Wake Up Dallas YES

12/30/2025

🔥TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT!🔥
Join us tonight for our end of the year burning bowl celebration as we close out 2025 together! Tonight will be an opportunity to come together, reflect, and release what no longer serves us.

Tonight, you can expect music, sharing, silent reflection, and a burning bowl ceremony led by our facilitator team, where we will have the opportunity to offer what no longer serves us into the fire with intention and care. We’ll close the night with final reflections and shared intentions as we step forward into the new year.

It’s an honor to share this special evening with you and we look forward to welcoming the new year alongside you!

Please note, due to the planned activities for this evening, we will *not* be streaming to Zoom. Tonight will be in-person only!

12/23/2025

Reminder that Wake Up is NOT meeting tonight - we look forward to celebrating with you at our end-of-year celebration on Tues, Dec 30!

12/21/2025

Hi friends,

Due to the holiday week, please note that Wake Up will NOT be meeting this Tuesday, December 23rd in person or on Zoom. We hope you have a safe, healthy, happy holiday season and are grateful to have practiced with you this year!

Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, December 30th, as we will be offering an end-of-year celebration in a space of reflection, presence, community and joy to close out 2025.

Finally, we ask that you join our end of-year fundraiser to keep our programs sustainable and to help us enter 2026 in a place of financial stability from which we can continue to grow.

Thank you for helping us keep our mission alive. Donate here:

✨ End of Year Giving 2025: Help Us Reach $15,000 and Keep Our Doors Open to All ✨The Dallas Meditation Center takes pride in our commitment to our mission, “Mindfulnes...

12/16/2025

Hey there, this is Cara bowing in! I’m excited to share that Christina and I will be guiding this evening's gathering!

Christina will be guiding us in both walking and sitting meditation, and then I will facilitate a discussion on how we can bring all that is arising in our complex lives into fuel that can sustain us on our path and in our practice.

Drawing upon dharma talks, Buddhist texts, and personal reflections, I will offer a lens to integrate the work we do in meditation and the ways we walk in our lives.

We will engage in individual contemplations, explore these ideas in small group discussions, and share reflections together at the end!

I look forward to seeing everyone there!
As always, we welcome both in-person and virtual participants. Here are the details for those joining us virtually:

Meeting ID: 815 1177 0135
Passcode: wakeup
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81511770135?pwd=VGVMTGlKd1dCbVRhRkdBcjY2cnN4Zz09

12/09/2025

Hi friends, this is Drew bowing in. Tonight, I'm excited to share thoughts and reflections on the book Being with Busyness by Brother Phap Huu and Jo Confino.

As hosts of Plum Village's The Way Out Is In podcast, the authors come with wisdom and insight guided by decades of intimate experience with Plum Village and its teachings. I'm looking forward to exploring how we can apply these teachings to the busiest parts of our lives - be it work, school, or volunteering - and reclaim feelings of joy, resilience, and peace amidst the whirlwind of life.

As always, we welcome both in-person and virtual participants. Here are the details for those joining us virtually:

Meeting ID: 815 1177 0135
Passcode: wakeup
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81511770135?pwd=VGVMTGlKd1dCbVRhRkdBcjY2cnN4Zz09

12/02/2025

Dear friends,
Please join us tonight as we welcome back our Dharma brother Max as our guest facilitator for the evening! Along with Jiyoon, he will be offering a fun and engaging OM chanting workshop.

This workshop is an invitation to experience this simple syllable as more than just a sound. You will learn how to make OM resonate through your entire being, transforming it from a basic chant into a deeply embodied and expansive practice. Through guided exploration of posture, breath, and energy centres, you will discover how to engage your whole body so the sound can open your consciousness and align you from the inside out.

After this workshop, your OM chanting will never be the same!

As always, we welcome both in-person and virtual participants. Here are the details for those joining us virtually:

Meeting ID: 815 1177 0135
Passcode: wakeup
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81511770135?pwd=VGVMTGlKd1dCbVRhRkdBcjY2cnN4Zz09

11/25/2025

Dear friends,
Happy Thanksgiving week! How grateful we are for each of you. Please join us this evening as we welcome Stepan as our speaker! He will be giving a Dharma talk on sitting through discomfort, and Christina will be offering our meditation for the evening.

It is easy to meditate when we feel great, but we often abandon our cushion the moment we feel tired, sleepy, or sick. This evening's talk turns to the teachings of the Buddha for guidance on how to practice mindfulness when the body is not cooperating. The mind can be healthy even when the body is not.

