Local Meditation Meetups
If you prefer in-person practice, MindSpace is hosting gatherings for 18–40-year-olds this week, and the Tergar Meditation Practice Group in Bozeman is running sessions based on Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings. ( ). These community options are an easy way to turn short meditations into consistent habit-building aligned with the recent neuroscience findings. (newsweek.com)
MindSpace is listed as meeting Tuesdays from 6:30–7:45 p.m., with a summer “every other Tuesday” schedule that names June 10, June 24, July 8, July 22 and Aug. 5 and 19 on the organizer calendar. (bozemandharmacenter.org) The Bozeman Dharma Center that hosts both groups gives its address as 3810 Valley Commons Dr., Unit 6, and notes the center is upstairs with cushions, benches and a small tea/refreshment policy for events. (bozemandharmacenter.org) Tergar Bozeman is listed on local calendars as meeting Wednesdays with a 5:30–7:00 p.m. session and a tea social beginning at 5:00 p.m., and at least one upcoming listing was marked free and open to the public. (bozone.com) The local Tergar practice group is part of the global Tergar community that is staging a major event—Tergar Osel Ling Monastery’s grand opening is scheduled for May 31–June 4, 2026, with teachings and consecration ceremonies announced by Tergar’s organizers. (tergarsangha.org) A recent preprint using high‑density 128‑channel EEG recorded breath‑watching meditation in three groups (meditation‑naïve n=28, novice n=33, advanced n=42) and found statistically significant increases in alpha, theta and beta1 power beginning about 2–3 minutes into practice and peaking between 7–10 minutes. (biorxiv.org) The same study lists collaborators from NIMHANS and the Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet at Beth Israel Deaconess/Harvard Medical School and used Isha‑tradition breath‑focused practice as its experimental task. (biorxiv.org)
