Fully Being is an awareness-based contemplative training, discussion, and practice, led by facilitators Adam Kane and James Terburg.

A session with Adam and James is a body and feeling-based approach to awareness as meditation, based on the Fully Being secular meditation course. They create a playful and welcoming space, suitable for all-levels. Generally seated, the session will explore ideas and practices to help connect with grounded-ness, basic wellbeing and innate clarity. Any movement or breathing will be very gentle. They will be sharing the material, offering guided meditations, and leaving time for group discussion and Q+A.

This is a private session for UVA Rec. If you're not part of this group, check out the public Fully Being course.

Adam Kane:
After graduating with a degree in neuroscience, Adam first encountered Buddhism through Theravadan practice in 2001. He was then ordained in the Thai Forest tradition at the age of twenty-four. After two years as a monastic, he met Tsoknyi Rinpoche and began practicing Tibetan Buddhism. In 2008, he moved to Kathmandu, Nepal for seven years to study Buddhist Philosophy and Tibetan, receiving an MA in Buddhist Studies and Himalayan Language at Rangjung Yeshe Institute. For the last twelve years, he has served as Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s principal English interpreter and has worked on numerous translation, writing, curriculum, pedagogy and education projects. He currently translates for several Tibetan lamas and teaches and mentors the Fully Being curriculum. He is Programming Lead for the Pundarika Foundation and lives in Crestone, Colorado.

James Terburg:
After earning a degree in sociology, James served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. During his later professional years in Washington, D.C., he encountered Buddhism and began a path of study and practice under Tsoknyi Rinpoche that has continued for more than a decade, including extended periods in Nepal and Colorado. Informed by graduate studies in management and grounded in the leadership training of the Marines, he now serves as Executive Director of the Pundarika Foundation, where his work bridges organizational leadership with Rinpoche’s vision for making authentic Buddhist teachings accessible in the modern world. He lives in Crestone, Colorado.

See also the Golden Hour event.