North Bay Sangha
Smiling Awareness Meditation
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Our Mission

The mission of North Bay Sangha is to practice and offer early Buddhist meditation principles and practices and apply it to promote world-wide.peace and happiness.


Since 2009, meditation classes and workshops in early Buddhist principle and practices have be offered in the North Bay and San Francisco. These programs were inspired by the Venerable Sayadaw U Silananda, a Buddhist monk, scholar, Venerable Bhante Vimalaramsi, and Ruth Dennison who encouraged men and women to endeavor tirelessly toward the goal of self-knowledge, mental clarity, and contentment. ​
The Sangha was founded in 2015 by a group of long time meditators with experience Vipassana, Zen, TM, Samantha, and Tranquil Awareness Meditation also known as TWIM and other practices.
Director:  Steve Paladino, steve1svt@gmail.com

Advisory Board
Victoria Vogel, echorock.vogel@gmail.com
Julian Isaacs, julianIsaacs@aol.com
David Johnson, david@dhammasukha.org  
Grant Rudolph, grantrudolph@gmail.com  
Scott A. Jordan, thescottjordan@gmail.com 

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