Buddhist practices—where creativity and awareness meet.

Upcoming Workshops and Retreats

What does it mean to truly flourish!?  This practice year in the Dharma Studio focuses on just this—finding joy, health and well being, as we engage creative and meditation practices in the Buddhist context. This summer, fall, and winter we will work with these ideas in various ways. Through art making, meditation, and teachings, in the coming practice year we will explore the power of creativity on the Buddhist path, to open to our full human experience, and our naturally powerful capacity for compassion.   We will learn to “dance in the vastness of the open dimension of experience.” A culminating four day art retreat at Oxbow School or Art in March is in planning stages.

Also, the Dharma Studio teacher has created a series of Art and Meditation sessions for the Grand Rapids Art Museum. Each Dharma Studio workshop is related to one of the GRAM Art and Meditation sessions. You can access the practices in both places—Dharma Studio workshops follow each GRAM sesssion by about a week, and build on what happened in the GRAM session. If you are interested in any of the GRAM sessions, please register separately through the GRAM website, and register for the Dharma Studio workshops here, below. GRAM links will be added to these pages as the GRAM sessions are posted.

Each class in the schedule can be taken as a stand-alone class—you can jump in to any of them and be able to connect.  But they also interrelate and build on one another, so they will be more meaningful if taken as a series.  For those who may attend the Oxbow retreat in March, these classes will provide depth and background that will deepen the retreat experience.  I strongly recommend participation in 1-2 workshops prior to the retreat. 

 In addition to the classes listed on the site, there will regular postings of related readings, art practice challenges, and journal prompts, to sustain and deepen your practice in between sessions.  These will be posted on the Dharmastudio.org website, as well as the Unadorned Lotus Dharma Studio Facebook page.   

Registration and other details:
To register for any class, workshop, or retreat, please email jilleggers9@gmail.com.  Preregistration is accepted at this time for all of the classes below.  (Pre-registration holds your space; a few weeks before each session you will be asked to confirm or pass your space on to another person on the waiting list.). There is a suggested donation for each class is payable at the start of each class unless otherwise specified.  (The retreat will require a deposit in January.)  However no one will be turned away from a class; If money is tight please ask; don’t let finances prevent you from attending classes.

·      All proceeds go in support of the Dharma Studio; the teachers at the Dharma Studio receive no pay for their teaching. 

·      All Dharma Studio classes are limited to 16 participants. 

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Unadorned Lotus Dharma Studio is a unique Buddhist practice center, that combines meditation and traditional Buddhist study with art practice, to form an intimate dharma practice that embraces and nurtures the natural creativity in all.  Art studio and dharma hall in one, the Dharma Studio is a non-traditional Buddhist teaching space that seeks to offer a contemporary, accessible, and inclusive dharma gate to Buddhist practice and well being.

Teachings emphasize the link between awareness and creative engagement with the world. Come to the Dharma Studio to learn about the basics of Buddhism, open to your natural creativity, or engage a more intensive Buddhist practice.

In addition to Buddhist Dharma Art, Unadorned Lotus Dharma Studio offers traditional teaching and practices, and access to a diverse group of teachers, means, and Buddhist traditions. Drop in for meditation or sign up for a workshop, class or retreat. Individual practice guidance also available. The Dharma Studio is located in an old furniture factory near the heart of downtown Grand Rapids, MI.

Please contact lead teacher Ven. Lianghua Su Jill Eggers (see contact page) with any questions about Buddhist and art classes and practices offered at the Dharma Studio.