The Mindfulness Society of Canada

Why Practice Mindfulness - A Deep Dive with Monk Ajahn Krit Nimmalo from Thailand
2025-01-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Our Venerable Advisor to the Society, Monk Ajahn Krit Nimmalo will be giving a talk to start our new year from Thailand, with Jess translating. This is always an auspicious event to be a part of, and you are encouraged to invite everyone and share www.themindfulnesssociety.ca on social media to sign up (Only registered members permitted – do not share the event link). Take note the time is 7pm ET,. and we will resume with the usual 8pm for Mindfulness 401 next week. What a way to start the year, and introduce our annual mindfulness course!
Please email us at metta@themindfulnesssociety.ca if you would like to ask A.Krit a question about your practice, or about Buddhist principles.

Mindfulness 401: Free Mindfulness Course with Five Instructors
2025-01-12 20:00 - 2025-02-09 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
This is our Annual Tradition and most valuable start to the year! A free 6 week mindfulness course, from the beginning, each week featuring one of our qualified and certified associate instructors. What is more: Ajahn Krit Nimmalo will start the the year teaching us from his temple in Thailand! Make sure you invite everyone you know to join and share in the merits of bringing the best new years gifts to the Western world.
Try to join each week, but if you can’t, not to worry! Hop on when you can. On camera appreciated (and better for your concentration!).
7PM Sunday, January 5th, 2025.
Why do we practice mindfulness?
With Monk Ajahn Krit Nimmalo from Thailand at 7pm ET (7am Thailand).
(Jess Translating)
Then, Sundays 8pm-9pm ET, January 12 – February 9, 2025.
Week 1: Karen (January 12, 8pm)
Week 2: Rhonda (January 19, 8pm)
Week 3: Susie (January 26, 8pm)
Week 4: Susanna (February 2, 8pm)
Week 5: Jess (February 9, 8pm)

Tales of Wisdom with Susanna
2025-06-01 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Join Associate Instructor, actor and playwright Susanna, as she upacks stories from ancient times, relating them to our present mindfulness path. These tales provide inspiration and valuable lessons for our practice. This week, Susanna shares stories and personal experiences about practicing with and without intention.

Guided Meditation with Essential Tips
2025-06-08 20:00 - 20:45 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Join Associate Instructor Karen as she guides us in a calming and insightful meditation, along with essential tips for our practice. 40-45 minutes.

Closed for Father's Day
2025-06-15

Dealing with Difficulties
2025-06-22 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Associate Instructor Susie will give examples from her life about persistance with the practice and moral precepts that is sure to bring encouragement and determination to all of our meditation and mindfulness practices, wherver we may be along the path.

Vipassana with Monk Master Ajahn Krit Nimmalo
2025-07-06 20:00 - 21:30
We are honoured once again to have our Mindfulness Master and Mindfulness Society Advisor Ajahn Krit Nimmalo teaching us the way to wisdom and liberation from his monastery in Thailand, with Jess translating.

Metta Chanting with Jess Koffman
2025-07-13 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Jess will lead some beautiful and powerful chanting on lovingkindness from antiquity, and explain the deeper meaning behind the words.

How Healing Work can Support Mindfulness with Salima Pirani
2025-07-20 20:00 - 21:00
Vice-Chair Salima Pirani is a well-known master healer and leader of a large reiki community, teaching healing techniques and psychic skills. As a long time mindfulness practitioner, she shares how healing work can support the essential practice of mindfulness and vice versa

Samatha Meditation with Guest Instructor Aliya Gangji
2025-07-27 20:00 - 20:45 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Aliya has been regular meditator ever since she was a child. She is a certified mindfulness instructor, has led groups, and has practiced with Jess and the MSC for many years, and will be explaining samatha and guiding us in a meditation bringing concentration, calmness and comfort.

