HELLO AND WELCOME TO THIS WEEK’S ONLINE NEWSLETTER!
Happy 2022! I hope that your holiday season was joyful, safe and healthy, and that the coming year will be as well!
UPCOMING SUNDAY WORKSHOP
In this workshop, we’ll be exploring the role of light in our meditation practice and in the winter solstice time, and how we can work with our mood and our environment to develop compassion and wisdom.
More information and registration here.
WEEKLY SATURDAY HEALING AND COMPASSION PRACTICE
We’d love to have you join us for Just Like Me Practice this coming Saturday, January 8, 2022 from 9:00-9:30 am Eastern.
The schedule for our weekly Saturday morning Healing and Compassion Practice sessions is as follows and all practices are open to the public. Email Janet for the link if you’d like to join us, or if you have any questions at all!
1st Saturday of the month: Maitri and Compassion Practice
2nd Saturday of the month: Just Like Me Practice
3rd Saturday of the month: Self Compassion Practice
4th/5th Saturday of the month: Tonglen/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 Tonglen practice on the fourth Saturday.
The response to our offering of Tonglen practice at different times on December 25 and January 1 was heartening and we’re considering adding a second practice at 1 pm eastern. Please let Janet know if you’d be interested!
FOR ONLINE SANGHA MEMBERS
Coming up this week on the Members’ Calendar:
- Morning Sitting 7:30 am Eastern Monday-Friday.
- Weekly Social Meditation Gathering, Wednesday January 5, 7:30-8:30 pm Eastern. Open to all! Email Janet for the link!
- Just Like Me Healing and Compassion Practice, Saturday, January 8, 2022, 9:00-9:30 am Eastern. Open to all! Email Janet for the link!
- Sunday Morning Curriculum Study Group, Sunday, January 9, 10-11 am Eastern. We’ll continue exploring the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva with Verse 20 which will be available on the blog later this 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?
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. Learn more in this video.
Would you benefit from starting your day with some meditation practice, or from sitting with others? Or just being in community with others who are working with their hearts and minds and asking the big questions about the nature of reality? Join us!
MEDITATION AND WELLNESS COACHING
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! How might this optimize your wellbeing?!
I’d love to explore your meditation practice with you and support you in your growth! Book a session here.
REFLECTION
From this Sunday morning’s online sangha exploration of The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva with Practice 19 Counteracting Arrogance.
How might sadness or the sadness of compassion protect our minds from arrogance? What arises as you reflect on this?
MINDFUL MOMENT
Wishing you a wonder-full week!
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