Self Awareness Classes at Dharma College
Explore Our Self Awareness Programs and Classes
At Dharma College, our self-awareness classes can help you connect with a deeper purpose in your life. With teachings that combine compassion and practical wisdom, you’ll gain tools to live your life with more intention. As you engage with mindfulness training and reflective practices, you’ll begin to connect with a deeper presence that will help you experience a life with more wisdom and authenticity. If you’re interested in embracing spiritual healing, we’ll guide you on a path towards lasting personal growth.
Start your journey of spiritual growth.
Begin with our six week Level 100 courses, offered year round, where you establish a foundation in awareness and presence. From there, deepen into our one year Level 200 programs, where insight becomes lived experience. Our Level 300 seminars invite a more complete engagement with the fullness of being.
Begin where you are. Let the path unfold.
Transform your daily experiences into opportunities for growth.
Video Recordings available for Six Months in a private community portal with a free weekly Body Movement Class.
*Full refund if the first class isn’t your cup of tea!
Starts August 22nd
Bringing Peace into Everyday Life
Instructor – Wangmo Dixey
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…..
Starts September 8th
Free Movement
Class
Instructor – Fran Burns
This weekly 45 minute session will offer the opportunity to release stress, drop out of the thinking mind and come to your senses. With movement, relaxation, and awareness, practices, we will invite the mind…..
Starts September 9th
Mind Space - Finding the Groundless Ground
Instructor – Ron Purser
In a world of constant stimulation, many of us feel trapped in an endless cycle of thinking, planning, worrying, and striving. We work hard to improve ourselves, solve problems, and gain control over our lives….
Starts October 1st
The Mind, Suffering, and Freedom
Instructor – Kathleen Lyon
Why do we suffer?
What shapes our thoughts, emotions, fears, desires, relationships, and sense of self?
And is it possible to discover a deeper freedom through understanding…
Starts November 14th
Feeling Fully Alive
Instructor – Bruce Alderman
What if your body holds a wisdom that the thinking mind alone cannot access?
Many of us move through life disconnected from the body’s natural intelligence….
Starts January 14th
Science, Experience, and Interdependence
Instructor – Dr. Carl Pilcher
Modern science and Buddhist philosophy both suggest that our ordinary perception of reality is shaped by illusion. This course explores how insights from science and contemplative wisdom….
Starts January 16th
Becoming Embodied - Fully Alive
Instructor – Bruce Alderman
Many of us spend our lives living primarily in our thoughts. We move from one responsibility to the next, caught in planning, remembering, worrying, and problem solving. Even during moments of rest, the mind often remains busy, carrying us away from the immediacy….
Starts January 27th
The Undreamed Self
Instructor – Robin Caton
Most of us spend far more time than we realize living inside stories about ourselves.
Stories about who we should be. Stories about what we lack. Stories about what went wrong in the past or what might go wrong in the future. We become so immersed….
Starts April 7th
Mind Space: Openness and Being
Instructor – Ronald E. Purser
In a world of constant stimulation, many of us feel trapped in an endless cycle of thinking, planning, worrying, and striving. We work hard to improve ourselves, solve problems, and gain control over our lives, yet often find ourselves feeling overwhelmed, distracted, or disconnected from….
Self Paced Course
Welcome to a Calm Place
Feel less overwhelmed and more in control of how you respond to life. This self-paced course offers short, practical meditation exercises that help you recognize and shift habitual reactivity. Over time, you build a steady, usable calm you can carry into everyday moments—work, relationships, and uncertainty.
Transform your daily experiences into opportunities for growth.
Video Recordings available for Six Months in a private community portal with a free weekly Body Movement Class.
*Full refund if the first class isn’t your cup of tea!
Starts September 8th
Beyond Conceptuality : Entering Nonduality
Instructor – Dr. Kathleen Lyon
Do you ever feel as though life is happening to you rather than being lived from a place of genuine freedom and participation? Have you wondered why we continually repeat familiar patterns, even when they lead to dissatisfaction or suffering?
Starts September 10th
Gesture of Great Love
(Term 1)
Instructors – Dr. Bob Dozor &
Dr. Richard Kingsland
Love is often understood as an emotion, a feeling that comes and goes depending on circumstances. Yet the great contemplative traditions teach that love can become something much deeper a way of being, a living expression of…
Starts March 13th
Time Space and Knowledge (Term 1)
Instructor – Bruce Alderman
We are living at a remarkable moment in human history. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of performing tasks once thought uniquely human retrieving information, generating ideas, and processing knowledge…
Transform your daily experiences into opportunities for growth.
