Date(s) - April 29, 2016 - May 1, 2016
All Day
Calming the Mind: Joy of Living Meditation Workshop
With Senior Tergar Instructor Cortland Dahl
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
In this Joy of Living Level I meditation workshop we will learn how cultivating awareness can help create a peaceful mind and joyful heart. The practice of meditation enables us to transform all experiences, even difficult emotions and painful thoughts, into sources of joy. Over the course of this workshop, we will explore the landscape of our experience with mindful awareness, learning how to use the body, sensory experiences, thoughts, emotions, and even awareness itself as supports for meditation.
This is an entry program to Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s wonderfully fresh and accessible teachings. It offers step by step instructions that will benefit those new to meditation and inspire those who have an existing practice. It is suitable for people of all faiths, as well as both beginning and experienced meditators. The schedule for this workshop includes video teachings by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, presentations on the key points of meditation practice by Senior Tergar Instructor Cortland Dahl, as well as guided meditations and discussion.
When:
Friday, April 29, 7pm-9pm
Saturday, April 30, 9am-5pm
Sunday, May 1, 9am-5pm
Where:
MATC – Truax campus, Health Education Building
1705 Hoffman Street – Rooms 309 and 311
Madison, WI 53704
Cost:
Base fee: $150
Sponsor fee: $200*
Student/Senior (65+): $100
Returning Students: $75 **
Work-study available: $75 (please contact us before registering)
* Those who pay the sponsor fee help support those who cannot afford to pay the full workshop fee.
** Returning students who have previously attended this workshop are eligible to attend at a reduced rate.
If your ability to pay makes it difficult to attend, please contact us.
Contact:
Event Coordinator
Tergar Meditation Community – Madison
(608) 616-5429
[email protected]
About Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a rising star among the new generation of Tibetan Buddhist masters. With a rare ability to present the ancient wisdom of Tibet in a fresh, engaging manner, Rinpoche’s profound teachings and playful sense of humor have endeared him to students around the world. His first book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on The New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. Rinpoche teaches throughout the world, with centers on four continents. In early June, 2011, Mingyur Rinpoche left his monastery in Bodhgaya, India to begin a period of extended solitary retreat. In November of 2015 Mingyur Rinpoche returned after four years of solitary retreat. He is currently teaching his monastic and western students living around the world. Read more…
About the Joy of Living
The Joy of Living retreats provide a path of meditation training that is open to people of all faiths and belief systems. The style of meditation presented in this program teaches how to work with the problems and experiences of everyday life to create a peaceful mind and joyful heart. Read more…
Location
MATC - Truax campus Health Education Building, Madison WI, United States