SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER OF WASHINGTON, DC

Our organization provides services that address the need in our society to feel whole, worthy, confident and dignified.

We offer instruction in meditation from basic to advanced level. We also offer workshops that develop confidence in innate human qualities of goodness, kindness, wisdom, and strength. We work with various sectors of society such as families and children as well as addicts and those in recovery.

Our instructors undergo years of rigorous training as educators and counselors in meditation. Typically before attaining such a position, one has demonstrated that they have undergone hundreds of hours of meditation practice, including 4 weeks of meditation retreat, several intensive programs at regional meditation centers, and have received specialized training for becoming a meditation instructor.

With the exception of the Executive Director, all of the members of Shambhala contribute to the organization's activities on a volunteer basis. They come from a wide variety of professional fields and bring their experience and expertise to bear in carrying out their endeavors for the organization.

We have managed to maintain our operations and grow in the DC area since 1973, making us the second oldest Buddhist "church" in the area. We have trained hundreds if not thousands of people to meditate and to feel comfortable in their own skin, while becoming more compassionate towards others.
We have developed a thriving support service for people suffering from addiction and who are on the road to recovery.
We aspire to increase our reach within the DC metropolitan area by eventually purchasing a building of our own and offering our services in more parts of the metropolitan area.