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8-week online course
Courses begin the first week of May, 2020.
Currently there are 3 course times available:
Mondays – 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST – Instructor: Dr. Joseph Garcia
Tuesdays – 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST – Instructor: David Gosling
Wednesdays – – 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST – Instructor: David Gosling
Meet Your Instructors
Cost:
Total cost for course is $350.
$100 is due at the time of your registration to hold your space. This is non-refundable.
The remaining $250 is due the week prior to the course beginning. This is refundable until the day of your first class.
Mindfulness and Meditation are time tested and well researched methods for maintaining mental fitness. While the original forms of mindfulness and meditation have come to us from traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, these methods have also been found to be valuable in and of themselves. Extensive psychological research has reliably shown improvements in attention, emotional resilience, psychological flexibility, and pain management. While the methods themselves are quite simple, the practice does require training, patience, and dedication. This course has been designed to provide an overview and training of the practice as well as support for developing and maintaining your own personal practice after the course has ended.
- What to expect
- Through this course you will be given basic to advanced instruction in the practice of formal seated and formal walking meditation. We will discuss and practice many of the forms and styles of meditation.
- Body Scan
- Concentration
- Mindfulness (open awareness)
- Loving Kindness
- Shikantaza (just sitting)
- We will be discussing how to incorporate meditation practice into our daily schedules and meditative mindful consciousness into our lives in general.
- Through this course you will be given basic to advanced instruction in the practice of formal seated and formal walking meditation. We will discuss and practice many of the forms and styles of meditation.
- We will explore and discuss how meditation and mindfulness can inform specific difficult situations in our lives.
- We will engage in meditation together
- We will explore meditative yoga
- This involves coming into tune with and listening to our bodies (embodiment) and learning to act on our body’s messages
