Stage One
Attention & Settling the Mind
Strengthening focus and awareness.
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Mahāmudrā NYCMahāmudrā
New York
A theory & practice community
for meditation & awareness
We study the foundations of Mahāmudrā and the path of awareness — from attention to open presence, and from practice to peak experience. Sunday sittings in Brooklyn.
Sundays in Brooklyn
Practice held in one place, at one hour, together.
Sessions run thirty minutes: a ten-minute teaching, ten to twenty minutes of meditation, then reflection and discussion. No experience is required, and no one is asked to believe anything.
Sunday
Sitting, teaching & discussion — Brooklyn
Weekly
Convened by
Lev Brie — authorized to teach Mahāmudrā foundations
Exact time and address arrive by email — join the list below.
Foundations study circle
Read the texts. Test them against life.
A commitment-based study circle for those who want to go deeper than a weekly sit. Each week we take one chapter of a core Mahāmudrā text as a case study — close reading, interpretation, and honest discussion of how it lands in lived experience.
Rhythm
Weekly — one chapter per session
Method
Meaning, interpretation & lived experience
Convened by
Lori Corpuz — scholar & practitioner
A note on authority: this circle is convened by a fellow student, not an authorized teacher. We read as peers; formal instruction in the lineage rests with Lev and his teachers.
The path of awareness
Four stages, one continuous practice
Stage Two
Stability & Taming the Mind
Building steadiness and inner resilience.
Stage Three
One-Pointedness & Equanimity
Deepening awareness. Resting as awareness itself.
Stage Four
Flow & Peak Performance
Bringing practice into life and performing at your highest.
The first gathering
Peak State · Frederiksværk, Denmark · 2026
The first class, gathered for four days of practice in August 2026.
Lev Brie
Convener · Sundays
A technologist and teacher — engineering and product executive, startup founder, and adjunct professor of computer science at Columbia University. He leads the weekly practice in New York and is authorized to teach Mahāmudrā foundations by Dustin DiPerna.
Dustin DiPerna
Lineage & Authorization
A Harvard-trained scholar of world religions and senior teacher in the Pointing Out Way lineage of Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen, recognized by Daniel P. Brown, with whom he studied for sixteen years. He is the author of Streams of Wisdom, Evolution’s Ally, and Earth is Eden.
Sit with us
One note a month: practice times, retreat news, nothing else. Tell us what calls you.