Wisdomway Cohort 1/2026

🧘Buddhist philosophy + meditation practice + everyday application🪷

This 12-week online course is for mindful leaders, purpose-driven changemakers, curious seekers and practitioners who want to go deeper—not just in meditation, but in living a meaningful life guided by ancient yet timeless wisdom.

Rooted in Early Buddhist teachings, this course brings clarity and depth to your personal practice while offering practical tools to live and lead with intention, compassion, and purpose. Together, we will study foundational suttas and sutras, exploring not only the original teachings of the Buddha but also Mahayana perspectives from different streams of Buddhism to understand how these teachings have evolved and how they can be thoughtfully adapted to modern life.

Whether you’re navigating life transitions, building mindful leadership, or seeking spiritual grounding, this journey offers a space for sincere learning, self-inquiry, and community—connecting inner peace with outer purpose.

What’s included

• Weekly 70-min live sessions (teaching + meditation + reflection)

  • Live session time will be fixed either 

Weekdays: 7–9 PM EST → 4–6 PM PST OR  

Weekends: 11 AM–1 PM EST → 8–10 AM PST

• Weekly meditation practice guides

• Personal assignments, group discussions, and journaling prompts

• 1:1 Q&A support and group chat

• Discussion of core Early Buddhist suttas in simple, accessible language

• Applied insights for life, work, and leadership

• Wisdom Way House Certificate in Foundational Buddhist Mindfulness & Meditation

Exclusive opportunity to join a cultural retreat to South Korea, featuring a temple tour, temple stay experience, and special access to the International Buddhism Expo 2026 (Spring, April–May) in Seoul and Busan. 🗓 12-Week Curriculum Overview

WEEK 1: The Life of the Buddha & the Purpose of the Path

• Introduction to the course

• Gautama Buddha’s life and the spirit of Early Buddhism

WEEK 2: Understanding the Mind-Body System (Nāma-Rūpa)

• What are mind and matter?

• How Buddha saw the world

• Practice: Simple body-mind awareness practice

WEEK 3: The Five Aggregates, Nippanna 

• Breaking down the illusion of self

• Practice: Meditation on the Five Aggregates, Anappanasatti meditation

WEEK 4: Emotions and Mental Formations

• Focus: Understanding emotional habits and mental tendencies

• Practice: Noting practice (feeling-tone awareness), 5-sense meditation

WEEK 5: The Four Noble Truths 

• Focus: The foundation of the Buddha’s teaching

• Practice: Inquiry meditation on personal suffering, body-feeling meditation

WEEK 6: Satipaṭṭhāna: Awareness of the Body

• Focus: Grounding the practice in bodily awareness

• Practice: Full-body scan + walking meditation, movement meditation

WEEK 7: The Noble Eightfold Path 

• Focus: A complete guide for life transformation

• Vision-Value fit life mapping, a holistic life plan 

WEEK 8: Satipaṭṭhāna, Awareness of Feelings and Emotions 

• Focus: Feeling-tone (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral)

• How trauma works? Healing from your deep roots of suffering

WEEK 9: Satipaṭṭhāna, Awareness of the Mind

• Focus: Observing states like greed, anger, confusion

• Practice: Labeling practice for mental states

WEEK 10: The 12 Links of Dependent Origination 

• Focus: How suffering arises and how to end it

• Indra’s net, how Mahayana sees the world, Life of bodhisattva 

• Practice: Contemplation on the chain of causes

WEEK 11: Cultivating Liberation through Insight (Vipassanā)

• Focus: What is insight and how does it free us?

• Practice: Open-ended vipassanā meditation

WEEK 12: Walking the Path: Integrating the Teachings in Life

• Focus: How to embody the path beyond the cushion

• Practice: Recollection, metta (loving-kindness) & intention setting