AWAKEN TOGETHER: Women's Meditation Sangha

You are invited to awaken into the deepest truth of who you are:  pure love and freedom within.  Perhaps you are a frequent meditator, but wish to learn ways to deepen your consistent practice.  Perhaps you have tried meditation but have felt like you "failed" to meditate because your mind won't get quiet (Hint: you haven't failed).  Maybe you are looking for a way to begin a commited practice and wish to have a group of like-minded meditators to learn from.  For all of these reasons, I have decided to create this Sangha for us.  

Meditation is a way to open up into that which is hidden beneath the layers of our suffering with feelings of  inadequacy or competitiveness which has been fostered by our modern Western Society.  Our modern society has created feelings of unworthiness, self-judgement and the loss of our true nature for so many of us...mindfulness meditation is the way we may begin to accept ourselves for who we are in the most loving and tender way.  Through a consistent meditation practice we begin to access pure joy and liberation. 

I am in my second year of an intensive and immersive 2 1/2  year training program to become a Certified Professional Meditation Teacher with mentors Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield as my guides.  I first began this program simply as a way to deepen my own commitment to my meditaiton practice and to heal the ways I continue to suffer in my own life.  This program has been a potent, life-changing experience and I wish to serve as many folks as I can with the lessons I have learned.  This particular 6 - Week Meditation Course that I am sharing with you  is part of my practicum portion for the course curriculum.  At the end of our 6 weeks, I will also be hosting a day long meditiaton retreat for all of us which will be a culmination of all that we have learned and a deeply immersive experience into meditation.  Retreat is an important portion of the practice. 

We will be commited together to meet Tuesdays for 90 minutes at my home for 6 weeks.  We will decide on a time that works for all of us.  During these gatherings, I will be sharing specific meditation practices to culitvate your own meditation practice, reduce your stress with meditation and access pure acceptance and love for yourself and for all others.  The safe container we crteate together will also invite us to share with one another, our experiences and challenges throughout this commited practice.  My hope is that together, we form a bond that will continue to grow and that this Sangha will continue in some way moving forward.

At the end of this 6 weeks I will be asking each of you to fill out a review for me, which is also part of my practicum requirements.  I want to learn from all of you and your deepest devotion to honesty with this piece will be extremely important to my growth and learning.  

May we come together in love, kindness and peace and may we encircle one another with care along this journey towards our own liberation through meditation.