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• Next Book Group: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

  • Start
    19 Feb 2012
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    10:15 AM
  • End
    20 Jan 2013
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    12:15 PM
  • Location
    Silver Sage Studio

  Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

  Next Book Group

  Joining with the larger Charlottesville community and many other cities globally.

  These book groups are based on the internationally renown “Charter for Compassion” www.charterforcompassion.org, affirmed by 150+ partners including the Dalai Lama, National Council of Churches, North American Interfaith Network, Search for Common Ground, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu

  Using Karen Armstrong’s new book, explore the meaning, cultivation, and practice of compassion in our everyday lives.
  

  Book groups of 6 to 12 members may begin meeting once a month for 12 months beginning in February 2012.  Additional book groups may be coordinated if there is an interest as well as the months to follow throughout the coming year. 

  Next Book Group Starting Sun., February 19^th  

  Third Sundays monthly for 12 months

  TBD for additional book groups that may also be forming on other dates and times.

  Meeting Time:  10:15am-12:15pm

  Location  - Silver Sage Studio

  Contact: Linda Capacchione at (434) 296-1338

  Linda@naturewellnessprograms.com  www.naturewellnessprograms.com

  For More Information: Go to www.charterforcompassion.org

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• Bringing Your Spiritual Practice Alive In Everyday Life: The Buddha's ten perfections

  • Start
    23 Feb 2012
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    7:30 PM
  • End
    29 Mar 2012
  •  
    9:00 PM
  • Location
    Sojourners Church 1017 Eliot Ave Charlottesville 22901

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  Bringing Your Spiritual Practice Alive In Everyday Life

  What: An Exploration Of The Buddha's Ten Perfections

  Where: Sojourners Church 1017 Eliot Avenue Charlottesville

  When: Six Thursday evenings beginning February 23^rd and ending March 29th

  Time: 7:30 to 9

  Teachers: Pat Coffey, Jackie Erskine, Teresa Miller, Allie Rudolf and Susan Stone

  Registration: Please register before February 16th at  www.imeditation.org
  Suggested Donation: $50 for the entire class series

  No One Will Be denied Participation Due to Lack Of Funds

  
  

  The Teachers of IMCC invite you to participate in a lively exploration of the Ten Perfections. Through informational presentations, small and large group discussions we will explore and cultivate together The Ten Perfections, or paramis(paramitas). They are the Buddhist teachings that are probably the most useful for bringing the practice alive in everyday life.  They are a list of qualities that you can develop in any situationundefinedas you're working with your family at home, at work, as you're driving, as you're meditating. 

  The qualities are:

  Generosity
  Virtue
  Renunciation
  Discernment
  Equanimity
  Patience
  Persistence
  Truth
  Determination
  Goodwill
  
  
  

  
  These ten qualities can also be thought of as "priorities."  In fact, the word paramiis related to paramamwhich means "something of foremost importance."  You try to think of these as the priorities in your life.   If you make things like material wealth, status, or relationships your priorities then you're placing your happiness on things that are largely out of your control, whereas the qualities you develop in your mind as you go through life arein your control.  They are things you can determine that you'll develop in any situation, regardless. -Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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• Mindfulness & Presence; Diffiicult Emotions, Uncertain Times

  • Start
    02 Mar 2012
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    5:00 PM
  • End
    04 Mar 2012
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville VA

  A weekend workshop-retreat led by Susan Stone, Ph.D. in beautiful Buckingham County, Virginia

  Satchidananda Ashram•Yogaville®

  March 2-4, 2012

  
  

  Mindfulness and kindness practices lighten the burdens of difficult emotions and unwholesome behaviors that keep you snared in unhappiness. In this experiential workshop-retreat, you will explore how to:

  • Traverse the terrain of difficult emotions through mindfulness, kindness and presence
  • Trace differences and similarities between mindfulness and presence
    
  • Practice with mindfulness, kindness and presence to learn how they can support you, long-term, on your life’s journey home.

  Tuition: $215. Add two nights accommodation

  IMCC members are eligible for a 20% discount

  
  

  See the one page PDF flier.

  
  

  To register go to: 

  http://integralyogaprograms.org/2011/11/18/mindfulness-yoga-retreat-stress-and-difficult-emotions/

  
  

   Or contact: 1 800-858-9642 or www.integralyogaprograms.org --arc@iyiva.org

  
  

  The option to observe silence during the

  weekend will be encouraged.

  
  

  Buckingham is located in Central Virginia: 40 mi. south of Charlottesville, 75 mi. west of Richmond, 150 mi. southwest of Washington, D.C.
  

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• Introduction to Mindfulness Class Series

  • Start
    13 Mar 2012
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    7:30 PM
  • End
    17 Apr 2012
  •  
    9:00 PM
  • Location
    JABA, 674 Hillsdale Rd., Charlottesville
  • Spaces left
    16

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  A Six Week Introduction to Mindfulness Class suitable to those new to mindfulness meditation and  Insight Meditation.  There will be talks, discussion and guided meditations  based on the Buddha's teaching of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
  
  Led by Allie Rudolph and Heather Karp.
  
  Cost is $45.  Please register on-line and  if questions, please email Heather at:    hknamaste@gmail.com
  
  

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• Compassionate Presence: for Psychotherapists and Healthcare Professionals

  • Start
    24 Apr 2012
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    2:00 PM
  • End
    29 Apr 2012
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Shalom House Retreat Center, Montpelier, Virginia

  In this Compassionate Presence retreat for mental health professionals, we will practice mindfulness meditation and its extension into Insight Dialogue meditation. Through this relational meditation practice, we will explore classical Buddhist teachings on mindfulness, suffering and healing and relate these experientially to western psychological understandings of suffering and the healing relationship.
  

  
  

  This is the first retreat in the new Relational Insight Meditation (RIM) program. Following the retreat, participants may choose to enroll in RIM Online, an eight-­‐‑month distance-­‐‑learning program beginning May 2012.

  
  

  For more information or to register: Shalom Compassionate Presence 2012 -web flier.pdf

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