Meditation Workshop

Have you been wanting to really understand mindfulness meditation, or just experience the support of group practice in a great setting? Join us for this special one-day program designed for beginning meditators, as well as anyone who would like to deepen their meditation practice. The workshop will include talks, practice sessions, and guided meditations. Get to know your mind better, and enjoy spring with a fresh perspective! This workshop is led by Jane Kolleeny and Tom Pantaleoni.

WMC presents mindfulness-awareness meditation in the tradition established by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who emphasized an evolving "path" of meditation that cultivates insight into our basic goodness without bypassing our very human imperfections and blind spots.

Trungpa Rinpoche was a highly accomplished meditation master, scholar, translator, poet, and artist. He taught extensively in North America during the 1970s and 80s, authored dozens of books based on hundreds of talks given on a remarkable array of topics, and directly influenced an entire generation of meditation practitioners and teachers.

Jane Kolleeny has been studying and practicing Buddhism since the early seventies when her teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche arrived in Boulder, Colorado. A native Coloradan, she moved to New York in 1990 and taught classes at the New York Shambhala Center for many years, organizing and teaching at the Tuesday dharma gatherings for nine years. 

Tom Pantaleoni met Trungpa Rinpoche in 1983 at Naropa Institute. In 1985 he attended seminary at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center and helped staff the 1986 seminary. In 1990 he moved to Ojai, CA. He moved there to join a small group of students studying with and supporting the Vajra Regent Osel Tendzin. After VROT's death, Tom had the opportunity to study with The Very Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche at many intensives taught on the West Coast. He has been a student at the Westchester Meditation Center since 2018.

WMC is dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion. Everyone is invited. Differences and unique perspectives are embraced.

If you have any questions, please email westchestermeditationcenter@gmail.com