Meditation, counsel, and community with Dahlia
10 weeks
January 17 to March 21, 2206
Pricing variable, see details below
New to me or my Workshops for Living?
Welcome, beloved!
My Workshops for Living center around 10 weekly Meditation Gatherings. The Gatherings take place over Zoom – you can join live or watch later. I offer teaching, lead meditation, and we share conversation. During the workshop you also get to spend an hour with me in private 1:1 conversation either once or twice. There are three levels of participation to choose from. Two of them include delicious weekly reading of a Sharing Circle where I offer intimate support and mentorship to each person in turn. These workshops are a place where we gather to consider together how to make the most of our time in human form. If you join us, you'll have the option of joining a 3-4 person Touchstone Pod for everyday conversations about how our practice is weaving into your living.
We wonder, we grow, we walk the path of life together. You'll find here people who have studied with me consistently over years and decades beside people who have just dropped in. We are an interfaith community with members who identify as agnostics, atheists, witches, Muslims, Jews, and Christians. Diversity is the nature of existence, and it is cherished here. All are welcome in love.
I believe that spiritual practice is a human endeavor, and this is intimate practice: my workshops consist of 10-3o people. Zoom automatically makes AI summaries and transcripts of our Gatherings which are available if you wish. I do not use AI myself: I write and create for you with my own heart and mind, the result of over 30 years of study and teaching in the arts of spirit and healing. I once attended a small concert by one of my favorite musicians at which Will Oldham stood outside the venue and took tickets himself. This is like that: I'm not a distant figure parachuting in to teach. I am the staff, with technical assistance from my husband. This is a modern Home-made endeavor; this is the Little Temple of my practice.
Cosmic Grounding
Lovingkindness is the center of my work and life. This winter's workshop will focus on the source of unconditional love: existential worthiness. If we take as the root of our value system the stance that existence is precious, that the life of the universe is a glorious mystery, and that the opportunity to be a conscious node in the body of the cosmos – the life of the universe, dancing in a self-aware form – is a beautiful, perhaps sacred thing, then we are profoundly worthy. Because we exist.
Our meditations will ground into our bodies, the Earth, and the cosmos. In my way, science and spirit walk hand in hand in adoration of the mystery. We will marvel at the fact that every hydrogen atom in existence was created during the Big Bang and every drop of water in us consists of these same atoms. The ancient yogis said Tat Twam Asi: Thou Art That; you are the life of the universe. We all are. Everything is. We will nurture curiosity about existence and comfort in belonging to the life of the universe. Lovingkindness supports living your values, healthy relationships, and the development and expression of personal boundaries through innerdependence and interdependence.
Friend, you are as precious and miraculous as sparrows, rainbows, rivers. You are as wondrous as a spiral nebula. Come, explore with me in the New Year. We'll root into the vastness and blossom anew.
If you were in the last workshop or two, most structural details are the same and you can hop on down to registration at the bottom! One change: Gatherings are now 90 minutes rather than 60 to allow greater depth.
"I have worked with Dahlia for a few years now and always find her offering to be such a timely and supportive salve. She has a unique way of incorporating holistic practices with practical applicabilities making the techniques both so relevant and easy to engage with. I have found myself reaching for both the loving kindness practise as well as the energetic work daily. I am already looking forward to the next offering and I cannot recommend her work enough."
"As an instructor, you give off a presence of not needing anything from us that I find incredibly restful."
"This work has helped to transform my whole being and the way I relate to the world."
"I felt so much permission from inside myself."
Teaching & Community: Weekly Gatherings
Teaching will be shared in 10 weekly sessions of meditation and conversation from 8-9:30 Pacific on Saturday mornings. You can join live – or watch the recording later, as suits you best. Zoom recordings will be available until the opening of the next workshop in April 2026. The meditation portion of each Gathering is also shared as an MP3 audio file which you may download and keep. The trust and understanding we build in our conversations create a loving, thoughtful community.
SCHEDULE: We will meet weekly from Saturday January 17 through Saturday March 21.
"Meditations were so easy to drop into, and gave me more value than any other meditations I've done. I've never had actual insight from meditation before."
"Oh my God, I literally might not need therapy ever again if I just do this everyday!!"
1:1 Support
Connecting with me in private conversation brings greater intimacy and immediacy to your experience. Most people choose to engage in conversation about how the seeds of practice are taking root in their personal lives; we share personal counsel and coaching. You might also use this time for guidance in yoga, self-massage, to work with energetic healing, or to have me create a personal meditation recording. All of my skills are available for you during these sessions. Depending upon the Weave you choose, you get one or two 1-hour private sessions.
"The gifts Dahlia brings in the form of intuition, empathic listening, resourcing and encouragement are a testament to her deep knowledge of spirituality, meditation, mind/body medicine and relationships. Our work together reminds me of who I am and how I want my life to be."
Sharing Circles
Each week there is a written conversation. We take turns sharing to keep the volume of reading enjoyable and feasible. Folks might speak about their experience of our practice, how the work is blossoming in their living, or what's going on in their personal lives right now. They may pose questions or ask for advice. I reply to each person's share with a personal letter full of encouragement, support, teaching, and advice. New people almost always express astonishment and delight about how connective and enriching it is to bear witness to the lives of others in this way. Everyone who joins the Deep or Core Weave gets to read all of the Sharing Circle posts and my replies to them. Folks who join the Deep Weave share twice, Core Weave once. The Light Weave does not participate in the Sharing Circle.
"I am still blown away by Dahlia's response to my questions. I feel that each of her responses to my posts are like little love letters to me as I practice, which motivates me even more."
Touchstone Pods
Quick, love-drenched, daily conversations by text are optional in small peer groups; I aim for pods of 3. It's astonishing how transformational a few quick minutes of daily connection can be! This little reminder of the values and practices we are working with along with loving witness and social support threads into our living like honey, like stardust. Folks often choose to continue these relationships beyond the workshop.
Participation Options & Pricing
Please feel welcome to reach out to discuss which option might best suit your needs. Partial scholarships are often available from our generous community.
- Deep Weave: All Gatherings, two Sharing Circle posts & responses, reading access to all Sharing Circles, two private hours with Dahlia, optional Touchstone pod.
$575 – 775 - Core Weave: All Gatherings, one Sharing Circle post & response, reading access to all Sharing Circles, one private hour with Dahlia, optional Touchstone pod.
$450 – 650 - Light Weave: All Gatherings, no Sharing Circle, one private hour with Dahlia
$250 – 450
** The Light Weave omits the weekly Sharing Circle and Touchstone pods. This may be just right for you when time is tight or energy is low! It is a significantly different experience.
Your spot is reserved when you register with your $250 deposit. Balance is due by January 12. Please simply reach out if a longer payment schedule would be helpful. Contributions toward scholarship are warmly received and will be granted to someone in the current workshop.
Need to discuss cost or payment? Not sure which weave is right for you? Wondering if this can work with your schedule? I'd truly love to hear from you; this is how I understand what folks need as I create my work. Drop me a line: dahlia@beloved.org, or schedule a free 15 minute Zoom meeting. This is an option for people who have not met me before and people who are new to the workshops.
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