The Dharma Reboot

Most practices hit a wall eventually. The sitting that once felt alive goes flat, or you keep colliding with the same obstacles — restless thoughts, difficult emotions, the quiet sense that you've stalled. None of that means you're doing it wrong. It usually means the practice is asking for a reboot.

And the reboot isn't about clearing every obstacle out of the way — it's about changing how you meet them. Over eight weeks, you'll work more skillfully with thoughts and emotions, meet foundational teachings like the Four Noble Truths and the Four Seals, and learn practices like the handshake technique for stuck emotional patterns. Whether you've been sitting for years or are fairly new to it, the aim is the same: to bring the practice back to life.

Investment: $125

A stylized painting of a serene river flowing through a lush forest with large green trees on either side, leading toward a bright, glowing sun in the sky. A robed figure stands on a rock at the river's edge, gazing toward the horizon.

In This Course, You'll:

  • Remedy common obstacles: Name the specific things getting in your way, and learn how to work with them.

  • Create more openness and ease: Loosen the grip of effort, so practice feels less like a task and more like rest.

  • Expand your practice's purpose: Reconnect with why you sit, and let that widen.

  • Deepen your understanding: Grow your grasp of the path, so it has somewhere to go.

“Scott has vast and deep knowledge of teachings on meditation, but more than that, he has heart.”

- Colleen Loehr

What you'll receive:

Format: Weekly lessons, readings, guided meditations, and journaling prompts

Video Lessons: 56, step by step

Guided Meditations: 8 practices

Readings: In-depth selections from respected Buddhist teachers

Total Duration: Over 5 hours of video

Lifetime Access: Yours to keep, no time limit

Investment: $125

Course Curriculum:

Week 1: Understanding Our Struggles We start by turning toward our struggles with some warmth instead of resistance. You'll meet the "Four C's" for approaching practice — curiosity, conviction, commitment, and container — and begin to see difficulty as something to get curious about rather than fight.

Week 2: Transforming Our View What if you don't need fixing? This week introduces buddhanature — the capacity for awakening already present in you — and reframes meditation not as self-improvement but as seeing what's already there more clearly.

Week 3: The Power of Meditation A closer look at what practice actually is. We sit with the idea of "no attainment" — cultivating awareness rather than chasing a result — take up commitment, the third C, and explore the basic ways of working with thoughts and emotions as they arise.

Week 4: Refining Our Meditation Part 1: Working Skillfully With Thoughts You'll learn to tell the difference between thoughts and thinking, and to rest as the awareness that notices them rather than getting pulled in. We work with stillness, movement, and awareness as three modes of mind.

Week 5: Refining Our Meditation Part 2: Working Skillfully With Emotions This week turns to emotion. We look at the "beautiful monsters" — the distorted patterns that scramble the signal between thought, feeling, and body — and practice the handshake technique: meeting those patterns with enough kindness that they can begin to soften and heal.

Week 6: Compassion and Clear Seeing Part 1: Understanding and Working with Life Here we meet the Four Noble Truths. We look honestly at dukkha — the unsatisfactoriness woven through experience — and at how understanding it, rather than fleeing it, becomes the doorway to freedom. Suffering, met well, turns out to be a teacher.

Week 7: Compassion and Clear Seeing Part 2: The Four Seals Four core teachings on the nature of reality: impermanence, dukkha, emptiness, and nirvana. We explore how seeing reality this way lets us relax into things as they are — and how that relaxation opens naturally into compassion.

Week 8: Compassion and Clear Seeing Part 3: The Mind of Awakening We close with the Mahayana path and bodhicitta, the awakened heart-mind. You'll work with relative and absolute bodhicitta, and see how recognizing egolessness becomes the root of genuine compassion — and of acting well in the world.

Investment: $125