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About the Program

Are you a musician with a spiritual thirst? Are you developing your artistic skill while in search of something? We are now offering a 8 week Buddhist Arts Intensive Program from Sunday, June 22, 2025 to Sunday, August 17, 2025 to 6 individuals who are between the ages 20-35, have a deep spiritual aspiration and inclination towards music. Our program is open to singers/songwriters, musicians and artists of all levels of experience! While music is the “thick” of this program other forms of art may be discovered and expressed. Our 8 weeks together will culminate in performance with DharmaVoci at the first annual Bodhi Fest Buddhist Arts Festival in Asheville, NC. 

In choosing to enter into this intensive training you will discover new levels of understanding and meaning in your life and depart offering joy and inspiration to others through your creativity. The essence of Dharma practice is to respond appropriately with your whole being to whatever life brings you in each moment.  

During this program you will receive Dharma teachings, Dharma transmissions, teacher guidance, music mentorship, workshops, singing lessons, access to multiple music platforms, subscriptions and more! Heartwood respects all the spiritual masters of Theravada, Vipassana, Mahayana, Zen and Vajrayana and offers refuge for contemplatives, serious practitioners, and those who are new to the dharma. 

There are many people who come and go during the week as we are full with Sangha activities and Dharma learning. Harmony and respect is our way of life as we observe the Buddha’s teachings and appreciate each other’s presence and path. The communal living experience is rich with lessons and opportunities that allows us all to step forward from suffering and into selfless service causing happiness, contentment and joy.  

It is a training opportunity for anyone who wishes to undertake such a commitment.  It is the vision of the Contemplative Order that the Arts Program will follow. Our co-founding Abbott, Venerable Pannavati’s, exposure to multiple religions has led her to believe that the world of faith would benefit from a deeper, meaningful, spiritual dialogue, as opposed to attachment to the variations within communities of faith which keep them divided.