On Sunday, August 9, 2026, Nalandabodhi Seattle will offer a workshop on walking meditation led by Karunika Karen de Luna. In conjunction with periods of sitting meditation, different exercises in guided walking meditation will be presented to help cultivate awareness in motion.
Schedule
10:00a opening chants, sitting, walking
~11:45a community potluck lunch
Facilitator
Karunika Karen de Luna is a lifelong mover, a dancer and former aerial arts and flexibility coach. Currently the co-director of Nalandabodhi Seattle, she enjoys helping others improve their flexibility so that they can sit with an inward smile, just like the Buddha.
The “Karunika” title: In 2021, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, with the support of the Nalandabodhi Acharyas, Lamas, and Mitras (the most senior group of designated teachers in Nalandabodhi), appointed over eighty long-time students to serve in a newly created supporting teacher’s role to assist in guiding our sangha members and to help share with the general public Nalandabodhi’s unique approach to spirituality. The Sanskrit term “Karunika” means “one who has compassion.” Possessing a wide range of backgrounds and sets of individual expertise, as well as formidable experience in the study and practice of the Buddhadharma, the Karunikas offer programs on themes connected to the paths of study, meditation, and mindful activity and on the “five fields of knowledge”: healing, the arts, language and communication, logic and epistemology, and the inner science of mind.
Date/Time
Date(s) - Sun., August 9, 2026
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location Nalandabodhi Seattle @ Nalanda West
