What you’ll explore in these 3 days
Day 1 – Why: Shoulds, Wants & Callings
From Technique to Trust
What drives your practice? This session explores the hidden forces behind meditation: Are you practicing out of obligation, striving for self-improvement – or is there a deeper calling pulling you?
You’ll learn why the mind of meditation doesn’t respond to pressure – and what becomes possible when we shift toward intimacy and resonance.
Day 2 – How: Let Meditation Do You
The Inner Landscape
We often think of meditation as something we “do” – but this subtle framing can block the very experience we long for.
You’ll explore how self-reference shapes your inner world – and what it means to soften, release, and let meditation do you.
Day 3 – What: Longings vs. Expectations
A Way of Being
What do we believe meditation should feel like? Still? Blissful? Clear? This session helps you uncover the expectations shaping your practice – and offers a liberating alternative:
Engaging with your longings not as absences, but as living presences – and letting meditation become their expression.
A New Kind of Attention
You sit. You breathe. You try to be present.
But something still feels… distant. Mechanical. Not quite alive.
Is this really meditation? Is this what it’s supposed to feel like?
You might notice performance-oriented thoughts. Doubts. Or simply a quiet confusion.
You’re not alone.
This journey offers clarity about a subtle truth:
Meditation doesn’t respond to pressure — it opens when you do.
It’s not about doing it right, but about entering a deeper field of presence.
Not More Doing. More Being.
This isn’t another meditation technique. It’s a subtle but profound shift — from control to connection, from trying to simply being.
In this 3-day guided experience, you’ll begin to:
- Uncover the hidden patterns shaping your meditation
- Sense the difference between “doing meditation” and “being meditated”
- Explore a more intimate, satisfying relationship with your inner world
What You’ll Receive
3 On-Demand Video Sessions
Teachings with Nicole Baden Roshi — each a story‒rich doorway into a fresh way of relating to meditation.
Daily Reflections by Email
Summaries of the day’s core insight — gentle companions you can revisit in your own rhythm.
Simple Daily Practices
One small thing to try, sense, or notice — so that insight becomes embodied.
This journey is for you if...
…you’re new to meditation and want a grounded introduction
…you’ve practiced before — even for years — but still wonder if you’re missing something
…you long for more depth, aliveness, and real connection in your practice
…you’re curious about meditation as a space of intimacy, not self-optimization
Meet your guide
Tatsudo Nicole Baden – Zen teacher, spiritual companion, and founder of Dharma Academy
Nicole has been walking the path of meditation and spiritual practice for over two decades. Rooted in the Zen tradition – and shaped by years of guiding retreats, students, and deep inner journeys – her teaching is both clear and kind.
She doesn’t offer quick fixes or techniques.
She offers space and Stillness.
And the kind of quiet clarity that invites people back into real presence.
Through Dharma Academy, she helps people reconnect with what truly matters – not through discipline, but through intimacy with life itself.
This 3-day Journey is a small, quiet invitation from her to you:
Come home to your practice.
Come home to yourself.
