at Asheville Community Yoga
Maybe you’ve tried meditating, but found it frustrating, perhaps thinking
“This is not for me!”?
Maybe you’ve meditated before, but been unable to sustain an ongoing
practice and want to?
Maybe you meditate regularly, but feel like you are in a rut, not finding the
benefits you desire?
In this workshop you will learn and practice:
Mindfulness/Insight meditation
Open Monitoring meditation
Walking meditation
Loving Kindness and Self-Compassion meditations
Body Scan meditation
Access to downloadable handouts will also be provided.
This workshop will provide clear and simple guidance on building and sustaining
your meditation practice. A consistent meditation practice helps cultivate
mindfulness as a way of being, developing our ability to focus the mind into the
present moment without judging our experience. When we practice meditation on a
regular basis, it enhances our ability to concentrate and develop greater awareness
to observe our thoughts, feelings, and emotions without being caught up with them.
Meditation offers insight into these habitual patterns of thinking and related
reactions, and cultivates the conditions for us to show up in life with greater ease
and clarity, rather than getting caught up in impulses and “emotional hijacking”
that are problematic. As a result, we can live more skillfully and deal more
gracefully with the ups and downs that life inevitably throws our way.
Eddie initiated his meditation practice in the early ’80s and has studied, practiced,
and participated in numerous retreats in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. with a wide
range of Eastern and Western meditation teachers, including H.H. Dalai Lama and
Thich Nhat Hanh He has lived in two Buddhist retreat centers and spent the
equivalent of two years in retreat setting. Though his roots have been in Buddhism, his style of teaching is secular and easily accessible to anyone
Cost: $30
Financial Aid Available
PLEASE NOTE: We encourage pre-registration for all programming. Registering in advance guarantees your spot and helps the studio have adequate staffing. If fewer than 5 participants register the event may be canceled.
Please create a mindbody account for each participant if registering more than 1 person. If you have any questions regarding registration, or financial aid, please email Sarah sarah@ashevillecommunityyoga.org
