Young Adults Meditation Group
guest facilitator: Sarah Lipton

Guiding an inquiry into the path of embodying our experience and applying that to how we manifest as leaders in our life.

What would it be like to "come home" to ourselves, on and off the meditation cushion? Is it possible to "stay with" our experiences as they happen? Join Sarah Lipton, founder of The Presence Point, LLC for an evening of exploration. We will explore what it's like to inhabit our bodies and to live at the center of our lives.

The Montpelier Shambhala Group needs to move again.

What do we want? Why do we want it? How will we make that happen?

Join Sarah for a guided visioning session to help clarify these questions.

Located in the capital city of Vermont, the Shambhala Montpelier Meditation Group gathers together in it’s Shambhala meditation and community room at 46 Barre Street located in the Center for Arts and Learning in downtown Montpelier, Vermont.

Young Adults Meditation Group

Leadership is a path of challenging transformation.

Do you perceive inner richness and unexpressed talents, yet feel stuck, blocked or paralyzed? Are you longing to find ways to break through, feel your way into new discoveries and move in a direction that is led by your inner compass?

This workshop is for people who find themselves in a leadership role and need soft but powerful encouragement. This is for you if you need help grounding and nourishing your vision by asking brave and direct questions, allowing you to give birth to your own unique creativity. You will be invited to taste your particular style of moving through your life, job or career by identifying how you make decisions, learning to navigate stuck patterns and developing your personal goals.

Are you accustomed to speedy decisions that come from a mind of fear and panic? What would a day feel like if you unlocked your innate creativity and allowed more embodiment and play?

In this workshop, you will not only explore techniques to embody awareness, but you will also have the opportunity to engage your core questions and recognize the resources at your disposal. Please bring a specific situation, challenge or question you would like to work on during this workshop. You will go home with a map you have created that will chart the path towards realizing your vision and goals.

Unlock your path of leadership. Be prepared for transformation. Take a leap and join us.

Montly Open House - Meditation and Talk

Leadership is a path of challenging transformation.

Do you perceive inner richness and unexpressed talents, yet feel stuck, blocked or paralyzed? Are you longing to find ways to break through, feel your way into new discoveries and move in a direction that is led by your inner compass?

This workshop is for people who find themselves in a leadership role and need soft but powerful encouragement. This is for you if you need help grounding and nourishing your vision by asking brave and direct questions, allowing you to give birth to your own unique creativity. You will be invited to taste your particular style of moving through your life, job or career by identifying how you make decisions, learning to navigate stuck patterns and developing your personal goals.

Are you accustomed to speedy decisions that come from a mind of fear and panic? What would a day feel like if you unlocked your innate creativity and allowed more embodiment and play?

In this workshop, you will not only explore techniques to embody awareness, but you will also have the opportunity to engage your core questions and recognize the resources at your disposal. Please bring a specific situation, challenge or question you would like to work on during this workshop. You will go home with a map you have created that will chart the path towards realizing your vision and goals.

Unlock your path of leadership. Be prepared for transformation. Take a leap and join us.

Making her teaching debut in San Francisco, Sarah will lead participants at the San Francisco Shambhala Center in an hour long contemplation of embodiment, core challenges and mapping a personal creative strategy to manifest core vision.

Here's more information:

Public Talk with Sarah Lipton, Founder of The Presence Point, LLC www.thepresencepoint.com

Leadership is a path of challenging transformation.  

Are you in a position of leadership but feeling stuck? Do you need support with utilizing your untapped talents? Do you perceive them to be there but feel blocked or paralyzed in bringing them to the surface? Join us for an exploration in which you will discover how to lead from your intuitive inner compass.

This talk is for innovative, creative people who find themselves in a leadership role, be it as an entrepreneur, school teacher or working on Wall Street. Our group will support you with soft but powerful encouragement. This is for you if you need help grounding and nourishing a current vision, reconnecting with a past goal, or manifesting and finding a new purpose in your place of leadership.

