Classes

This 8-week series explores enduring practices that steady the mind, expand the heart and support us to engage our lives with kindness, awareness and wisdom. You will learn the step-by-step techniques that will allow you to incorporate meditation into your daily life, and experience its many benefits.

Audience: People interested in learning how to relax or reduce stress through meditation.

Class Length: 1 1/2 hour sessions, once a week for eight weeks

Description: Meditation can bring balance, rest, and a growing inner peace to those who practice it. The benefits to both the mind and body can impact a person on many levels - mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual. In this eight-week series, you will be taken step-by-step through techniques that will allow you to incorporate meditation into your daily life, and experience its many benefits. You will learn how to:

• Reduce tension and stress at will
• Feel happier, more relaxed, and at peace with yourself
• Improve your health, mental clarity, and vitality
• Discover and explore your inner spiritual nature

Each one and half-hour session will include a talk, guided and silent meditation, interactive practices including time to talk with each other.

This series is designed for those with no meditation experience.

“A seed that sprouts can never be a seed again; it must have nourishment to grow or it will die.  This is a universal law and it applies to the spiritual quest.  We all hold the seeds.  Once aroused, we have no alternative but to continue the process”.

Dates: September 11th - October 30th

Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm

Registration opens August 15th

Course Fee: $300

 (To provide access to people of all income levels I offer this 8 week “Learn to Meditate” course on a sliding scale for those who need it to be. Please contact me directly to discuss pricing options.)

Place: 185 Lincoln St. Suite 300 Hingham, MA

Feeling that we are part of a wider group can give purpose and meaning to our lives, and research suggests that belonging to a community correlates to better mental and physical health. 

Audience: People interested in learning how to deepen their current meditation practice.

Class Length: 1 1/2 hour sessions, once a week for eight weeks. Meditation Part 2 is a course to deepen your current meditation practice, or to refresh or re-establish a regular practice. This course will empower you to cultivate a greater sense of peace, clarity, and freedom through meditation. You will learn to:

• Remember and explore meditation practice
• Look at the familiar with fresh eyes
• Improve your health, mental clarity and vitality
• Support each other through practice and dialogue

Each one and half-hour session will include a talk, guided and silent meditation, interactive practices including time to talk with each other. 

This series is designed for those who have completed Part 1 or have a regular meditation practice. 

Required Reading: The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by 

Pema Chodron (You can find it on Amazon or borrow it from your local library) Please read before the class begins.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently. 

Dates: January 24th - March 13th

Course $300 

Place: 185 Lincoln St. Hingham Suite #300

 (To provide access to people of all income levels I offer this 8 week “Learn to Meditate Part 2” course on a sliding scale for those who need it to be. Please contact me directly to discuss pricing options.)

Audience: People with a regular practice of meditation who would like to explore their

interdepence/interconnectedness in a deeper more powerful way. 

Class Length: 1 1/2 hour sessions, once a week for eight weeks. Our meditation journey

continues as we look clearly and honestly at ourselves and raise awareness of our inherent interconnectedness. We will watch the film Kumare. A spiritually challenging documentary about guru-disciple relationships and taking responsibility for our own spiritual growth and maturation.

We will read “Breaking Up with Your Phone” and Pema Chodron’s book “The Places That Scare You”. "The ancient Greek aphorism “Know thyself” was inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. The Greek mystics knew that self-knowledge is the essential “entry” attribute needed for anyone seeking wisdom. Self-knowledge comes from the commitment to unflinchingly look at yourself in all your details, including all the aspects that you’d rather not see. This is done with the desire to find out where you may need some adjustment and development so that you learn and grow, and with the faith that truth is always preferable to falsehood. Most importantly, this is done with objectivity — without the immediate impulse to condemn yourself when you discover something that you had so adamantly avoided seeing. Truth is always rooted in courageous self-honesty. The process leads to Balance, Wholeness, Harmony, Completeness. “We will sit and listen without any prejudice. We will sit and listen without judging or reacting. We will sit and listen in order to understand.”

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. ”Buddha

Dates: TBA

Course Fee: 

Place: TBD

Invitation (n.)

noun

1. the act of inviting, such as an offer of entertainment or hospitality

2. the act of enticing or attracting; allurement

3. a formal request to be present or participate 

This is your invitation to join me in raising awareness of our inherent interconnectedness. We are a chorus of multiple voices and perspectives. Class discussions will bring awareness to the ways that our relations with other beings and people affect the quality of our own experience: our own experience of suffering and that of others in the world.

We will open each class with a silent meditation, allowing us to transition from the busyness of our daily lives. Having a meditation practice supports increasing awareness of our interconnectedness with others and the planet. We can all benefit from the support of others as we strive to live with greater mindfulness and compassion. There is power in numbers and creating intentions. Coming together with a shared intention can have profound impacts on our lives, our communities, and our universe.

Class topics for discussion include:

· Taking a bite out of climate change

· Healing of the Mind

· Black Lives Matter

· What is your intention?

Reading list for the course will be sent as soon as you sign up. 

“Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue.” Clearing by Martha Postlewaite 

Dates:  TBA

Course Fee: 

Place: TBD