Workshops
Autumn Fridays are meant to make you feel like it feels to take the first sip of good soup with a chill in the air. All events are donation-based and support our end of year fundraiser and scholarship fund.
How to Die Before You Actually Die: Halloween Event
BOO! You will definitely die, and you don’t know when. The best insurance is to prepare your mind before it happens. Join Sachi and John-Chris to learn a death awareness contemplation, a guided visualization practice, and complete a creative writing prompt on what advice your dying self would give you. Come in costume! Join us afterwards for an hour of spooky soup and cozy conversation.
All GOOD SOUP FRIDAYS are donation-based and support our end-of-year fundraiser.
The Parent Power Routine & Seeds for Happiness
The Parent Power Rountine: A 3-Hour Immersion for Family Wellness & Success
Discover simple, powerful practices to bring more ease, balance, and joy into your family life. In this interactive immersion, you’ll learn and experience wellness tools to support your own well-being while creating healthy rhythms for your children—so everyone thrives.
✨ Experience meditation, sound, and movement for greater clarity & calm
✨ Strengthen connection at home
✨ Align wellness with family success
You’ll walk away with a parent power routine that supports both your wellbeing and the heart of your home.
For Kids
Seeds for Happiness: A 3-hour Play for Kid’s to Learn and Shine
While parents explore practices to support family well-being, children will enjoy their own engaging session designed to nurture creativity, focus, and kindness. Through guided play, movement, and stories, kids will learn about the idea of “seeds” (karma)—how small actions can grow into positive habits and joyful connections.
✨ Breathing and movement to feel calm and confident
✨ Fun games and activities that build cooperation and kindness
✨ Stories and sound play to spark imagination and learning
Children will leave with simple, meaningful tools they can use every day—helping them grow their own “seeds of happiness” at home and beyond.
For the whole family
Bring your kids and spouse for the whole family to experience the immersion. Parents and kids journey together—each in their own way—toward more balance, joy, and connection at home.
Jump Through & Jump Back Mastery: Elevate Your Practice
Take your practice to new heights with the art of floating transitions. In this 90-minute workshop, we’ll break down the mechanics of the jump-through and jump-back, uncovering how strength, bandhas, and drishti come together to create lightness and flow.
Through progressive drills, block work, and focused repetition, we’ll move from detailed breakdowns into rhythmic sequences that feel like a moving meditation. Expect to channel the poised energy of a tigress and discover the grace of a cat-like glide as you explore both foundations and playful variations.
All levels are welcome: whether you’re lifting your hips for the first time or refining your glide, you’ll leave with practical tools to float with more strength, clarity, and confidence.
Pain Into Power
Um, the world is… not doing great — on a macro-causal level — but also, almost everyone’s got a family issue, health problem, relationship conflict, or job crisis. We blame the internet, COVID, presidents… but the Buddha called this the truth of suffering. There are ancient practices that transmute difficult situations into superpowers. The people that utilized them were called Poison Eaters, because they could turn the most difficult situation into a beautiful one, using the power of their mind. And— we’re not talking about dissociation. Learn one of these techniques and ask questions of Javier, who has been working with these practices for over 15 years. Join us afterwards for an hour of soup and cozy conversation.
All GOOD SOUP FRIDAYS are donation-based and support our end-of-year fundraiser.
Silent Retreat: Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Reflections
Silent, solitary retreat is a technique utilized by serious Buddhist practitioners to make immense progress quickly. It includes not speaking or communicating at all with other people, only reciting mantra and practicing meditation multiple times a day: no cell phone, no music, no books, nothing except meditating on the cushion or off the cushion. Join Rachel just after she breaks silence to learn about her experiences in retreat, and get the opportunity to ask her any questions you have about retreat and serious practice. Join us afterwards for an hour of soup and cozy conversation.
All GOOD SOUP FRIDAYS are donation-based and support our end-of-year fundraiser.
Purification Ritual
It can feel like what happened to us as kids, as teens, a few years ago, last year, last month, and even yesterday are rocks tied to our spirit. There is a Tibetan Buddhist cleansing ritual that monks and nuns use to release that feeling every two weeks, and Maya is going to guide you through a public version of it. So Jong is an ancient practice of publicly confessing what weighs on your heart and celebrating your successes as a method to expedite spiritual progress. Expect: mini-meditation, group conversation, and a teaching on purification practices. Join us afterwards for an hour of soup and cozy conversation.
