2025 Live Online Program
In the 2025 Live Online Program, Henry will be guiding us through the critical foundations of meditation practice. From navigating difficult thoughts and emotions to exploring the depths of non-dual awareness, this program offers a transformative journey for all levels.
Four immersive 4-week courses:
- Unlocking Meditation
- Finding Peace in Troubled Times
- The Guest House
- Self and No Self
New for 2025! Subscribers to The Way get an exclusive 20% discount on the full program. Plus, enjoy hand-picked “recommended sessions” from The Way to deepen your experience throughout each 4-week course.
Don’t miss this chance to strengthen your practice and transform your understanding of meditation. Read on for more information.
Dates and courses in the 2025 Live Online Program:
Unlocking Meditation
Sundays, January 19, 26, February 2, 9
10am – 12pm MT
Finding Peace in Troubled Times
Sundays, March 16, 23, 30, April 6
10am – 12pm MT
The Guest House
Sundays, June 1, 8, 22, 29
10am – 12pm MT
Self and No Self
Sundays September 7, 14, 21, October 5
10am – 12pm MT
(Recordings will be available if you are unable to attend live.)
A note from Henry
Dear friends,
After teaching thousands of students, and going through my own long and winding meditation journey, I’m more convinced than ever that meditation has the power to be the single most transformative habit of our lives.
It can really change us, in a way that arguably no other human intervention can. Not only can it bring emotional healing and regulate our nervous systems, it can shift our perspective from being a single, beleaguered entity trying to make its way through an uncertain world, to being part of a greater whole that encompasses all life, and gives us an unshakable belonging.
It can do this not just by helping us tend and heal, but by revealing that the self we thought we were was only a small part of a much larger picture. The separateness of self we take for granted is in fact an illusion. And when we see through it, everything changes.
Pro-social attitudes and emotions well up spontaneously – compassion, sympathy, joy in the wellbeing of others. Energy, commitment, a renewed sense of purpose, and a love for this life, in spite of all its trials and challenges – these emerge in increasing force as we continue the path.
I extend a warm invitation to join me and a community of fellow students on this essential journey in 2025.
With love and thanks,
What you’ll learn:
The 2025 Live Online Program consists of these immersive 4-week courses. This curriculum will lead you along a path towards creating a solid, effective and fulfilling meditation practice for the coming year.
Unlocking Meditation
Explore the core foundations of meditation. Struggling to make meditation a lasting habit? This course offers the essential tools and techniques to finally make it stick. You’ll learn to overcome common obstacles, master both focused attention and open awareness, and discover the profound benefits meditation can bring to every part of your life. Ready to unlock your practice?
Finding Peace in Troubled Times
Foster peace, even when life feels uncertain. Ancient wisdom from Buddhism, Zen, and yoga shows us that peace isn’t found in perfect conditions—it’s cultivated within. In this course, you’ll learn how to soothe anxiety, navigate uncertainty, and tap into a steady wellspring of calm, joy, and love that’s available no matter what’s happening around you.
The Guest House
Turn life’s challenges into opportunities for growth. As Thich Nhat Hanh taught, “No mud, no lotus.” This course will guide you to welcome difficult thoughts and emotions as essential parts of your growth. Learn to “put out the welcome mat” for life’s challenges, transforming them into fuel for joy, peace, and compassion. It’s a radical shift—and it changes everything.
Self and No Self
Explore the nature of self, consciousness, and awakening. Who are you, really? This course invites you to explore the nature of the self and the liberating concept of “non-dual” awareness. But unlike what you may have heard, the goal isn’t to “get rid” of the self. Instead, you’ll learn to welcome it with compassion—because paradoxically, that’s how you see through it.
Here’s what students have said about Henry’s teaching:
Henry is a master teacher who embodies the teaching. He is also very down to earth and unpretentious.
Henry is such a thoughtful, insightful, openhearted and compassionate teacher, who radiates these qualities.
Finding the right teacher makes a world of difference. Henry is that ‘right teacher’ for many including myself.
