Being Present for Your Life: Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

How much are you present in your own life?

Most of us spend more time worrying about the future, replaying the past, or getting lost in fantasy than experiencing what life offers us right now.

This moment is our opportunity to be directly intimate with our lives while learning, through difficult lessons, how to open our hearts.

Mindfulness — or vipassana — meditation is the practice described by the Buddha for developing wisdom, compassion, and peace by learning to be conscious and aware of what is happening in the present.

Using breath, body sensations, thoughts, and emotions, we can find out how to be more fully awake.

When we see directly that the nature of reality is change, we become more capable of meeting each situation with spontaneity, fearlessness, and love.

In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to this meditation practice and the principles on which it is based.

The weekend will include:

• Silent sitting meditation with instructions
• Walking meditation with instructions
• Eating meditation with instructions
• Discussions to help provide a foundation for your own mindfulness practice in your everyday life. Recommended Reading: Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to a Happier Life by James Baraz and   The Experience of Insight by Joseph Goldstein

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