We will open the space, allowing you to bring up brave and direct questions to give birth to your own “innovative creative”. We will help you identify both inner opportunities and where you may see downfalls. You will be guided on how to explore your particular style of moving through your life, job or career by identifying how you make decisions, learning to navigate stuck patterns and developing your personal goals.

Are you accustomed to speedy decisions that come from a mind of fear and panic? What would a day feel like if you unlocked your innate creativity and allowed more embodiment and play?

How to Get the Most Out of Coaching: Best Practices
Presenters: Susan Palmer, Sarah Richardson, Sarah Lipton

This is a panel discussion with audience participation. Attendees will hear from a variety of professional coaches about tips and tactics for how clients can maximize their return on investment in different types of coaching.

In addition to discussing strategies, participants will engage in brief exercises designed to help them turn these best practices into actionable next steps. Themes will include communication, confidence, work-life balance, leadership and accountability.

At the Vermont Technical College in Randolph.

with Sarah Lipton & Nikki Jiraff

By making a deep connection to the present moment and understanding our mind through the practice of meditation, we learn to make friends with ourselves…

This course offers the meditator’s instruction manual. Learn how to overcome obstacles to strengthening your mind in this 5-week course. By the end you’ll be equipped with tools to establish your own meditation practice.

Experience what happens when we stop avoiding ourselves and the present moment and practice simply being with whatever is going on in our lives. Learn to cultivate courage and stability in the daily complexities of jobs, responsibilities, relationships, and the everyday desires, concerns and uncertainties we all face. This is the 1st class in the Way of Shambhala curriculum. It offers a glimpse of the Shambhala vision of an enlightened society created through mindfulness-awareness meditation, showcasing how the stability and wisdom cultivated through this practice can expand to benefit the world around us.

*In addition to the program fee, there are two recommended books we invite you to purchase for the class (both books are available in the Shambhala Center bookstore and through all major booksellers):

Turning the Mind Into An Ally, by Sakyong Mipham
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, by Chögyam Trungpa

Class description:

Class 1: Introduction to Meditation: Basic Goodness and Becoming Familiar with Equanimity
Class 2: Using Mindfulness and Awareness to Gather the Mind and Work with Emotions
Class 3: Overcoming the Obstacles to Meditation
Class 4: Willing to Open: The Genuine Heart
Class 5: Meditation as a Transformational Tool for Society

with Sarah Lipton & Nikki Jiraff

By making a deep connection to the present moment and understanding our mind through the practice of meditation, we learn to make friends with ourselves…

This course offers the meditator’s instruction manual. Learn how to overcome obstacles to strengthening your mind in this 5-week course. By the end you’ll be equipped with tools to establish your own meditation practice.

Experience what happens when we stop avoiding ourselves and the present moment and practice simply being with whatever is going on in our lives. Learn to cultivate courage and stability in the daily complexities of jobs, responsibilities, relationships, and the everyday desires, concerns and uncertainties we all face. This is the 1st class in the Way of Shambhala curriculum. It offers a glimpse of the Shambhala vision of an enlightened society created through mindfulness-awareness meditation, showcasing how the stability and wisdom cultivated through this practice can expand to benefit the world around us.

*In addition to the program fee, there are two recommended books we invite you to purchase for the class (both books are available in the Shambhala Center bookstore and through all major booksellers):

Turning the Mind Into An Ally, by Sakyong Mipham
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, by Chögyam Trungpa

Class description:

Class 1: Introduction to Meditation: Basic Goodness and Becoming Familiar with Equanimity
Class 2: Using Mindfulness and Awareness to Gather the Mind and Work with Emotions
Class 3: Overcoming the Obstacles to Meditation
Class 4: Willing to Open: The Genuine Heart
Class 5: Meditation as a Transformational Tool for Society

with Sarah Lipton & Nikki Jiraff

By making a deep connection to the present moment and understanding our mind through the practice of meditation, we learn to make friends with ourselves…

This course offers the meditator’s instruction manual. Learn how to overcome obstacles to strengthening your mind in this 5-week course. By the end you’ll be equipped with tools to establish your own meditation practice.