2025 program overview:
In the 2025 Live Online Program, Henry will be guiding us through the critical foundations of meditation practice – from how to successfully encounter difficult thoughts and emotions, all the way to deepening our understanding of non-dual experience. When you purchase the 2025 Live Online Program, you’ll get:
- 4 four-week courses live with Henry Shukman
- Lifetime Access to all course recordings
- Enjoy an $85 savings compared to purchasing each course separately
- Subscribers to The Way App enjoy an additional 20% discount! Make sure to sign up via the app, click here on your mobile
Two Ways to Purchase
Single Payment
5 Monthly Payments
Recordings
Each session will be recorded. If you can’t attend live, and it will be made available the following day.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the 2025 Live Online Program, please contact our program manager Jeremy. We’re happy to answer any questions and look forward to having you join us!
Scholarships
We warmly welcome you to contact us if a scholarship would allow you to attend this course. Please contact our program manager Jeremy for details about how to apply.
Your Guides to Learning
Henry Shukman
Zen Master in the Sanbo Zen lineage
Henry is an authorized Zen Master in the Sanbo Zen lineage, and is the Spiritual Director Emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In addition to teaching meditation, Henry is an award-winning author and poet. His struggles and traumatic experiences as a youth, combined with a spontaneous awakening experience at 19, paved the way for Henry to develop a well-rounded approach to healing and awakening through meditation.
Kelly Boys
Guest teacher
Kelly Boys will join us as a guest teacher for a session of the Unlocking Meditation course. Kelly is a mindfulness trainer and coach, and specializes in the NSDR (non sleep deep rest) practice of yoga nidra. Kelly has co-designed and delivered mindfulness and resilience programs at the UN, Google, and in San Quentin State Prison. Kelly is passionate about the intersection of spiritual awakening and applied mindfulness, and is also an advisor to The Way.
Unlocking Meditation
A 4-week series on the crucial foundations of a meditation practice
Sundays, January 19, 26, February 2, 9
10am – 12pm MT
Online
The essential foundations of a meditation practice
Struggling to make meditation a lasting habit? This course dives into the essential building blocks of a meditation practice and equips you with powerful tools to stay consistent.
You’ll explore the core challenges meditators face at all levels – like doubt, performance pressure, anxiety, and unresolved trauma – and learn practical techniques to overcome them.
Key skills include:
- Noting & labelling thoughts and emotions
- Connecting emotions to physical sensations
- Creating a space of acceptance and ease
Focused attention and open awareness
Second, we’ll explore two primary kinds of practice: focused attention vs open awareness.
- Focused attention: Sharpen mindfulness by focusing on specific aspects of your experience – such as sensations, thoughts, or emotions. This practice helps you stay present, react less, and cultivate a peaceful, spacious awareness.
- Open awareness: Embrace the entirety of your experience without judgment or the need to change it. This unconditional approach deepens your ability to remain calm and accepting, building on the foundation of focused attention.
Framing the whole path of meditation
In addition to these specific tools and approaches, we will also explore a framing for the whole path of meditation. To stay motivated, it’s vital to understand the full spectrum of meditation’s transformative benefits. This course introduces four key zones of practice, showing how meditation can:
- Provide lasting therapeutic and healing effects
- Support psychological self-discovery
- Unlock beautiful flow states
- Deepen your sense of connection with the world and others
- Challenge assumptions about the self
- Offer glimpses of boundless awareness and awakening
Discover how meditation can be a lifelong journey of growth, insight, and profound connection.
Interested in only signing up for this course? Click here
Part of what makes The Way special is how you invite Henry into your home, to guide your daily meditation practice. During these live events you’ll be invited into Henry’s living room, to gain a deeper understanding and have the opportunity to ask questions.
