Participants in the Wilderness, Discovery & Nowness program

Spark your heart and mind through the practice of meditation.

The Shambhala Meditation Center of St Johnsbury serves a population of meditators who live in northern Vermont and New Hampshire. We invite you to explore our virtual Center and our programs designed to help people of all traditions discover their inherent sanity, gentleness and goodness. We offer weekly online public meditation and Shambhala Buddhist teachings, as well as in-person events and practices at nearby Karmê Chöling. Visit the Around our Neighborhood page for programs with a local connection, curated by our Practice & Education directors.

“The sitting practice of meditation is regarded as one of the most profound and fundamental disciplines you could ever achieve. By doing this practice, you find that you become less crazy.  You begin to develop more humor, more relaxation, and ultimately, more mindfulness.”

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Path of Individual Liberation

Join your meditation practice with the world you live in.

The St. Johnsbury Shambhala Center’s community manifests enlightened society with open hearted appreciation and caring for oneself and others and the environment around us, celebrating the flow of our lives with seasonal events and with social gatherings, engaging in and promoting the arts, and pursuing contemplative disciplines while always maintaining a wholesome and uplifted cultural environment. Thus our members find encouragement on their path and confirmation of their place as gentle warriors of Shambhala.

“The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.”

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche