Mondays, 7 – 9PM, January 5 – March 2, 2026, East Boulder (a few on Zoom)
Group Retreat: Glacier View Ranch (40 min. from Boulder), Thursday, February 26 – Sunday, March 1.
Includes: Nine weekly sessions, the four-day retreat, and one-on-one meetings with Johann.

As we realize that our true nature is awareness and love, old patterns of lack and unworthiness start to fall away. While it’s often easier to love others, finding that same love inside can feel difficult because the limited sense of self we identify with is never “enough.” Yet our deeper being is not only worthy of love—it is love.

This three-month journey provides a safe, supportive space to deepen your meditation practice and nurture your personal and spiritual growth. Through weekly group meetings, a restorative long-weekend retreat, and one-on-one guidance, you’ll cultivate Mindfulness and Insight meditation to skillfully explore and heal emotional patterns and inner obstacles. This growing clarity and ease fosters a deeper presence and more authentic connection with yourself and others.

As inner peace and equanimity take root, you’ll be invited to open your awareness beyond the contents of experience—beyond doing, striving, or becoming—to simply rest in being, in being aware. Guided by the wisdom of the Direct Path and Non-Dual understanding, you’ll learn to live more and more within this spaciousness—opening your heart to the profound truth that awareness and love are not a goal to be reached or a skill to be mastered, but the very essence of who you are.

• Weekly meetings that blend guided meditation, teachings, open sharing and discussion in a relaxed yet focused environment.
• True Community in presence, sharing, and listening.
• Mindfulness (Insight) meditation training to explore emotions and thought patterns with clarity, compassion, and skill, leading to healing, openness and presence.
• Direct Path and Non-Dual practices to recognize awareness and love as your true nature.
• A four-day retreat at Glacier View Ranch to immerse yourself in nature, practice and community.
• One-on-one sessions with Johann for personal guidance.

By bringing awareness and acceptance to unconscious wounds and unmet needs, you’ll foster healing, resilience, and a deeper capacity to meet life with equanimity. As life flows more effortlessly, love arises naturally from being—without striving or technique

This group is best suited for people with some meditation experience who want to go deeper. It’s not an introduction, but rather a place to refine and expand in a committed community.

Many participants return, creating a safe, welcoming sangha for those that are new to the group. If you’re unsure whether this is right for you, Johann is happy to talk with you about it: please reach out by email with any questions or to set up a time to talk.

• The group is offered on a structured donation/Dana basis—everyone gives within their means, and all are welcome regardless of amount.
• A suggested range is $500–$800 for three months of meetings, the retreat, and one-on-ones, but that is not a requirement or a limit. Retreat lodging and food are separate, and scholarships are available.
• A deposit of $100 is due with your application, which is non-refundable once accepted. Your remaining pledge is due by the first meeting.

To join: Use the button below to download the application. Complete it and send it to johannrobbins@comcast.net.

If you’ve been in a past group there is no need to apply. Simply email Johann with your Dana amount and then Venmo your deposit.

Johann has been practicing meditation since the 1970’s, and teaching for the past 17 years. His teachers included Shinzen Young, Eric Kolvig, Joseph Goldstein, Adyashanti, Rupert Spira and Stephen Bodian. His style is clear, direct, informal, and in the moment.