concentration, Seeing That Frees, or Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha.

The SF Pragmatic Dharma Club has what we like to call Five Acts Plus a Finale. We'll begin with members introducing themselves, followed by a 40-minute guided meditation. After the meditation, there will be break-out groups of 3-4 people, where attendees get to know one another. The last part of the evening is a group Q&A session with the teacher. The class ends at 9, where most nights everyone is invited to join for late dinner at a Mexican restaurant down the street.

Dr. Tucker Peck is a clinical psychologist and longtime teacher of dharma classes and residential retreats.

Hay una gran oportunidad para aquellos de ustedes que quieran participar en la meditación en español. Los martes a las 6pm (PT), por medio zoom con la Mtra. Alma Ayón. Comenzamos con una meditación guiada, seguida de una plática y preguntas y respuestas.Te invitamos a unirte a las meditaciones donde practicamos Mindfulness, Shamatha, Vipashyana, Bodhicitta, Tong-Len y otras meditaciones analíticas de textos budistas.