Stage One
Attention & Settling the Mind
Strengthening focus and awareness.
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Mahāmudrā NYCMahāmudrā
New York
A 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, and one long retreat each summer.
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
Exact time and address arrive by email — join the list below.
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.
Summer retreat
Peak State II
A week of meditation & exploration
August 3 – 7, 2026
Frederiksværk, Denmark
Four days examining the foundations of Mahāmudrā and the path of awareness — from attention to open presence, and from practice to peak experience.
The first gathering met in Frederiksværk in August 2026. The next is announced to the list first.
Facilitated by
Lev Brie
Authorized by
Dustin DiPerna
Daily practice
30 minutes in total
10 minute teaching
10–20 minute meditation
Reflection & discussion
Deep dive (optional)
30 minutes for those exploring Mahāmudrā in greater depth.
Lev Brie
Facilitator
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.