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Half-Day
Retreat - Sept 15, Sat. 2:00pm - 4:30pm Daylong Section (optional) This optional period will be focused on individuals's practice concerns. You can bring fruit, a snack, or more if you need. Hunger meditation provided. 2437
15th Street,NW (near Euclid) Optional Donation of $10-15
(if you
can)supports Facility. No Registration Needed! Learn to
Meditate! Clarify
your practice! Establishing a daily Mindfulness practice can support most spiritual, recovery, or therapeutic activities. Other traditions welcome to try this tradition. The breath
awareness and body
awareness
practices will be taught via periods of sitting meditation, silent
meditation, guided meditation, walking meditation, talks, and/or
Q&A. The focus will be on take-home meditation skills. The overall Mindfulness or Insight meditation (aka Wisdom / Vipassana / Seeing-Clearly / Openness) emphasizes a steady, friendly, gentle attention to each moment's experience.Side effects include relaxation, stress reduction. Reasonable Chairs; To sit on floor bring Cushions or Zafus (Some are available. All
Welcome! Just Show
Up! (Please, include 'meditation' in Subject) "Mindfulness trains us to quiet the mind; to open the heart; to receive gently our pains, thoughts, emotions, anguish, and all of life; and to touch inner peace." "Peace, joy, and happiness is available in this present moment...right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do." - Thich Nhat Hanh MindfulnessDupont.org Co-Led by Jessica Morey, who has been meditation since she was 14 at IMS's Young Adults Retreat. She has deepeed her practice in log retreats in Asia and the U.S.Co-Led by Madison, who besides teaching Metta and the Brahma Vihara, has attended Loving-Kindness or Brahma Vihara retreats with: Sharon Salzberg, Stephen Levine, Bhante Gunaratana, Joseph Goldstein, Michele McDonald, Susan O'Briend, others. |
Tue Night 7:30-9:00pm continues at 1830 Conn Ave
Ongoing Weekly Class (Since April, 2005)
Insight, Vipassana, Bramha Vihara, Heart PracticesOngoing Class - Since April, 2005
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1830
Conn Ave, NW, DC |
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No Charge for Teaching! Donations accepted for Facility Cost!
This on-going weekly Tuesday night class/sitting is oriented to (at least) slightly-experienced meditators. All are welcome, but the sittings are a little more silent and guided instructions are morre varied than in a intro class.
Deepen
your
practice!
Learn to
Meditate! All
Welcome!
"Peace, joy, and happiness is available in this present
moment...
right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do."
These experiential classes / sittings are a
combination of Vipassana / Insight practices and the Heart / Metta /
Loving-Kindness / Compassion / Forgiveness practices on a base of
calmness / one-pointedness meditation.
Deepening or establishing a regular Mindfulness practice can help us:
To set aside prior, destructive thought patterns, and let go of our reactivity and discontent;
To find compassion and love within, and to transform our sorrows.
This
can support for most spiritual, recovery, therapeutic, or healing
activities.
Mindfulness
Meditation instructions and practice
periods
will develop:
Concentration meditation (aka Tranquillity / one-pointedness calmness),
Heart meditations (including: friendliness (aka / loving-kindness), joy, compassion, equanimity, letting-go=generosity), forgiveness, gratitude)
The
focus will be on learning
(by doing) meditation practices (that you can do at home) via
periods of meditation instructions, guided and silent sitting
and walking meditation, talks, Q&A.
Experiencing the Heart
meditations can add a receptive gentleness to each moment of
practice and to each moment of life. These include:
- Loving-kindness aka Metta aka friendliness;
- Compassion aka mercy aka caring aka karuna;
- Joy (Appreciative, empathetic, & sympathetic) aka mudita;
- Equanimity aka Balance of mind;
- Forgiveness and Gratitude;
Each class will provide experience in
meditations
that you
can
make your own. These practices support most spiritual, recovery, or
therapeutic activities.
........All Welcome!
Just show
up! Beginners
Welcome..........
Experienced meditators can deepen their practice, transition from TM or chanting to mindfulness, work on specific aspects of their practice, or just sit.
Format will include instructions,
guided and silent meditations, talks,
and Q&A.
Side effects
include relaxation,
stress reduction, lower BP, less
reactivity, etc.
Led by Jessica Morey and/or Madison.
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Info: (202) 588-9144 or
Meditationdc@gmail.com Please, include 'Meditation'" in Subject. |
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