About Sofia Wisdom Collective

“Meditation is habituation to openness.”

-Dean Sluyter

A physical and online community for the intelligent and authentic explorations of the soul and wisdom traditions of the East and West.

  • 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)

  • Moving into the body, incorporating somatic explorations in attempt to arrive in our lives more fully and integrated.