Fri August 8, 2014
Meditation Training: Establishing a Meditation Practice in Four Short Weeks
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Want to learn how to meditate? Or, have you tried at different times but just can’t quite figure out how to make it work for you?
This four-class series is geared just for you. Specific, time-honored and easy-to-follow instructions will be given in three areas: body, heart/emotions and mind/mental states. Each week, specific meditation instructions will be given, with an opportunity to put them into practice and have your questions answered.
Handouts will be given at the end of each class, making it easier for you to practice that week’s focus in the time between classes. You will also have an opportunity for contact with the instructor, so that your own specific issues can be addressed. There will be opportunities to share with others in the group if you choose, fostering a cohort-like, shared experience to encourage and support your efforts to learn and practice meditation.
Think of this class as a four-week “training camp”—a container for you to not only establish a meditation practice of your own but to also have a “team” to practice with and to draw encouragement from. It is much easier to put into practice any new skill when we have buddies to do it with.
Come see how the two factors of practiced guidance and cohort support can help you to establish a sustainable practice.
Yes, you can! Come join us!
Fees: $60; $54, current SFZC members; $48, limited income. Some partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds. (About Registration, Scholarships and Cancellations.)
Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt was ordained in 2005 with Zenkei Blanche Hartman. Born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition of Spirit Rock. She was a founding member of the Buddhists of Color in 1998. Her Zen training began at Tassajara monastery, where she lived from 2002-2005. She then went to Asia for a year to practice monastically in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Zen, she continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in America and Thailand.
Liên is a social worker in San Francisco. She is a regular speaker at SFZC’s Queer Dharma and at East Bay Meditation Center’s LGBTQI/SGL and POC sanghas. She has been published in Once Upon A Dream: The Vietnamese-American Experience (San Jose Mercury News Books), Social Work Perspectives, The Mindfulness Bell, and Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism.
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This four-class series is geared just for you. Specific, time-honored and easy-to-follow instructions will be given in three areas: body, heart/emotions and mind/mental states. Each week, specific meditation instructions will be given, with an opportunity to put them into practice and have your questions answered.
Handouts will be given at the end of each class, making it easier for you to practice that week’s focus in the time between classes. You will also have an opportunity for contact with the instructor, so that your own specific issues can be addressed. There will be opportunities to share with others in the group if you choose, fostering a cohort-like, shared experience to encourage and support your efforts to learn and practice meditation.
Think of this class as a four-week “training camp”—a container for you to not only establish a meditation practice of your own but to also have a “team” to practice with and to draw encouragement from. It is much easier to put into practice any new skill when we have buddies to do it with.
Come see how the two factors of practiced guidance and cohort support can help you to establish a sustainable practice.
Yes, you can! Come join us!
Fees: $60; $54, current SFZC members; $48, limited income. Some partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds. (About Registration, Scholarships and Cancellations.)
Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt was ordained in 2005 with Zenkei Blanche Hartman. Born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition of Spirit Rock. She was a founding member of the Buddhists of Color in 1998. Her Zen training began at Tassajara monastery, where she lived from 2002-2005. She then went to Asia for a year to practice monastically in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Zen, she continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in America and Thailand.
Liên is a social worker in San Francisco. She is a regular speaker at SFZC’s Queer Dharma and at East Bay Meditation Center’s LGBTQI/SGL and POC sanghas. She has been published in Once Upon A Dream: The Vietnamese-American Experience (San Jose Mercury News Books), Social Work Perspectives, The Mindfulness Bell, and Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism.
Want to learn how to meditate? Or, have you tried at different times but just can’t quite figure out how to make it work for you?
This four-class series is geared just for you. Specific, time-honored and easy-to-follow instructions will be given in three areas: body, heart/emotions and mind/mental states. Each week, specific meditation instructions will be given, with an opportunity to put them into practice and have your questions answered.
Handouts will be given at the end of each class, making it easier for you to practice that week’s focus in the time between classes. You will also have an opportunity for contact with the instructor, so that your own specific issues can be addressed. There will be opportunities to share with others in the group if you choose, fostering a cohort-like, shared experience to encourage and support your efforts to learn and practice meditation.
Think of this class as a four-week “training camp”—a container for you to not only establish a meditation practice of your own but to also have a “team” to practice with and to draw encouragement from. It is much easier to put into practice any new skill when we have buddies to do it with.
Come see how the two factors of practiced guidance and cohort support can help you to establish a sustainable practice.
Yes, you can! Come join us!
Fees: $60; $54, current SFZC members; $48, limited income. Some partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds. (About Registration, Scholarships and Cancellations.)
Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt was ordained in 2005 with Zenkei Blanche Hartman. Born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition of Spirit Rock. She was a founding member of the Buddhists of Color in 1998. Her Zen training began at Tassajara monastery, where she lived from 2002-2005. She then went to Asia for a year to practice monastically in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Zen, she continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in America and Thailand.
Liên is a social worker in San Francisco. She is a regular speaker at SFZC’s Queer Dharma and at East Bay Meditation Center’s LGBTQI/SGL and POC sanghas. She has been published in Once Upon A Dream: The Vietnamese-American Experience (San Jose Mercury News Books), Social Work Perspectives, The Mindfulness Bell, and Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism.
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This four-class series is geared just for you. Specific, time-honored and easy-to-follow instructions will be given in three areas: body, heart/emotions and mind/mental states. Each week, specific meditation instructions will be given, with an opportunity to put them into practice and have your questions answered.
Handouts will be given at the end of each class, making it easier for you to practice that week’s focus in the time between classes. You will also have an opportunity for contact with the instructor, so that your own specific issues can be addressed. There will be opportunities to share with others in the group if you choose, fostering a cohort-like, shared experience to encourage and support your efforts to learn and practice meditation.
Think of this class as a four-week “training camp”—a container for you to not only establish a meditation practice of your own but to also have a “team” to practice with and to draw encouragement from. It is much easier to put into practice any new skill when we have buddies to do it with.
Come see how the two factors of practiced guidance and cohort support can help you to establish a sustainable practice.
Yes, you can! Come join us!
Fees: $60; $54, current SFZC members; $48, limited income. Some partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds. (About Registration, Scholarships and Cancellations.)
Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt was ordained in 2005 with Zenkei Blanche Hartman. Born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition of Spirit Rock. She was a founding member of the Buddhists of Color in 1998. Her Zen training began at Tassajara monastery, where she lived from 2002-2005. She then went to Asia for a year to practice monastically in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Zen, she continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in America and Thailand.
Liên is a social worker in San Francisco. She is a regular speaker at SFZC’s Queer Dharma and at East Bay Meditation Center’s LGBTQI/SGL and POC sanghas. She has been published in Once Upon A Dream: The Vietnamese-American Experience (San Jose Mercury News Books), Social Work Perspectives, The Mindfulness Bell, and Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism.
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