2025 Awakening Joy Course: 10 Steps to a Happier Life

An Online Course with James Baraz

Meeting Dates/Times: see the Awakening Joy website.

Registration is open

Awakening Joy is a 5-month internationally recognized course designed to awaken joy through exciting themes and practices that incline the mind toward well-being and deeper insight.

Awakening Joy is not a feel good course; it’s a feel everything course. It has a strong emphasis on experiential practice, focused on 10 themes. Through these practices, you will come to see myriad results develop from choosing to be happy.

The course includes LIVE Zoom sessions with both video and audio recordings plus practice letters from James on each of the ten themes. People can do it alone or in supportive groups with other participants.

This course, taken by over 20,000 people, presents 10 practice themes—including compassion, gratitude, dealing with the difficult, and loving ourselves— over a 5-month period to develop more consciousness, love and caring in ourselves and, in the process, to help remind others of the good inside and around them.

The course starts January 28, 2025. Sessions are held live on Zoom with class recordings available within 48 hours. Participants receive practice letters and other supportive materials throughout the January-June course. 

10 Themes, One Every Other Week
Each theme inclines the mind towards a specific wholesome state, bringing awareness to the gladness that accompanies it.

• Intention
• Mindfulness
• Gratitude
• Joy in Difficult Times
• Integrity
• The Joy of Letting Go
• Loving Ourselves
• Connection with Others
• Compassion
• The Joy of Being

“This course changed my life. I understand now that I have a lot more to do with experiencing joy than I thought.” 

Fees:
$299 if paid before Dec. 31, 2024; $349 if paid later

For more information and to register, go to the Awakening Joy website. If you go there via THIS LINK, 25% of your fee will go to Mid America Dharma. This is a way to support Mid America Dharma as you engage with these teachings.

Note that Mid America Dharma cannot offer financial assistance for this event. However, different payment options are available on the Awakening Joy website. These include: installment payments, a group discount, and sliding scale fees.  Click on “Sign Up Now” on the Awakening Joy website to see these options.