• Read

    Receive encouragement and instruction from a variety of Sage Institute meditation leaders each day.

  • Practice

    Try the daily guided audio practice. Listen as many times as you'd like. Most meditations are about 15-25 minutes long.

  • Connect

    Join our live Zoom meditation sessions (optional) to practice live with community.

  • Learn

    Got questions? Receive direct support from Sage Institute meditation leaders.

  • Reflect

    What will I remember from practice today? How does this practice change my daily life?

Price

Sliding scale registration. Please offer what you can. Use the coupon code gratitude at check-out for 100% off.

Please contact us if you'd like to offer an amount not listed: [email protected]

Featured Meditation Leaders

You'll receive guided audio from Sage Institute community members and Meditation Leader Training Program graduates. Read their bios below to learn more.

Sean Murphy, Sensei

Sean W. Murphy is a fully sanctioned Zen teacher (Sensei) in the American White Plum Zen Lineage. He has had over 30 years of formal Zen training and teaches widely on subjects of meditation, mindfulness, Zen practice, and writing. He is the author of the American Zen chronicle One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories, as well as three novels, and was a 2018 National Endowment for the Arts fellow in Creative Writing. He is the Executive Director of Sage Institute. Visit www.murphyzen.com to learn more.

Mirabai Starr

Mirabai Starr writes creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature, taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialogue. Please visit www.mirabaistarr.com to learn more about Mirabai.

Ven. Lani Banner

Ven. Lani Banner (she/her) is an ordained Zen Buddhist priestess with an affinity for meditation, mindfulness, and dharma sharing in homeless communities. She is also the Managing Director of Sage Institute and a graduate of the Meditation Leader Training Program. She is a former classroom teacher with a specialty in English, Transformational Leadership inspired by Malcolm X, and Gender/Queer Studies. Currently, she lives on a small farm in Ohio, along with her husband, Matt, and their two rescue dogs, Zoey and Willow. You can normally find her with a cup of coffee, a good book, and talking Pokemon with her nephews, Banner, Summit, and Wicker.

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.