The Dharma Reboot — Live
Most practices hit a wall eventually. The sitting that once felt alive goes flat, or you keep colliding with the same things — 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.
A 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 the patterns that keep getting stuck. 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.
This time we'll do it live, together. Each week we meet on Zoom for an hour — a few minutes settling in, a guided practice on that week's theme, and open time for your questions — while you work through the full course at your own pace between sessions. The recordings carry the teaching; the live hour gives you the practice, the troubleshooting, and a group making the same turn alongside you.
Tuesdays · September 1 – October 20 2026
8pm ET / 7pm CT / 6pm MT / 5pm PT · live on Zoom,
Investment: $325
Reduced rates available — just reach out.
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.
Practice in real time: Sit and ask your questions live each week, with a group moving alongside you.
“Scott has vast and deep knowledge of teachings on meditation, but more than that, he has heart.”
- Colleen Loehr
What you'll receive:
Format: Eight weekly live sessions on Zoom, plus the complete self-paced course to work through between meetings
Live Sessions: 8 weekly hours — guided practice and open Q&A
Recordings: Every live session recorded and downloadable
Video Lessons: 56, step by step
Guided Meditations: 8 practices
Readings: In-depth selections from respected Buddhist teachers
Journaling Prompts: Weekly
Lifetime Access: All materials and recordings, yours to keep
Investment: $325
Reduced rates available — just reach out.
Course Curriculum:
Each week's material pairs with that Tuesday's live session — you'll have the lesson to work through on your own, then we meet to practice it together and work with whatever comes up.
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: $325
Reduced rates available — just reach out.
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Colleen Loehr
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