Want to Improve
Your Balance
at Work or Home?
Calm on the Go
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Bringing Mindfulness to Life is a weekend of practice…with a mission. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have taken meditation, prayer and other personal transformation and contemplative workshops but have found that much of the wonderful knowledge, skill, and, most importantly, the benefits, from these workshops are “sitting on a shelf” a week or month later; lying fallow for lack of a way to fit them into a lifestyle that seems to be in competition with a life of balance and meaning. Even for those with the best of intentions, new habits can fade very quickly against the onslaught of ‘To Do’ Lists, mothering, fathering, teaming, meeting deadlines, and producing.Don’t be too hard on yourself, however, because you belong to the large majority. Personal change is very, very hard for most people and there are some good reasons why. One of them is that session leaders expect participants to fit their lives around the new practice which for most of us is a pathway to failure. The first step is to fit the new practice into our lives; not fit our lives around the new practice. The Bringing Mindfulness to Life weekend will give you a chance to relax in a peaceful space of awareness and so much more. What has been missing in the past you will find here: a wide variety of simple, easy, and most importantly, adaptable ways to transfer, integrate and sustain habits of stillness into every part of your life – home, work, driving, playing, relaxing. And with those moments of stillness, you will lower your stress, stay connected to what is deeply important to you, make better decisions, resist impulsive temptations and feel more balance. You will see and feel the difference as will those around you. Please join us for two days of sitting, discussion, practice and personal reflection that will help you multiply the benefits you have been hoping for from the work you have already done. |
Your teachers: Shantinayaka Shantinayaka began practicing Buddhism in 1984. In 1990 he became a member of the Western Buddhist Order, a practice community combining teachings from the three Yanas. For five years he taught meditation and led retreats at the London Buddhist Centre and for the last twelve years he has been leading retreats and teaching in the USA and Canada. He has served as Chair of the Seattle Buddhist Center, teacher in residence at the San Francisco Buddhist Center, and is currently based in Vancouver, B.C.
Larry Birckhead, MA, SPADA Larry has 11 years of meditation experience and uses his psychology background to study and teach the structure of human transformation at the emotional, cognitive, and behavioural levels. His focus is on the application of habit management techniques helping others feel the full benefits of mindfulness at the pace of everyday life.
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Meditation experience is an asset but not necessary. Desire to slooooow down helpful.
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