Meditate with the Body, not with the Mind

Seishin: When my teacher, a Zen monk, returned to the USA after training in Japan, he was surprised to see that meditation was being taught as something you do with the mind. At his monastery, he was taught it is something you do with the body — the mind just naturally ends up following. In this … Continued

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Body Love

“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” ~ Louise Hay Steph: There’s no question the human body is capable of doing amazing things, even when it’s doing nothing at all.  But years of media conditioning, injuries, trauma, and aging has a way of diminishing … Continued

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Somatic Gratitude

Pamela: What does gratitude feel like in the body and where does it live? If you had to explain gratitude to someone who had never felt it before, how would you? We will explore sensations through an embodied journey and practice.

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Be Who You Are

Erin: Fresh off of spending a week in the woods meditating with teenagers, I will return to share the secret of eternal youth. Or at least the practices that resonated most with those young souls.

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Places of Binding

Avi: It’s a spiritual cliché that we hold our issues in our tissues. Well, it’s a cliché for a reason. In tonight’s meditation we’ll notice where unconscious parts are hiding out in our body and work with attentional techniques to begin to break apart our defensive holding patterns.

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