We will look at how sitting mindfully with minor discomforts not only maintains our practice today, but also trains us to face the inevitability of old age and illness with equanimity.
As always, we welcome both in-person and virtual participants. Here are the details for those joining us virtually:

Meeting ID: 815 1177 0135
Passcode: wakeup
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81511770135?pwd=VGVMTGlKd1dCbVRhRkdBcjY2cnN4Zz09

11/11/2025

Dear friends,
Throughout our lives, we come across people or opportunities that each serve as teachers to us in their own way. Whether a schoolteacher, spiritual teacher, friend or family member, or life experience, we are a continuation of those people and lessons that have come before us.

The Dallas Meditation Center and Wake Up: Dallas is possible because of the teachers who are with us and those who are no longer with us. Please join us this evening as we remember and honor our teachers and reflect on how we, too, can be teachers for those who come after us.

Christina will be facilitating the evening, and we look forward to practicing and sharing with you!

As always, we welcome both in-person and virtual participants. Here are the details for those joining us virtually:

Meeting ID: 815 1177 0135
Passcode: wakeup
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81511770135?pwd=VGVMTGlKd1dCbVRhRkdBcjY2cnN4Zz09

10/28/2025

Hey everyone, Cara bowing in! I’m happy to share that Christina and I will be guiding this evenings’s gathering, Wake Up YES, at the Dallas Meditation Center. I extend you a warm invitation to join us for our meditation session at 7PM followed by a collective reflection starting at 8PM!

Christina will be guiding us through our walking and seated meditation practice. Following our meditation, I will lead a discussion on mindfulness of the nervous system. Drawing on polyvagal theory, gentle breath work, and mindfulness practices we will examine how to gain awareness of our physical state with compassion.

We will have the opportunity to write, explore these ideas and new insights in small group discussion, and share reflections together at the end!

I am looking forward to this evening with you all!
As always, we welcome both in-person and virtual participants. Here are the details for those joining us virtually:

Meeting ID: 815 1177 0135
Passcode: wakeup
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81511770135?pwd=VGVMTGlKd1dCbVRhRkdBcjY2cnN4Zz09

10/21/2025

Dear friends,
Please join us tonight as we welcome Jiyoon and Drew to bring some Nirvana to our evening! Jiyoon will be facilitating our meditation, and Drew will be offering a Dharma talk on how we can touch Nirvana in our daily lives. Read more below!

Hi friends, this is Drew bowing in. Tonight, I'm looking forward to giving a talk on probably the loftiest concept in Buddhism - nirvana, or enlightenment. I plan to look at what nirvana is exactly, the role it's played in the history of Buddhism, and most importantly how we can bring it down to earth and integrate it into our daily lives.

The Buddha believed that every person was capable of finding nirvana, and I'm excited to explore with everyone how we can do that for ourselves.

As always, we welcome both in-person and virtual participants. Here are the details for those joining us virtually:

Meeting ID: 815 1177 0135
Passcode: wakeup
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81511770135?pwd=VGVMTGlKd1dCbVRhRkdBcjY2cnN4Zz09

10/14/2025

Dear friends,
It is said that a steady posture in the body fosters a steady posture in the mind. Easier said than done!

Please join us this evening as we welcome back guest speaker Max Bourgault! He will be offering a seated meditation posture workshop alongside Christina, who will be guiding our meditations for the evening.

This experiential workshop will help you discover YOUR meditation posture -- no matter your body type, habitual stance, or level of flexibility. Drawing on principles of yoga, we’ll explore gentle stretching exercises to prepare the body, learn how to use props effectively, and practice finding the alignment that supports you best.

Come ready to experiment, move a little, and sit a lot more comfortably.

About Max:
Born and raised in Québec City, Canada, Max has practiced as a licensed psychologist for eight years before moving permanently to Dallas in 2024. Over the past two decades, he's traveled widely to study and experience a variety of healing modalities and spiritual traditions—experiences that have deeply enriched and expanded his work beyond conventional psychology.
As always, we welcome both in-person and virtual participants. Here are the details for those joining us virtually:

Meeting ID: 815 1177 0135
Passcode: wakeup
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81511770135?pwd=VGVMTGlKd1dCbVRhRkdBcjY2cnN4Zz09

10/07/2025

Dear friends,
Please join us this evening as Byron and Leo facilitate an evening centered around joy! When there is so much to do, it's easy to lose sight that there is much fun and joy to be had in life. But how can we make our life more joyful? How can we cultivate joy in a way that deepens our practice and nourishes the heart?

Join us this tonight for an exploration and discussion of the role joy plays in the spiritual life.

As always, we welcome both in-person and virtual participants. Here are the details for those joining us virtually:

Meeting ID: 815 1177 0135
Passcode: wakeup
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81511770135?pwd=VGVMTGlKd1dCbVRhRkdBcjY2cnN4Zz09