9am Event - Ajahn Song from Thailand - Wisdom Coaching
2025-08-10 09:00 - 10:30 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
We will be welcoming Ajahn (Master) Song to teach us on the path to wisdom. He will teach in English from Thailand, with a bit of help from Jess as needed. He is the youngest of Luangpor Pramote’s assitant teachers, attaining enlightening wisdom after just four monks of Monkhood. He has returned to life as a family man and mindfulness teacher. His teaching abilities are powerful and we look forward to a short talk followed by one on one coaching. If you have been practicing according to LP Pramote’s teachings daily for more than 3 months, you are eligible to receive this very rare coaching opportunity. Email us to be put in the draw.

Tales of Wisdom with Associate Instructor Susanna Fournier
2025-08-17 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Susanna, mindfulness instructor, actor, playwright and resident storyteller, will tell tales from antiquity with valuable lessons relating to our lives and practices today.

From Depression to Deva - Associate Instructor Karen's Success Story
2025-08-24 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Join us for an emotional journey as Jenn interviews Karen about her experiences with mindfulness and its impact on the challenges in her life. Karen will share aspects of the practice which have helped her to navigate and shift situations in her life including a diagnosis of walking depression in her early 40’s. She will discuss, letting go of painful memories and how Buddhist practices can help you to enhance and deepen relationships in your life.
We appreciate Karen for her sincerity and candidness regarding these personal aspects of her life. She hopes that in sharing her experiences she can help others to understand the importance of being a diligent practitioner and to see how it will help you to be a stronger, kinder and more compassionate person in all aspects of your life.

Closed for Labour Day Weekend
2025-08-31

The Joy of Ajahn Aoy, a Master from Thailand
2025-09-07 20:00 - 21:30 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Ajahn Aoy (pronounced like “Oy” or Oil without the “l” sound) is returning to give a talk about her experiences in mindfulness for insight and answer questions about your practice. She is fun, funny, jovial and a very down to earth lady. She will teach in English. Please take these opportunities to learn with enlightened masters, that are falling right into your lap..top. 🙂

Enlightened Masters - with Jess Koffman
2025-09-14 20:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Whether you were able to attend or not, Jess will summarize some of the key points we learned from the Masters of the last three months, Ajahns Krit, Song and Aoy. He will also explain the state of enlightenment they each have attained, and what is left for them. Also, Jess will add some broader perspectives and coaching with regards to each of their teachings, and relating it back to our western minds.

Closed For Two Weeks of Holidays, Truth & Reconciliation
2025-09-21 08:00 - 2025-10-01 17:00

Tales of Wisdom - Legendary Masters & Their Lessons
2025-11-02 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
This month, Susanna focuses on what Legendary Thai Master Ajahn Mun’s practice can teach us about developing focus, grounding, and resilience in our busy, digital, and contantly-distracted world.”Tales of Wisdom”, is Associate Mindfulness Instructor and resident Playwright and Actress Susanna’s ongoing series. It is a combination of storytelling, mindfulness practice, and instruction, where Susanna unpacks stories from Buddhist history and the great masters to reveal their teachings, and how they are relavent for us today.

Coming Home to the Heart - A Mantra Meditation Practice
2025-11-09 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Guest Instructor Lea Candon, will be joining us from France. Please attend and support her debut at the Mindfulness Society of Canada!
Lea writes:
After years of wandering the world, I realized the real wanderer was my own mind. The practice of mindfulness showed me that finding a “home” is not about a place. It’s about returning to a presence inside.
Through chanting a mantra, I discovered a stead home base: a place to return to for repose and a way to gently guide the wandering mind back home. In this class, I will share a simple, practicial way to connect with a mantra as your inner home base. A practice for a calm concentration, as you allow all other phenomena and fabrications to unfold naturally.

