Wild Heart Meditation Center

09/15/2025

Saturday, September 27, 2025 | 10:00am - 4:00pm
With devon + nico hase
REGISTER HERE:
https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org/events/the-middle-way-of-partnership-a-daylong-retreat

Partnership may be the most challenging spiritual practice we’ll ever undertake. We find ourselves stuck in familiar patterns—conflicts that circle endlessly, distance that feels impossible to bridge, or the exhausting swing between losing ourselves and pushing our partner away.

There’s a middle way: showing up with presence instead of reactivity, curiosity instead of judgment, and skillful engagement instead of avoidance or attack.

This daylong retreat explores four essential areas:
• Deep Listening – To yourself, your partner, and what’s needed between you
• Finding Balance – The dance between autonomy and connection
• Skillful Conflict – Moving beyond the “trance of nice” to engage difficulty with presence
• Cultivating Joy – Creating sustainable happiness that can weather life’s storms

Drawing from their upcoming book This Messy, Gorgeous Love and years of teaching together, devon and nico offer meditation-based practices for conscious relationship. Expect a balance of silence, guided meditation, teaching, reflective exercises, and partner practices—all designed to help you show up differently in love.

Whether you attend solo or with a partner, you’ll learn concrete skills you can bring to any relationship—romantic, family, or friendship.

Perfect for: Anyone wanting to move beyond reactive patterns into more conscious loving. No meditation experience required.

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devon + nico hase are meditation teachers and authors of This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide for Lasting Partnership. They’ve been exploring the middle way of partnership—personally and in their teaching—for nearly 20 years.

08/25/2025

Saturday Sept 13th
10AM-1PM
A Scientific Approach to Pain Through the Teaching of the Two Arrows.

In this half day workshop, we’ll explore the arising and experience of pain from a scientific lens and where that intersects with meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhist teachings. The workshop will be co-led by pain psychologist and researcher Carrie Brintz and Nashville POC Sangha co-founder Jennifer Wang. The day will include guided meditations, talks, and group discussion. Tea and light snacks will be provided. Open to all, no meditation experience needed!

REGISTER HERE: https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org/events/a-scientific-approach-to-pain-through-the-teaching-of-the-two-arrows-1

08/21/2025

Nov. 13th-16th, 2025
Get Your Mind Right! A Young People’s Retreat with Mikey Livid and Rachael Tanner-Smith
Open to anyone 35 and younger! At Southern Dharma Retreat Center in Hot Springs, NC!

Learn more and sign up here:
https://southerndharma.org/retreat-schedule/1522/get-your-mind-right-a-young-peoples-retreat-on-the-four-great-efforts/

08/15/2025

WH Community Picnic! Sunday 8/17 from 12-4pm at Shelby Bottoms Park. Keep in mind this is a sober event and all dishes need to be vegetarian or vegan and clearly labeled.

We will see you right after our Sunday morning dharma and discussion at 10am! ❤️

08/14/2025

This Friday! Join us for a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion with Jennifer Wang! No experience required. All are welcome. No sign up. In person at WHMC. Bring a friend!

08/07/2025

WHMC Q***r Sangha is now meeting every Thursday night!

All self identifying LGBTQ+ humans are welcome to join for some meditation and discussion.

7-8:30pm. In person at WHMC. See you tonight🌈

07/21/2025

Saturday, August 9th join us for a very special ONLINE EVENT from 6-7:30 PM Central time with meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author SHARON SALZBERG! Register Here:
https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org

We are deeply honored to welcome Sharon Salzberg, a pivotal meditation teacher in the field of mindfulness and loving-kindness, for an evening of meditation and a Dharma talk on The Power of Loving Kindness. This offering is in support of Wild Heart Meditation Center, a Buddhist nonprofit that has been running solely on community generosity since 2012. As our sangha continues to grow, so does our need for financial support. Your presence at this event helps sustain our mission to offer accessible teachings rooted in wisdom and compassion. Please join us for this rare and heartfelt opportunity to practice together and hear from one of the leading voices in the modern meditation world.

