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LIVE EVENTS FROM THE INTEGRAL DOJO

Practice together.

Retreats, workshops, seminars, online gatherings, and selected live events with Miles Kessler.

Throughout the year, Miles offers a small number of opportunities to step out of ordinary rhythm and enter the work more directly.

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WHY PRACTICE LIVE?

Some things become visible only when we practice together.

UPCOMING

Current & upcoming events.

Select an event for full details, schedule, location, suitability, and registration.

2026

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OCT 23–24

AIKIDO Β· IN PERSON

Bruno Gonzalez & Miles Kessler β€” Aikido Seminar

Two days of Aikido practice with Bruno Gonzalez and Miles Kessler at the Integral Dojo in Tel Aviv.

The Integral Dojo Β· Tel Aviv October 23–24, 2026
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NOV 01

MEDITATION Β· 6-MONTH LIVE TRAINING

The 7 Stages of Purification

A six-month guided exploration of the classical Seven Stages of Purification as a living map for Vipassana practice, insight, and integration.

Live Online Β· Zoom Begins November 1, 2026
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NOV 07

MEDITATION Β· ONLINE WORKSHOP

Big Mind / Big Heart

A live Voice Dialogue workshop for mindfulness meditators exploring perspective, disowned aspects of self, and non-dual awareness.

Online Β· Zoom November 7 Β· 7:00–10:00 PM
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NOV 17

FACILITATOR TRAINING Β· 12 WEEKS

The Integral Voice Process

A live facilitator training in Voice Dialogue and nondual facilitation for coaches, teachers, facilitators, and experienced practitioners.

Live Online Β· Zoom November 17, 2026 – February 9, 2027

2027

05
APR 25

MEDITATION Β· ONLINE DAY WORKSHOP

Shadow Work for Mindfulness Meditators

Explore how shadow and spiritual bypass can appear in meditation, and learn a practical process for recognizing and working with disowned aspects of the self.

Online Β· Zoom April 25, 2027
06
MAY 02

MEDITATION Β· 6-MONTH LIVE TRAINING

Meditation and the Dark Night of the Soul

A six-month live training for recognizing, understanding, and navigating difficult contemplative territory through the Progress of Insight and the 4 R’s.

Live Online Begins May 2, 2027

LIVE PRACTICE

Different forms. The same underlying practice.

The format changes depending on the territory being explored, but each event is an opportunity to move from ideas into direct experience.

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RETREATS

Step more deeply into practice.

Dedicated time for meditation, inquiry, embodiment, and sustained contemplative work.

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WORKSHOPS

Explore a focused territory.

Experiential work around a particular theme, practice, skill, or developmental question.

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SEMINARS

Train together in person.

Selected Aikido, embodiment, conflict, and other in-person training opportunities.

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ONLINE GATHERINGS

Practice wherever you are.

Live online teachings, special sessions, conversations, and practice gatherings.

WHY LIVE PRACTICE MATTERS

Practice changes when engaging with other people are in the room.

A recording can transmit a teaching. Live practice adds relationship, immediacy, and response.

Questions arise in real time. Habits become visible. Other perspectives enter the field. What seemed clear in theory meets the complexity of actual experience.

Whether the context is meditation, Aikido, embodiment, conflict, or developmental inquiry, practicing together creates conditions that solitary study cannot reproduce.

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Direct experience

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Live guidance

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Shared inquiry

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Embodied integration

Miles Kessler

ABOUT MILES KESSLER

Decades of practice across contemplative and embodied traditions.

Miles is a meditation teacher, Aikido sensei, and founder of the Integral Dojo.

His teaching brings together contemplative practice, embodiment, developmental inquiry, relationship, conflict transformation, and more than 25 years of experience teaching internationally.

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BETWEEN EVENTS

You don’t need to wait for the next gathering.

If there is no current event that fits, there are other ways to enter the work now.

LIVE PRACTICE

Show up. Take another step on the path. See what happens.

Return here for current retreats, workshops, seminars, and special live events.

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See you in the deep end.