The offering will take place on Sunday, March 23, 2025, from 9AM - 3PM US Eastern Time.
Please have easy-to-prepare food on hand, for your nourishment needs.
Note: this program will not be recorded.
The Soft Light of Nearness:A Day of Practice and Companionship Within the East Coast Mindfulness Community with Saki SantorelliOnline via Zoom (program will not be recorded)Sunday, March 23, 2025, 9AM-3PM (US Eastern Time)
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, come yet again, come.
-Oft attributed to Rumi, some say the author is Abu Sa’id. No one really knows.
Creating a circle of mutual support, we’ll gather for a day of practice. We’ll lean into silence, lingering, allowing silence to guide us into the quiet beauty and intimacy of our lives.
As the day unfurls, we’ll keep listening by learning to listen to our hearts, by drinking in the inspired words of the poets, and by wondering what their words and our listening have to say about our own lives and heartfelt aspirations. Then, as companions, toward the end of our time together we’ll draw nearer through dialogue arising out of our realizations.
From beginning until end, we’ll discover what unfolds individually and collectively when we shift our focus from striving to receiving, from seeking to being sought, from acting to being acted upon, allowing the soft light of nearness to become a living, breathing reality in our lives and relationships.
All are welcome...
Saki Santorelli
Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA is an educator, meditation guide, writer, gardener, and pioneer in integrating meditation and mindfulness into medicine, health care, and the broader society. In 2017, he retired as professor of medicine, executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (2000-2017) and director of the internationally acclaimed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic (MBSR-C) (1996-2017) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
His four-decades in medicine and healthcare have been oriented around the integration of mindfulness into public health fueled by an abiding trust in the innate brilliance and nobility of human beings. He has plumbed the nature of the healing relationship by working with thousands of medical patients, educating and mentoring generations of medical students, healthcare professionals, educators, and researchers of mindfulness and MBSR. Through his vision and leadership, the Center for Mindfulness transmitted the ethos, practice, teaching, and science of mindfulness to individuals and organizations around the world.
Saki has been a student in the universal Sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan for forty-nine years. In 1980, his teacher, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, suggested he also become a student in the Buddhist Insight Meditation tradition. Saki teaches, writes, presents workshops, seminars, and leads retreats internationally. He has written articles, papers, book chapters and monographs in the scientific and psychological literature as well as creating a wide range of educational materials and media. He is the author of Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine now translated into fourteen languages and founder/director of the website and online community, Guest House Awareness.
Generosity policy applies—to cover costs for our small business, to ensure adequate compensation for the instructors, and so that people with fewer financial resources can be accommodated, please pay at the highest level available to you.
TIER 1 (Supporting Others): $130
TIER 2 (Our Cost): $100
TIER 3 (Subsidized Rate): $75
If Tier 3 is still financially prohibitive for you, please email us so we can find a way for you to participate.
From the pulldown menu, please select the level of payment that applies to your situation, and complete your registration using either a credit card, debit card, or PayPal account.
You do not need a PayPal account in order to use your credit card to make your payment (you may need to select the "Checkout as Guest" option to use a credit card).
You will be asked to provide your phone number during the payment process—this is so that we can contact you should there be any changes to the course schedule, etc.
Once you have paid, your slot is reserved.
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Schedule
The offering will take place on Sunday, March 23, 2025, from 9AM - 3PM US Eastern Time.
Please have easy-to-prepare food on hand, for your nourishment needs.
Note: this program will not be recorded. -
Program Cost
Generosity policy applies—to cover costs for our small business, to ensure adequate compensation for the instructors, and so that people with fewer financial resources can be accommodated, please pay at the highest level available to you.
TIER 1 (Supporting Others): $130
TIER 2 (Our Cost): $100
TIER 3 (Subsidized Rate): $75If Tier 3 is still financially prohibitive for you, please email us so we can find a way for you to participate.
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Register
From the pulldown menu, please select the level of payment that applies to your situation, and complete your registration using either a credit card, debit card, or PayPal account.
You do not need a PayPal account in order to use your credit card to make your payment (you may need to select the "Checkout as Guest" option to use a credit card).
You will be asked to provide your phone number during the payment process—this is so that we can contact you should there be any changes to the course schedule, etc.Once you have paid, your slot is reserved.
REFUND POLICY:
You may receive a full refund if you notify us via email (info@eastcoastmindfulness.com) at least 24 hours prior to the program. No refunds will be granted thereafter.
Questions? Please email us at info@eastcoastmindfulness.com