An Invitation to all Beginners
Mondays 5:00 - 5:30pm
FIRST YOU START AND THEN YOU CONTINUE - The two most basic and important meditation instructions ever. In the language of the Buddha, the Pali words VITAKKA and VICARA instruct the meditator to place awareness on the breath. And then to keep it there. They tell us to begin our practice - and then continue our practice.What could be simpler? And more challenging? Bring your beginner’s mind to BEGINNER’S MIND MEDITATION to explore these teachings and others among fellow beginners with Nancy Bennett Meditation Teacher & Certified MBSR Instructor.
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Mindfulness Meditation for Stress Reduction
Mondays 5:30 to 6:30pm
Do you remember the mountain meditation?
Emulating the qualities of the mountain in our practice?
The stillness? The stability? The massiveness and the soaring heights? How the mountain is simply there -no matter the season, the weather, the time of day?
Illuminated by the sun by day, the moon by night?
Obscured by weather? And yet always reappearing as the weather clears..
Price: In lieu of payment we gladly accept donations via PayPal to the food pantry to help local people in need. Click the Donate button below.
We’ll have meditation, mindfulness, and discussion around practicing in this life we are living now -amidst the tumult of COVID-19 and unrest around injustice.
The call of the mountain is a reminder of the stillness within us, the stability we can touch when we take our one seat again. The stillness is available at any moment.
Come join these sessions and drop into the stillness of the mountain in this moment.
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Offered by
Nancy Bennett
A Brown University Certified MBSR teacher
trained at the Center for Mindfulness (CFM)
UMass Medical School
& the Mindfulness Center at Brown
Learn more about Nancy at her website NowMindfulness.org
The history and science of MBSR - 10 minute video
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Nancy Bennett – Nancy Bennett is a Brown University Certified MBSR teacher trained at the Center for Mindfulness at the UMass Medical School and The Mindfulness Center at Brown University. Nancy has been offering the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course and mindfulness and stress reduction workshops for several years. She has an MA in Pastoral Care & Counseling with a concentration in Buddhism from New York Theological Seminary and the NY Zen Center for Contemplative Care with experience as a chaplain intern in NYC & RI hospitals offering mindfulness groups for nurses, social workers, aides and other staff and leading mindfulness and spiritual care groups for patients in psychiatric care units. A meditator since 1994, she has studied and practiced in the Vipassana/Insight tradition with renown Insight meditation teachers Joseph Goldstein, Guy Armstrong, Sally Clough Armstrong, Sharon Salzberg, Larry Rosenberg, and Venerable Analayo among others. And, of course, Jon Kabat-Zinn and the MBSR teachers.