10 Truths About the Mind that Science Hasn't Discovered Yet.
2025-11-16 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Our chair Jess Koffman has a hot topic this week! Please send your skeptic, logical, scientist friends to our facebook, insta or website to sign up and join this one! They will surely hear things they never dreamed up – and here is the catch: This things are veried true in real human experience by Jess, his teachers and an entire age old and still flourishing lineage of practitioners of correct mindfulness. It will surely be fun and educational for the spiritual, the scientists and the mindfulness community alike.

Devices, Dopamine and Distraction...
2025-11-23 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Associate Instructor Rhonda will look into our relationships with our devices to see where this is leading us and see if we can build some wholesome habits that will support our practice and improve the quality of our life and minds.

Diffuse Conflict and Drama with Metta
2025-11-30 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
A Metta Session with Karen, where she will take some time to discuss how Metta *loving-kindess* is cultivated, how she has used it to settle her mind and situations, and how it can help you during drama and conflict in your life. Karen will, of course, lead us in a loving kindness practice as well. Live harmoniously and sleep more soundly with Metta!

Year End Group Meditation & Advice from All of Us
2025-12-07 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Thank you for another successful year of the Mindfulness Society of Canada, supporting good hearts and quality minds with the best teachings available, for FREE and all around the world. We will end the programming for the year with a group meditation on peace, and we will have all the instructors present to each give a token of advice for all of us. 🙂 The floor will also be open for you to share your comments or any inspirational stories from the year of practicing meditation and mindfulness with our special teachers and community of great people.
Next Year we Start January 4th with our annual new year Free Mindfulness course!

What we learned in Thailand, with Committee Chair Jenn
2026-02-22 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
After returning from Thailand, Jenn will share highlights from the incredible teachings and guidance received by the Thai teachers. Discussing what impacted her the most and also speaking with some of the other attendees who will share their experiences and what teachings were the most profound for them.

Rest and Relaxation to Hone Mindfulness Practice
2026-03-01 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Too much trying, energy and control undermine the first prinicple of mindfulness practice: being natural. Join Salima as she discusses the surprising ways rest and relaxation lead to better quality practice. You’ll get to participate in activities that bring your mind into more optimal states to help your practice along.

The Heart of the Five Precepts
2026-03-08 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Did you know that even subtle slips in the morality of what you say and do can affect your ability to meditate and practice mindfulness effectively? After sharing the experience of taking The Five Precepts on her recent trip to Thailand, Rhonda will talk about each precept. She’ll discuss why they are foundational, how they protect us, and why they are at the root of our practice.

10 Things The West Should Learn from the East
2026-03-15 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Improving your mindful lifestyle starts with right views and right thoughts. The Eastern understanding of the flow of life and spirituality has valuable views to support our practice. Jess, with his 25 years in Thailand as a Buddhist, discusses how Thai people benefit from their ingrained Eastern perspectives from early on and what we can learn that is vital for our development of freedom from personal suffering.

Becoming Aware: Why does something so easy feel so hard?
2026-03-22 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Mindfulness is a simple practice, so how come it feels so difficult sometimes? In this talk, Susanna will explore some of the common traps practitioners fall into – from over-complicating to getting stuck. Through stories, personal experiences, and simple teachings from Thai masters, she’ll break down common ways we make something easy feel unnecessarily hard.

Meditative Yin Yoga
2026-03-29 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Step into a sanctuary of tranquility with Karen’s gentle Meditative Yin Yoga class, where everyone is warmly welcomed – no prior yoga experience is necessary! Under Karen’s guidance you will sustain soothing yin and restorative postures that nurture body, mind and spirit. Each pose is accompanied by mindfulness instructions designed to elevate your awareness of the body and the mind, which in turn will assist you with your daily mindfulness practice.

Mindfulness and Eating
2026-04-12 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Join Susie as she delves into the practice of mindful eating and how to be aware during meal, snack and tea times. Susie will share tips on cultivating a mindful eating practice to gain insights into your habits and patterns. **Please bring something to drink and a snack to eat e.g. cookies, nuts, fruit, chips etc.
