Meditation
From Two Journeys in Unquiet Places: Ghostways by Robert MacFarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards
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They are stone-deaf & sea-eyed & their calm is the deep calm of deep time, the cold calm of cold time, & their closeness is old as rock & ocean & their motion as ancient as a wave & shore & their rhythm is that of growth & erosion & you could not say of them that they are several or single & they have flint in their being & they send stones through time to foretell their seeing & their speech is shingle.
& they have the patience of granite & the ardor of lava & the speed of starlight.
& they are the white band that rings a blue-grey chert-stone held in the hand for a minute & for longer in the heart.
& they are the utter shattered matter at the outer limit of all that the mind’s gravity can hold in shape.
& they can recite the colour phases of ice as it ages & deepens from white flake to black star, though not in words that we would understand.
& if they can be said to think it might be figured as the strange process of attraction whereby flint forms, the slow silicate grammar-gather of flecks of entity, creeping together over millennia.
& they have no need of watches for they keep time with tree-rings, with pollen grains, with unvarying decay-rates of carbon-14 & uranium-235.
& time to them is not deep, not deep at all, for time is only ever overlapping tumbling versions of the now.
Of all the relaxation and expansion practices, meditation is commonly perceived to be the most difficult.
So often one hears, “I just can’t sit still that long”, or “I get antsy”. If this is you, then you haven’t yet met mindfulness meditation and the ease it can offer our daily lives.
Quite simply, mindfulness meditation encompasses a wide variety of techniques that are employed to aid one in deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you and within you—your heart, your body, your mind. This awareness takes place without criticism or judgement.
My training in mindfulness meditation through the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center (MARC) at UCLA along with studies with a wide variety of teachers in various forms of mindfulness as well as other forms of meditation has given me a vast well of resources to draw from and a variety of tools and practices that fit a wide array of needs for individuals seeking a practice that suits them in a comfortable, highly individual process.
OFFERINGS:
Weekly Mindfulness Meditation Noon Drop In (Zoom Room)
Have you had difficulty developing a dedicated practice? Do you prefer practicing in the company of others rather than on your own? Do you wish for a place to share and discuss your practice with others? Do you want to learn more about mindfulness meditation basics? Do you need a check in or a brush up? Are you curious about meditation and just want to try it out? Do you want to deepen and regulate your practice? This class applies to any and all. Join us!
Most Thursdays: noon - 12:30pm
$5
FREE first-time attendance (with subscriber sign up-email)
Month-Long Mindfulness Series (Zoom Room)
Looking to dive deeper into the exploration of meditation and areas of enquiry available within the practice? At the beginning of each month, we will begin a new 4-week long series of meetings. The series will be built around various topics or themes that might range from ways to vary our practice, or address the seasons or elements, or various themes or topics capturing subjects relevant to popular cultural issues. Sign up for the mailing list to be notified about each month’s theme in advance. Begins in Fall 2023.
4-weeks
$99
