Open Dharma
A chance for a change of awareness through deep rest meditation and firsthand experience of what is important in life.
Teachings on donation since 1999.
Open Meditation Resources
Curated pathways to support your exploration of meditation
Step-by-step guidance to begin deep rest meditation–lying down, or however you can relax more easily and connect to life more simply.
Some favorite meditations and instructions to help you get into deep rest meditation and make it your own.
Learn to calm the alarm system, feel mind-states in the body, recognize mind movements including subtle mind-filters called vedana, and let mind-states rest in awareness.
Grow the heart's generosity: Feel what is important, love what you love, and let life pour through you for the good of the whole.
Experiment with movement, doodling, singing and other arts as ways to meditate–to connect and get into flow with life.
Take your meditation outside. Bring the wild into your meditation. Recover a sense of wonder. Know your connectedness to everything around you, and discover the non-dual nature of reality.
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About Open Dharma
Non-Profit Organization
Thousands of people have joined Open Dharma retreats in a dozen countries and online, in an atmosphere of welcome for deep rest meditation
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in lying down,
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in embodied movement,
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in working with mind-states,
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to free the heart.
All of which to allow contact with aliveness beyond ideas.
For more on the two primary Open Dharma teachers, Jaya Ashmore and Gemma Polo, please visit:
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