Awakening the Balanced Mind Bringing Peace into Everyday Life
Level 100
August 22nd – September 26th 2026
10:00–11:00 am PT | 1:00–2:00 pm ET
Instructor: Wangmo Dixey
- Video recordings available for six months in a private community portal
- Free cancellation after the first class
Description
In a world shaped by constant acceleration, uncertainty, and division, many people long for peace yet struggle to know how to live it.
Awakening the Balanced Mind offers a grounded and practical approach to cultivating inner balance amid real-world challenges. Drawing on contemplative teachings and Wangmo Dixey’s lived experience of integrating practice with action, this course explores peace as a trainable capacity of mind and heart.
Each session invites participants to discover how balance can be cultivated moment by moment meeting stress, conflict, and change with clarity, steadiness, and compassion.
Who This Course Is For
- Those who feel unsure how to find balance when the world seems increasingly turbulent and confusing
- Individuals who long for harmony yet struggle to embody it in daily life
- Participants inspired by Working with Joy who wish to continue the path
- Anyone seeking inspiring, lived examples of peace that speak to the realities of our modern world
What You Will Gain
- Tools for cultivating balance in everyday life
- Greater emotional and mental steadiness
- Insight into meeting conflict and uncertainty with clarity
- A sustainable foundation for peace and well-being
Format
- Duration: 6 weeks
- Session Length: 60 minutes
- Access to Recordings: Six months
- Weekly Structure: Teaching, guided practice, reflection, and inquiry
- Community Engagement: Optional discussion in a private community portal
- Supplemental Readings: Short weekly reflections
Weekly Topics
- What Does a Balanced Mind Feel Like?
- Working with Reactivity and Stress
- Cultivating Inner Stability
- Balance in Relationships and Daily Life
- Inspiring examples of living with Peace
- Integrating Balance Moving Forward
Readings
This course is grounded in one primary text:
- Awakened Balanced Mind (New reprint of Gesture of Balance)
Readings support weekly inquiry and reflection and are offered as companions to lived practice. The book is available through Lotus Bookstore.
Instructor
Wangmo Dixey
Wangmo Dixey is the Director of Dharma College and has spent decades integrating contemplative practice with active engagement in the world. Her teaching draws on lived experience, contemplative inquiry, and long-standing work to revive the Buddhadharma in its homeland of India translating deep wisdom into accessible guidance for modern life.
Her life is a testament to taking work itself as spiritual practice. In this course, she shares how challenge, responsibility, and complexity can become opportunities for profound transformation.
Level 100