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Buddhist Meditation 4: Mindfulness in Motion (with Qigong)

This course integrates the profound wisdom of the body into the art of meditation.

Combining mindful movement and meditation helps us to establish a regular practice of both.

The gentle, healing movements of Qigong harmonize the nervous system, and together with sitting meditation they open our body, heart, mind to a deeper sense of mindfulness, compassion and serenity in our everyday lives.  Walking meditation can be a bridge connecting inner and outer awareness. 

Receive and Reset Mini Yoga Retreat

Join Aubree for another two hour wellness retreat to ground and reset your body, heart and mind.

We will move and breath through emotions to regulate our nervous systems. Practices will include breathwork, dynamic movement, yin and restorative yoga for health and healing. No experience necessary, come as you are, wear something comfy.

Spaces limited to 12.

Unclench: Yoga Therapy Group for Stress, Anxiety and Overwhelm

 

A special 6-week course from Aubree Gilbert, a trauma-informed mindful yoga, meditation and art coach specializing in mindfulness for mental health. 

For more information and to register, message Aubree through her instagram account:  mindful.skulls. (This is not an SFBC offering but we are recommending it.)

Here's Aubree's description: 

October Offering-because lets face it, sometimes there's nothing scarier than living inside your mind...and body...

Buddhist Meditation 3: Buddhist Teachings

Buddhism offers a profound vision of human existence while serving as a practical guide to enrich every aspect of our lives. By integrating meditation with Buddhist principles, we deepen our awareness, dissolve misconceptions, and open ourselves to the vast potential and precious opportunities life presents.

At the heart of Buddhist practice is a compassionate desire to understand and transcend suffering. It encourages us to discover the "magic in the ordinary" and to cultivate harmony—both within ourselves and in our relationships with others.

Buddhist Meditation 1: Mindfulness of Breathing

Would you like to live more creatively, with greater freedom, kindness, and wisdom—and less fear, irritation, and confusion? The Buddha practiced and then taught meditation for this very purpose, and these transformative practices are available to everyone.

Mindfulness of Breathing, or Anapanasati, is a beautifully simple yet deeply transformative practice. By using the sensations of breathing to anchor our awareness in the body, we can meet the inner and outer events of everyday life with greater spaciousness, clarity, and compassion.

Buddhism Introductory Course - In Person

Next Course begins in Fall 2024

Buddhism is a vision of human existence. It is also a practical guide that we can apply to every aspect of our lives.  Meditation and buddhist principles, practiced together, bring us closer to our direct experience, dissolving our misperceptions to reveal the boundless potential and precious opportunity of life. 

Central to Buddhist practice is a deep desire to understand suffering and the means to end suffering; to discover the "magic of the ordinary";  and to live in harmony with ourselves and those around us.

Meditating with Kindness, Introductory Meditation Course

Even as a mother at the risk of her life, watches over and protects her only child, so with a boundless heart let one cherish all living beings. (From the Metta Sutta)

The metta bhavana, or cultivation of loving kindness, is a powerful meditation practice that teaches us how to bring a friendly, kind, curious attention to ourselves and to other people, and to whatever arises in our experience, softening harsh self-criticism and judgment and bringing a sense of ease and openness to our participation in the world.