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SAGE Institute for Creativity and Consciousness

www.sagetaos.com
Nonprofit org dedicated to mindfulness, meditation, creativity, and expression See our website for details. www.sagetaos.com

Sage Institute is dedicated to education in the areas of creative expression, environment, and human consciousness. Our areas of concern range from creative arts and literature to contemplative, meditative, and mindfulness practices, as well as the sciences, social sciences, and environmental/ecological preservation. SAGE Institute has been offering a wide array of programs since 2009, in conjunc

tion with the University of new Mexico - Taos, the Town of Taos, SMU in Taos and Taos, New Mexico's Return to Sacred Places 2011 theme. Workshops, courses (for credit and non-credit) lectures, creative performances and exhibitions include such notable scholars, spiritualist, artists and organizations as Ram Dass, SAGE YOUTH, Andrew Harvey, Sophy Burnham, Ralph Metzner, Sean Murphy, Mirabai Starr, Dora E. McQuaid, Father Murray Bodo, Jennifer Ammann, Tenryu Steve Allen, Paul Rudy, Diana Rico, among others. We have an exciting schedule for creative and spiritual exploration, study and application.

08/23/2026

Applications are now open for our Meditation Leader Training Program 2027 cohort!

Are you passionate about sharing meditation but experience self-consciousness or doubt about public speaking or being in a leadership role? Through direct guidance, mentorship, and peer support, you’ll learn the skills you need to authentically and confidently lead meditation for individuals or groups. Our program is 100% online (via live Zoom classes and self-paced modules), open to experienced practitioners from across the globe.

Sage Institute offers one of the only meditation teacher training programs developed and approved by Buddhist teachers from a 2500-year old lineage. Lead teacher Sean Tetsudo Murphy is a formal teacher in the White Plum lineage of Zen Buddhism and draws from decades of experience to guide this secular program.

Visit our website to learn more and apply today!

08/22/2026

“My responsibility is to encourage my students to be what they are. They already are what they are — they just need to wake up to their true nature.”
— Zen teacher Danan Henry, as quoted in One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories by Sean Murphy

08/20/2026

"We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share."
— Maya Angelou

08/13/2026

“Cooking, eating, sleeping, every deed of everyday life is nothing else than this Great Matter. Realize this! So we extend tender care with a worshipping heart even to such beings as birds and beasts — but not only to beasts, not only to birds, but to insects too, okay? Even to grass, to one blade of grass, even to dust, to one speck of dust. Sometimes I bow to the dust.”

— Soen Nakagawa, as quoted in One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories by Sean Murphy

08/12/2026

Last chance to join Diving Deeper, our new 7-week online meditation program! Learn to meet life as it unfolds with curiosity, courage, and compassion. Enrollments are open for a limited time.

Three times each week, you'll receive a new guided meditation recording delivered directly to your inbox. Practice on your own time in the comfort of your own home — as many times as you’d like. These practices go beyond simple mindfulness. Together, we'll work with practices that cultivate greater embodiment, resilience, and intimacy with our lived experience. Topics include hara practice, susokan and the extended outbreath, felt sense awareness, skillfully working with physical pain, anger, grief, and joy, and conclude with contemplations on death and impermanence. Whether you are relatively new to meditation or have practiced for many years, you’re welcome to join.

Diving Deeper is both a meditation challenge and a summer fundraiser. As many nonprofit organizations face increasing financial challenges, your participation in Diving Deeper helps support Sage's ongoing programs and offerings. Every contribution helps sustain our community and supports the continuation of these teachings. Get started today:https://meditation.thinkific.com/courses/sage-institute-diving-deeper-2026

08/11/2026

Applications are now open for the Meditation Leader Training Program 2027, beginning early 2027!

Are you an experienced practitioner who wishes to share meditation and mindfulness skills with others? Do you seek to develop your own voice and authentic leadership? Do you welcome transformational experiences in your own life in order to help guide others on the path?

Through our comprehensive, secular, 9-month online program, open to practitioners from any any contemplative background, you'll gain the skills, confidence, and wisdom to effectively and authentically teach meditation. Guided by Lead Teacher Sean Tetsudo Murphy, Sensei (Zen White Plum Asanga), Sage Institute's program is one of the only meditation teacher training programs backed by a 2500-year old Buddhist lineage.

Sage Institute's Online Meditation Leader Training Program teaches you more than simple meditation techniques — you'll learn the science of meditation, its rich history (including experiential knowledge of contemporary modalities such as MBSR), how to work with difficult emotions in meditation, issues of inclusivity, social change, and trauma-sensitivity, leadership skills such as consulting with students, curriculum and class ideas, and much more. Our intention is to offer depth to the modern mindfulness movement.

We offer a high-contact, transformational structure:
- Small, intimate cohort size
- Close connection with lead teachers, mentors, and peers
- Twice monthly live classes over Zoom
- Twice monthly self-paced modules
- 1-on-1 quarterly coaching sessions with Sean Tetsudo Murphy
- Peer group meetings and mentor meetings 1-3 times per month

Learn more and apply today: www.sagetaos.com

08/09/2026

Struggling with meditation? Try these tips from established practitioners!

Katrina recommends:
- Bring a smile to your face.
- Do yoga before sitting.
- Use bells to bring you back into the moment.

Ando recommends:
- If counting the breath isn't enough of an activity for the brain, you can count the number of beads on a mala while you sit.

Learn more about our online programs and Meditation Leader Training Program at www.sagetaos.com

08/05/2026

“Past and future do not exist without you. Everything you need for your life and your practice are directly in front of you in the present moment.”

— Kobun Chino Roshi, as quoted in One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories by Sean Murphy

08/03/2026

Struggling with meditation? Try these tips from an established practitioner!

Steven recommends:
- Before sitting, loosen your clothing if possible.
- Aim to practice on a semi-empty stomach.
- Turn your cell phone off.
- Set the space: use a candle, incense, and/or statue.

Our online 7-week meditation program "Diving Deeper" is open for enrollment! Learn more at www.sagetaos.com

07/30/2026

As part of our Meditation Leader Training Program, students complete a service project to give back to their communities.

Koren participated in a variety of activities: weeding a cemetery and planting tulip bulbs with County Parks and Recreation, breakfast twice at OUR Center (a community resource center) in Longmont, and assisting with a mobile laundry service in Loveland by folding laundry.

She concluded that community care is ongoing and never fully “done.” Yet, it is deeply meaningful when met with , , and a willingness to show up again and again.

Applications are now open for our 2027 Meditation Leader Training Cohort! Link in bio.

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