Coming Events
Please scroll through this page to see Bill’s various events in the coming year. He Is also planning additional events and will continue to revise and update this page, so please return to it occasionally.
*** Free online contemplative gathering ***
Sunday, 11 October 2026
1:00-1:50pm Eastern US time
To receive the Zoom link, write Bill at [email protected]
This is another in a continuing series of live-streamed, 50-minute online conversations Bill describes as “Hearing, Remembering, Coming Together” (Sanskrit: Śravana, Smaraṇa, Saṃsthāna).
Bill begins each session in this ongoing series by sharing a teaching from yogic and other spiritual philosophies. He and the group then sit together with that teaching in a spirit of contemplation in a way that Bill hopes supports participants in applying it in their lives. Each session ends with a short period of meditation.
Participation is free of charge and participants do not need to commit to the on-going series. Anybody and everybody is welcome for any session.
For the Zoom link, write Bill at [email protected]
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*** In-person and online workshops produced by Yogakula/Berkeley ***
A Yoga of Awakening:
An Introduction to Nondual Tantric Thought
Free Online Event
Saturday 24 October 2026
2:00–3:00 pm Pacific Time
What if the deeper awareness we seek through yoga is already within us? In this introduction to the Nondual Tantric tradition, will explore the idea that beneath the busyness and limitations of everyday life is a deeper sense of connection, freedom, and awareness. He will introduce the Tantric teaching of recognition—learning to recognize the sacred within ourselves, within others, and in the world around us. This is an invitation to discover how yoga can be more than what we do on the mat: a way of seeing, living, connecting, and participating more fully in our lives.
No previous study of Tantra is necessary. This will be an accessible and thought-provoking exploration of one of yoga’s profound wisdom traditions.
For more information and to register, press here.
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Delightful Entryways to Meditation
as Presented in the Vijñāna Bhairava
(In-studio or online)
Saturday and Sunday 14-15 November 2026
2:30-5:00pm Pacific time
In the tradition of Nondual Tantra, meditation is much more than relaxation or of simply quieting the mind. It is a delightful means to discover the nature of consciousness and it how it works, recognize our deeper nature, and develop the capacity to meet our lived experience with greater clarity, subtlety, steadiness, and presence.
In this workshop, we will explore teachings from the Vijñāna Bhairava, “Divine Wisdom,” one of the great meditation texts in the tradition of Nondual Tantra composed between the 7th and 10 centuries in India. Presented as a loving dialogue between Shiva and the Goddess, the text presents 112 dhāraṇās — contemplative meditation practices — that provide diverse yet remarkably accessible and effective entries into deeper and more refined awareness.
Rather than approaching meditation as a single technique, the Vijñāna Bhairava invites us to discover many ways ordinary experience can become an entryway to deeper, clearer, and more subtle modes of awareness.
In this workshop we will discuss and explore practices involving use of the breath, awareness of sound, physical sensation, visualization, concentration, mantra, and moments of stillness, while considering together how these practices can transform our relationship to the mind and to everyday experience.
For more information and to register, press here.
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A Yoga of Inner Freedom:
Tantric Wisdom for Living Fully in the World
Focusing on teachings from “The Heart of Recognition”
(In-Studio or Online)
Saturday and Sunday 5-6 December 2026
2:30 – 5:00pm Pacific Time
Often misrepresented and misunderstood by the larger public, Nondual Tantra philosophy is grounded in several key points. One such understanding is that numerous divine powers inherent in the freedom of what Nondual Tantra holds to be absolute, transcendent Consciousness shines within us, but that it is obscured and hidden by various limiting and entrapping forces. We find inner freedom and joy when we “recognize” (Sanskrit pratyabhijñā) the presence of transcendent Consciousness within the dynamics of our own particular awareness.
Accordingly, Tantra philosophy can inform our practice of a yoga in which we cultivate that inner awareness in the context of our own particular lives in a complicated world.
In this weekend’s sessions, Bill will speak with us about this aspect of Tantra philosophy and lead us in discussing it together.
We will focus our conversations on the teachings of a very short yet deeply rich 10th-century Sanskrit text from a Kashmir, namely, the Pratyabhijña-Hridaya or “The Heart of Recognition.” Bill will distribute his translation of the text.
For more information and to register, press here.
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*** Week-long Contemplative Philosophy, Yoga, and Cranial Therapy Retreat in Greece ***
Embodying the Teachings:
A Return to Wholeness
With Bridget Woods Kramer
Supported by Georgie Fearn and Caroline Jackman
10-16 October 2027
Urania Villas, Lefkada Island, Greece
Produced by Georgie Fearn Yoga
For full information regarding schedule, cost, and to register, press here.
As Georgie writes on her own Website, “True wisdom isn’t just learned — it is felt. This retreat invites you into the heart of the Vijṇāna Bhairava Tantra, a masterpiece from the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism that treats the human body as a living temple for realization.”
Bill will lead contemplative study and discussion of profound and delightful teachings from this twelfth century Sanskrit text from his translation. Our emphasis will be both on becoming deeply familiar with this wonderful text’s philosophy and on developing and strengthening ways we can embody that philosophy day by day.
Bridget will guide us in her most excellent manner in integrating and embodying them into our physical yoga practices through Anusara asana, use of the breath, somatic movement, myofascial release, and guided inner exploration.
As Georgie also writes, “The retreat will be supported with one-on-one Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, a gentle, held space using subtle, non-invasive touch to sooth your nervous system, untangle deep physical tension, and ground you into a felt sense of embodiment.”
Each day will include ample time for the practice of meditation and to delight in the retreat site’s physical surroundings. And we will all enjoy each other’s company.
Georgie describes the site as ” set on the cliffs on the South coast of Lefkada with views of the Ionian Sea and the mythical island of Ithaca. With a small maximum retreat site of 18, accommodation is shared between 3 stone villas. Each villa has its own pool, one of which will be heated. The site also has its own beautiful private beach.”
Again, you can find information regarding pricing, descriptions of the retreat site, transportation to and from site, representative daily schedules, and so on, by pressing here.
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