A new cohort, an in-person retreat, a free live series, and a new site.

Everyday Awakening is a small, renewing cohort for people who have practiced for years and still feel estranged from experiencing the simultaneity of awareness and appearance. This is a space for closing that distance in community. Along with recognizing awareness and hearing teachings, a central part of this work is practicing in honest human relationship in structured small groups where people can inspire, challenge, and support one another's goals and intentions. We meet every week as a full cohort and in small groups, following a clear arc, so practice has both intimacy and reliable structure.

For this cohort, I was inspired by Candrakīrti's poetic image: a king of swans flying ahead of the flock on two broad white wings—relative and ultimate—carried by the wind of merit to the far shore of a buddha's qualities. We emphasize both wings of the work: the Dzogchen view that nothing is missing (the ultimate wing) and the honest psychological work that cleans up our inner environment (the relative wing), trained as a single discipline across the personal, interpersonal, and spiritual.

"An accessible modern lens, without diluting the teachings." That's a student's line, not mine. A few testimonials here.

Everyday Awakening is limited to 40 participants and includes a weekly pre-recorded class with a paired guided audio sit, weekly live group Q&A with me and occasional guest teachers, and peer practice pods that meet on their own for an hour each week, grouped by time zone. Once a month, I meet with your five-person pod for a live, one-hour session. In a group that small, we can work directly with your practice.

Each participant gets access to a study AI chat built for this course. It holds the Dzogchen texts and commentaries we work from, so you can ask a question and get an answer drawn only from those texts, with citations. It's a reference tool, not a teacher. Questions for a teacher belong in the weekly Q&A.

The course curriculum moves in a deliberate, classical order. The integration work lives in your day-to-day life, then is amplified in the classroom when those changes are seen, named, and supported in community.

Tuition is $1,500 for the season. A scholarship rate of $750 and a supporting tier at $2,250 are available, and monthly payment plans are offered at every level.

The interactions we share through the course become ongoing pith instructions: keeping self-care current, building skill in our interpersonal work, and loosening the seemingly invincible pull toward self-absorption. This course is not for anyone trying to use awakening to skip the human work.

The next Everyday Awakening cohort starts September 15, 2026, and applications close September 5. There will also be in-person companion retreats.

I was invited to teach a public retreat at Drala Mountain Center: the in-person form of Everyday Awakening, offered over consecutive days on beautiful, forested Colorado land. Registration will open soon through Drala and as an add-on to the Everyday Awakening course; reach out if you'd like first notice.

Open Field is a free live series on Substack. There will be a few kinds of sessions: group coaching, sitting and text study, live conversations around new essays, and the occasional guest. All you need is a free Substack account.

The first session is July 29 at 1 p.m. Mountain. RSVP for Open Field.

The Field now has four doors: Open Field, free and open to anyone; Everyday Awakening, a renewing cohort of forty; the Drala retreats in person; and private mentorship one to one. Start wherever fits your life.

Pranab will guide a demo of Attention Copilot on July 30 at 10:00 a.m. PT. The Attention Copilot method helps bring the qualities of practice into everyday work, especially the moments of contraction around avoided or demanding tasks. Write to us for the invite.

I wrote a piece arguing that online spiritual authority is mostly projection, and that real practice is messy, adaptive, and able to tolerate contradiction, rather than enforcing a single "correct" way to be spiritual.

The essay is Mutually Assured Distortion, on The Current.

The Field has a new brand and website, made in collaboration with my friend, designer and writer Frank Chimero. The question we kept returning to was whether online Buddhist design could carry strong typography and practical clarity instead of the usual incense-and-gold aesthetic. You're looking at what we made.

Alongside the new site, we've been rebuilding the plumbing: secure web forms, student portals, and a custom community chat (Discord will be phased out as that comes online).

Part of why I founded The Field is that the wayfinding in many traditional sanghas and retreat centers is outdated, and governed by unspoken roles and hierarchies. You deserve easy onboarding, attentive support, and access to materials when you need them, so your effort goes into practice instead of logistics.

This isn't about shinier tools. The front of house in a good restaurant is the public expression of the kitchen's craft; the guest never notices the infrastructure, they just feel looked after. Same standard here.