Silicon Valley Shambhala Meditation Center

A great community for anybody looking to get started in the Tibetan meditation tradition. Wayne is the director of the facility and is really kind and friendly. On Sundays during Open House you will probably meet him… There are beginning classes for those who have never meditated before.
The health benefits of meditation are widely researched, and the dharma talks after group meditation are enlightening and wise. A wonderful space for spiritual development.
One day I went on the Tibetan New Year. I got to listen to the leader of the Shambhala community speak in an international broadcast… It was quite engaging and encouraged me to figure out how I can participate more. A+, I wish I could go more often!

Everyone was friendly. I had a great time. I will be going back.

The community at the SVSC has been very good to me. I started coming a little more than a year ago. Since then I’ve received free meditation instruction, been to countless community events/​meditations, met many very nice people, and never been asked for a donation or pressured to become Buddhist or anything (though I have since donated of my own free will).
There are no religious precedents here, there is no required belief system or change you have to make. All people of all faiths and ideologies are welcome. Open discussion is fostered often and there is a general sense of joy and community here that make this place welcoming. More than one person has commented on how when they first arrived they felt a magnetic sense of wholeness or peace at this center. If I hadn’t discovered the SVSC, I wouldn’t have found that meditation was the path for me.
This is what they’re about at SVSC: Learning and practicing meditation, forming a supportive and joyful community, and contributing to an enlightened society at large. Please come visit if you’re interested.