Mindfulness Meditation
DATE: Tuesdays, April 29, May 6 & May 13
TIME: 7:00-9:00 PM, Tuesday
Have you contemplated learning about and practicing meditation but were afraid it would be too difficult or foreign for you? This user-friendly, yet high impact approach to meditation, teaches you to be attentive to ordinary experiences and affects your daily life immediately in a positive way. Similar to the way working out at a gym improves physical strength and flexibility, mindfulness meditation is a skill that can be easily developed to improve focus, concentration and relaxation. This class introduces several strategies for turning mundane activities, such as standing in line at the supermarket or waiting at red lights, into opportunities to strengthen your ability to concentrate and decrease the discomfort of boredom and impatience. Discover how simple things you do countless times can remind you to more consciously experience the natural flow of your life. No attempt is made to impose a particular experience or belief system. No prior meditation experience is expected.
See the Upper Arlington Lifelong Learning & Leisure web site (self care) for more details and registration information (CLASS # 442620 A).
Mindfulness Basics: Yoga & Meditation Retreat
With Kit Spahr
DATE: Saturday, July 26, 2008
TIME: 2:00-5:00PM
Meditation is a series of skills that can be cultivated to bring greater satisfaction into everyday life. Concentration is the most fundamental of all skills, as it can support your ability to pursue any interest. When a person cultivates the skill of paying closer attention to sensory experience while interfering less with the flow of experience, they discover that life begins to be lived in higher definition. We will practice the skills of paying close attention with relaxing yoga, sitting meditation, and a walking meditation on a woodland trail.Class will be held at the beautiful Hogback Ridge Preserve, located at 2656 Hogback Road in Sunbury. Bring a mat, a blanket or firm pillow for sitting, and comfortable clothes and shoes for walking. Chairs will be available for meditation if you prefer.
See The Delaware Arts Castle web site for more details and registration information (CLASS Y0005).