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The latest online course from Lion’s Roar features insight meditation practitioner and teacher JoAnna Hardy. 

The Buddhist word metta is often translated into English as “Loving-Kindness”,  this course explores the practice of metta that offers an opportunity to develop inner calm and focus. This centuries-old meditation technique can be a tool for those struggling with the suffering of the world. It is a way to make sense of the helplessness and turn it into action. It is a powerful tool for reflection and action in situations where you may feel helpless.

Learn how to cultivate more compassion and kindness – towards yourself and the world – in this new online course from Lion’s Roar. 

How to Cultivate a Loving Heart: The Buddhist Practice of Metta is taught by JoAnna Hardy, meditation practitioner and teacher. Together with Lion’s Roar, she guides you through all you need to know to begin and deepen the practice of loving-kindness meditation.

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One year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the question of how we can offer care to those who suffer – without becoming overwhelmed and burning out ourselves – is fiercely relevant to us all. Lion’s Roar & the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care are honored to invite you to a free five-day online event: Love & Resilience: The Contemplative Care Summit. 

Whether facing conflict in our relationships, working as health professionals, caring for an ill or dying family member, or we're end-of-life care partners, how do we balance the enormous task of caring for another human being with our own wellbeing? How do we work with the fear that arises when we confront conflict, suffering, or death?

Contemplative care practices offer practical, grounding techniques for anyone facing the universal truths of suffering and impermanence, so we can offer the best of our love, foster connectedness and resilience, and transform the act of caring into a path of personal healing.

You can view the summit for free from November 8–10. 

When does the Summit start and finish?

We think you’ll love this course, so we don’t want anything holding you back from enrolling. We’re therefore offering an unconditional 30-day guarantee: If you decide that this program isn’t right for you, we’ll give you a full refund within the first 30 days of the scheduled start date. 

How do I access the Summit sessions?

Once you register, we’ll send you a reminder email with a link to access the sessions each day. The summit will broadcast daily at 6:00 am PT | 9:00 am ET. The sessions for each day will be available 24 hours.

Can I re-watch the presentations?

When you upgrade to purchase the Resource Package you get lifetime access to all the sessions, guided meditations, plus special event bonuses. You can pre-order the Resource Package at any time. Learn more below.

When does the Summit start and finish?

How do I access the Summit sessions?

Can I re-watch the presentations?

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

The Healing We All Need

Trudy Goodman

What the world needs is a revolution of tenderness.

Learn how the contemplative care approach to life – and death – can help us love fully, act wisely, and transform our hearts.

The Contemplative Care Summit offers participants a precious opportunity to:

PHOTO CREDITS: (V) Troy Montenieri; (Ross Gay) Natasha Komodo; (Celeste Lecesne) Shervin Lainez

The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care (NYZC) offers guidance for people interested in beginning meditation or continuing in their existing practice; we train people from all walks of life— including medical professionals, parents, lawyers, artists and bankers—in compassionate caregiving; we support people and their loved ones through serious illness and death, and assist family and friends during their grieving process. We also celebrate and honor many of life’s meaningful moments.

Since opening in 2007, our center has been a trailblazer in researching, testing and developing contemplative care methodologies. Today, New York Zen Center’s techniques are internationally recognized—and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals.

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Now, I would say more than ever, is a time for us to be befriending illness.

Pamela Ayo Yetunde

We all know the golden rule, whatever you put out comes back ten-fold. So always lead with love.

Atman Smith

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Learn how the contemplative care approach to life – and death – can help us love fully, act wisely, and transform our hearts.

What the world needs is a revolution of tenderness.

Trudy Goodman

We all know the golden rule, whatever you put out comes back ten-fold. So always lead with love.

Contemplative care is really about learning to trust that you are enough... You just need to show up with your whole body and mind.

Koshin Paley Ellison

The Summit at a Glance

Koshin Paley Ellison, co-founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, shines a light on the importance of care and connection in a series of conversations with leading meditation teachers, healthcare practitioners, and partners who have incorporated contemplative care into all facets of their lives including Trudy Goodman & Jack Kornfield, Dan & Bianca Harris, Sebene Selassie & Frederic Fasano, V (formerly Eve Ensler) & Celeste Lescene – as well as his own partner in both life and work: Chodo Robert Campbell.

Death Over Dinner founder Michael Hebb offers advice and helpful prompts for having frank discussions about death and dying. Plus, gain practical insights into grief, uncertainty, and palliative care from Carolyn Jacobs, Judy Lief, Issho Fujita, and Shoshana Ungerleider.

How can the contemplative care approach improve our work lives? Explore perspectives on communication and conflict, resilience and boundaries, finding meaning and purpose, and handling failure, with presenters including Andres Gonzales, Ali Smith, and Atman Smith of Holistic Life Foundation, Jerry Colonna, Seth Godin, Anushka Fernandopulle, and Dawa Tarchin Phillips.

The Summit at a Glance

Contemplative care is really about learning to trust that ...you just need to show up with your whole body and mind.

In fear we isolate. In love we connect.

Dr. Ira Byock

Each and every day can be used to bring our work life onto the path of contemplation.

Dawa Tarchin Philllips

Illness and aging each loudly call us and our attention to impermanence.

Dr. Ira Byock

Even in dying we can redeem this world.

Jack Kornfield

Pamela Ayo Yetunde

Ira Byock, Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Cynthia and Jasmine Hill discuss topics such as how to befriend aging and illness, and look at the cumulative trauma of Black and Brown communities. Author and physician Tieraona Low Dog shares how love and resilience have seen her through her own experiences of loss and grief in 2020. Plus: Koshin Paley Ellison and Chodo Robert Campbell talk about their fourteen years as chaplains and care partners offering bereavement and spiritual support grounded by Buddhist teachings and practice.

A joyous call to open your arms to experience and feel a sense of belonging. Poets and writers such as Ross Gay, Naomi Shihab Nye, James Crews, Marie Howe offer poems and reflections on themes of love, loss, friendship, hope, and spirituality. Plus: a unique Zen musical performance by monk and YouTube sensation Yogetsu Akasaka.