“Meditation, like art, is a dynamic process of emancipated expression and perception.”
DO YOU FEEL drawn to LEARN MORE ABOUT MEDITATION? ARE YOU LOOKING FOR practice that CAN LITERALLY change your brain and how you experience life?
Meditation, like art, is a dynamic process of emancipated expression and perception. In meditation, you are the artist, art, and art lover. Moment by moment you are the artist consciously and unconsciously expressing your self through the medium of body sensations, mind states, and feeling tones. Your perennial expression of you creates an ongoing work of art. When you witness this perpetual “you-art,” you are the art lover perceiving what’s expressed, from the ordinary to the ineffable. This experience of expression and perception can evoke real intimacy with your self and the great mystery of life itself - it can reveal eternal truths.
The Art of Meditation course offers a way to open and deepen perception and develop a wise relationship with the nature of experience. Cultivating present moment awareness imbued with courageous honesty and radical love is the foundational practice. It works against our habit of wanting to be distracted - of not wanting to meet life as it actually is - of looking outside ourselves for something to ease our pain and suffering. This practice allows us to experience the precious gift of being alive - it helps us feel into our physical, mental, and emotional experience and feel more connected to life itself.
This course explores three forms of meditation and encourages you create your own unique trinity meditation practice by integrating the three forms. The Art of Meditation course provides opportunities for you to:
>experience how meditation relaxes the body, calms the mind, and opens the heart
>deepen your self-awareness
>develop you ability to cultivate concentration, compassion, and equanimity
>increase your capacity to notice physical sensations, mental thoughts, and emotional feelings
>improve your ability to meet difficult sensations, thoughts, and emotions with honesty and love
>refine your discernment of patterns and conditioning that undermine your ability to be with "what is”
>explore how you can expand your meditation practice to all aspects of living with the conscious intention to benefit all.
If you feel at all drawn to take a step into the world of meditation - to create and sustain a meaningful meditation practice that can cause lasting change - a practice that literally changes your brain and how you experience life - consider enrolling in this course. This five-week asynchronous course allows you to learn at your own pace and refer back to course content during your meditation journey. It includes over twenty recorded offerings and accompanying written materials. The course is designed for you to spend about an hour at the start of your week feeling into the module concepts, and then practice a specific meditation technique for that week. Understanding the “why” behind the meditation methods and consistently practicing meditation over the course of five weeks is the power behind this course - it’s what creates such significant potential for change - for a shift into deeper truth and love.
All proceeds received from The Art of Meditation course are dedicated to the further sharing of meditation through our community yoga offerings. Meditation has touched my life with profound love, and I hope this course is a continuation of that love. - Kristin
