A beginner-friendly group working through the Introductory Course together. We meet weekly to discuss each session, share our experiences with daily practice, and support each other in building a consistent meditation habit. No prior meditation experience required.

A group for parents exploring how contemplative practice can transform the experience of raising children. We draw on Waking Up content and discuss how to bring mindfulness into the chaos and beauty of family life.

An intensive exploration of consciousness through the lens of neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and first-person contemplative inquiry. We combine Waking Up content with readings from David Chalmers, Thomas Metzinger, and Bernardo Kastrup.

An ongoing group for experienced practitioners exploring the deeper themes in Waking Up: the nature of self, free will, consciousness, and the relationship between contemplative practice and daily life. We engage with both the meditation practices and the philosophical conversations in the app.

A practice group focused on developing compassion through metta (loving-kindness) meditation, tonglen, and the teachings of Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg available on the app. We explore how compassion practice transforms our relationships and our engagement with the world.

Exploring the deep connections between Stoic philosophy and contemplative practice. We combine insights from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca with the meditation practices and conversations on Waking Up. A unique blend of ancient wisdom and modern mindfulness.

A supportive group for people who came to meditation through anxiety. We work through Waking Up content with special attention to practices that help regulate the nervous system: body scans, noting, and breath awareness.

A reading and discussion group working through Sam Harris's books alongside the app content. We are currently reading 'Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion' and pairing each chapter with relevant meditations and conversations from the app.

A gentle, compassionate space for those navigating grief and loss. We explore how meditation practice can help us be present with difficult emotions rather than avoiding them. Drawing on Waking Up content focused on impermanence, acceptance, and the nature of suffering.

Bridging first-person contemplative experience with third-person neuroscience. Each session pairs a Waking Up meditation or conversation with a discussion of relevant neuroscience research. Led by a Stanford neuroscientist.

Un grupo de practica en espanol para explorar las ensenanzas de Waking Up juntos. Combinamos meditacion guiada, discusion grupal y reflexion personal. Todos los niveles de experiencia son bienvenidos.

A practice group for software engineers and tech workers. We explore how meditation improves focus, creativity, and emotional regulation in high-pressure work environments. Sessions include practice, discussion, and practical integration strategies.

Exploring the practice of yoga nidra (yogic sleep) alongside Waking Up meditations focused on relaxation, body awareness, and the space between waking and sleeping. Perfect for those who find sitting meditation challenging.

A fresh cohort working through the Waking Up Introductory Course together. Perfect for new users or those wanting to revisit the foundations with a supportive group.

A practice group specifically for healthcare professionals navigating the stress, compassion fatigue, and moral injury of medical work. We combine Waking Up practices with evidence-based approaches to provider well-being.

A women-only space for exploring meditation and contemplative practice. We create a container for honest sharing about how practice intersects with the unique challenges and experiences of being a woman in today's world.

Meditation is often presented as 'just sit still and focus,' which is terrible advice for people with ADHD. This group explores how to build a sustainable practice that works with your ADHD brain, not against it. Shorter sits, movement-based practices, and lots of self-compassion.

A men-only practice group exploring themes of presence, purpose, and emotional honesty. We use Waking Up content as a foundation while creating a space where men can practice vulnerability and authentic connection.

For artists, writers, musicians, and anyone exploring the intersection of creativity and contemplative practice. We explore how meditation opens creative channels and how creative expression can deepen practice.

Our winter cohort working through the Introductory Course together. This group started in January and is making excellent progress.

An evening group for those dealing with anxiety, led with warmth and clinical expertise.

An advanced group exploring non-dual awareness through Dzogchen, Mahamudra, and Advaita Vedanta perspectives, grounded in the Waking Up pointing-out instructions.

Each week we take one conversation from the Waking Up app and go deep. Not surface-level. We read the context, listen together, and then really talk about what it means and how it lands in actual practice. Led by someone who has spent three years thinking about how people engage with this content.

Most people know meditation works. Most people still do not meditate. This group is about closing that gap. We combine the science of habit formation with the direct experience of practice, and we hold each other accountable in a way that actually works.

A slower, more spacious group for exploring what contemplative practice reveals about meaning, values, and how to live. We draw on Waking Up content alongside philosophical and literary sources to sit with the questions that matter most.

Each week we pick something in the Waking Up app that most people scroll past and actually spend time with it. A conversation no one talks about, a practice tucked away in a series, a feature that changes everything once you know it is there. This is not a product feedback group. It is a practice group run by someone who happens to know where all the doors are.

A group for practicing when life is not going well. Not the version of meditation where everything is calm and your mind is clear. The version where you are exhausted or anxious or grieving and you sit down anyway. We use the app's content on difficult emotions, pain, and uncertainty, and we practice with what is actually happening in our lives.

An 8-week series for people who are brand new to meditation or to the Waking Up app. We go through the Introductory Course together, one week at a time, with space to ask every question you have been holding back. No jargon, no pretending to understand things you do not understand yet.

Practice for people who live in the real world. Not a retreat, not a monastery, not a quiet room with incense. This group is for anyone who meditates between meetings, on the subway, or in the ten minutes before the kids wake up. We use the Waking Up app as a foundation and then we talk about what happens when you try to bring awareness into a life that will not slow down for you.

A group for exploring how contemplative practice intersects with intimate relationships. How do you stay present with the person you love when every part of you wants to react? What does it mean to see clearly in the middle of desire, frustration, or loneliness? We draw from the app's content on emotions, compassion, and self-knowledge, and we bring our actual relationship lives into the room.

A practitioner cohort for people who want to share contemplative practice with others but are not sure how. Maybe you are a teacher, a coach, a manager, a parent, or someone who keeps having conversations where meditation comes up and you wish you had better language for what it actually is. This is a 6-week deep dive into how to communicate about practice without sounding like a bumper sticker.