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Introduction to Buddhist Meditation: Mindfulness and Lovingkindness

Online Program
Dates: Mar 10, 2022 - Apr 14, 2022

Instructor(s): Rachel Lewis

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Buddhist traditions have understood meditation to be one of the core elements of the path to awakening. Today, scientists, health-care professionals, and many people learning mindfulness practices have come to recognize that meditation can help bring more ease and wellbeing into our lives. With all the different techniques and approaches out there it can be hard to know how to get started. In this program we'll go step-by-step through the things you need to develop or strengthen your meditation practice, including:

* finding a suitable posture for meditation

* understanding the things that stand in the way of a daily practice 

* bringing mindfulness into daily-life activities

* practicing different meditation techniques including mindfulness, concentration, and lovingkindness

This six-week program will be held on Zoom and will include instruction, question and reflection sessions, guided meditations, and interactions in small breakout groups.

    About the Instructor(s):
  • Rachel Lewis began practicing insight meditation in 2003, while completing her physics PhD at Yale. Since 2011, she has taught dharma and meditation classes and retreats in British Columbia and beyond. She completed the IMS/IRC 4-year teacher training in 2021, and is a guiding teacher of the British Columbia Insight Meditation Society. Her dharma teaching interests include the power of music, humour, and creativity to increase our capacity for learning, as well as the way that practice supports and is supported by social justice work.