For the first time ever, we’ll be linking aspects of this course to sessions within The Way’s pathway to offer a thorough learning experience. Here’s a taster of some of the sessions we’ll reference in Unlocking Meditation:
- Retreat 1, session 4 – Arriving
- Retreat 3, session 12 – All three outer senses
- Retreat 4, session 6 – All three inner senses
- Retreat 5, session 2 – The first Hindrance: Restlessness
- Retreat 6, session 7 – Just sitting
Finding Peace in Troubled Times
Meditative tools for reducing anxiety and discovering unconditional well-being
Sundays, March 16, 23, 30, April 6
10am – 12pm MT
Online
Fundamental, unconditional wellbeing is always available
Anxiety thrives in times of uncertainty – but peace is always within reach. Rooted in the wisdom of Buddhism, Zen, and yoga, this course shows you how to access a sense of fundamental, unconditional well-being, no matter what’s happening around you. For thousands of years, people have faced the rise and fall of empires and overcome personal and collective hardship. This course teaches you to do the same – finding peace, joy, and love amid life’s challenges.
Soothe feelings of anxiety fuelled by uncertain times
Anxiety doesn’t have to run the show. This course offers practical tools to help you feel more grounded, connected, and at ease – even when the world feels unpredictable. You’ll learn to:
- Soothe anxiety with simple, effective meditation techniques
- Access a compassionate awareness that’s always present
- Open to self-love and deepen your inner kindness
- Feel more connected to others and less isolated
- Tap into flow states that bring calm and clarity
- Experience glimpses of non-dual awareness, unlocking a profound sense of unconditional well-being
Don’t just ride out uncertainty – discover how to thrive in it.
Interested in only signing up for this course? Keep an eye out, more info will follow soon.
Take your experience of “Finding Peace in Troubled Times” even deeper with curated sessions from The Way. These sessions align perfectly with the course themes, offering extra support and insight as you progress.
Recommended sessions include:
- Retreat 7, session 6 – Carried by breath
- Retreat 9, session 2 – Human consciousness
- Retreat 9, session 3 – Human emotions (part i)
- Retreat 9, session 7 – Shared compassion
- Retreat 11, session 2 – Not needing to change anything
These sessions are a powerful way to deepen your learning – whether you explore them beforehand or revisit them during the course. They’re optional, but highly recommended for a richer, more immersive experience.
The Guest House
Defusing and disempowering difficult thoughts and emotions
Sundays, June 1, 8, 22, 29
10am – 12pm MT
Online
There is no lotus flower without mud
Thich Nhat Hanh taught, “No mud, no lotus.” This course invites you to see life’s challenges—difficult thoughts, emotions, and inner struggles—not as obstacles, but as essential ingredients for growth. Just as mud nourishes the lotus, your inner challenges can become the very source of joy, peace, and loving-kindness.
Many people believe meditation should always feel calm and pleasant—but true transformation comes from embracing discomfort. This course shows you how to cultivate patience, compassion, and wisdom toward your “wayward heart” as it moves through different emotional states. Over time, you’ll learn to meet inner challenges with kindness, clarity, and steadiness.
Putting out the welcome mat for our challenges
What if, instead of fighting difficult emotions, you welcomed them? This course teaches you to “put out the welcome mat” for life’s challenges—building a resilient, non-reactive awareness that can hold space for discomfort without being overwhelmed by it. Paradoxically, these very challenges can become doorways to deep flow states, non-dual awareness, and profound inner peace.
Through a range of meditative tools and techniques, you’ll learn to:
- Scan the body for emotional sensations
- Break down emotions into their core components
- Disentangle thoughts from feelings for greater clarity
- Loosen resistance and soften your response to difficult emotions
- Allow and welcome emotions instead of suppressing them
- Access a spacious awareness that can hold emotions with compassion
- Notice the absence of negative emotions
- Investigate the “self” that feels like the thinker or experiencer of emotions
- Disengage the sense of self from emotions, leading to greater freedom
Rather than running from discomfort, learn how to face it—and watch as it transforms into a pathway to peace, wisdom, and awakening. This course borrows its name from a poem by Rumi:
The guest house
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
— Rumi (trans. Coleman Barks)
Interested in only signing up for this course? Keep an eye out, more info will follow later this year.