All GOOD SOUP FRIDAYS are donation-based and support our end-of-year fundraiser.
Seeing & Being Seen
We all know the ache of doubt, the quiet wish to be seen, and the search for a place where we belong. To See and Be Seen is a gentle workshop that invites us into connection with others while guiding us back home to ourselves.Through simple yet profound Buddhist practices of compassion, we discover that loving others and loving ourselves flow from the same boundless heart. Expect: mini-meditation, group practice, and the opportunity to meet and connect with new people! Join us afterwards for an hour of soup and cozy conversation.
All GOOD SOUP FRIDAYS are donation-based and support our end-of-year fundraiser.
How to Not Go Crazy During Holiday Szn
Navigating family dynamics, old wounds, and high expectations can make holidays extremely challenging — even when you’re in therapy, on meds, exercising, and all is well.
Buddhism is cool because it’s the thing you can use when you’re hiding in your childhood bedroom, crying because your mom triggered you again. It’s not another thing you have to “do.” It’s just a way to think. And it helps you figure out how to be the person who enjoys family time and holiday time — yes, even with your weird, dysfunctional family. Expect: classical Buddhist techniques to shift identities, and mini meditation. Join us afterwards for an hour of soup and cozy conversation.
All GOOD SOUP FRIDAYS are donation-based and support our end-of-year fundraiser.
Tibetan Buddhist Methods for Love
Loving yourself — or even loving other people — doesn’t need to be a random or lucky occurrence. Ancient Buddhist techniques to develop love are extremely practical and easy to do — so long as you’re committed to doing the work. They involve the only tools we have: the body and the mind. Expect: mini-meditation, daily practices to add to your routine, and a chance to meet new people. Join us afterwards for an hour of soup and cozy conversation.
All GOOD SOUP FRIDAYS are donation-based and support our end-of-year fundraiser.
Let Love Destroy You: Dating as Ego Death
Dating, like anything, can be utilized as a tool to absolutely destroy what holds you back from freedom and real joy. Not because you're going to find THE ONE. You may not. Also, there may not be a ONE. More on that at the workshop. Your breakups, obsessions, incompatible birth charts, rejections, bad dates, and exes that keep coming back are actually perfect indicators of your spiritual development. Learn how to recognize the patterns, face the mirror, and apply Buddhist practices to clear every obstacle (if you actually use them). And plus, this workshop will probably have a lot of single people. So, you'll meet them, too. Expect: mini-meditation, practices to add to your daily routine, and meeting new people. Join us afterwards for an hour of soup and cozy conversation.
All GOOD SOUP FRIDAYS are donation-based and support our end of year fundraiser.
Summer Flings Don’t Have to End Even When they End
with Maya Thakrar
Summer is over, but you still need to love people if you want to be happy. Think about what it really means to love and show up for people effectively. Expect a 30 minute guided meditation, journaling and some shares in small groups.
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
Death & the Realms
Timeline-hopping is real but it’s not what TikTok says. Learn traditional Buddhist cosmology, practices around death & sleep to navigate live transitions and transcend human suffering using wisdom and love. This course helps you develop the understanding and skill required to access new timelines and manipulate reality to shift into the highest realm possible: a Buddha paradise. This is a free first class introduction to the DEATH & THE REALMS course.
You’re a Poet Even if You Don’t Know Yet Meditation Will Show You
with Javier García Sánchez
The greatest poets remind us that with the right attention, anything can be loved — the curve of a hand, the weight of water, the smile of a stranger. This session invites you to soften the gaze, to open the heart wide enough to embrace everything — especially yourself. And through meditation you'll uncover the poetry within. Leave with a poem (inside, or written).
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
How to Love Yourself in the Future Even When You Don’t Love Yourself Now
with Paloma Suarez
It's okay to want things. It's actually good. But want them and then work towards them. And then get them-- not as a way to prove you’re worthy, but as a great act of self love. Learn a meditation designed to help you imagine and then connect with all of the qualities, strengths and skills that you need to achieve your dreams.
