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The Bodhicitta Practice Foundation It was on her October, 2012 trip to Haiti with Haiti Health Initiative that Alexia Marcous, co-founder and Chief Optimistic Officer of Dharma, had a life-changing insight.  Despite hurricane Sandy’s destruction of the dental clinic she was volunteering in cutting the trip short, she described her [...]

Featured Merchant: Thanksgiving Coffee This month we're thrilled to feature Thanksgiving Coffee, a fellow family-run business here in Northern California. Started in 1972, Thanksgiving Coffee has been dedicated to community, fair trade, the highest-quality coffee and the well-being of their farming partners since the beginning, even suing Regan, Bush and [...]

Featured Merchant: Sungevity This month we’re honored to feature Sungevity, one of many of our beloved clients here at Dharma. One because we love solar, two because we love founder Danny Kennedy (the brilliant, passionate, orange-loving, former Greenpeace activist Aussie) and three because we love Danny's new book: Rooftop Revolution [...]

Featured Merchant: Falling Whistles Falling Whistles is a campaign for peace in The Democratic Republic of the Congo. They sell whistles as symbols of protest, after the founders learned that child soldiers were being sent to the front lines of war in the Congo with only a whistle. Falling Whistles [...]

Featured Merchant: Flora Grubb Gardens In addition to sharing the magic of San Francisco's own Flora Grubb Gardens, we'd like to take this opportunity to say congratulations to Flora Grubb for being recognized as one of 11 recipients for Martha Stewart's first annual American Made Awards! It was a well-deserved [...]

Featured Merchant: Planting Justice Planting Justice is an income-generating non-profit that is creating green jobs in edible landscaping and grassroots organizing, while increasing access to healthy food, building community, and offering environmental education and green entrepreneurship in economically disadvantaged communities. Their urban food forest program produces low-cost, organic, nutritious food [...]

Congratulations to our Photo Contest Winners! Thank you so much to all of you who participated in our photo contest. It was absolutely delightful to receive your entries and put smiling faces behind your familiar voices. It was also very difficult to decide on the winners - so difficult that [...]

Dharma Exhibits at PAINWeek, 9/5-9/8 This September 5th-8th, Dharma will be exhibiting at the annual PAINWeek conference in Las Vegas, NV. A happy client of Dharma, PAINWeek is the nation's largest pain conference for frontline clinicians with an interest in pain management. Over 1500 physicians, nursing professionals, physician assistants, dentists, [...]

Bay Area Sacred Commerce Workshop: 8/18 – 8/19 About 4 years ago we became aware of a local restaurant called Café Gratitude whose founders, Matthew and Terces Englehart, had integrated their contemplative practice as a vital part of the path to awakening. They have since written a book and developed [...]

This Month’s Being Game: Being Supportive Being Supportive is the topic of our "Being Game" at Dharma this month. The intention behind the Being Game is to hold a virtue in mind every day as a way to deepen our understanding and experience of an aspect of awakening. Each day [...]