Embodied States: Practices for Living & Dying

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We understand through neuroscience that meditation and meditative-adjacent practices like qigong, gentle yoga, prayer, hand mudra, and mantra have the capacity to generate “positive neuroplasticity” — actual changes in how our brains relate with life, how we care for ourselves and others, how we perceive the world around us, and how we respond to stress and adversity, aging, illness, and death. The Embodied States series emphasizes specific practices that generate lasting healthy changes in the brain to nurture how we inhabit our inner world and how we connect with Life and with Death.

This series explores how to engage meditative practice to deepen our connection with Life, with Self, and with Death, and how these relationships are deeply intertwined. Furthermore, how to use mind-body and meditative practice to support others who are going through the Death & Dying process (including the many small deaths we experience in the form of illness, change, and loss) as well as caregivers. Attend the live sessions on Zoom or follow along with the recordings of the sessions at your own pace, or both. Here are some of the themes we will plumb the depths of through mind-body practice:

🍁 The Four Contemplations: (1) The Preciousness of Life and This Moment (2) The Ever-Present Nature of Change, Death, and Impermanence (3) How Cause & Effect Plays Out in Our Lives (Karma); (4) The Nature of Suffering and Our Capacity to Transform Suffering into Greater Compassion, Awakening, and Liberation
🍁 Exploring Inextricable Oneness with the Body
🍁 Exploring Inextricable Oneness with Nature
🍁 Inhabiting Self-Compassion & Compassion for Others
🍁 Exploring Innate Spacious Awareness
🍁 Exploring Innate Capacity for Tranquility and Ease
🍁 Exploring Inextricable Oneness with Death
🍁 Inhabiting Self-Power & Limitless Inner Resources
🍁 Living in Spontaneity, Inner Freedom, and Flow

Those who register for the series have the option to either complete the series on your own as a self-paced online course using the recordings or you can attend as many of the live sessions on Zoom as your schedule permits. Everyone who registers will receive all of the session recordings and will have access to the recordings for a full year so that you can move at your own pace and review and revisit the material as often as you like.

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Beginner-friendly and suitable for all bodies and all ages. Live sessions take place on Zoom on select Thursdays from 6:45 – 8pm EST. Sessions are practice-based with some discussion and opportunities for Q & A.

Live session dates on Zoom are as follows:

October 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th

November 9th & 16th / December 7th & 14th

January 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th

February 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th

Registration (after Oct 5th) $275