Coming in 2025
Please scroll through this page to see Bill’s various events coming this 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 gatherings ***
Bill continues to convene periodic, live-streamed, 50-minute online conversations he describes as “Hearing, Remembering, Coming Together” (Sanskrit: Śravana, Smaraṇa, Saṃsthāna).
He begins each session 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.
Next gathering:
Sunday, March 2, 2025
1:00–1:50pm Eastern US/Canada time
To get the Zoom link, please write Bill via the “Connect with Bill” tab, above.
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*** Four-week live-streamed online course ***
A Contemplative Study of the Yoga Sūtra
Sundays March 23, 30, April 6, 13
1:00–3:00pm Eastern US/Canada time.
To register, write Beryl at [email protected].
Composed roughly 2000 years ago in India, the Yoga Sutra has long been regarded as the foundational text in the philosophy of what has come to be known as Classical yoga.
In this course we will study, contemplate, and discuss key perspectives and teachings from the Yoga Sutra that can illumine our understanding of the philosophy and practice of yoga from this Classical perspective.
This course will consist of four 120-minute weekly sessions held on successive Sundays. The schedule appears below.
Bill will distribute his own translations of the original Sanskrit passages ahead of time and will suggest other translations of the Yoga Sūtra people may read, if they wish to do so.
If you are drawn to yoga philosophy as an interested student, teacher, spiritual practitioner, or contemplative seeker, this course will inform and support you as you explore one of its most foundational textual sources and deepen your understanding of its wisdom.
People new to the Yoga Sūtra will learn important components of Classical yogic philosophy and teachings. Those who have already studied it will find renewal and refinement in their understanding of it.
Each session will include:
+ readings of selected sūtras from the larger text organized by themes
+ contemplative reflection on the philosophy and teachings those passages present
+ group discussion
+ period of quiet meditation.
Each session will be recorded so that registrants who missed any particular session will be able to watch it.
Schedule and topics:
Sunday, March 23. What is yoga, and why is it important?
Sunday, March 30. Yoga and the refinement of a “truth-bearing wisdom.”
Sunday, April 6. Components of Classical yoga as a spiritual practice.
Sunday, April 13. Yoga, inner freedom, and the engagement with life.
Cost:
Payment by March 9 : $108 (US).
After March 9 : $160 (US).
To register, write Beryl at [email protected].
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*** Week-long Exquisite Love Retreat in Sweden ***
August 3-9, 2025
So’Ham Retreats, Nora, Sweden.
Within the challenges brought to us by an often-difficult world, heart-centered contemplative practices can open us to the experience spiritual love: for others, for ourselves, for life itself, for divinity. The complexities and possibilities of life’s journey give us an opportunity to strengthen, deepen and clarify this love.
Yet, the contours of life can also draw us away from the experience and expression of spiritual love, or what is known in yoga philosophy very broadly as bhakti.
In this retreat at a beautiful site in rural Sweden we will take time to understand, cultivate, and refine spiritual love through contemplative study, meditation, chanting, and integrating the heart and body through physical yoga practices.
As a way to focus our contemplative practices, we will turn to my translations of passages from the Bhakti Sūtra, an important text on spiritual love composed in the tenth century in India.
For full information and to get a link to register, please press here.
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*** Week-long Yoga and Contemplative Philosophy Retreat in Portugal ***
With Bridget Woods Kramer
November 14-20, 2025
Cocoon Portugal
Produced by Georgie Fearn Yoga
For full information from Georgie’s Website, press here.
As Georgie says there, “We loved this venue so much in 2024, it was one of the reasons that we knew that we had to come back! The venue is a 275 acre farm on the coast of Southern Portugal. The farm grows much of it’s on food (which is quite possibly the best retreat food I’ve ever had,) it has a beautiful freshwater lake and is only 10 minutes from beautiful stretches of untouched coastline.”
And please also return to this Schedule Page over the coming weeks for more information.
