A 13-Week Immersion Into the Depths of Meditation
200 hours of practice, study, and guided inquiry. A rare opportunity to do the inner work most people never get to.
Live Q&A. No commitment required.
Wisdom beyond wellness.
You already know that mindfulness works. You've felt the calm, the clarity, the moments of quiet insight. You've read the books. Maybe you've even kept a consistent practice for years. And still — you sense there's something more. Something your meditation app can't take you to.
This program is for people like you. People who aren't looking for another wellness offering, but for a rigorous, guided passage through the deeper territory of their own mind. The kind of work that most people never do — not because it's inaccessible, but because it requires structure, commitment, and a willingness to meet what you find.
You'll study the practices at the heart of the world's deepest contemplative traditions — samatha (calm abiding), vipassana (insight), metta (loving-kindness), somatic awareness, and the psychology of suffering. Your aim is understanding. Becoming the kind of person who sees clearly, feels fully, and meets life without flinching.
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."Mary Oliver
An ecology of practices. Not a single technique.
No single meditation practice covers the full terrain of human experience. Each technique illuminates certain dimensions of mind and heart while leaving others in shadow. Practiced in isolation, any one of them drifts toward its own characteristic distortion. An ecology corrects for this. The practices hold each other accountable.
Samatha
Builds concentration, calm, and stability. The capacity to settle the mind deeply and rest in stillness.
Alone? Can become a sophisticated form of avoidance — manufacturing pleasant states while nothing actually changes. You feel good, but you don't see clearly.
Vipassana
Sharpens awareness and reveals the impermanent, constructed nature of experience. The capacity to see what's actually happening.
Alone? Can become destabilizing — seeing too much, too fast, without the container to hold it. You see clearly, but you can't rest anywhere.
RAIN
A powerful framework for meeting difficult emotions with courage and honesty. The capacity to turn toward what you'd rather avoid.
Alone? Can become an endlessly recursive loop of self-examination. Every sit becomes therapy. You feel deeply, but you stay locked inside the story of "me and my stuff."
Metta
Cultivates warmth, goodwill, and connection. The capacity to hold it all — joy and sorrow — without collapsing into judgment.
Alone? Can drift toward spiritual bypassing — generating loving feelings while leaving unexamined the aversion, grief, or fear underneath. You love wisely, but you haven't looked at what you're afraid to feel.
Together, each practice shores up what the others lack. Samatha gives you the stability to do the hard work. Vipassana gives you the clarity to know what's actually happening. RAIN gives you the emotional courage to turn toward it. Metta gives you the warmth to hold it all. See clearly. Feel fully. Love wisely. That arc isn't a slogan — it's what the ecology produces when the practices are in right relationship.
Seven modules. 200 hours. A complete path.
Integrating traditional Theravada teachings, modern psychology, somatic understanding, and trauma-informed approaches — structured as a path of deep personal practice.
The Mind and Foundations for Meditation
Welcome to your mind. The two modes of experience. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness. The Depth of Perception. The Five Hindrances. Building the ground for everything that follows.
Samatha Meditation (Calm Abiding)
Stages of concentration through breath, visual, and mantra practices. Introduction to jhana. The contraindications of deep absorption. What happens when the mind truly settles — and what to do when it does.
Vipassana Meditation (Insight)
The stages of insight practice. Impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self as direct experience — not concepts. The dark night of vipassana. Liberation. The physiology and neurology of meditation.
RAIN Meditation and Metta (Loving-Kindness)
The five core emotions. Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture as a framework for meeting difficult inner weather. Metta toward self, difficult people, and inner parts. IFS-informed compassion practices.
The Body: Scanning, Breath, and Mindful Relating
Somatic awareness, interoception, and the felt sense. Body scanning as a doorway to presence. Breathwork as both regulation and inquiry. Relating to others as an embodied practice.
Advanced Practice and Inner Work
Deepening your capacity to hold space — for yourself. Working with difficult material. Trauma-informed practice. Group inquiry and the art of sustained, honest self-observation. Supervised practice intensives.
Integration, Wisdom, and Living What You've Learned
Mindfulness in daily life. The Circle of Peace. Awakening beyond wellness. The Three Marks of Existence as lived reality, not doctrine. Building a sustainable practice for the rest of your life.
Not just wellness — wisdom.
Five immersive weekends. Weekly sessions between.
13 weeks in hybrid format: weekly Wednesday evening online sessions anchored by five intensive in-person weekends at our Lynden, WA studio. Designed for working professionals — no need to leave your job.
Weekend Intensives
Fri 6–9 PM · Sat 12–8 PM · Sun 12–6 PM
Wednesday Sessions
Wednesdays 6–8 PM · Online via Zoom
Beyond the classroom, the real work.
Kyle Kloostra
Founder of Lynden Yoga Collective. Practiced in the Theravada Vipassana, Samatha, and Metta traditions. Kyle's primary guide is Dawn Mauricio. He has studied under Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, and brings advanced degrees in philosophy with particular interest in the philosophy of mind and consciousness studies.
His approach centers on embodied presence, integrating trauma-informed practices with inquiry-based learning. He draws from both ancient contemplative traditions and modern neuroscience to create a rigorous, transformative environment where real inner work happens.
Six core texts.
The Wise Heart
Buddhist psychology blending ancient wisdom with modern insights on mindfulness, compassion, and consciousness.
Radical Compassion
RAIN meditation as a tool for loosening the grip of difficult emotions, limiting beliefs, shame, and fear.
The Path of Insight Meditation
A practical introduction to vipassana — exercises for developing mindfulness, cultivating compassion, and living ethically.
Loving-Kindness in Plain English
The practice of metta meditation. Overcoming anger, aversion, and emotional obstacles toward greater peace.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
How standard mindfulness can exacerbate trauma symptoms — and the research-based modifications that make practice safe.
No Bad Parts
The Internal Family Systems model — how our psyche consists of protective and wounded parts, and how to access the core Self.
Two paths. Same immersion.
Early Bird
$499 deposit by May 1
Standard
After May 1
$499 deposit reserves your spot. Payment plans available. Enrollment capped at 10.
This journey will ask much of you. It will give much in return.
See clearly. Feel fully. Love fiercely.