Experience what happens when we stop avoiding ourselves and the present moment and practice simply being with whatever is going on in our lives. Learn to cultivate courage and stability in the daily complexities of jobs, responsibilities, relationships, and the everyday desires, concerns and uncertainties we all face. This is the 1st class in the Way of Shambhala curriculum. It offers a glimpse of the Shambhala vision of an enlightened society created through mindfulness-awareness meditation, showcasing how the stability and wisdom cultivated through this practice can expand to benefit the world around us.

*In addition to the program fee, there are two recommended books we invite you to purchase for the class (both books are available in the Shambhala Center bookstore and through all major booksellers):

Turning the Mind Into An Ally, by Sakyong Mipham
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, by Chögyam Trungpa

Class description:

Class 1: Introduction to Meditation: Basic Goodness and Becoming Familiar with Equanimity
Class 2: Using Mindfulness and Awareness to Gather the Mind and Work with Emotions
Class 3: Overcoming the Obstacles to Meditation
Class 4: Willing to Open: The Genuine Heart
Class 5: Meditation as a Transformational Tool for Society

with Sarah Lipton & Nikki Jiraff

By making a deep connection to the present moment and understanding our mind through the practice of meditation, we learn to make friends with ourselves…

This course offers the meditator’s instruction manual. Learn how to overcome obstacles to strengthening your mind in this 5-week course. By the end you’ll be equipped with tools to establish your own meditation practice.

Experience what happens when we stop avoiding ourselves and the present moment and practice simply being with whatever is going on in our lives. Learn to cultivate courage and stability in the daily complexities of jobs, responsibilities, relationships, and the everyday desires, concerns and uncertainties we all face. This is the 1st class in the Way of Shambhala curriculum. It offers a glimpse of the Shambhala vision of an enlightened society created through mindfulness-awareness meditation, showcasing how the stability and wisdom cultivated through this practice can expand to benefit the world around us.

*In addition to the program fee, there are two recommended books we invite you to purchase for the class (both books are available in the Shambhala Center bookstore and through all major booksellers):

Turning the Mind Into An Ally, by Sakyong Mipham
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, by Chögyam Trungpa

Class description:

Class 1: Introduction to Meditation: Basic Goodness and Becoming Familiar with Equanimity
Class 2: Using Mindfulness and Awareness to Gather the Mind and Work with Emotions
Class 3: Overcoming the Obstacles to Meditation
Class 4: Willing to Open: The Genuine Heart
Class 5: Meditation as a Transformational Tool for Society

with Sarah Lipton & Nikki Jiraff

By making a deep connection to the present moment and understanding our mind through the practice of meditation, we learn to make friends with ourselves…

This course offers the meditator’s instruction manual. Learn how to overcome obstacles to strengthening your mind in this 5-week course. By the end you’ll be equipped with tools to establish your own meditation practice.

Experience what happens when we stop avoiding ourselves and the present moment and practice simply being with whatever is going on in our lives. Learn to cultivate courage and stability in the daily complexities of jobs, responsibilities, relationships, and the everyday desires, concerns and uncertainties we all face. This is the 1st class in the Way of Shambhala curriculum. It offers a glimpse of the Shambhala vision of an enlightened society created through mindfulness-awareness meditation, showcasing how the stability and wisdom cultivated through this practice can expand to benefit the world around us.