Video Recordings available for Six Months in a private community portal with a free weekly Body Movement Class.
*Full refund if the first class isn’t your cup of tea!
Starts August 17th
Ways of Knowing (Term 1)
Instructor – Dr. Richard Dixey
Dharma College introduces revolutionary insights into the structure of perception, how the ‘here and now’ is actually constructed, and reveals pathways toward integrating the creative freedom and luminosity of preconscious awareness into the very heart of everyday life. Once understood,…..
Starts September 5th
Natural Awakening: Dancing in Totality
Instructor – Dr. Peter Fenner
This six week course explores natural, nondual awareness that is free of concepts, structure and reference points yet coextensive and unified with empirical and conceptual universes.
We will explore how language and inquiry can be used as refined tools for revealing nonconceptual…..
Learn With Dharma College: Practical Tools for Lasting Change
In our self awareness classes, you’ll learn how to manage emotional triggers, clarify your intentions, and make decisions that support living a more fulfilling life. Our instructors will teach you how to observe your emotions without judgment, how to respond without reacting, and shift patterns that don’t serve you. Our interactive classes help integrate practical concepts into your life and teach you to approach life’s obstacles differently and to meet them with resilience and peace, cultivating compassion for yourself and for others. You’ll learn to understand negative feelings and eliminate your impulsive reactions, to reduce the negative health effects and stress that come from anger and anxiety. The personal transformation you achieve during our classes will empower you to face life’s difficulties with a calm and centered presence.
Start Your Self Transformation Journey With Dharma College Today
You can learn to connect with the wisdom already within you and discover how mindfulness and awareness can change your life in positive ways. Start your self transformation by learning tools in our self awareness classes that teach you how to live with purpose and intention. If you’re ready to release old behavior patterns and are tired of navigating uncertainty, our personal growth classes will help you achieve lasting change, for added balance. Register for a class today to learn a more grounded, intentional way of compassionate living.
Self Awareness Class FAQs
Why Choose Self Awareness Courses at Dharma College?
In a disconnected world that feels overwhelming, Dharma College’s self-awareness classes provide a nurturing space for meaningful reflection to help you discover what really matters. Learning to observe your thoughts and emotions in a non-judgmental way allows you to live more authentically with more intention. The personal growth and development courses at Dharma College help you achieve emotional balance and clarity to enable you to make more conscious life choices. The many rich insights you gain in our self awareness classes will enable you to apply self-awareness so it extends into every part of your life. If you feel stuck and are seeking change but aren’t sure how to begin, our self-awareness classes offer you an empowering place to learn and experience transformational change.
Who Can Benefit From Self Awareness Classes?
If you’re struggling to cope with life transitions, our self-awareness classes can help you reconnect with your inner values and help you clarify your next steps. Dharma College’s courses blend ancient wisdom with modern insights, so you can think more clearly, set strong boundaries, and discover a renewed sense of purpose. For those seeking to begin their personal growth journey or continue on it, our personal growth classes are invaluable. Professionals experiencing burnout or decision fatigue can also benefit from our classes.
What Will I Gain From Self Awareness Training?
Self-awareness training can teach you to uncover and shift unconscious patterns below the surface that influence your thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, and inspire you to make more intentional choices. Using guided meditation and mindfulness, you’ll understand better how these are all interconnected. As your insights deepen, you’ll develop more compassion and be more present with others, increasing honest communication and building more empathetic and trusting relationships. You will be able to navigate stress and uncertainty more easily. The direction you want your life to take will become clearer and will connect with your core values for true authenticity.
How does Dharma College Integrate Ancient Wisdom into Self Awareness Training?
Our self awareness training blends ancient wisdom into our Dharma College course by drawing from ancient teachings on the nature of mind, perception, and compassion. Instead of promoting religious belief, we weave these principles into each course while emphasizing practical, experiential learning, so you can integrate what we teach into your life. Through our courses, you’ll learn how perception shapes your experiences and how increased awareness frees you from your destructive habitual patterns that cause suffering. Our teachings are offered in a non-dogmatic way, allowing students to explore their inner experiences with openness and without pressure or judgment.
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