Chas DiCapua, the guiding teacher for Open Door, leads our weekly sits and many of our retreats. Chas has been practicing Buddhist meditation, primarily in the Early Buddhist tradition, for over 30 years. His practice and study include the IMS/Spirit Rock teacher training program and over two years in silent, intensive meditation retreat.

Spending time in and learning from nature has been, and continues to be, an important vehicle for Chas, fostering understanding and compassion, which has been strengthened, in part, by multiple solo wilderness retreats.

Expanding the practice from the personal to the collective has become increasingly important as he brings the practices of truth, clear seeing and compassion to the collective challenges of systemic racism, patriarchy, heterocentric bias, and climate change for himself and his students.

Read Chas blog.