Learn to meditate and naturally grow your confidence, mindful awareness, and compassion. The Birmingham Shambhala Meditation Center offers free public meditation sittings. We also offer a wide variety of classes and retreats in meditation, and Buddhist and Shambhala teachings.
Those of all spiritual traditions are invited to explore our offerings in the quest to find a mind of compassion, gentleness and sanity. We offer programs for beginners in meditation as well as experienced practitioners.
Getting Started with Meditation?
The Birmingham Shambhala Center offers several supports for helping someone begin or reestablish a meditation practice.A good and simple way to begin is to attend any of our weeknight sitting meditation sessions. Every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday night, there is open meditation from 7 – 8 pm, and there is always an instructor available to provide orientation to the Center and initial meditation instruction.
To deepen either a beginning or an established meditation practice, we offer a three-hour class, “Learn to Meditate†from 9 to noon on a Saturday morning every other month. This includes more detailed meditation instruction and opportunity for practice and discussion. Check our Calendar for times.To support an ongoing meditation practice, members of the Center may develop a relationship with any of our Meditation Instructors.