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
You Don’t Need to Have a Partner or Like Your Partner in Order for Them to be Perfect for You
with Hector Marcel
The best and worst of all human existance probably is contained in the most romantic relationships. The people we desire and love become like Gods and Devils to us if we’re loved wholly, if we’re rejected, if we’re abandoned or if we can have that one pure moment of merging. But an untrained human mind is incapable of love. It’s like a hot coal. Tibetan Buddhism actually has explicit instructions on what to do when you're ghosted, you're lonely, you don't like who you love, or you don't love who you like.
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
Learn How to Fall in Love
with Melissa Jeng
We grow up learning that love is unpredictable, uncontrollable and for the lucky few. But in Tibetan Buddhism there are tools that bring your mind to a state beyond where fairytales end, and into something that transcends the human condition. And you can feel that way for everything, everyone, everywhere all at once. Because that's what a Buddha does. Bring a friend, partner, or go to meet someone. Do exercises to learn more about each other and an ancient meditation that can change your life.Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
Making Friends with Your Demons, but They Know Who is Boss
with Javier Perez-Karam
As a child, you were probably taught to avoid or suppress anger, fear, or jealousy. What if those emotions could become fuel for something powerful and good? Explore how to work with intense emotional energy to turn even our darkest inner experiences into tools for clarity, action, and compassion. You’ll learn how to engage strong emotions with curiosity, not judgment, and walk away with practices and a meditation you can use right away.
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
How to Love More Than You Have Ever Loved Before + Sing Along
with Leticia Freitas & Gabriel Merizalde
It is possible to be more in love than you have ever dreamed it was possible, with or without a partner. Learn an ancient meditation designed to transform the mind into a mind that can actually radically and joyfully love others, even those that hurt us, even those who don't meet our needs. AND THEN SING ABOUT IT (DO NOT WORRY WE WILL SHOW YOU HOW). THAT'S CALLED A KIRTAN.
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
Field Guide for Doing Cool Stuff
with Ireland Adgate
This is a workshop for people who want to lead a more creative life but don't know how to put passions into practice. Learn how to take small steps that lead to big results. Try 1-2 creative diagramming exercises for reflection and intention paired with a meditation designed to connect you with your most creative self.
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
Buddhist Advice for People Pleasers
with Lily Hetzler, LMSW, MCLC
Break the habit of people-pleasing without losing your compassion. Analyze the difference between wise generosity and self-erasure. Learn how to give (or not give) from a place of clarity, not fear. Rooted in Tibetan Buddhist insight and grounded in modern life, this session includes a dharma talk, meditation, and honest conversation about how to get what we want in the world without abandoning ourselves.
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
Effortless Joy is Possible but it Takes Effort
with Caroline Güntert
Joy doesn’t arrive fully formed. It’s built, moment by moment, through what we choose to notice, celebrate, and offer. We’ll begin by creating a collective fruit and flower mandala, each person bringing one small piece. This simple act trains the mind in TAR TUK, the practice of rejoicing as a shared, lived experience. Bliss Meditation is a precise method for increasing the state of joy until it’s so present, so natural, that even your old patterns can’t drown it out. You’ll leave with a sense that joy is not only possible, it’s trainable.
Bring a piece of fruit or flower with you.
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails & SNACKS.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
Learn How to Love by Pretending to
with Roy Najjar
Love isn't something that comes naturally in most cases, but that's what Tibetan Buddhism is for. It's basically a way to train your mind to love everyone and everything. The key is intelligent pretend. Using contemplation, meditation and the application of a radical perspective on love, you'll learn how to play pretend until it's actually true that you are able to love every single person you meet as though they're your best friend.
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
How to be a Magician When You’re Just Some New Yorker
with Sachi Petit & Muriel Woodland
Learn exactly how your repetitive thoughts create your reality, and then workshop which repetitive thoughts you want to start to have in order to create the things you want. Do a mini-meditation to strengthen new connections and increase joy. Chat for an hour over mocktails if you want to.
Join us afterwards for an hour of mocktails.