*In addition to the program fee, there are two recommended books we invite you to purchase for the class (both books are available in the Shambhala Center bookstore and through all major booksellers):

Turning the Mind Into An Ally, by Sakyong Mipham
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, by Chögyam Trungpa

Class description:

Class 1: Introduction to Meditation: Basic Goodness and Becoming Familiar with Equanimity
Class 2: Using Mindfulness and Awareness to Gather the Mind and Work with Emotions
Class 3: Overcoming the Obstacles to Meditation
Class 4: Willing to Open: The Genuine Heart
Class 5: Meditation as a Transformational Tool for Society

Simplicity Retreats welcome all levels of experience, from beginners to veteran practitioners. We offer a thorough introduction to sitting and walking meditation, as well as an opportunity to deepen your practice through group discussions, personal time for study and reflection, nature walks, and exercises in contemplative arts.

Come for the entire time, or simply for a day or two-- the choice is yours. The flexible schedule allows you to find your own pace and activities, while keeping a daily practice of meditation, and enjoying the support of fellow attendees.

Sarah Lipton will be offering daily embodyment work to facilitate the depth of the meditation practice. Join her there!

Without seeing things as they are, it is hard to create art. Our perceptions are obscured and our mind is not fresh, so making art becomes a troubled, futile process by which we're trying to create something based on concept. ~ Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Shambhala Art can be seen as a process, a product, and an arts education program. As a process, it brings wakefulness and awareness to the creative and viewing processes through the integration of contemplation and meditation. As a product, it is art that wakes us up.

In this evening exploration, Shambhala Art Teacher Sarah Lipton will share both the perspective of creating "art" from the basis of true perception, as well as guide a creative process for participants to taste first-hand what this means. Come if you are curious about creating from genuine presence. Come if you are interested in exploding your preconceptions about creativity!

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​Sarah Lipton is a local teacher, writer, podcaster and owner of The Presence Point, the business through which she guides leaders to unlock their innate creativity, connect with their vision, and manifest with inspiration. She has been on the Shambhala journey for almost 20 years and lives with her family in Calais, VT.

Join BNI for the latest edition of "The Business Experience series - a monthly opportunity to hone your business and networking skills.  

As professionals, we are constantly training:

• our clients
• our employees and coworkers
• and many others through presentations

To be a successful trainer, it is crucial to understand the psychology behind the needs of the listener, as well as the trainer. In this workshop we will explore:

• What are the habits of the human brain when learning?  
• What techniques are best applied to help engage a listener's attention and motivate them about the information you are providing?

Spend 2 hours with Executive Director of BNI Vermont, Vickie Wacek, and Leadership Mentor with The Presence Point, LLC, Sarah Lipton, to learn skills and gain insight into how to make the most out of your training opportunities.  

Join BNI for the latest edition of "The Business Experience series - a monthly opportunity to hone your business and networking skills.  

As professionals, we are constantly training:

• our clients
• our employees and coworkers
• and many others through presentations

Spend 2 hours with Executive Director of BNI Vermont, Vickie Wacek, and Leadership Mentor with The Presence Point, LLC, Sarah Lipton, to learn skills and gain insight into how to make the most out of your training opportunities.  

Without seeing things as they are, it is hard to create art. Our perceptions are obscured and our mind is not fresh, so making art becomes a troubled, futile process by which we’re trying to create something based on concept.     ~ Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Shambhala Art can be seen as a process, a product, and an arts education program. As a process, it brings wakefulness and awareness to the creative and viewing processes through the integration of contemplation and meditation. As a product, it is art that wakes us up.

In this 5-hour exploration, Shambhala Art Teacher Sarah Lipton will share both the perspective of creating “art” from the basis of true perception, as well as guide a couple of creative processes for participants to taste first-hand what this means.

Come if you are curious about creating from genuine presence. Come if you are interested in exploding your preconceptions about creativity! This is not an "art" workshop, it is an exploration of the senses, an​d a deepening of our understanding about what creative process is really about. Come if you are longing to engage creative process and learn more about who you are as a creative person.

Preregistration is required. Click here!

Sarah Lipton is a local teacher, writer, podcaster and owner of The Presence Point, the business through which she guides leaders to unlock their innate creativity, connect with their vision, and manifest with inspiration. She has been on the Shambhala journey for almost 20 years and lives with her family in Calais, VT.