This an expanding archive of audio and video teachings from some of the retreats Doug has led.
The teachings are free to download and share and are an excellent guide with full instructions for your own retreats of any length on a progression of topics for developing mental stability and clarity and their application in developing wisdom. If you would like to support Doug’s personal retreats and teaching, your donation is greatly appreciated.
The Six Bardos, Six video sessions taught live in Annisquam, MA in the summer of 2025
The Thirty-day Challenge An introduction to the methods and principles of shamatha practice and the Four Applications of Mindfulness. Originally taught on thirty consecutive days in 2014 at Mountain Yoga in South Lake Tahoe, CA, this series is a good introduction to meditation for beginners and fresh inspiration for experienced practitioners.
Finding the Nature of Mind within Appearances. Originally taught in October 2025 at Miyo Samten Ling in Crestone Colorado, this talk and guided meditation introduces the Ninth Karmapa’s “Four Recognitions” as an approach to use the multitude of appearances that seem to be external objects to discover the nature of the mind that perceives them.
The Nature of Mind in Stillness and Movement. (Still under construction—available soon) A four-day retreat originally taught February 28-March 2, 2020 at Wonderwell Retreat Center in New Hampshire. These sessions of instruction and guided meditations introduce The Ninth Karmapa’s precise and detailed guidance on developing the single-pointedness of shamatha through a range of techniques that begin with common objects to anchor attention on through to maintaining stable, vivid awareness with awareness itself as the only object. Once the mind is made serviceable with shamatha, the practice explores the nature of mind with vipashyana inquires that reveal the Buddha Nature that is our truest depth of being.