Presence Collective is delighted that our teachers will be offering live webinars every Thursday. These sessions will include a teaching and practice designed to help support you during these challenging and uncertain times.  


Join us Thursday, June 4th from 2-3:00PM PST (5-6:00PM EST) for a webinar with David Perrin on the topic of “Coming Out of Cocoon: What Retreat Can Offer Us.”

This summer a collaboration of Presence Collective Teachers will lead an online retreat from July 25-31 called “Resting In The Stillness of Being.” The metaphor of the cocoon for meditation practice is both a place of protective containment, and a potentially claustrophobic chamber of too-snug habitual patterns. We yearn to emerge and be free. Sometimes retreat means the former and sometimes it can be the latter. Come hear how to work with cocoon, retreat, and meditation to metamorphose.

These webinars are offered by donation. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

*Sliding scale language borrowed with permission from Rev. angel Kyodo williams.

  • $15 - Rebalancing: for those with more than enough financial resources (personal or institutionally supported) and a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequity.

  • $12 - Fair: for those with sufficient financial resources who can pay fair value for the experience.

  • $10 - Supported: for those with currently limited financial resources who will avoid further hardship while benefiting from access supplemented by the community.

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David Perrin (he/him) is a meditation teacher and mentor. Meditation, the contemplative path, and service have been at the crux of my life since my youth. Born in Rochester NY, raised in Connecticut, I attended public and private schools, and a Reform Judaism synagogue. I currently identify as white, heterosexual, able-bodied, with financial and educational privileges, using he/him/his pronouns.

For over two decades I have practiced and studied in the Shambhala tradition. In addition to teaching in Shambhala, I have served as MNDFL Lead Teacher and Director of MNDFL Teacher Training, as well as cofounder of MNDFL ED schools-based program. I have taught at the Institute for Compassionate Leadership, the 200hr Teaching Mindfulness Teacher Training with Shanté Smalls and Ethan Nichtern, and throughout New York City at schools, corporations, and nonprofits.