About Sofia

Sofia - A physical and online community for the soulful integration of the deep wisdom traditions with real world concerns

  • A bright and dedicated community

  • Group retreats and retreat support

  • Systematic practice trainings

  • In-depth scriptural studies of the Eastern and Western spiritual classics of Vedanta, Buddhism, Christianity and Yoga (Je Tsongkapa, Arya Nagarjuna, Machig Labdrön, Chandrakirti, Arya Deva, Pabongka Rinpoche, Patanjali, Upanishads, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. John of the Ladder, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas de Kempis, etc.)

  • Exploring the spiritual and soulful richness of the Eastern and Western Literary Canons (Yates, Woolf, Dickinson, Keats, Akhmatova, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Faulkner, Plath, Lao Tzu, Chaung Tzu, etc)

“Meditation is habituation to openness.”

-Dean Sluyter