Big Heart City Meditation SF

Big Heart City Meditation SF A Buddhist meditation group that seeks to honor your authentic experience, whoever you are. It is ope

Vinny Ferraro leads the group this week!Join Us Friday, November 77:30pm - 9:00pm PacificSt. Gregory of Nyssa500 De Haro...
11/06/2025

Vinny Ferraro leads the group this week!

Join Us Friday, November 7
7:30pm - 9:00pm Pacific

St. Gregory of Nyssa
500 De Haro Street at Mariposa
Potrero Hill, San Francisco

Not in San Francisco? Tune into the live stream on our YouTube channel

Find more details at bigheartcity.org/schedule

Andrew Brindle Perry leads the group this week with a talk titled “Sitting with What Can’t Be Healed.”Join Us Friday, Oc...
10/29/2025

Andrew Brindle Perry leads the group this week with a talk titled “Sitting with What Can’t Be Healed.”

Join Us Friday, October 31
7:30pm Pacific

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83291767972

Meeting ID: 832 9176 7972

Andrew Brindle Perry has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 2012. He’s a teacher, mentor, Buddhist-informed counselor, and coach. His teachings on Buddhist-informed recovery from addiction and programs for ethical masculinity have been heard in treatment centers, hospitals, and jails all across the United States, as well as in Ireland, England, and Germany. He believes in the transformative power of the undefended heart, and that anyone can learn to give and receive love responsibly.

He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife Rachel, their daughters Charlotte (20) and Esther (9), and his mother-in-law, Debbie.

You are warmly invited to Healing Future Generations: A Fundraiser for Mind Body Awareness with Vinny Ferraro & Oscar Me...
10/13/2025

You are warmly invited to Healing Future Generations: A Fundraiser for Mind Body Awareness with Vinny Ferraro & Oscar Medina

Saturday, November 8
6:00pm - 8:30pm Pacific
(in-person & livestream)

On Saturday, November 8, join us in San Francisco and online to support the Mind Body Awareness Project (MBA). For more than two decades, MBA has brought mindfulness and healing to young people, educators, and incarcerated populations across California, reaching thousands each year with practical tools to navigate trauma, build resilience, and lead with compassion.

Hosted by Vinny Ferraro — Dharma teacher, guiding presence at Big Heart City in San Francisco, and author of MBA’s mindfulness curriculum for incarcerated youth.

This evening will bring together educators, funders, organizers, and voices from the frontlines to grow the next chapter of MBA’s work: sustaining healing-centered mindfulness programs in schools, prisons, and communities across California.

Purchase tickets or Make a Donation here:

givebutter.com/healingfuturegenerations

Joe Clements leads the group this week with a talk titled “You Are Doing Better Than You Think.”Join Us Friday, October ...
10/08/2025

Joe Clements leads the group this week with a talk titled “You Are Doing Better Than You Think.”

Join Us Friday, October 10
7:30pm Pacific 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83464549612

Meeting ID: 834 6454 9612

Joe Clements is a mindfulness meditation teacher, musician, and community facilitator based in Santa Cruz, CA. His approach blends secular mindfulness with influences from Buddhist traditions, focusing on creating spaces that feel accessible, down-to-earth, and real. Joe has been practicing for over 14 years and offers meditation groups, workshops, and retreats that center emotional resilience, self-awareness, and community support. He’s known for his humble, relatable style and his ability to make meditation feel like something you can actually do in the messy, everyday moments of life. To learn more, visit josephclements.com.

10/07/2025

🍂 Join us on this yearlong journey to discover what death has to teach us about life and vice versa.

Inspired by Stephen Levine’s book, A Year to Live, this online training course is an exploration of forgiveness, gratitude, and letting go. The Buddha encouraged us to reflect on death not out of fear, but as a way to awaken to the fleeting beauty of our lives. By embracing this practice, we come to appreciate the fragility and impermanence of our existence.

Learn more & register: http://go.spiritrock.org/3Vp0YIj

Frank Ostaseski leads the group in person this week with a talk titled “Longing to Belong or Settling for Fitting In?”Fr...
10/01/2025

Frank Ostaseski leads the group in person this week with a talk titled “Longing to Belong or Settling for Fitting In?”

Frank Ostaseski is an internationally respected Buddhist teacher. Visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, and founder of the Metta Institute. His groundbreaking work has been featured on the Bill Moyers PBS series On Our Own Terms, highlighted on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and honored by H.H. the Dalai Lama. He is the author of The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living. To learn more, visit frankostaseski.com.

We hope you join us!

Friday, October 3 • 7:30pm - 9:00pm Pacific
St. Gregory of Nyssa
500 De Haro Street at Mariposa
Potrero Hill, San Francisco

There is plenty of street parking and MUNI bus lines 10, 19, 22 and 55 stop within one block. (Please double check MUNI schedules.)

Not in San Francisco? Tune into the live stream on our Big Heart City Meditation YouTube channel. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSTwQ1vM2h5gMmrdjEtCqNg)

Big Heart City is thrilled to welcome Leslie Booker to lead the group this week! Join Us Friday, Sept 267:30pm Pacific h...
09/24/2025

Big Heart City is thrilled to welcome Leslie Booker to lead the group this week!

Join Us Friday, Sept 26
7:30pm Pacific

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84136561831

Meeting ID: 841 3656 1831

Booker is a heart-centered, spirit-driven meditation teacher focused on creating a culture of belonging. A co-author of Practicing Liberation, she was a 2020 Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow, graduated from Spirit Rock’s Teacher Training, and was named one of Mindful’s 12 Powerful Women. Booker moved to Philadelphia in August of 2020 to vote in a swing state, and currently serves as the Guiding Teacher of New York Insight. To learn more, visit lesliebooker.com.

Caverly Morgan leads the group this week with a talk on “Turning Toward What Is.”Have you found yourself believing you h...
09/18/2025

Caverly Morgan leads the group this week with a talk on “Turning Toward What Is.”

Have you found yourself believing you have to get rid of thoughts in order to experience the truth of your being? Have you ever found yourself identified with a self who is on a mission to annihilate the self? Join us for an evening focused on direct experience and guided inquiry to explore this rich topic more fully. All welcome.

Join Us Friday, Sept 19
7:30pm Pacific

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83690089621

Meeting ID: 836 9008 9621


Named one of 2025’s powerful women of the mindfulness movement, Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher, nonprofit founder, speaker, and writer whose practice began in 1995 and has included eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery. She is the author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together as well as A Kids Book About Mindfulness. Caverly is the founder of Peace in Schools, a nonprofit that created the nation’s first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools. She is also the founder of Realizing Freedom Together, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making practices that lead to liberation for all, accessible to all. Caverly leads meditation retreats, workshops, and online classes internationally. Learn more at caverlymorgan.org.

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Vinny Ferarro...

has been a practitioner of insight meditation (vipassanā) since the mid 90s. He helped establish the Dharma Punx and he’s been the Guiding Teacher of a Sangha in San Francisco for 15 years. He is also a nationally recognized leader in designing and implementing interventions for at-risk adolescents and is a Senior Trainer for Mindful Schools. In 1987, he was introduced to Service work and began leading groups for incarcerated populations. In 2001, he began teaching for Challenge Day, a nationally recognized, social & emotional learning program, eventually becoming their Director of Training and leading workshops for over 110,000 youth on four continents.

Vinny is also a board member and former Training Director of the Mind Body Awareness Project and is the principle author of MBA’s mindfulness-based curriculum for incarcerated youth. His focus continues to be delivering direct services to folks that have limited access.

He has been trained and empowered by Spirit Rock/IMS and he doesn’t like talking about himself in the 3rd person.