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One candle does not diminish by lighting another. The circle is where we remind each other.
In the Buddhist tradition, the three jewels are the awakening, the teaching, and the community. Of the three, Sangha is the one that lives between people — in the field that forms when practitioners breathe, witness, and return to one another.
"The presence of others who are also trying to see clearly is itself a form of refuge."
This is what we hold at Anapana — an open room. For breath, for sound, for the silence that lands afterward. Held for whoever keeps coming back.
We're at the beginning. What this becomes is being shaped — slowly, deliberately — by the people who show up.
Community at Anapana Studios is not passive. These are the three ways it lives.
Where it begins. A group session — breath, sound, silence, all of it shared in the same room. Strangers become familiar without needing to speak. Something forms in the field that wasn't there before. You'll know if it lands.
Between sessions. What you find in the room needs tending. We send occasional notes — a practice to try, something we're sitting with, an invitation when a circle opens. No newsletter rhythm. Just the working thread.
Where it deepens. The people who've sat once tend to come back. New circles, smaller gatherings, occasional sittings. Members hear first when the next door opens.
Sangha at Anapana will not be announced. It will be discovered together — over months, over years, by the people who keep coming.
The container forms in the returning. The work deepens in the relationships between sessions. What this becomes is not for us to decide alone.
We are at the beginning, always. The shape is yours to help find.
Community list members hear first when new circles open.
More circles opening through summer. Community list members hear first.
Join the community listNo newsletters. No marketing. When something is happening, you'll hear about it first.
We don't share your email with anyone. Ever.
What you'll receive:
Announcements of upcoming circles and gatherings — always before they open to the public.
Occasional notes from Seyeong and Jingfu's own practice — what we're reading, sitting with, unlearning.
Nothing else.
Community begins the moment you arrive. We're not building something for the future — it's already in motion.
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