Madison Tergar Community

Under the guidance of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Tergar Madison holds weekly drop-in meditation groups and public talks, as well as periodic retreats, workshops and classes on meditation and Tibetan Buddhism. Please join us!

Please note: In an effort to be proactive and slow the spread of COVID-19, Tergar Madison has decided to postpone all in-person events until further notice. Please join our local email list if you are interested in updates. We are experimenting with online offerings as much as possible. Please visit our event calendar for more information about what is available online and how to join.

Our policy on cancellations due to weather is linked here.

Joy of Living
Weekly Meditation Group

Tuesday Evenings, 7:00—8:00pm

Offered Online. Please check our weekly news for the online link or ask our coordinator at madison.coordinator@tergar.org for the weekly link.

If you are a beginning meditator and would like to learn more, or if you are a seasoned practitioner and would like to deepen your practice, please join us every Tuesday evening as we explore the practices of mindfulness and compassion meditation.
Read about our current curriculum and access online resources here.

*Community Nights: the first Tuesday of each month includes a 60-minute teaching/practice session followed by a 30-minute social period with snacks provided.

Opening the Heart: Joy of Living 2
Dates – April 7, 2021 to May 12, 2021
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Structured Online Course with Kasumi Kato and Scott Anderson

In this meditation workshop we will learn how meditating on loving-kindness and compassion can open our hearts to the world around us and relax the self-centered tendencies that lead to anxiety, dissatisfaction, and suffering. Cultivating loving-kindness and compassion helps us to see the basic goodness that all beings share. By relating to others in an open-hearted way, we bring peace to the mind and develop a sense of confidence and purpose. This, in turn, naturally brings harmony to our relationships and enables us to work with challenging situations more effectively.

For more information or to register, click here

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Calming the Mind: Joy of Living 1
Dates – April 12, 2021 to May 17, 2021
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Structured Online Course with Kell Julliard and Stephanie Wagner

Meditation enables us to transform all experiences, even difficult emotions and painful thoughts, into sources of joy. The modern world has become fascinated with the practice of meditation. With all the hype and glossy images on magazine covers, it would be easy to think that meditation is about sitting in the right posture, using a special technique, or forcing the mind to be calm or relaxed all the time. But the real power of meditation isn’t in the method. It’s in shifting our perspective.

The key to this shift in perspective is awareness. In this 6-week workshop series, we will learn to transform our experience by exploring sensations, thoughts, emotions, and even awareness itself as support for meditation.

For more information or to register, click here.

For more events, please visit Tergar’s Events page.

Other Groups and Activities

Offered Online: Living and Dying Connections – first and third Wednesday of the month from 3 pm to 4:30 pm. The Tergar Madison Living and Dying Connections group was formerly known as the Community Support and Mortality (CSM) group; the change occurred in response to a deepening understanding of our goals. This group is a face-to-face group that meets twice monthly. Currently we are meeting by Zoom because of our center closure due to the COVID-19 situation. Ordinarily, to our face-to-face meetings, we welcome as new members all interested Madison area Tergar practitioners. In the present, to our virtual meetings, we welcome new members from the Madison area Tergar community who intend to continue to be involved when we return to a face-to-face mode of meeting. If you would like to join us please contact the Madison Community Coordinator at madison.coordinator@tergar.org.

Offered Online: Thursdays, Noon – 1:30 PM. Vajrayana Online POL discussion group.
This group is open to people who have entered the POL path by receiving pointing out instructions from Mingyur Rinpoche or Khenpo Kunga. For more information about this group please email madison.coordinator@tergar.org.

Meditation Peer Group for Parents (online via Zoom)
Date/Time:
4th Saturday of the month
9 AM-10:30 AM PDT / 11 AM -12:30 PM CDT / 12-1:30 PM EDT

Parenting and caring for children of all ages is a lifelong path of practice, and meditation can support parents and caregivers along that path. By bringing parents together from across the Tergar community, we will explore themes and practices with roots in classical meditation, as taught by our guiding teacher, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and apply these to our role as parents. Each month will be an opportunity to connect and support one another through meditation practice, sharing of resources, and engaging in meaningful discussions relevant to parents and families navigating the complexities of today’s world. You do not need to be a parent to participate. We welcome all people with an interest in the topic of bringing mindful awareness to the art of childrearing. No prior meditation experience is necessary.

For more information or to register, please click here.

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Address:

301 S Blount Street, Suite 104, Madison, WI 53703
Click here for a parking map

Our Meditation Center is open
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 pm to 7pm
and Wednesdays from 2 pm to 5 pm

Email: madison@tergar.org
Phone: (608) 440-3757
FaceBook: Tergar Madison
SoundCloud: Tergar Meditation Community

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