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.
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.
Rather than rely on a system, cultivate an attitude towards practice. Systems have uses, but can eventually curtail what we’re trying to drop into. Part of the theme of this retreat is about recognizing some of the stressful systems that get built into our minds around speed and progress – and awakening out of them. [24:06 Begin Guided Meditation] Establishing Ground and Space through Breathing: We can use the body as a channel to settle the mind. Use the out-breath to ground, use the in-breath to lift. These two together give you a form with a distinct foundation and uprightness to it.
This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lovingkindness (metta) meditation, and emphasize holding our own being and dear ones with a tender, open and loving presence.
