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Contact Info 		Thur Night 7:30-9:00pm  class continues weekly at 1526 15th St, NW:
..........See below = lower on this page, Josephine Butler Parks Center

Last Updated on: Sun May 19, 2009 2:25 AM

Wed 7:00pm  16th & P St, NW

at Foundry United Methodist Church   Wheelchair Accessible

Mindfulness Meditation Class / Sitting

Attend Any Class!   ............   No Registration!

Wed's 7:00pm-8:30pm

at Foundry United Methodist Church, 16 &P
Metro: Dupont; Buses: 16th St S1,S2,S4; P St: G2; 1500 16th Street, NW

Deepen your Practice!   ......   Learn to Meditate! 

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.

Establishing or deepening a regular Mindfulness practice can support most spiritual, recovery, or therapeutic activities and can help us:

To directly experience and understand the workings of our heart-mind;

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.

The breath, body, open awareness, and heart practices will be taught via short, gentle periods of sitting and walking guided meditation, instruction, and Q&A. Side effects include relaxation, stress reduction, joy, etc.

These gentle experiential sessions will provide you with enough meditation skills to help you establish a home practice and/or to be comfortable in attending any Mindfulness or Insight meditation program or ongoing group.

Okay Chairs and carpet. Bring a cushion to sit on floor.

Led by Madison, who has practiced Mindfulness Meditation since 1974 in Asia and the U.S. He teaches regularly in the Washington, DC area. Madison has retreated with, been most influenced by, and will pass on the open-hearted teachings of: Sharon Salzberg, Bhante Gunaratana, Stephen Levine, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Thich Nhat Hahn, Tara Brach, etc

More Info: Madison at MeditationDC@gmail.com & (202) 588-9144

All Welcome! Just Show Up! Donations support Foundry!

If the Heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently. And, even if you did nothing in the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back. Your hour would be very well employed.

- St Francis de Salles


"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

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Thur Night 7:30-9:00pm continues at 2437 15th St, NW

Insight, Vipassana, Bramha Vihara, Heart Practices
Ongoing Weekly Class - Since April, 2005
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2437 15th Street,NW  (near Euclid)
Josephine Butler Parks Center
Adjacent to Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park
Bus:  S1,S2,S4 stop one block away at 16th and Euclid
Some parking on-premises and possibly on-street.
Every Thursday 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Sponsored by: MindfulnessDupont.org

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Attend any class!  No Registration Needed!
No Charge for Teaching!   Donations accepted for Facility Cost!

This on-going weekly Thursday night class/sitting is oriented to slightly-experienced meditators.  All are welcome, but the sittings are a little more silent or guided instructions are morre varied than in a intro class.     

Deepen your practice!          All Welcome! 

"Peace, joy, and happiness is available in this present moment...
right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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 directly experience and understand the workings of our heart-mind;
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.

Mindfulness can support for most spiritual, recovery, therapeutic, or healing activities.

Mindfulness Meditation instructions and practice periods will develop:

Insight meditation (Vipassana / Wisdom / Openness / Seeing-Clearly),
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:

Each class will provide experience in meditations that you can make your own. These practices support most spiritual, recovery, or therapeutic activities.

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.

Reasonably Comfortable Chairs;   To sit on Hard floor = bring cushions / zafu and a pad.
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 Info: (202) 588-9144 or Meditationdc@gmail.com
Please, include 'Meditation'" in Subject.
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Mindfulness trains us to quiet the mind; to open the heart; to receive gently our thoughts, emotions, anguish, our pains, and all of life; and
to touch inner peace.

'An accepting, non-judging attention.' - Jon Kabat-Zinn