Compassion as a way to meet pain and transform suffering into agency and freedom. How compassion works, what it is and is not, and how to develop self-compassion with chronic pain
When working with pain, balance is key. Choosing where to place your attention when experiencing chronic pain helps establish equanimity. How to work with indirect practices and skillful distractions. Guided indirect practices and group reflections.
Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement with Wynn Fricke, Steve Compton, Mark Nunberg and Sarah Wilson
In this two day workshop we will integrate the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness of body with several movement practices that support mind-body integration and the deep healing and releasing of the heart. We will spend about three-quarters of our time together doing guided movement practices and one quarter discussing how to skillfully relate to body and movement.
Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement with Wynn Fricke, Steve Compton, Mark Nunberg and Sarah Wilson
In this two day workshop we will integrate the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness of body with several movement practices that support mind-body integration and the deep healing and releasing of the heart. We will spend about three-quarters of our time together doing guided movement practices and one quarter discussing how to skillfully relate to body and movement.
Citta is moved by images that can be sparked by thought, visual, auditory or somatic/felt experience. This guided meditation accesses these portals to generate receptivity and resonances of goodwill within yourself, then spread them out.
Relationship is always necessary, always there, whether with other people or with ourselves. To absorb into comfortable relationship, and clear this area from greed, hatred and fear, there has to be a lot of negotiation, the back and forth movement of disengaging, then returning again. This is true yoga of the heart. To keep the heart flexible and responsive, brahmavihārā ‘asanas’ are suggested.
Instruction on disengaging attention from mental contact. Disengagement allows for longer listening time. The quality of listening has a different tone – softer, more open, the ability to be with but not in. That non-engaged space allows for signs of comfort, contentment and gladness to arise. It’s not in the object but in the relationship. Keep re-establishing relationship to the chosen object.