IN-PERSON: Beginning Meditation Classes with Mira Michele Livingston

SUMMARY

This is a 4-week class series will introduce new students to a variety of basic meditation practices, or refresh existing students who want to go back to the basics.

We will be using the Buddha’s “Four Foundations of Mindfulness” from the Satipatthana Sutta regions of meditation focus to guide us through the four weeks of classes.

Students will spend time with a basic, single-focus meditation in each class, including breath, sound or body sensations, mental qualities, thoughts, and feelings, while we learn to quiet our minds. As time allows, we will practice guided meditation using mental imagery, standing meditation, and walking meditation.

REGISTRATION

SBMG's registration for all four classes is a sliding scale of $50-$200

As SBMG turns no one away for lack of funds, we will also provide a sliding scale for folks who need to pay outside of that range.

If you need full financial assistance or have other questions, please contact the instructor at [email protected].

OUR INSTRUCTOR

Michele Mira Livingston has been a student of mindfulness since 2003. She has studied with Roshi Joan Hallifax at Upaya Zen Center, with Jack Kornfield, and other Vipassana teachersincluding Sharon Salzberg, James Baraz, and Donald Rothberg, at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

Michele participated in the Mindfulness Teacher Training Program led by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. She has also studied with Anam Thubten of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as Lama Amie Diller, who she continues to study with, and first took refuge with Lama Lodru from the Tibetan Buddhist Center in San Francisco. Michele completed ACPE training as a chaplain and is currently an active Hospice Chaplain. She has been a member of the SBMG Sangha since 2014, has facilitated the SBMG Illness & Disability Support Group for the past three years, and facilitates the RAIN Practice Group for SBMG.

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