with Augusta Hopkins

Every Monday, 5-7 PM

Come as you are. Leave as you must.

Especially in this dark time, we need the spiritual and emotional support of Sangha. Come together in community to rest and replenish. Bring your sorrows and your joys. Together we will explore Buddhist principles to navigate this s**f.

Spiritual Friends Sangha is a growing, living, ever changing community. We gather to celebrate our joys and care for our sorrows, together, so that we may be nourished by reality and not fear it.

We are relational human beings, we need each other. We need community.

The forces of greed (lobha) aversion (dosa) and delusion (moha) are strong, in us and in the world. And some of us are feeling that truth now more than ever.

Buddha laid out a path that leads to the end of this suffering.

Let’s journey it together!

Augusta Hopkins’ wisdom is described as, “Zen with an edge.” She draws from her own practice and training in the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism, Insight Meditation & Theravada Buddhism, as well as the Spiritual journey of healing through the Twelve Steps of Al-Anon.

Augusta (she/her, white, cisgender) brings a depth of experience from teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction to almost 1,000 students and mentoring 100 plus meditation teachers-to-be in Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s Meditation Teacher Training program. Augusta welcomes all. She received lay ordination from Thich Nhat Hanh and the names True Ocean of Strength and Peaceful Fulfillment of the Heart which she embodies. She is authorized by Spirit Rock to share the Dharma and teach meditation. Augusta also holds an MBA in Sustainable Business and a third degree Black Belt in the Korean Martial Art of Tang Soo Do. When she isn’t meditating or teaching meditation she can be found swimming in the cold waters of the San Francisco Bay.

https://mindfulness4stressreduction.com/meditation-teacher-augusta-hopkins/