Come join the Burlington Dharma Collective for a daylong retreat, which will include meditation, lovingkindness practices, movement, and opportunities for discussion and community connection.

This is a family-friendly gathering with childcare available. All experience levels are welcome. Suggested donation is $40 - $60. Plan on bringing your own lunch. Snacks and light refreshments will be provided. Register at BurlingtonDharmaCollective.com/events

The Burlington Dharma Collective is a practice community centered on unceded Abenaki land known as Burlington, VT. We are focused on liberatory dharma practice in community, where the strength of our practice is amplified when we come together. We are grounded in Buddhist teachings, particularly the traditions of Vajrayana as taught by Lama Rod Owens (www.LamaRod.com), and are committed to honoring the roots of these practices. We aspire to an expansive, non-dogmatic orientation that welcomes multiple ways of knowing, diverse cosmologies, and all orientations to liberation that are rooted in the intention for personal and collective freedom for all beings without exception.

Zac Ispa-Landa (www.zacispalanda.com) is a mindfulness teacher and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vermont. At the University, he teaches courses on ecology, environmental justice, mindfulness in the Anthropocene; honeybee biology and beekeeping; and sustainability. He teaches mindfulness at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Inward Bound Mindfulness, MIT Sloan School, the Burlington Dharma Collective, and Bhumisparsha.

Zac began meditating and studying Dharma twenty years ago, inspired by a vision of personal and collective liberation, and has spent thousands of hours in meditation and hundreds of days on retreat since. He began mindfulness practice with vipassana (Insight) meditation and, in recent years, has been practicing Vajrayana (tantric) Buddhism with Lama Rod Owens, who he's worked and taught with since 2017. Zac lives Winooski, Vermont with his partner, son, and tens of thousands of honeybees.