Making the profound teachings of the Buddha
available to the global classroom
Welcome to Our Global Classroom
Bodhi Courses offers an online classroom environment taught by Shaila Catherine that serves as a resource for meditators worldwide. The word Bodhi means to awaken. Our mission is to offer programs that support spiritual awakening and:
- strengthen mindfulness and meditation skills,
- deepen concentration and facilitate access to jhana states,
- bring compassion and wisdom into daily life,
- illuminate the liberating potential of the dhamma,
- and encourage inquiry into what the Buddha taught.
Watch This Introductory Video Message
Shaila Catherine
Principal Teacher
Featured Courses & Retreats
Check out these upcoming events.
Insights into Emptiness: 8-night Retreat in California
REGISTER NOW!
RETREAT: January 8 – 16, 2025
This retreat will develop insight meditation practices using the structure of the six sense bases.
We will cultivate mindfulness of sensory experience, and contemplate the impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self characteristics in contact with seeing, hearing, […]
Timeless Wisdom: Exploring Buddhist Teachings through Similes and Stories 4
The Buddha’s teaching skill shines through the wide range of examples and similes that he used to convey subtle points of instruction. His […]
Spiritual Experience & Aspiration: Bold Talk on Awakening
REGISTER: Now – April 9
RETREAT: April 11 – 13, 2025
A Weekend ONLINE AT-HOME Retreat
with Shaila Catherine
Do you aspire for awakening? Do you ponder spiritual experiences that have occurred in your practice?
This program will provide an opportunity for meditation practice along […]
Cultivating Concentration, Jhana Factors & States: 10-night Retreat in California
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RETREAT: May 6 – 16, 2025
This retreat will follow the approach to deepening concentration and attaining the absorption states of jhāna as described in Shaila Catherine’s first book, Focused and Fearless, recently republished under the new title, The Jhanas. […]
Exploring Jhana States
REGISTER: Now – May 22, 2025
COURSE DATES: May 22 – Aug 30, 2025
PREVIOUSLY OFFERED: Oct – Dec, 2019
In this advanced concentration course, we will dive deeply into the experience of the absorption states of jhāna. We’ll give careful […]
Timeless Wisdom: Exploring Buddhist Teachings through Similes and Stories 2
REGISTER: TBD. This course will be co-sponsored with BCBS.
NEXT COURSE: Oct 25 – Dec 18, 2025
PREVIOUSLY OFFERED: Sep – Nov 2021
This course will provide an illuminating and evocative approach to sutta study by exploring the Buddha’s teachings through […]