Featured Programs

Tuesday Open House: Meditation Meets Performance Anxiety

March 5th

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra musician Kirk Ferguson on how meditation can ease performance jitters and their attendant neuroses. Continue »

Music, Meditation and Vivaldi's Four Seasons

with Kirk Ferguson

March 14th—March 16th

A contemplative tour of Vivaldi's masterpiece "The Four Seasons", offered by Milwaukee Symphony trombonist and Milwaukee Shambhala member Kirk Ferguson. Continue »

Movie Night: Hometown Habitat

March 29th

An educational documentary focused on showing how and why native plants are critical to the survival and vitality of local ecosystems. Continue »

Roadmap to Awakenment

with Shastri Deborah Zarate

April 16th—May 15th

Do you experience confusion regarding how your life and practice fit into the big picture of the Buddhist path? Join us in Roadmap to Awakenment, the first in a series of Buddhist classes where we will dig into the details of the three vehicles while mai Continue »

Shambhala Training Level II: Birth of the Warrior

April 27th—April 28th

Having experienced a taste of basic goodness in the first meditation training (Level I), we want to go forward. The next level of meditation practice allows us to observe how we create a cocoon of habits to mask our fear. Continue »

Milwaukee Shambhala: Teaching and Practicing Meditation for nearly 40 years.

The Milwaukee Shambhala Center, founded in 1979, is part of an international community of meditation centers founded by the Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and now led by his son Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Learn about Shambhala.