Headstart into 2026: Wishing Love!

What if the most powerful intention for the new year were not to fix ourselves, but to soften? To meet life — and one another — with more love?

Much of our suffering does not arise from the world itself, but from the emotional reactions we carry within us. When anger, resentment, or fear remain unexamined, they begin to color our perception. We no longer see people as they are—our inner tensions filter every encounter, and even the ordinary can become conflict.

Love, by contrast, opens space. Where anger contracts, love softens.Where hatred separates, love reconnects us — with ourselves, with others, and with life as it is.

When loving-kindness is genuine and pure, it allows us to respond to all experiences with ease, warmth, and presence — even in difficult moments.

This course is inspired by a simple yet radical insight: the enemies we see outside often begin within.

“It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies. We generally assume that anger arises when we encounter a disagreeable person, but actually it is the anger already within us that transforms the person we meet into our imagined foe. Someone controlled by their anger lives within a paranoid view of the world, surrounded by enemies of his or her own creation. (...)Imagine what the world would be like if we all conquered our anger! The danger of war would evaporate, armies would become unnecessary, and soldiers would have to look elsewhere for work. Machine guns, tanks, and nuclear weapons – instruments useful only to the angry mind – could be put away, as all conflicts, from wars between nations to quarrels between individuals, came to an end.” — How to Solve Our Human Problems, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

• Thu, Jan 08 — A precious New Year?
• Thu, Jan 15 — Anger: Is it worth it?
• Thu, Jan 22 — Equanimity: Staying steady
• Thu, Jan 29 — Patience: The quiet strength
• Thu, Feb 5 — Cherishing Others: From self-obsession to care
• Thu, Feb 12 — Wishing Love: From self-centeredness to openness
• Thu, Feb 19 — Kindness to All: Wishing our fellow beings well
• Thu, Feb 26 — Radiating Love

Join us on a meditation journey toward kindness, courage, and clarity. Start the year by choosing love over fear.

This is a space to slow down and find balance amid the emotional weather of modern life — work stress, heartbreak, uncertainty, longing, and everything in between.

Everyone is welcome. Come as you are.

Join us and connect with others on a similar journey of self-discovery. Stay a little longer, sip some iced tea, and feel part of something softer.