Living Dharma
Program
Exploring & Integrating the Eightfold Path in Daily Life
What if your spiritual path wasn’t separate from the messiness of daily life, but woven into it — breath by breath?
With Dawn Mauricio & Yong Oh
“I appreciated that the LDP engaged on both the intellectual and heart levels of the mind — oriented to make progress in knowledge of the Noble Eightfold Path but also to apply it in practice.”
Past Participant
“The two teachers were most excellent. Their dharma talks were so full of insight. I liked the structure — breakout groups, Q&A sessions, home groups, all the resources.”
Past Participant
“I appreciated the depth and yet it wasn’t too much. I was able to keep up and really learn so much more about the Eightfold Path. Dawn’s candor made it come alive.”
Past Participant
Because true practice happens in the middle of your life.
It’s one thing to find clarity on retreat. It’s another to stay present when the dishes pile up, the calendar fills, and life gets hard.
Living Dharma offers a rare invitation: to stay close to your practice while staying close to your life — meeting everyday joys and struggles with wisdom and compassion.
Build spiritual steadiness — not as an escape, but as a way of engaging more fully with the world. Rooted in community. Held over time. Oriented toward collective healing as much as individual liberation.
Not a retreat from life. A return to it.
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“Not a retreat from life. A return to it.”
Integration, not just inspiration.
By the end of eight months, practice and life will nourish one another in ways that are real and lasting.
A consistent practice rhythm
Anchored in monthly teachings and community support, you’ll build a practice that sustains itself between sessions.
Tools to stay grounded
Practical mindfulness tools to call on when life gets messy — in relationships, work, and daily challenges.
Confidence with Buddhist teachings
Deep, embodied understanding of all eight limbs of the Noble Eightfold Path — not as concepts, but as lived companions.
A spiritual community
A community that walks with you, holds you gently accountable, and reminds you that you are not alone on this path.
Liberation as a shared path
A deeper felt sense of how personal healing and collective liberation are not separate — they are one movement.
Life & practice nourishing each other
A felt sense of how practice enriches life and life deepens practice — not in theory, but in lived experience.
A living journey woven into your schedule, your relationships, your life.
Rooted in real life
Rather than stepping away, we stay close. A living journey woven into your schedule, your relationships, your everyday messes.
Collective liberation
While your healing matters, we explore practice as a path toward collective liberation. How we show up ripples outward into the world.
Relational & reflective
Monthly sessions, peer sharing, and an online community co-create a space of honest reflection, mutual support, and shared growth.
Time to integrate
We honor the pause. Between sessions, reflect through guided practices, journal prompts, and daily inquiries.
Eight months. Eight facets of the path. One lived journey.
This program invites you to walk the path of Dharma in a way that’s alive, embodied, and woven into your everyday life.
Session 1 · Oct 10
Opening the path
We begin by arriving fully — body, heart, and mind — opening to the Eightfold Path as a living map. We explore sati (mindfulness) as both foundation and path, and Wise View: the invitation to see clearly and remember that freedom is possible.
Session 2 · Nov 7
Wise View & Wise Intention
What guides your choices? We explore the heart’s compass — how to align with wholesome intentions and live from the values that matter most.
Session 3 · Dec 5
Wise Speech
Speech can heal or harm. We bring mindfulness to the ways we communicate — with ourselves and others — and practice speaking from truth and care.
Session 4 · Jan 9
Wise Action
How do we live in alignment with our deepest values? This month invites us to walk our talk — to embody wisdom and compassion in the everyday.
Session 5 · Feb 6
Wise Livelihood
Work is more than a paycheck. We explore how to relate to livelihood as a sacred expression of care — for ourselves, others, and the world.
Session 6 · Mar 6
Wise Effort
How do we engage with life without burnout or striving? This session explores skillful effort — energy rooted in kindness, discipline, and balance.
Session 7 · Apr 3
Wise Concentration (Samādhi)
The path ripens in stillness. We explore collectedness, tranquility, and deep presence as foundations for insight and liberation.
Session 8 · May 1
Wise Mindfulness
Mindfulness brings us into direct contact with the moment. We deepen our capacity to stay with life as it unfolds — with curiosity and kindness.
Held by wisdom, warmth, and decades of practice.
Dawn Mauricio
Dawn has been practicing and studying Insight Meditation since 2005 and is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s 4-year Retreat Teacher Training. She teaches with a playful, dynamic, and heartfelt approach for People of Color and folks of all backgrounds.
Dawn is the author of Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners and leads daylongs, retreats, and multi-year programs across Canada and the United States. She brings a rare combination of intellectual rigor and warm-hearted accessibility to every teaching.
Yong Oh
Yong is a Dharma Council teacher at the Durango Dharma Center and a core teacher for Sacred Mountain Sangha. He is also a visiting teacher for other community centers across North America. He teaches retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the Insight Meditation Society, Big Bear Retreat Center, and Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center.
He is a graduate of the 4-year Insight Meditation Society Retreat Teacher Training program, Spirit Rock’s 2-year Community Dharma Leaders program, the 2-year Nature Dharma Teacher Training, and the Sacred Mountain Sangha 2-year Dharmapala training, taught by his primary teachers Kittisaro and Thanissara.
Yong is also a retired acupuncturist who deeply loves mountains and forests and bringing the practice of meditation into nature. Nature and Dharma are at the heart of his path. He also has a particular interest in devotional expression, and supporting caregivers as well as communities of color in the Dharma. For his full schedule, visit yongoh.com.
“The Dharma is already here — woven into the fabric of your days. Let your practice be your life.”