All SUMMER OF LOVE SUMMER FRIDAYS are donation-based and support Meditation Teacher Training Scholarships.
Spiritual Pocket Guide: Zine Workshop
We wake up and forget that we want to be [insert a quality of your enlightened self]. Sometimes we need a reminder!
Join Yisel in an evening of spiritual zine making and sharing. Yisel will share a brief Zines 101 and then guide you through the process of making your own “pocket guide” zine. We’ll have time to put our personal spiritual manifesto into words and then create pocket guides to help us put these wishes into practice throughout the day. Enjoy a drink from the cafe while you practice the art of self-expression. We’ll end by making copies of our zines to share with our peers. (Zines are meant to be shared!)
We’ll provide examples and everything you need. No experience required! Just bring your biggest wish, or your idea of a perfect day.
Participants will receive:
Materials for zine making: art supplies, a worksheet, and inspiration
Complimentary drink from the café
Spiritual Relationships: How to Be Hot, Single & Spiritual at the Same Time
Dating is the gross disappointing part of your life that you have to endure until you find "the one" and then just hang out with them until you die. But that doesn't have to be true. Tibetan Buddhism approaches romantic relationships (and everything else for that matter) as an extremely sacred opportunity. And there's a way to train your mind so that dating, even without finding anyone you like at all, can be a profound spiritual practice that opens your heart to love. Join Rachel, a practitioner and meditation teacher, in a discussion on how dating can be a fulfilling spiritual practice, even if you don't find "the one."
*How to view the people you date, from a first date to the last one
*Whether or not they’re “the one”
*When to make a casual relationship a committed one
*How to work with attachment styles (yours and theirs)
*How to make casual encounters spiritual
*How to relate with ghosting and being rejected
Valentine’s Day Party
Small Bites by Caroline Guntert
Cardmaking with Yisel
Tarot Readings with Chrissy
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Mini Cute Shopping
Clothes by Heart Wrench Collective
*New Merch* by Three Jewels
Bags by Fia
Poetic Items by Juliet
Don’t sign up, just show up.
Bring a friend or someone you want to seduce and merge into forever.
Spiritual Relationships: How to Want to Worship Your Partner
No one taught you how to love, and sometimes it seems like we end up in relationships by accident or we realize we've been unhappy or going around in the same cycles month after month, year after year. But Tibetan Buddhism approaches romantic relationships (and everything else for that matter) as extremely sacred. Join Sachi and John-Chris, Buddhist practitioners who have been happily in relationship for 13 years in a teaching on how to apply Buddhist practices that not only cultivate sacredness, connection and joy within partnerships, but also teach us how to address problems and disappointments.
You'll learn:
*How to manage problems & conflicts in a relationship using Buddhist principles
*How to use Buddhist practices to create healthy & fulfilling patterns in relationship
*How to relate with conflict in relationship
*How to know when to break-up
*How to transform a normal relationship into a spiritual practice, even if your partner isn’t spiritual!
Karmic Vision Boarding
What does your perfect 2025 look like? Use Buddhist technology for shaping reality to actually achieve your dreams this year.
John-Chris will lead a meditation to get in touch with your future self followed by guided vision boarding and a personalized karmic plan based on your goals.
Your ticket includes:
Nonalcoholic drink designed for the Future You
Art supplies for vision boarding
Notebook for karmic tracking
Manifest Your Goals: Yoga Workshop
Free yoga workshop sponsored by smartwater.
Unlocking your full potential and becoming your best self begins by connecting with who exactly that “Future You” is. After all, we have to know where we want to go before we can chart our course.
Join Sarah Cicero for a special workshop designed to help you embody your highest self and create the world you want to live in for 2025 (and beyond). Expect a journaling exercise, meditation, and vinyasa flow.
New Year's Half-Day Retreat: Future Refuge
*Insert cliché "New Year, New You" phrase here*
Spend your first day of 2025 connecting with the best version of yourself—the "you" that you're ready to become. President of Three Jewels, Hector Marcel, will guide you through meditations designed to help you visualize and tap into your highest self, plus provide advices and insights on establishing a daily practice. Mid-morning, Sachi Pettit will lead a vigorous yoga flow that allows you to feel into your power through core work and movement. This half-day retreat will empower you to destroy self-limiting beliefs and prepare to achieve all your goals in 2025 and beyond!
