DEEPENING EMBODIMENT
8-WEEK COURSE
The body holds profound wisdom. It is intimately connected to our subconscious programming, which guides most of our actions, and also to our deepest intuitive guidance. The Buddha said that mindfulness immersed in the body has many benefits, including the overcoming of fear and pain, and the capacity to enter higher spiritual states. Through embodiment practices we are able to train ourselves to be kinder or more loving, more peaceful, more joyful, and/or emotionally stronger. Embodied practices also help us in self-inquiry, uncovering subconscious psychic knots and learning to untangle them to achieve greater freedom.
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In this 8-week course students will explore a variety of meditative techniques designed to aid in learning to come more fully home into the body. Course topics include:
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Grounding and Calming the Nervous System
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Finding Emotions in the Body
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Utilizing Body Awareness in Self-Inquiry
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Working with Pain and Discomfort
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Learning to Inhabit the Body
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Cultivating Intuitive Guidance
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Using the Felt Sense to Cultivate Desired Qualities of Being
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Using Body Awareness to Foster Spiritual Growth
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Tuition: $350. Price includes eight 2-hour live experiential sessions and eight guided meditations designed to cultivate varied aspects of embodiment. Scholarship is available. Contact me to apply.
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Venue: Zoom Videoconference
REVIEWS FROM EMBODIMENT
PARTICIPANTS
I feel relieved to have moved through some difficult emotions and patterns that were stored in my body for years. I feel recharged to face the "real world" with a deeper inner sense of calm. I feel that my experiences were respected by Stan as our guide; he listened deeply and offered suggestions for sitting with sadness and grief.
~Martha
Stan is without a doubt one of the best teachers for helping embody lessons. In the end I was left with wanting to live with loving kindness and equanimity. What could be better?
~Jane
I moved through a great deal of physical pain and discomfort, greeting and accepting them. I felt a moment of the ease that accompanies the spontaneous freedom of accepting, rather than fighting against. All of this was possible with Stan's gentle and safe guidance. I was inspired by the great care he showed each of us and the prescient questions he challenged us with.
~Amy
I began to appreciate and notice the felt sense of a stress reaction and the difference between what it feels like to be happy versus to feel stressed. I am now better able to identify why a stressful situation feels like a threat to me. I also noticed that when I feel threatened, I feel ungrounded. By pausing and regaining my grounding, I am better able to defend myself and be heard in a calm and effective way.
~Marlyn
One of the things I take away is the cultivation of space to feel and connect to my body through difficult emotions and uncertainty. I feel like I have gained access to a core, central voice of wisdom that is just waiting for me to access at any moment.