To deepen your experience in “The Guest House,” we’ve curated key sessions from The Way to complement your learning journey. These optional but valuable sessions offer deeper insights into core themes explored in the course. For this course, we recommend:
- Retreat 4, session 9 – Sensing emotion
- Retreat 5, session 5 – The third Hindrance: Worry (part i)
- Retreat 5, session 6 – The third Hindrance: Worry (part ii)
- Retreat 9, session 4 – Human emotions (part ii)
- Retreat 9, session 6 – Whose mind is this?
Reviewing these sessions beforehand—or revisiting them if you’ve seen them before—can significantly enrich your learning experience during the course. While not required, they offer a powerful way to deepen your understanding and practice.
Self and No Self
Understanding and glimpsing nonduality
Sundays September 7, 14, 21, October 5
10am – 12pm MT
Online
The nature of consciousness, self, and non-dual experience
What if the “self” isn’t something to get rid of, but something to welcome with compassion? In this course, we’ll explore profound questions about the nature of consciousness, self, and non-dual experience. Rather than trying to “erase” the self, you’ll learn to see it as another element of experience—an approach that paradoxically makes it easier to see through.
We’ll dive into teachings from early Buddhism, Mahayana, and Zen, each offering unique perspectives on non-duality. From concepts of “emptiness” to “world as mind” and “consciousness as fundamental,” this course offers both a philosophical foundation and a practical path. You’ll gain clarity on key concepts and deepen your understanding of the boundless nature of experience.
Practices to trigger glimpses of the non-dual nature of reality
Direct experience is the most powerful teacher. This course offers practices designed to trigger glimpses of nondual reality—moments of clarity where the line between “self” and “experience” dissolves.
We’ll explore exercises that illuminate the following:
- sense of self as agent
- self as recipient of experience
- the apparent division between self and experience
- glimpses of selfless experience
- glimpses of unitary experience
- consciousness as context of all experience
We’ll also work with Zen koans and the concept of the “Gateless Gate”—a profound paradox that points to both a shift in experience and the realization that nothing was ever missing. By the end of the course, the mysterious teachings of Zen may feel less perplexing and more like signposts to a more expansive, peaceful awareness.
This course is an invitation to go beyond concepts and ideas. Through study, inquiry, and direct experience, you’ll catch glimpses of a more boundless way of being.
Interested in only signing up for this course? Keep an eye out, more info will follow later this year.
To enrich your journey in “Self and No Self,” we’ve curated key sessions from The Way to support your learning experience. These sessions offer deeper insights into the course’s central themes, providing powerful context and practical guidance. Recommended sessions from The Way:
- Retreat 14, session 6 – All-embracing awareness
- Retreat 15, session 4 – Loving the sensation of self
- Retreat 15, session 5 – Releasing self
- Retreat 17, session 6 – Whose experience?
- Retreat 27, session 2 – The gateless gate
These sessions are optional but highly beneficial. Whether you review them in advance or revisit them along the way, they will deepen your understanding and provide additional support throughout the course. No prerequisites are required—just an openness to explore!
Courses included in the 2025 Live Online Program
In the 2025 Live Online Program, Henry will be guiding us through the critical foundations of meditation practice – from how to successfully encounter difficult thoughts and emotions, all the way to deepening our understanding of non-dual experience. When you purchase the 2025 Live Online Program, you’ll get:
- 4 four-week courses live with Henry Shukman
- Lifetime Access to all course recordings
- Enjoy a $85 savings compared to purchasing each course separately
- Become a subscriber to The Way App and enjoy an additional 20% discount! You can sign up for these courses via the app, click here on your mobile.
Two Ways to Purchase
Single Payment
5 Monthly Payments
Recordings
Each session will be recorded. If you can’t attend live, and it will be made available the following day.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the 2025 Live Online Program, please contact our program manager Jeremy. We’re happy to answer any questions and look forward to having you join us!
Scholarships
We warmly welcome you to contact us if a scholarship would allow you to attend this course. Please contact our program manager Jeremy for details about how to apply.
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