Subject: Creative Inquiry through Sound and Breath 🎵

Practice opportunities exploring time, space, knowledge and the mind

Breath & Sound: A Musical Journey through Full Presence Mindfulness

Online Workshop with Ignacio Ercole
Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 9:30 AM PDT
$10-$20 sliding scale

Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) helps us to go deeper in the ocean of mindfulness. Practicing FPM allows us to experience life as an integrated whole and open a sense of feeling more fulfilled and alive. One of the approaches of FPM is through listening, a gateway to new meanings, values and understanding. Music in this context can become a force that goes beyond entertainment and can unfold rich inner messages that will support us through the different facets, cycles and vicissitudes of our life. FPM and music works as a catalyst of new knowledge beyond the structures that the "self" imposes on us, leading us to a greater sense of freedom, empowerment and intimacy.

We explore listening as a gateway to understanding mind, returning to full presence, and increasing those moments of intimacy while we listen to music. This workshop is for any experience level.

Mindfulness in Action:
Bringing Ease to Heart & Mind

Online Workshop with Morgan Wells & Ignacio Ercole
Sunday, April 24, 2022, 9:30-11:30 am PDT
$12-$24 sliding scale

Our Mindfulness in Action Series explores how to apply mindfulness to the things you do every day—working and playing, cooking and eating, planning and parenting. Whether you are interested in self-care, relaxation, or finding deeper meaning, you can start with bringing awareness to the ordinary activities that make up your life.

In the first workshop of the series, Bringing Ease to Heart & Mind, we’ll discuss how to activate our capacity for caring and acting in the world. We’ll go on to explore the issue of burnout and how to develop the inner resources to engage with the work we care about in a sustainable way.

Inter-Resting

FREE Online Contemplative Drop-In

Our time will be in dialogue and experiential exercises that encourage reflection on the way we operate in our environment. We will normally have a brief welcome, a led exercise, and dialogue among the participants. Any experience is welcome, and you may join in on any Thursday or Sunday session - newcomers are encouraged to drop by!

Led by Adrian Roman
Weekly on Thursdays, 9 AM PST/12 PM EDT

Led by Anaïs Roman
Weekly on Sundays, 9 AM PST/12 PM EDT

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Saying Yes to Experience

Learn how to activate the radical immediacy available within your ordinary experience.

Led by Jack Petranker, July 17-22
at Ratna Ling Retreat Center, Cazadero, California

We live in a world shaped by the stories we tell about it—stories centered on the self. Using a logic that starts with the existence of the self, we turn knowledge into a tool that we use to uphold our own limits.

In this retreat, we will question this commitment to the self and the therapeutic mindset it puts in place. Focusing strongly on practice, we will learn how to activate the radical immediacy available within our ordinary experience, if only we know how to look for it. We will learn what it means to say “yes” to experience, to discover freedom within the patterns of the ordinary and bring it into every moment.

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Subject: Creative Inquiry through Sound and Breath 🎵

Breath & Sound: A Musical Journey through Full Presence Mindfulness

Online Workshop with Ignacio ErcoleSaturday, April 23, 2022 at 9:30 AM PDT$10-$20 sliding scale

Mindfulness in Action:Bringing Ease to Heart & Mind

Online Workshop with Morgan Wells & Ignacio ErcoleSunday, April 24, 2022, 9:30-11:30 am PDT$12-$24 sliding scale