Lovingly Cultivating your Meditation Practice Course. Saturday afternoons in February.

Name: Lovingly Cultivating your Meditation Practice Course. Saturday afternoons in February.
Start: 2025-02-01T13:45:00+11:00
Location: CERES Community Environment Park

Schedule

Sat, 01 Feb, 2025 at 01:45 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

CERES Community Environment Park | Brunswick, VI

Four week Meditation course in February: Lovingly Cultivate your Meditation Practice, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
Early purchase discount extended 'till 7 January.
Delivered by experienced Melbourne Insight Meditation facilitators Amanda Hawkey, Caroline (Lou) Browne and (Hart)mut Veit over four integrated half-day workshops this course will teach you how to lovingly craft your own sustainable meditation practice. Diving deep into one of the oldest surviving early Buddhist texts - the Satipathana Sutta, the Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, this course is designed to build your understanding and insight with an emphasis on your own direct experience. As part of a practice community, you will have the opportunity to make new friends and connect with like-minded practitioners to share your practice experience with the group.
Each week one of the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness will be introduced and explored through a carefully structured methodology of guided meditations, dharma talks, fine-tuning different posture sessions and combining your mindfulness practice with loving kindness (metta) meditation - thus enabling you to develop & deepen your meditation practice.
Suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators with beginner’s mind.

This course offers
• A mix of silent and guided meditation
• dharma talks & practice instructions
• Recordings (guided meditations & dharma talks)
• Making new friends
• Q&A and sharing
• Deepening our experiential understanding of the teachings
Cost
$220 with an Early Bird Price of $180 until 7 January. + Dana
Enquiries
[email protected]
Teachers
Amanda, Lou and Hart are all graduates of the 2 year “Diploma in Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher Training” with the Insight Meditation Institute (IMI). They have recently been invited into IMI’s “Dharma Teacher Training & Mentoring program” starting in 2025.
Amanda Hawkey
With a background in social work, somatic movement and teaching yoga Amanda Hawkey has been meditating for 25 years, and facilitated Melbourne Insight Meditation sits and retreats for the past 8 years.
Caroline (Lou) Browne
Lou was introduced to the Dharma in 2006. She recalls an immediate experience of ‘coming home’. She has belonged to Melbourne Zen, Melbourne Insight Meditation and non-dual practice communities since this time. Lou works as a psychotherapist in private practice with special interests in trauma, psycho-spiritual integration and dharma inquiry. www.carolinebrowne.com
Hartmut (Hart) Veit
Hart co-founded Melbourne Insight Meditation in 2009 and is currently president. Also owner of Stanley Ave Studio in Mt Waverley, Hart is a German/Australian socially-engaged contemporary artist and experienced meditator of 20+ years. His interest is in the modern application and relevance of ancient dharma and meditation practices as a response to the challenges of contemporary life and culture. www.hartmut.com.au