Sitting for Life: For 8-week Mindfulness Graduates
Tuesday evenings: October 15, 22, 29, November 5: 6:45 - 8:45PM US Eastern Time
Online via Zoom
with Margaret Fletcher

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 9, 2024

By being yourself, by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies. This is the great work of awareness; it removes obstacles and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind. Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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To be awake in life means engaging with intention in order to develop attention and attitude. To put this into practice calls for us to slow down, open, and observe ourselves and life happening. Sitting meditation is a time-honored means of practice. In sitting regularly, we can learn to relax, give space to and receive experience. With growing courage, we can learn to be vulnerable, which helps us to recognize what is true. If we can open to modes of dissonance, destabilizing, and dismantling, we can encourage “the deep to come to the surface.” Over and over we can be re-configured and re-born into the moments of this life, as we sit. We can learn to move with the knowing, intelligence and wisdom available as life itself unfolds and unfolds.

In this workshop we will focus on the practice, challenges and benefits of sitting meditation, all in service to waking up. Each week will include guided sitting practice, discussion and dialogue around intentions and experiences in a life of wakefulness. Between classes, assignments for formal sitting practice and inquiry in daily life will provide inspiration for our collective learning.

During this workshop, you will—

  • Engage in sitting practice with a fresh perspective
  • Commit to daily sitting with the support and inspiration of fellow practitioners
  • Explore postures, objects of meditation, challenges and insights

  • Reflect and inquire about your life in practice, as it is right now

  • Share your experience and wonderings with others, in small and large groups

  • Optional: use weekly practice recordings between workshop meetings

As a participant, you agree to—

  • Attend and participate in every session.
  • Maintain a mindfulness practice that fits your life between sessions.
  • Use a computer that allows all participants to be seen on one screen without having to scroll. No phones, please.

  • Ensure that your computer is situated on a stable surface (instead of resting on your lap, etc.).

  • Enable the video and microphone capability (so that you can be seen and heard).

  • Use a place for practice that allows for being undisturbed.

  • Have the current version of Zoom installed.

This workshop is for graduates of an 8-week mindfulness-based program conducted live, in person or online.

This workshop is limited to 25 graduates

Please note that all times shown are in US Eastern Time:

Dates Times
Tuesday,
October 15
6:45-8:45PM
Tuesday,
October 22
6:45-8:45PM
Tuesday,
October 29
6:45-8:45PM
Tuesday,
November 5
6:45-8:45PM

The fee for this workshop is US$90.

If you are unable to pay the program cost, please be in touch. If you are dedicated to participating in all 4 sessions, and are hindered due to lack of finances, suggest a price that you can offer.

Registration for this program is now closed.

Questions? Email us at info@eastcoastmindfulness.com.

  • Schedule

    Please note that all times shown are in US Eastern Time:

    Dates Times
    Tuesday,
    October 15
    6:45-8:45PM
    Tuesday,
    October 22
    6:45-8:45PM
    Tuesday,
    October 29
    6:45-8:45PM
    Tuesday,
    November 5
    6:45-8:45PM
  • Cost

    The fee for this workshop is US$90.

    If you are unable to pay the program cost, please be in touch. If you are dedicated to participating in all 4 sessions, and are hindered due to lack of finances, suggest a price that you can offer.

  • Register

    Registration for this program is now closed.

    Questions? Email us at info@eastcoastmindfulness.com.

REFUND POLICY:
You can receive a full refund by emailing info@eastcoastmindfulness.com before the first session. No refunds will be issued once the program starts.

Questions? Please email us at info@eastcoastmindfulness.com


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