Wake Up together
online meditation community
Guided Meditations | Daily Teachings to Stay Awake | Group Reflections
Live, everyday at 6:30AM Pacific Time on Zoom.
Wake Up Together is an online meditation community that was established in 2020 by Trina and partners. Our mission is to help support individuals in maintaining a solid meditation practice through practicing in an accessible and open-minded community. We meet every day, virtually. While we are rooted in the Vipassana-Insight tradition, our approach is also inclusive to all Buddhist meditation practices such as anapanasati (mindfulness of the breath), metta (loving-kindness), body scans, tonglen, and others. The space that our meditators come to know is one that expresses itself as welcoming and embodying all views and interpretations of spirituality.
We hold the commitment to remain humble and vulnerable in our role as the guides and door openers to the individual's inner journey. We aspire to shape the experience for participants to experience serenity, clear-seeing and profound understanding of the mind, and the [no] self through the practices, the guidance, the teachings, and the reflections offered in group sharing.
To solidify this spiritual aspiration is to make a commitment to sit in community with a predetermined frequency or as often as you can.
We welcome you to join our beloved community!
DAILY PRACTICE SCHEDULE (in Pacific Time):
6:25 am PT - Zoom room opens
6:32 am PT - 30 mins of Guided Meditation
7:03 am PT - Dharma Talk, Group Sharing
Register here to receive Zoom Link.
Explore the depths of meditation, cultivate the power to transform the quality of your life.
wake up to how things really are now
Mindfulness means to remember. We practice to build that muscle to remember what is real and what is true. Meet life here and now as it really is, and not as it appears to be. It’s possible to find relief from the conditioned mind that is caught in the past or carried away by the future. The practice of meditation creates a pathway for the mind to connect to the heart and the body and breath. In this balance state, we learn how to live from our deepest intention by tapping into the higher levels of awareness.
Practicing in a group setting is a key component to succeed. Good friends keep us on track. A skilled teacher steers us in the right direction. The teachings give us a framework and context for the experiences we are having. You don’t have to do it alone. Join our meditation community and be fully supported as you explore the inner landscape of your mind and body.
PRACTICE GUIDANCE WISDOM
“Without concentration, there is no wisdom. Without wisdom, there is no concentration. One who has both concentration and wisdom is close to peace and emancipation.” - the Dhammapada
the truth lies within you.
Trina works to help people uncover blindspots and barriers to living a life of fulfillment. The practice of meditation and the application of mindfulness can reveal many subtle aspects that one cannot gain through books, therapy, and listening to podcasts. Letting go of the mental, emotional and physical troubles can only happen once there is a clear understanding of the root of our problems. Trina provides concise and simple instructions to be implemented and practiced over the course of daily life that produces extraordinary results. Under Trina’s sound, gentle, and clear guidance, individuals discover the nature of reality for themselves. You will discover that island within you without needing to change anything outside of you. You will build the confidence of the right way to practice, and how to train in being the master of your mind.
find your tribe
Often times, when individuals take on a meditation practice or start questioning their spiritual path, it can be a lonely experience. Alone, one can easily stray into dark corners, have okay experiences, and maybe have incremental progress. Alone, we can achieve some success. But to make that quantum leap of success in your practice, having a community made up of a trusted teacher, rich reminders, and a group of open-minded and warm-hearted friends are necessary. Trina draws individuals who share this interest to go further and deeper. We don’t just skim the surface, we dig deep in practice, study, and contemplations. This is evident in the space that Trina curates. Join in on the practice.
