Clear Sky Meditation & Study Center

Starting your meditation journey can feel overwhelming, but with the right guidance, it becomes an enriching experience. At Clear Sky Center, we’ve crafted essential tips to help beginners build a consistent and rewarding practice. Our practical advice includes a step-by-step approach to ease you into meditation, focusing on creating a supportive environment and realistic goals. Explore our guided meditation video, complete with warm-up exercises, clear instructions, and a simple 5-minute session. You can extend your practice as you grow more comfortable by using your own timer. Learn the do’s and don’ts of meditation to avoid common pitfalls and make your practice enjoyable. From setting a routine to staying patient with yourself, these tips are designed to help you experience the profound benefits of meditation, including greater calm, clarity, and focus in your daily life. Whether you’re seeking mindfulness, stress relief, or inner peace, these beginner-friendly tools will set you ...

Discover the path to harmony between money and spirituality with Money and Spirituality: Integrating Spiritual and Material, a four-week online course led by Karen McAllister. Running from February 15 to March 8, 2025, with sessions on Saturdays from 10 am to 12 pm MT, this course is a transformative journey to heal the divide between the material and the spiritual in your life. Explore the complex relationship with money as a doorway to deeper self-awareness, helping you uncover and untangle emotional knots around shame, guilt, privilege, and fear. Money often reflects our hidden values, dreams, and priorities. By working with it consciously, you can integrate your vision and spiritual calling into your everyday work, creating a life of peace, purpose, and alignment. This course will guide you to: Identify and release limiting beliefs around money. Cultivate clarity and courage in your financial decisions. Awaken to your values and integrate them into your daily life. Join us and di...

Immerse yourself in transformative insight at the Vipassana Meditation Retreat , hosted at the serene Clear Sky Meditation Centre. This retreat offers an opportunity to deeply explore the practice of Vipassana, also known as Insight Meditation, in the tranquil surroundings of the BC Rockies. Vipassana focuses on cultivating mindfulness and deep awareness of the body and mind, leading to profound insight and clarity. Whether you're a beginner or experienced meditator, this retreat will guide you through the process of developing sharp mindfulness, enhanced concentration, and emotional resilience. Through silent meditation, personal reflection, and expert guidance, you'll deepen your understanding of yourself and the nature of suffering, impermanence, and the path to liberation. The retreat is designed to provide a supportive and peaceful environment for self-discovery. With daily meditation sessions, teachings, and time for personal reflection, you'll be able to engage deepl...

Embark on a transformative journey with Clear Sky Meditation Center’s Three-Month Intensive Karma Yoga Program , set in the tranquil BC Rockies. This advanced, immersive program is designed to help you confront and transcend the limitations of the ego, fostering growth through community, guided by experienced teachers. Rooted in Buddhist teachings and modern psychology, the program integrates ancient wisdom with contemporary insights to awaken purpose, compassion, and optimism. Participants will join a conscious awakening community, engaging in mindful practices and deep self-inquiry that reconnects them with a sense of meaning. This immersive experience isn’t just about personal growth; it’s about creating a positive impact for the future of our planet.

Join us for the special online launch celebration of the Body, Speech & Mind eBook , hosted by Clear Sky Meditation Centre. This event offers an inspiring journey into the transformative practices of integrating body, speech, and mind, drawing from the teachings of beloved Dharma teachers Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat. Discover the wisdom that will deepen your practice, foster mindfulness, and empower a balanced life. During this live online event, you’ll get a sneak peek into the eBook’s teachings, connect with an engaged, like-minded community, and participate in enlightening discussions and guided meditations led by experienced facilitators. This gathering provides a unique opportunity to explore the profound practices in Body, Speech & Mind , designed to guide practitioners toward self-awareness, mindful communication, and inner harmony. Whether you are new to meditation or experienced, this launch event offers a supportive environment to celebrate, learn, and engage...

Namgyal Rinpoche , a renowned teacher of meditation and spiritual development, emphasized the integration of Body, Speech, and Mind as pathways to realizing love as a fundamental state of being. His teachings, widely shared at Clear Sky Meditation Centre, guide individuals towards personal transformation and deeper awareness. Love, as understood by Rinpoche, transcends the emotional or interpersonal connection we typically seek. Instead, it arises from a deep alignment of one's body, speech, and mind. The "Body, Speech, and Mind" manual offers universal teachings that help individuals move beyond surface-level emotions to embody love itself. This journey involves cultivating mindfulness in every aspect of life, allowing love to flow naturally from within, rather than seeking it externally. Clear Sky Meditation Centre, co-founded by Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei, carries on these teachings through retreats and courses. Their mission is to help individual...