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San Francisco Dharma Collective is a sangha-led meditation center with sits, classes, and events every week. All are welcome!

All of our events are online at: https://linktr.ee/sfdharmacollective

02/07/2026

Two Wings: Mindfulness and Lovingkindness with Kitty Costello and David Onek

Join us for a half day insight retreat on Saturday, February 14th from 9am to 1pm.

With guidance from the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness, we’ll bring kind awareness to our direct experience, inviting greater ease to body and mind. Lovingkindness practice further softens the heart and opens us to deeper care for ourselves, each other, our world.

Periods of lightly-guided meditation will be interspersed with mindful movement practices (walking meditation & chi gung) and short Dharma talks.

Kitty Costello has been teaching meditative and movement practices for more than forty years. She found her Dharma home in Insight Meditation practice in 2000 and since graduated from Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders Program, Dedicated Practitioners Program, and Buddhist Psychology Program. She teaches at various local sanghas, is a writer, an editor, a poet, and a retiring psychotherapist.

David Onek is a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s two-year Dedicated Practitioners Program, a graduate of Phillip Moffitt’s two-year Life Balance Institute training, and a current participant in Spirit Rock’s two-year Community Dharma Leaders program. He is the CEO of a social impact nonprofit and lives in Bernal Heights in San Francisco.

02/06/2026

New class offering alert!

Join Daphne every Friday at 4pm for an introduction to the Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga system. You will learn to move through a set sequence of postures linked by breath, cultivating both physical strength and meditative awareness.

Daphne's classes honor the traditional elements of the practice: opening and closing mantras, attention to breath (ujjayi pranayama), and drishti (focused gaze). She teaches an abbreviated primary series accessible to all levels, welcoming both newcomers to Ashtanga and those looking to deepen an existing practice.

All levels are welcome. This class is by donation only, and no one is turned away for lack of funds.

01/26/2026

We just began a new beginner class! Beginning and Beginning Again: The Buddha's Meditation Instructions with Kitty Costello and David Onek.

Whether you’re new to meditation or you want to revitalize your practice, let’s unpack and experience the Buddha’s meditation instructions together. This is an Insight-oriented meditation class, grounded in the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness.

Each session will include a combination of guided and silent meditations, short talks on the Four Foundations, short mindful movement sessions (chi gung or walking meditation), recommendations for home practice, plus reports, comments, and Q&A.

Tuesdays, January 27 and February 10, 7:15 - 8:30 pm
(In person and online)

12/31/2025

Every class, every event, and every gathering is made possible by our volunteers. Our leadership is made entirely of volunteers. Almost every single aspect of keeping the doors open here is managed by volunteers.

This space functions because of collective effort and shared responsibility. This generosity of time and labor makes possible the incredible community we’ve been able to create since we formed in 2019.

So, to our volunteers, sangha, teachers, and everyone else who makes this refuge possible: Thank you, and Happy New Year.

12/27/2025

Join us at 2929 24th Street as we put together care packages for the homeless. We will stuff bags with things that homeless tend to need, socks, hand warmers, hats, etc.

Date: Tuesday, December 30
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: 2929 24th Street, San Francisco

🧤 You are welcome to take some of the bags to hand out (and we’d prefer you take at least a few).

🧤 We already have:
- hats, gloves, and socks
- hand warmers
- power bars

🧤 If you can get things in bulk (we’ll probably stuff about 180 bags), here are some things that might be useful:
- aspirin (or similar)
- cough drops
- earplugs
- rain ponchos
- feminine products
- power bars (more are better)
* Medicine should be in small packages and be individual wrapped (for example, travel sizes).

🧤 Please do not bring:
- Anything perishable (ie fruit)
- large bottles of medicine
- anything heavy (i.e. liquids)

🧤 If you choose to, you can give them out at homeless encampments or keep them in your car to hand out to folks that need help.

🧤 One important part of this work is treating everyone with dignity. Say a few kind words to everyone you interact with, wish them a better day, look them in the eye… basically just acknowledge they’re another human being with feelings and deserves to be treated with respect.

We're just trying to make the world a little better, one person at a time, doing what we can to help.

12/11/2025

Join us for a sober welcome to 2026, with music, games, snacks, and gratitude!
We'll have an intention setting ritual as midnight approaches, then we will ring in 2026.

This event is alcohol / substance free and family friendly. Please feel free to drop in for a bit to visit or join us for the entire evening.

RSVP link in comments

11/14/2025

Join us for this one-of-a-kind fundraiser here at SFDC! Purchase tickets through link in comments.

The Retreat - A Live Performance
Dec. 5th & 6th, 7:30pm
Written by Nicole Galland
Performed by Éowyn Mader

Meditate on this: Minutes before a 3-day silent mindfulness retreat kicks off, a close friend betrays your trust (again) and now you’re stuck in the same meditation hall and dining room and corridors with him - unable to confront him in real life and unable to stop confronting him in your imagination. Will you spend the whole weekend writing a gloriously satisfying f*ck-you letter? Or can the Retreat Support Team help you find compassionate nonattachment?

11/08/2025

Amit and Skanda are back! Join us for Strings of Serenity, An Evening of Sarod & Tabla, on Saturday, Nov. 15 at 6pm. This concert is by donation only, and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds. See you there!

10/18/2025

Join on Saturday, Nov. 1st at 10am for important conversations in a safe space. This event is in-person only here at SFDC. Donation-only event. Free RSVP link in comments below. No one is turned away for lack of funds.

Discussions about free speech have been energized by several recent events, and untangling the web of views about what constitutes free speech can touch on our deepest feelings about our fundamental rights and responsibilities.

What is the difference between free speech and hate speech, where do we draw the line? How do the definition and our feelings differ depending on whether we agree with the views of the speaker or not? How far are we willing to defend the right for others to engage in discourse we disagree with? And how do we balance these rights with the responsibility we may feel to engage in civil discourse and bridge divides?

Please join us for a community conversation about this timely topic. During our time together, we’ll make space for each participant to share what’s most alive for them about questions such as these.

10/14/2025

We look forward to seeing you at this workshop on Saturday, Oct. 18 at 10am. Plan to go but haven't RSVP'd? Not to worry! The free RSVP link is in our bio.

No one is ever turned away for lack of funds for this workshop or any of our offerings here at SFDC.

10/10/2025

We are just about a week away from the workshop Just Like Me with and . Mark your calendars!

📆 Saturday, October 19
⏰ 10am - 4pm
📍 SF Dharma Collective

This is a donation-only event and no one is turned away for lack of funds.

10/08/2025

New series alert! Transforming Conflict into Connection begins Sunday, Oct. 19.

Conflict in relationships is inevitable, but how we respond to it can either create deeper understanding or drive us further apart. In this six-part series, we’ll take a deep and clear-hearted look at conflict: why it arises, how we typically respond, and how we can approach it more skillfully.

We will learn:

👉🏽 How to transform our perspective on conflicts
👉🏽 How to talk about conflict
👉🏽 How to embed the qualities of skillful speech (truthful, useful, timely, and kind)
👉🏽 How to approach resolution without compromising one’s values
👉🏽 When is it wiser to pause

San Francisco Dharma Collective is a non-profit and is supported entirely by donations. We will never turn someone away from lack of funds.

Address

2929 24th Street
San Francisco, CA
94110

Telephone

+14154049333

Website

https://sfdharmacollective.org/donate

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