We offer programs that create profound connections between people and the spaces we inhabit. Join us in a transformational experience.
Topa Institute Docent Training
with Irasha Talifero
Open Dates
Topa Institute
Join our Topa Institute Docent training with Irasha Talifero. A key part of our Dragon Ridge Land Sanctuary, our docents help educate the public about the Institute, its mission, and vision, as well as the place where the Institute is situated.
Council 2 Training: Deepening the Practice | BIPOC & LGBTQ+
with Irasha Talifero and Ani Samaha
October 6 - 8, 2023
Topa Institute
Council Training 2 is a powerful opportunity to deepen one’s practice and explore the more complex contours of facilitating council circles. This training is geared toward folks who have been facilitating council and have had direct experience with challenging situations, conflicts, and confronting the more hidden or unconscious forces that may drive group dynamics. Facilitators may also be starting to look at some personal obstacles that have shown up in their development as a practitioner.
Open Floor Conscious Dance Class
with Chakra Earthsong
October 12, 2023
Topa Institute
Come move your body, breathe, and be gently guided in a 90-minute conscious dance with Open Floor teacher in training, Chakra Earthsong.
Songs of Sustenance
with Maggie Wheeler and Arnaé Batson
October 15, 2023
Topa Institute
Together with our facilitators, Arnaé Batson and Maggie Wheeler, we will embark on a vocal journey to investigate the vibrational power of song, including pieces that have been sung through the ages during times of struggle, resistance, and triumph.
True Meditation
with Teja Anand
October 17, 2023
Topa Institute
True meditation has only one objective: to realize you are not your mind. To break the deeply-learned identification with our mental activity and narrative, thinking that is “us,” and shift our perception to our true identity. We are the awareness that illuminates our mind, not the mind’s contents. Join Teja Anand in this profound practice.
True Meditation
with Teja Anand
October 24, 2023
Topa Institute
True meditation has only one objective: to realize you are not your mind. To break the deeply-learned identification with our mental activity and narrative, thinking that is “us,” and shift our perception to our true identity. We are the awareness that illuminates our mind, not the mind’s contents. Join Teja Anand in this profound practice.
True Meditation
with Teja Anand
October 31, 2023
Topa Institute
True meditation has only one objective: to realize you are not your mind. To break the deeply-learned identification with our mental activity and narrative, thinking that is “us,” and shift our perception to our true identity. We are the awareness that illuminates our mind, not the mind’s contents. Join Teja Anand in this profound practice.
Earthen Arts Retreat
with Sage Stoneman and Friends
November 11 - 12, 2023
Topa Institute
Earthen Arts Retreat is a unique weekend experience in beautiful Ojai, California that focuses on deepening our relationship with our natural world and sense of self. Through hands-on natural building workshops, morning movement, and live performances, we offer a creative container of wonder and curiosity, allowing us to remember how it feels to be human together.