Open Source Sangha
A community, open and welcoming to all, independent of location, income, and other limiting factors. A space to practice and explore the Buddha-Dharma together and to apply it to our daily lives.
Join the Sangha
Every Thursday 20:00 - 21:00 (CET) | 19:00 - 20:00 (UK) | 14:00 - 16:00 (US EST) | 11:00 - 12:00 (US PST) ​​
Join us any time, no regular attendence necessary (though encouraged), no financial strings attached (donation based)
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To join, please write us an e-mail. We will provide you with a Zoom link and further information.
Three core principles
How we work and what motivates our service
Shared Humanity
We aim to foster a space for Sangha (Community) - where each of us can safely share and hear each other, without a sense of hierarchy, as we explore the beauty and challenge of being human.
Healing and Service
All teachings and explorations are aimed to be applicable to the actual circumstances of our everyday lives.
​We encourage practice that does not end with making supportive change in our own lives, but extends to service to more than just ourselves.
Buddha Dharma & More
We dive deep into the Buddha’s teachings in a spirit of inquiry and openness rather than dogma. As guides we bring our varied backgrounds and experience to question fixed views and invite participants to bring in their own questions, concerns and doubts .
Dana (Generosity)
Traditionally these teachings are offered freely, without
In the same way these teachings were passed to us by our teachers, and their to them by their teachers, stretching all the way back to the Buddha we are offering this space in the spirit of Dana.
Dana is not an exchange of money for services, nor it is it a "donation" in the sense of offering money to charity. Dana is a living, breathing, act of generosity in which we offer these ways, practices and teachings freely so that all may benefit, regardless of access to financial resources.
We do this in trust that we will in turn be supported, by those with more financial resources offering more and those with less offering less. Your support not only allows us to meet our (and our families) survival needs with such necessities as rent, medicine, food and clothing - it allows us to devote more and more of our time and energy in service of the Dharma, our community and the wider world.
All that is offered is gratefully received and will be used with the utmost responsibility. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.
Meet the facilitators
Ulla König
Main facilitator
Ulla is a Mindfulness and Meditation teacher, rooted in the original teachings the Buddha shared some 2500 years ago. As a working Mum, she has always found the need to ground these ancient teachings in the day-to-day realities of life so that spiritual practice is supportive and relevant rather than just another “ideal” to try to live up to. She is trained in Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness and uses her training to support those who need it most including refugees, survivors of domestic abuse and prisoners. She loves integrating wisdom from different traditions, philosophies and spiritual paths to offer the most helpful tools and techniques to her community.
Joe Peloquin
Main facilitator
Joe is a Meditation teacher, Wilderness Guide and Nature-Based Contemplative. Having cut his teeth in the Buddha-Dharma through a seven year cross-continental pilgrimage of service, activism, ecological living and many a meditation retreat Joe is passionate about utilizing these teachings to make deep, meaningful change in our lives, communities and world. He facilitates practices that blend contemplative meditation with contemporary animism - directly connecting to the alive and animate nature of the land and the beings who dwell there. His primary lineages are the Insight Tradition with Christopher Titmuss, Nathan Glyde and Zohar Lavie and the Nature-Based work of Animas Valley Institute with Bill Plotkin and other guides as mentors.
Kerstin Felleiter
Guest facilitator
Originally from Germany, Kerstin has spent the last decade living, travelling, volunteering and working mainly in remote places. During this time meditation, silence and exploration of the dhamma have become more and more central to her life.
Kerstin has been offering mindfulness classes, day workshops and retreats in person and online ever since.
Kerstin strongly believes in the healing power of connection, silence and the natural world. Her wish as a teacher is to support people in an undogmatic way in developing a practice which contributes to calm and clarity in their lives.
