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What’s included?
The Dharma Academy is an online campus where people from around the world come together to meditate, study, and share their practice.
Here, you’ll find practical teachings, a supportive community, and guidance for weaving timeless Zen wisdom into the fabric of your everyday life.
Daily Meditation Online Zendo
Every morning and evening, we’ll stream live from the meditation halls of our two practice centers — one in Europe, one in the US. You’re invited to sit with the residents.
Live & On‒demand Teachings
Study & Practice
We’ve developed a curriculum of Zen teaching and a network of exceptional speakers from different backgrounds, designed to support you in feeling, embodying, and enacting the Dharma.
Community
Exchange & Connection
The genius of monasticism lies in the discovery of mutuality. With the Dharma Academy, you’ll meet practice companions in breakout sessions, forums, and group activities.
Participating with us makes sense

...if you are looking for a place to:
This platform is for those who know that practice isn’t something you do — it’s something you discover. In that discovery, you may begin to release the self and let the world come forward to meet you. This isn’t a product or a commodity. It’s a path you walk — again and again — until it becomes who and what you are.
Choose Your Path
Each of these 6-month memberships is an invitation to deepen your practice, embody presence, and return to what truly matters. Choose between monthly or one-time payment.
Early Bird valid until June 1st
The Craft of Zen
A five‒month Zen course to cultivate clarity, compassion, and meaningful response — in the midst of your daily life.
What does it take to truly live what you know?
 This course invites you to return to five inner postures — and let them shape your path.
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What Makes This Different?
More than a Platform. A Field of Practice.
Oriented toward the embodied and ethical
We offer no escape from the world — but a way to live more fully within it. Practice begins in the body, and returns there again and again.
Rooted in precision and inquiry
Our teachings avoid easy answers. We value questions that reshape your view, and language that makes space for transformation.
Aligned with global and societal transformation
We don’t isolate the self from the world. Zen means meeting the moment — including the complexities of culture, climate, and compassionate connection.
Held by long-time practitioners
This is not content delivery. This is a living field, held by people with decades of practice — committed to honesty, humility, and presence.
Student testimonials
What students have to say
Tatsudo Baden Roshi | Online courses
I am grateful to every opportunity to listen to my teacher, wherever she is. While she is traveling the world, it’s a gift if I can be part of her teaching, which is a constant process in my daily life.
Following online courses and having the material available later is a tremendous help to deepen and really study the teachings thoroughly. By repeatedly listening to them, I am on my way finding what’s said in my own body-mind-experience, planting the seeds of how to enact them in daily life, and establish and manifest supporting postures.
What I love about Tatsudo’s presentations of the Dharma is their application covers every level of possible understanding, feeling and embodying. She always offers multiple instructions of how to really take a teaching in, work with it, digest it, embody it. The world of Zen practice becomes sort of a house that we can build, enjoy, live in, share. While the architecture of practice and how to inhabit it is taught, probably the most important component for me seems to be her boundless capacity to be intimate by heart fully. Being able to feel-see-face-meet-penetrate every aspect of life through the true nature of the heart to me seems to be the most important healing quality I know. Thank you, Roshi!
I appreciate, through online gatherings, getting a wider feeling of our sangha of the world and being able to connect to wisdom in a brother community together.
Anna
A fresh, powerful voice in modern Zen
Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi is pure wonderfulness. Please pass that along. I've been doing this awhile and, gender (any differences) really, aren't a thing for me; they are for a lot of people though (mostly newbies).
Which is so refreshing—a fresh female voice/leader that will surely open the gates to more, and different, people exploring Zen ahead. I'm a big fan. And happy to support her success ahead. And, once I get through a transitional period, I plan to visit Crestone. Hopefully, I will get a chance to meet her then.
Keep up the outstanding work, including raising up an impressive young woman.
Kristen Heimerl
Even after years of practice – I’m still learning and deeply inspired.
I appreciate the clarity, thoroughness, and extensive knowledge of Tatsudo Baden Roshi. Today I listened to Day 3, and even though I’ve been practicing meditation for a long time, I’m still learning and feel inspired. I can only recommend everyone to take advantage of this generous opportunity. Many thanks to Tatsudo Baden Roshi and Zendharmasangha.
Renate Allcock
Exceptionally insightful – a modern bridge between Buddhism and psychology.
I find the course content truly exceptional. I'm fascinated by Nicole's reinterpretation, her connection between psychology and Buddhism, and how she situates it in the modern age.
Many things only became clear to me now, thanks to the many practical and relatable explanations offered.
In any case, it's a great and helpful course.
Hans-Werner
Studying with Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi
”I have never taken as much for my own practice from any course as I did from this one. The daily impulses from Tatsudo Nicole Roshi were very valuable and inspiring for me. A well-rounded and successful concept that I would wholeheartedly recommend to any practitioner.”
Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi
Abbot of Dharma Sangha & Founder of the Dharma Academy
Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi (*1981) is the Dharma successor of Zentatsu Baker Roshi. She has been practicing with the Dharma Sangha since 2001. Until 2009, she studied psychology at the University of Oldenburg and simultaneously completed a training in the body-oriented method Body-Mind Centering©. She then lived for four years at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado, USA, and has been at the Zen Buddhist Center Black Forest since 2013. In September 2024, Tatsudo Roshi officially assumed the Dharma succession and has since been guiding the spiritual direction of the Dharma Sangha as Abbot.
Studying with Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi
“To encounter the Buddha’s teachings in the person of Baker Roshi has been and continues to be an immeasurable joy that continues unceasingly in the world along visible and invisible paths.”
Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi
Founder of Dharma Sangha & Teacher at the Dharma Academy
Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi is a Zen teacher in the lineage of Dongshan and Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He became Suzuki Roshi’s Dharma successor in 1971. Baker Roshi is the founder of the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado, USA, and the Zen Buddhist Center Black Forest, and served as the abbot of the Dharma Sangha until 2024. He lives and teaches from January to May in the United States and from May to December at the ZBZS. Since spring 2024, he has been offering a weekly online Dharma talk through the format “WeeklyZen.”
Choose Your Path
Each of these 6-month memberships is an invitation to deepen your practice, embody presence, and return to what truly matters. Choose between monthly or one-time payment.
Early Bird valid until June 1st
FAQs
Please feel free to email support@dharmaacademy.com for any lingering questions.
Valerian Hauffe
Dharma Academy Support
Is this suitable for beginners?
Absolutely! Our courses have material for all seekers, no matter where you are on the path.
Do I need to be Buddhist?
Our courses and teachings are rooted in ancient Zen practice, but it is our intention that they are applicable to everyone, whether or not you identify as a Buddhist. It’s about thoroughly embodying wisdom views and learning how to act compassionately – even when we don’t feel like it.
What if I miss a session?
The Wisdom Curriculum is designed to support all learners at their own speed—the context of our lives looks different for everyone. All courses and Dharma talks are recorded and accessible at any time, so you can do the course at the pace that is right for you.
Can I cancel anytime?
You are welcome to cancel at any time the Dharma Academy Membership is no longer right for you—and you are welcomed back if you change your mind!