Bridge & Enrich Lives Society

BE Silent Meditation with a Sprinkling of Ayurveda (online)
2025-12-09 19:20 - 21:00, 2025-12-02 19:20 - 21:00, 2025-11-25 19:20 - 21:00, 2025-11-18 19:20 - 21:00, 2025-11-11 19:20 - 21:00, 2025-11-04 19:20 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver) | Online via Zoom
Silent Meditation… with a Sprinkling of Ayurveda
Welcoming you to our weekly ONLINE Silent Meditation Gathering!
A meditation space is being offered to all to come and sit in silence together.
Some of us sit in the tradition of Soto Zen (Serene Reflection Meditation).
All traditions of silent meditation are welcome!
First Sitting for 30 minutes starts at:
7:20pm PST (Tuesday evening)
10:20pm EST (Tuesday evening)
7:50am IST (Wednesday morning INDIA Time)
We will have 2 Sitting Meditation periods.
Walking Meditation of 5 minutes follows the first sitting, in turn followed by a 3-4 minute break.
We will usually play a recorded Dharma Talk/s before the 2nd sitting: Non-duality teachings from various traditions are featured.
To Attend:
To join this gathering, an orientation session is first required. Please contact Supriti if you are interested in joining, and we will help you set up for our gathering, sharing with you what to expect and addressing any questions you may have..
Be inspired: read our Silent Meditation quotes here!
Join the discussion: see highlights from our latest sessions here!

Tai Chi
2025-12-09 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-12-05 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-12-03 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-12-02 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-28 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-26 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-25 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-21 09:30 - 11:30 and 8 more dates | Bridge & Enrich Lives Society, 718 East 20th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5V 1N3, Canada
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:30am to 11:30am.
For students of Master Chu.

Art of Living Sudarshan Kriya
2025-12-02 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-11-25 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-11-18 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-11-11 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-11-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Bridge & Enrich Lives Society, 718 East 20th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5V 1N3, Canada
Join Karthik and MK from Vancouver’s vibrant Art of Living community for in-person yoga and a Guided Sudarshan Kriya Process (SKY).
But please note, there is a prerequisite to joining: Attendance of their Level 1 Program in order to join in-person Tuesday SKY Meditation. Please contact Art of Living Vancouver for details on joining.

Conscious Movement Practice with Live Shaker at Ride the Rhythm!
2025-11-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Bridge & Enrich Lives Society, 718 East 20th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5V 1N3, Canada
RtR is a regular conscious movement practice in Vancouver, a safe space to dive deep and connect with your body, mind, soul and spirit!

Step into an evening of movement with the theme of: Dancing with Shadows.
This month, we invite you to explore the unseen parts, unspoken emotions, and aspects of self that linger quietly beneath the surface. Through rhythm and embodied expression, guided by Hassti Hamidi, we meet the tender, hidden layers within, allowing what has been held in silence to move, breathe, and find its way into the light.
Joining us this month is special guest Ash Bigdeli, whose live shaker will deepen the experience and awaken the body’s intuitive response. Together, we invite you to move with what’s hidden, to listen with your body, and to let silence become movement.
Come dance your depth, your truth, your shadow and remember: every shadow is cast by light.
LEARN MORE AND REGISTER HERE

The Heart of Who We Are: Return to Belonging
2025-11-15 - 2025-11-16 | Bridge & Enrich Lives Society, 718 East 20th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5V 1N3, Canada
With Caverly Morgan

We all long to be happy. We all long to feel at ease, to be at peace, and to know that we’re okay and we belong. When it feels like the world is on fire, when divisiveness is commonplace, it can seem harder than ever to access such belonging — both personally and collectively.
Most of us are deeply habituated to believe that we are separate — from one another, from the world, and even from ourselves. We are habituated to fall for the story that we must fix ourselves in order to earn and experience deep connection.
We forget that belonging is already seated in the heart of who we are — and that it’s always available if only we look within. When we do, we can transform far more than just our own lives.
Ask yourself these questions:

Have you ever touched this peace, this contentment, this deep return to belonging but then feared losing this experience?
Have you ever struggled because you recognized the world around you did not reflect this experience of your true nature?

These questions will guide our time together as we explore how meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative technologies can — and must — be applied collectively. Our guided meditations will serve as a framework onto which we will begin to weave teachings with personal reflections. You will have the opportunity to connect to yourself, others, and the world beyond in solo and group exercises and discussions that inspire us to put our values into action.
Join us in this return to belonging — this remembering of the deepest truth of who we are — with the intention of using this understanding to transform our own lives and the world we share.
Recommended, but not required, reading:
The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together by Caverly Morgan
FULL DETAILS AND REGISTRATION HERE

TASTING ALIVENESS: A 5-Day In-Person Retreat
2025-11-04 - 2025-11-09 | Bridge & Enrich Lives Society, 718 East 20th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5V 1N3, Canada
Tasting Aliveness

A 5-Day Retreat for Remembering Our Future

with Lisa Genki Gibson & Rob Daishin McNamara
November 4-9, 2025
Vancouver, BC

This retreat is being offered in tandem with our sister sangha, Dragon Lake Zen.

The TASTING ALIVENESS 5-day in-person retreat is an invitation to remember our greater vitality, express deepening creativity and open a wonder that lives in each moment. Designed to support beginners and seasoned practitioners alike, this retreat is an opportunity for you to rest in the beauty and messiness of this very life, and to anchor yourself in the steadiness of the breath, wisdom of embodied community, and the ever-present liberation we can always taste and realize here and now.

The retreat integrates timeless teachings of the Zen tradition with strong interpersonal practices, pathways into aliveness and creativity, and embodiment practice we awaken, deepen, and unfold ~ together. We will sit as stillness, move with breath, and practice frameworks for accessing more vivid, authentic experiences and expressions of the future that wants to emerge here and now. Together we flow between protected retreat spaces and our urban surroundings to invoke wakefulness and presences within and bring depth and skill to the world around us.

SCHEDULE

Tuesday, November 4: 7pm-8:30pm
Wednesday, November 5 – 7am-8:30pm
Thursday, November 6 – 7am-8:30pm
Friday, November 7 – 7am-8:30pm
Saturday, November 8 – 7am-8:30pm
Sunday, November 9 – 7:30am-12pm

Learn more and register by visiting Dragon Moon Zen’s website here.
