Recovery Dharma Vermont
Welcome to Recovery Dharma in Burlington, Vermont
This site is a resource for anyone curious about Recovery Dharma. Many of us arrive here after trying to manage addiction and suffering on our own, often feeling stuck or alone. This path does not require belief. It invites you to look at your experience and begin to notice what helps you feel a little more steady, clear, and at home in yourself.
Our mission is to support recovery through Buddhist teachings, meditation, and community. Whether this is your first time exploring recovery or part of your ongoing path, this space is here to support a way of relating to yourself that is steady, compassionate, and honest.
Please note: The perspectives shared here reflect lived experience within our local community and are not official statements from Recovery Dharma Global. Each sangha is autonomous, and the content on this site represents the author’s understanding of the Dharma in recovery.
What is Recovery Dharma?
Recovery Dharma is a peer-led, non-theistic approach to recovery that uses Buddhist principles as a practical way of working with addiction and the suffering that often comes with it. We explore mindfulness, ethical living, compassion, and supportive community. There are no required beliefs. The invitation is to get curious about patterns that cause harm and to take steps in recovery together. Many people experience this as a gradual sense of freedom, homecoming, or remembering, though each person’s path unfolds in their own way.
Our practices are rooted in the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. This site offers Vermont-based meetings, meditation opportunities, and resources to help you connect, explore, and keep going in your recovery.
“This program leads to recovery from addiction to substances like alcohol and drugs and from process addictions like sex, gambling, pornography, technology, work, codependence, shopping, eating, media, self-harm, lying, stealing, and obsessive worrying.”
- Recovery Dharma, p. X
Explore the Site
Below you’ll find descriptions of the pages:
Find local in-person Recovery Dharma meetings and other meditation groups in Burlington and beyond.
Learn about Buddhism and how its teachings inform Recovery Dharma practices. We cover key concepts, meditation techniques, ethical guidelines, and links to additional resources.
A compassionate look through Buddhist, AA, and neuroscience lenses. We explore patterns in a way that can reduce shame and open up the possibility for change.
Explore meetings, meditations, links, and other local meditation groups to deepen your understanding and practice through Recovery Dharma.
Join special meditation offerings, retreats, and group practices.
Reach out to share an event, ask questions, or get involved.
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