Welcome to Internal Practice this is a vessel founded and led by Amanda Haas Abd El Halim—a movement, breath, meditation, and focus based practice rooted in yogic and Zen Buddhist tradition. The offerings are diverse, whether you want to join a casual morning sitting meditation practice, a talk or a community workshop on how to rest together, you are most welcome. If you have questions or prefer to practice one-on-one, please reach out.

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Sept 19–21, 2025, at Dharma Mati, Berlin

Lama Rod Owens

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The Dharma of Spiritual Abolition

I don’t want people to be punished for the harm they cause me or others. I want people to be free from the suffering they experience and the suffering they cause others.

More info will will follow soon :)

Spiritual abolitionism is more than a critique of power and how social systems work to grant and deny people resources that they need to survive. Spiritual abolitionism means that our entire ecology must be liberated. The Heart Sutra is one of the tools available to us in this work of liberation.
The Heart Sutra teaches that all phenomena are just expressions of the essence — this includes the sacred duality between form and emptiness. The Heart Sutra is nothing but a contradiction. Therefore, sacred duality is a contradiction because ultimately, there is no duality as there are no phenomena.
Dualities generate a tension that, through practice, we can ride back into the essence. The tension keeps us activated, which in turn keeps us from sinking into a lull or numbness from which it is difficult to break out. Using dualities like this expresses another theme of the Heart Sutra, which is the potential of liberation through contradictions.

Join Lama Rod Owens as he helps us explore how we can embody and live out these contradictions in our daily lives, in service to our collective liberation for ourselves, others, and the unseen ecologies of ancestors and descendants. We have to do the labor to get ourselves free, and that is the same labor we offer to our collectives. The talks and guided practices within this offering ask how we might abolish anything that prevents us from being in direct, honest, and compassionate relationships first with ourselves and then the communities we belong to.

RYT-500 Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher

Gatherings

CityZen

CityZen is a gathering to explore Zen meditation and Yin Yoga together and share our experiences. CityZen is created to match our urban lives in today's challenging times.

Join us in person at Zendo am Fluss in Lucerne or on Zoom.

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Sitting together

You are welcome to join the QT BIPoC All Inclusive morning sitting practices on Zoom.

Monday to Friday
7:00 AM Berlin time

20min sitting/laying down
20min sharing circle & casual talk

Let us all rest in a brave vessel and in the company of folks from all over the globe. A space where we just hold each other gently in our own respective healing and liberatory paths. Through this we empower each other to keep on shining brightly. 🌱 May we blossom firmly rooted in mud. 🪷