Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - 6 week workshop

Introduction to Mindfulness

Whether you are a beginner curious about this thing called “mindfulness,” which these days seems to be on everyone’s lips, or a more experienced meditator wanting to refresh and deepen your practice, this course can benefit you. Terms will be defined, sitting posture reviewed (cushion and chair), and meditation concepts discussed in this practical, experiential course. We’ll explore the benefits of attending to breath and body in different postures (eg., sitting and walking). We’ll learn tricks for attending to emotions in helpful ways (i.e., without falling headlong into them). And we’ll take a look at thoughts and the dramas we tend to create with them. As the course will build progressively, it is strongly recommended to attend all six sessions.

Course content:

1- Mindfulness of Breathing.

2- Mindfulness of the Body and what to do about pain

3- Mindfulness of Emotions

4- Mindfulness of Thoughts

5- Mindfulness of Mind

6- Mindfulness in Daily Life

Date: Mondays from January 11, 2016 to February 15, 2016 (inclusive)

Time: 18h15 - 19h30

Cost: $120 +tax (Includes 2 yoga classes)

Participants must register by clicking here (http://yasminyoga.com/events-workshops/?mobile=false&options%5Bids%5D=138&options%5Bsite_id%5D=193050)

Instructor: Claire Holden Rothman

About Instructor: Claire has been meditating in the Theravada Mindfulness/Insight Tradition for 12 years. Her teachers include Pascal Auclair and Daryl Lynn Ross of True North Insight/Voie Boréale here in Montreal; Joseph Goldstein of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts, and Andrew Olendzki, formerly of the Barre Centre for Buddhist Studies (BCBS) in Massachusetts. She has completed nearly 200 days of residential retreats in Canada, India and the USA, including the three-month IMS retreat in Massachusetts in the autumn of 2015.

Off the cushion, Claire writes novels (www.claireholdenrothman.com) (http://www.claireholdenrothman.com/). She loves the interplay between meditation and creativity.

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