New Year's Eve Meditation & Ceremony
Celebrate New Year's Eve with the Jewels! Join us for an evening of ancient Buddhist ritual and techniques to help create the year you are READY to live in 2025. This celebration will help give you clarity on your intentions while rejoicing in all of the GOOD you accomplished in 2024. Just shy of midnight, Director of Three Jewels, Rachel Webb, will guide you into a meditation to start the new year. You'll open your eyes in 2025, and we will keep the celebrations going in the café. This event is sober, which means, you'll remember all the promises you made to yourself AND no need for pedialyte.
All proceeds from this workshop go towards our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
Virtual New Year's Eve Meditation & Ceremony
Celebrate New Year's Eve with the Jewels! Join us for an evening of ancient Buddhist ritual and techniques to help create the year you are READY to live in 2025. This celebration will help give you clarity on your intentions while rejoicing in all of the GOOD you accomplished in 2024. Just shy of midnight, Three Jewels teacher Maya Stackhouse will guide you into a meditation to start the new year. You'll open your eyes in 2025 and we will keep the virtual celebrations going to reflect and rejoice!
All proceeds from this workshop go towards our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
New Year's Eve Yoga
Looking to clean out, but keep the things that spark *joy* the from this past year? Well, lucky for you, the Buddhists have an ancient technique for that. Join Kia as she gracefully instructs you to move both your body and mind to purify the things you'd like to remove as we enter into the new year.
All proceeds from this workshop go towards our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
Subtle Body Sound: Yoga and Live Music with Chrissy Ionno & Michael Hewett
We are energetic vibratory beings; embodied rivers of sacred sound and music is the purest language to activate the spirit and bring the full power of emotion through our hearts. Join Christina Ionno in a curated yogic dance of pleasure accompanied by Michael Hewett playing original songs on guitar to inspire divine play.
In this 90-minute asana class the music serve as a conduit to the muse, striking the chords of the subtle body and awakening the senses so that we may fully savor the present moment.
The power of the muse is dependent on the presence of the listener. We will begin class with a nada yoga meditation to attune our awareness, attention, and prime ourselves for deep inner listening. Proceeds support Three Jewel’s End-of-Year Fundraiser.
Alone, Together: Solving Loneliness
Just because everyone is on an individual journey, doesn’t mean you have to walk your path alone. In fact, being in community is one of the most powerful tools for any practice. Frodo had friends on his quest, why shouldn’t you? Come gather in community as Hector Marcel shares how much further we can go when we go alone, together.
This class is part of our Buddhism 101 course.
Hustle Culture is Overrated: Why Doing Less Makes More
We’re living in a time where “I’m so busy” has become a badge of honor, and people are socially competing to see who got the least amount of sleep last night. But to paraphrase ancient Buddhist wisdom, it’s not actually cool to be doing the most. Getting enough rest and preventing burnout? Now that is cool. Join meditation expert Hector Marcel as he breaks down how sleep and rest are super-fuel for spiritual practice and a powerful sense of being.
This class is part of our Buddhism 101 course.
Activate the Witness: Sound Meditation with Awarehouse
Christine and Bobby bring together guided meditation, overtone-rich instruments, and reiki for a deep listening experience to help you settle into stillness and effortlessly develop gentle focus. Our science-backed breathing and toning techniques stimulate the vagus nerve and soothe your nervous system. Together, we’ll achieve a relaxed state of being, gain new insights, and discover the limitless potential within us all.
This offering is great for anyone who wants to relax, recharge, or experience a deep meditative journey. Proceeds support Three Jewel’s End-of-Year Fundraiser.
OK…The World’s a Mess, Now What?
Good vs. evil. Life vs. death. Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi—the list goes on. How do we navigate a world caught between two opposing forces? These are chaotic times with a lot of conflict and uncertainty, and if the path forward feels treacherous, you’re not alone. The good news is that we have way more choice than we think. Join Master Educator Hector Marcel as he shares how we can find our way even when life feels like that one scene from Inception where the world keeps turning upside down.
This class is part of our Buddhism 101 course.
