Hello and welcome to this week’s online weekly newsletter!
Sunday Online Workshop July 18, 2021, 12-3 pm
“Feeling the wisdom of body in this very moment is a skill that can benefit our communication skills, ability to meditate, work with a therapist effectively and know what we need in relationships. In other words without being in touch with our feelings we are lost. Being able to feel deeper layers of feelings is a skill that generally all of us can develop further. How do we know when we are “authentic and genuine?” By being congruent with our feelings in our body.”
Hope you can join us! Register here.
On the Blog
Ecology of the Heart Part 8 is on the blog! Complete with a guided practice! Check it out! Share it with a friend or on social media! Stay tuned for Part 9!
Speaking of blogs, check out the one at socialmeditation.org for some bite-size little nuggets of wisdom.
Maitri Bhavana/Healing and Compassion Practices are now open to the public!
We have some news for you! We’re opening up our Saturday Morning Maitri Bhavana/Healing and Compassion Practices session to the public! Please feel free to bring a friend! Email Janet for the link!
For the remainder of the summer, we’ll offer one session only, from 9:00-9:30 am eastern and revisit offering a second midday session again in the fall. The schedule will be as follows:
1st Saturday of the month: Maitri and Compassion Practice
2nd Saturday of the month: Just Like Me Practice
3rd Saturday of the month: Tonglen Practice
4th/5th Saturday of the month: Other/Maitri Bhavana*
*Maitri Bhavana will always be the last Saturday of the month unless there is a special request for it at another time. If there are five Saturdays, we’ll do a different compassion/healing practice on the 4th Saturday.
For Online Sangha Members
Coming up this week on the Members’ Calendar:
- Morning Sitting 7:30 am Eastern Monday-Friday (and most weekends, check with Janet!)
- Monthly Gathering/Check In With Nick Monday July 12, 7-8:30 pm Eastern
- Weekly Social Meditation Gathering, Wednesday July 14, 7:30-9:00 pm Eastern. (Open to all! Email Janet for the link!)
- Maitri Bhavana (Healing and Compassion Practices), Saturday, July 17, 2021, 9:00-9:30 am Eastern. Email Janet for the link!
- Sunday Morning Curriculum Study Group, Sunday, July 18, 2021, 10-11 am Eastern. We’ll continue exploring the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva (available on blog mid week!).
Please visit our Online Sangha Members’ Area here (sign in required) to see the calendar with links for the Weekly Online Social Meditation Gatherings, Sunday Morning Curriculum Study Circle, Daily Sangha Sitting Schedule, and upcoming Sadhana of Mahamudra practices, as well as the Videoblog Archive and Weekly Practices and Contemplations from our Sunday Morning Curriculum Study Circle.
Not a member yet?
Discover presence, discover yourself, discover community, and take meditation practice beyond an app to a much deeper level with a monthly membership! Learn more in this video.
We’d love for you to join us! Monthly online sangha membership is such a beautiful way to support your own and others’ practice, with lots of opportunities to sit together, learn together, and laugh together.
Your membership also helps support my teaching activities, which allows me to create even more resources for you.
Meditation Coaching
A meditation coach is someone who helps you use mindfulness and awareness techniques to help navigate your life, to help you grow in your potential and unlock obstacles, to help you with a particular skill set.
The wonderful thing about the practice of meditation is that you can use it to do just about anything, because we do everything with our heart and mind. Our entire experience of how we perceive the world is governed by how we work with our own heart and mind.
Meditation really does turn being alive into an art form. It doesn’t mean all of our problems go away, or our suffering, but the way we work with them changes, and it is a delight for me to help people realize and fulfil their potential.
Here is a video with more information about meditation coaching and how it can help you learn which mindfulness and awareness techniques can best help you navigate your life, unlock obstacles, and grow in your potential in all areas of your life! You can also book a session here.
Reflection
Here you might bring to mind a situation that feels tense for you, perhaps one where you feel torn and don’t know what to do. What would it be like to hold both perspectives with love?
And last but not least, a MINDFUL MOMENT to take with you into your day…
Take good care and see you next week!
Nick
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