THE POWER OF LOVINGKINDNESS
Even if it has not been the habit of a lifetime, we can cherish the ability to be kind to ourselves and others. Our lovingkindness practice has the ability to create an environment of openess and connection even if what we are looking at is something very difficult. In the presence of experiences like fear, anger, regret, as well as gratitude and appreciation, we can draw upon this power of lovingkindness to transform our daily lives. WE HOPE YOU JOIN US FOR THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY! ❤️

Join us Saturday, August 9th for a very special online event from 6-7:30 PM Central time. We are deeply honored to welcome Sharon Salzberg, world-renowned meditation teacher and pioneer in the field of mindfulness and loving-kindness, for an evening of meditation and a Dharma talk on The Power of L...

07/20/2025

We just finished the Loving Kindness Meditation Retreat in Sewanee, TN!!! It was beyond amazing! Deep bows and boundless gratitude to and for doing an amazing job hosting the retreat. We have so many great retreats coming up soon so keep an eye out! We got a good thing going. The Loving Kindness Revolution has begun! ❤️💪
.beer .maryssewanee

07/14/2025

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9th
A FUNDRAISER FOR WILD HEART MEDITATION CENTER
WITH SPECIAL GUEST SHARON SALZBERG
6-7:30PM CENTRAL
ON ZOOM

LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE:
https://www.wildheartmeditationcenter.org

Join us Saturday, August 9th for a very special online event.
We are deeply honored to welcome Sharon Salzberg, world-renowned meditation teacher and pioneer in the field of mindfulness and loving-kindness, for an evening of meditation and a Dharma talk on The Power of Loving Kindness.
This offering is in support of Wild Heart Meditation Center, a Buddhist nonprofit that has been running solely on community generosity since 2012.
As our sangha continues to grow, so does our need for financial support. Your presence at this event helps sustain our mission to offer accessible teachings rooted in wisdom and compassion.
Please join us for this rare and heartfelt opportunity to practice together and hear from one of the leading voices in the modern meditation world.

The Power of Lovingkindness
Even if it has not been the habit of a lifetime, we can cherish the ability to be kind to ourselves and others. Our lovingkindness practice has the ability to create an environment of openess and connection even if what we are looking at is something very difficult. In the presence of experiences like fear, anger, regret, as well as gratitude and appreciation, we can draw upon this power of lovingkindness to transform our daily lives.

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is among the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture 50 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. In 2023, Sharon released two books: Real Life, from Flatiron Books in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats, and Finding Your Way, a small gift book from Workman Publishing in hardcover , ebook and audiobook formats. Sharon’s podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed seven million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond. www.sharonsalzberg.com

06/05/2025

July 16th-20th
Loving Kindness Meditation Retreat
Sewanee, TN
W/ Andrew Chapman & Mikey Livid
https://www.floweringlotusmeditation.org/2025-tennesee-summer-loving-kindness-retreat

About the retreat: Our focus will center on the practice of Metta, a Pali term often translated as loving-kindness, friendship, or goodwill. Metta practice nurtures an open-hearted capacity for kindness toward ourselves and others, serving as an antidote to fear and reactivity. Over time, this practice fosters a sense of connection with all of life, grounded in acceptance and care.

The retreat will take place in noble silence, offering an environment conducive to deep practice. Daily activities will include meditation instructions, Dharma talks, mindful movement, silent sitting and walking meditation, and group interviews to support your practice.

This retreat is open to both beginners and experienced meditators.
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05/29/2025

Radical Responsibly with Dave Smith

05/20/2025

Wednesday 5/21
Mindfulness and the Addiction Economy
w/ Dave Smith
7-8:30pm at WHMC

Mindfulness is everywhere and has spread through countless domains of modern life. Without a doubt, mindfulness practice is effective in reducing stress, anxiety and impulse control and contributes to an overall sense of well-being. But mindfulness practice can be limited if it does not have a specific focus or aim. Returning to mindfulness’s deep roots in the Buddhist tradition, we can access its most relevant and transformative aspects.
Addiction comes in many forms. In current times, our devices have become weapons of mass distraction. Over the last decade, we have lost the attention economy and now we are living in the addiction economy. Everyone is addicted, we all know it, yet we all seem to accept it—or at least feel powerless to change it.
Turning inward, taking an honest look at our pain and dissatisfaction, and coming to terms with what fuels are addiction is our only hope. This can be accomplished through an understanding of the four noble truths—a teaching that points to the heart of suffering, its cause and release—as an active framework for recovery from addiction in every form.
During this event, Dave will offer some dialogue and discussion on how we can utilize basic Dharma frameworks within the context of mindfulness to give us a better sense of the task at hand.