Connect with Lodro in 2026

2026: The Year to Wake Up

This year Lodro’s community, The Basic Goodness Collective, is engaging in the…

Year to Wake Up

This isn’t just another “course.” It’s an invitation to join a community dedicating these twelve months to waking up—to your own peace of mind, your essential worth, your capacity for resilience—and to live your life from a meaning that is personal to who you are.

You can sign up for the full Year to Wake Up, the Year plus Mindfulness Teacher Training, or for individual classes that appeal to you.

The Month of Mindfulness - January 1st - 31st

Each week you are taught a new guided meditation. Each day you get a short mindful prompt with words of wisdom to integrate mindfulness into your everyday life.

Finding Goodness in a World on Fire - In-Person Meditation Retreat - January 16th-19th

In a time when the world often feels chaotic, divided, and overwhelming, it’s easy to lose touch with our own sense of goodness—let alone the goodness in others. This weekend retreat offers a refuge of connection. Through guided meditations, contemplative practices, dharma talks, and heartfelt discussion, we will explore how to reconnect with our inherent worthiness and compassion, even in the midst of difficulty. Note: this offering is run through an outside organization and not included in the Year to Wake Up.

Buddhist Psychology 101: Why We Suffer and How to Be Free - February 12th - March 26th

Learn the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path—practical tools to understand suffering and cultivate liberation in daily life.

What you’ll walk away with: a deep understanding of how we cause ourselves pain and how to f-ing stop it

The Art of Spiritual Writing - 6 week online writing workshop starts March 18th

You have some truth in your heart that you know will help people and you want to get it on page and out to people...but how? Let’s do it together. Over six weeks, you and nine other colleagues will study the art of spiritual writing with Lodro, who has been creating spiritual writing for major publications for the last 15 years. Note: this offering is run through an outside organization and not included in the Year to Wake Up.

Emotional Healing - April 9th - 30th

Befriend your emotional landscape with four new meditations that teach compassion, acceptance, and emotional resilience.

What you’ll walk away with: both formal meditations and on-the-spot techniques that prevent you from spiraling

Buddhist Psychology 202: Formation of Ego and Seeing Through the Self - May 14th - June 4th

Explore the 3 Root Poisons, 12 Nidanas, 5 Skandhas, and Twofold Emptiness—seeing clearly what makes you “you” and how to find freedom.

What you’ll walk away with: techniques to cut through your painful experiences and a deeper understanding of self as a creative act

The Summer of Love (and Wisdom) - June 25th - August 6th

Get ready for the best summer of your life. The summer of love is focuses on a different Buddhist teaching and practice each week including Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, Equanimity and the Six Paramitas

What you’ll walk away with: ten tools to live a life marked by love

Training the Mind of Compassion and Wisdom: Lojong Teachings for 2026 - August 20th - October 1st

A deep dive into Atisha’s mind-training slogans—practical, pithy, and profoundly life-changing.

What you’ll walk away with: 59 mantra-like reminders for how to live a life of meaning

How to Rest the Mind - October 15th - November 19th - Advanced Class - Must attend all other classes to participate

For those who’ve completed the full year’s classes, this final study introduces advanced meditations for resting in awareness and gently opening toward the Vajrayana path.

What you’ll walk away with: the ability to connect with your own buddha-nature

Engaged Buddhism: Making the Everyday Sacred - December 3rd - 31st

We began the year with a practice intensive and we close the year with a month of deep reflection. We will engage in peer-learning, journaling exercises, intention-setting and other modalities to process what we have learned this year and how to apply it to our home life, career, managing holiday stress, social action and the year ahead: 2027.