Brahma Viharas: A Heart Meditation Experience with Austin & Kristin
Join Austin Hansen and Kristin Varner for a five-week immersion into the Brahma Viharas - the four luminous qualities of the awakened heart: Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity.
Rooted in Buddhist contemplative tradition, these practices invite us to meet ourselves and the world with greater tenderness, clarity, and presence. Through guided meditation, gentle inquiry, reflection, and shared community, this course offers a spacious environment for cultivating emotional balance and deep inner connection.
Each week will explore one of the Brahma Viharas as a living practice - not as an ideal to achieve, but as a natural capacity of the heart waiting to be remembered and felt.
Whether you are new to meditation or wanting to deepen your practice, you are warmly welcome.
No prior experience is necessary, and the course is offered free of charge.
Saturdays | May 30 - June 27
10:15 - 11:45 AM
Community Yoga Center I Riverside, California
Everyone is Welcome Here
All bodies, backgrounds, and experience levels are welcome. No prior experience is necessary. There is never a cost.
What to Bring
We practice indoors, in a large room. We recommend wearing comfortable layered clothing to help regulate preferred body temperature.
This Practice is Not Sold
This practice is not sold. It’s shared. Our offerings exist through voluntary giving - as a living expression of the community we are. What we receive is made possible by the many who have given before us, and what we offer allows the practice to remain unowned and open.
Giving is part of yoga practice - not as a duty, but as a remembering. When we give, the grip of “me and mine” loosens. The patterns of separation and self-importance are disrupted. We step out of self-absorption - the root of suffering - and feel into the truth of interconnectedness. Every act of giving dissolves a boundary. The giver and the receiver are not two. This is how the practice continues - through open hands and open hearts.